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Angry Birds Concept Pin Sketches and Notes

Published on
February 14, 2019
Updated on
May 30, 2025
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TWIP recently published the Angry Birds Pitch from Heighway Pinball. Dave Sanders was the designer of this machine, and shared some additional details on Pinside after the pitch was posted:

I was positing the merits of an Angry Birds pinball as far back as 2009, so the license was ultimately my idea, as was the bulk of that pitch document work, with Phil Dixon providing the renders. That was very early on in the Heighway days, it was still 2012 when that was put together. I’ve already said this elsewhere, but it fell through not because Rovio didn’t like it, but because they wanted to protect their family-friendly image and insisted the machine couldn’t go into any adult-orientated establishments, and we couldn’t possibly guarantee that.


Dave Sanders then sent TWIP a bunch of additional notes and pictures of the concept pin which are very interesting – check them out below!

Hand-drawn pinball machine concept sketch for Angry Birds game
Playfield notes
Detailed architectural sketch of a multi-level tower with technical annotations
Tower notes
Sketch of a 3D pig model with design notes about translucent materials
Pig notes
Sketch of mechanical device with rotating circle and aiming arrow
Launcher notes
Technical sketch of primary ramp diverter with geometric measurements and notes
Diverter notes
Technical diagram of rotating platform with tower, shot channels, and dimensions
Dual Lane Tower Plan
Colorful pinball machine layout with geometric design and playfield elements
First Angry Birds Playfield
Colorful pinball machine layout with geometric design and game elements
Second Angry Birds Playfield