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TWIP TUESDAY: February 12th, 2019

TWIP TUESDAY: February 12th, 2019

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The Munsters Pinball Rules

Last week Stern released rules for their most recent creation: The Munsters – check them out here!

Chicago Gaming Company addresses Decal Issues

On the Monster Bash Remake Owners Club thread on Pinside, some owners were reporting some issues on the upper front corners of the cabinet.

Ryan White of Chicago Gaming Company addressed the issues last week on this post, saying:

Great Lakes Pinball Teases New Character

Meet Sasquatch Bruce, “the forest florist”! Bruce joins Leroy as two characters on Exposé – the upcoming title from Great Lakes Pinball.

Bruce made his debut on episode 35 of the Bro, Do You Even Talk Pinball podcast last week, which you can check out below!

Buffalo Pinball Celebrates Four Years of Pinball Streaming

Shoutout to our friends at Buffalo Pinball who celebrated four years of pinball streaming last week!!

For their four year anniversary stream, they streamed Stern Pinball’s Metallica with a Collective Soul Mix on it. Yes you read that correctly. Check it out!

Dead Flip Streaming Pirates on Valentine’s Day

Jack Danger of Dead Flip and the design team of Jersey Jack’s Pirates of the Caribbean will be streaming this Thursday – tune in here at 6PM EST/5PM CST!

[Ah I can see it now, Mrs. TWIP and I get home from a nice Valentine’s Day dinner and she says do you want to watch something romantic? Yes of course I do, what about the Dead Flip stream of Pirates?]

Unboxing Jurassic Park – Data East 1993

VPcabs/Pinball Garage had the privilege of unboxing a Jurassic Park pinball machine built by Data East in 1993! Check out the video!!

deeprootmatt discusses John Popadiuk

Pinsider deeprootmatt chimed in on the deeproot Pinball thread on Pinside on this post, where he discusses working with John Popadiuk at deeproot:

The Hero in Total Nuclear Annihilation Shaving her Head for a Great Cause

Last week Scott Danesi shared that his wife, Sara Rose Danesi (the girl on the backglass of Total Nuclear Annihilation), would be participating in a fundraiser to fund childhood cancer research.

Please consider contributing to this organization.

A Story about Pinball Wizard by The Who

Jeff Teolis of Pinball Profile joined Zach Meny on the This Week in Pinball Podcast last week, and shared a very cool and interesting story about the Pinball Wizard song by The Who:

[That song NEVER gets old, amirite??]

Stern of the Union – SPIKE Schematics Coming

Stern shared their Stern of the Union last week, which included this update under Engineering Updates: We will be releasing instructions on how to create a complete SD card for a SPIKE system Stern pinball machine. We will also be releasing a manual and schematics of the SPIKE system by the end of the month.

Check out the Stern of the Union here!