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WhizBang Pinball: Another Summer Growing Season
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Saturday, September 3, 2011. Another Summer Growing Season. Looks like we need some dustin' on the old blogger desk. It's been a while. We did get to spend some time in Seattle at the Northwest Pinball and Gameroom Show. In June which was a great start to our summer. We are always treated well when we travel to Seattle and really appreciate the enthusiasm that crew and those fans have for the game. We got to visit the famous Shortys. The NWPGS crew also asked me to create their poster art for this year's...
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WhizBang Pinball: April 2010
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Monday, April 26, 2010. First Flip on Youtube. Here's another video of the Whoa Nellie whitewood "first flip" recorded and edited by one of our new pinball friends David Pizon at the Midwest Gaming Classic that he posted on Youtube. Thanks again David! Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? And here's another Youtube video from the original unveiling of the project last fall at Pinball Expo 2009. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Http:/ www.spookypinball.com. Greg Freres and Dennis Nordman. Monday, April 19, 2010.
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WhizBang Pinball: Step by Step, Inch by Inch
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Sunday, September 18, 2011. Step by Step, Inch by Inch. This will be a very quick update since we are now within the one month window of Pinball Expo 2011. The playfields have been routed and progress has been made in the silk-screen department at CPR! We should be seeing printed playfields before the end of the month and then lots more to do getting said playfields into the cabinets, plugged-in, dialed-in, flashing, dingin' and dongin', and shined up real purty-like ready for the big Whizbang event.
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WhizBang Pinball: November 2009
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Sunday, November 29, 2009. A Trip to the Game Doctor. Now that we had the theme of "Whoa Nellie! Firmly established we began to think in terms of getting the Continental Cafe game checked out by a local electro-mechanical (EM) expert to make sure the plans we had for the game made sense. We didn't want to get too far ahead of ourselves and find out that using this game was going to be problematic in any way. In a short period of time, Ken found the first suspect switch, adjusted it, and the game came to ...
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WhizBang Pinball: January 2010
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Sunday, January 31, 2010. 10 "Followers" - A New Milestone! We now have 10 official WhizBang blog "followers"! So what if half of them are family members, we've hit a new milestone! Thanks to everyone that's been following from the start, even if you haven't signed-up officially. It's been fun sharing our progress with eveyone in the Blog-O-Zone and we have plenty more where that came from, so stay tuned. More fun to come.we're gellin'! Greg Freres and Dennis Nordman. Thursday, January 28, 2010. I think ...
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WhizBang Pinball: Playfield Sketch Phase
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Saturday, April 9, 2011. It all worked out.Dennis did clarify later that my email had so much content about the direction of the playfield art he just needed some time to absorb the ideas, and start kicking in some ideas of his own. Both Dennis and Mark were as excited about the direction as I was and I think the selling point was possibly this initial direction I started with:. But wait, it gets better. Melony has twin sisters.". And by keeping the simple scoring features "emblematic" in nature, I was a...
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WhizBang Pinball: February 2011
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Monday, February 21, 2011. Pinball Expo 2010 - Fun With Fruit. I couldn't think of a more attention-getting image from this year's version of Pinball Expo than this picture of Phoebe and the Melonheads (oooh, good name for a band)taken by our pinball pal, Dr. Jim Shelberg who produces one of the best and longest lasting pinball periodicals, The PinGame Journal. Once Phoebe agreed to help promote the game by wearing the t-shirt, it was all downhill from there. Melony was very popular with the boys. We wer...
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WhizBang Pinball: Wake Up Call - The Playfield Begins
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Wake Up Call - The Playfield Begins. Sometime after Pinball Expo last October it was time to get real about designing the playfield art for "Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons" - the design department was finished with their part and it was all in my lap - nothing stood between us and a finished playfield except time and some good ideas. Thankfully the Dream Sequins paid off and I was able to get things started on paper. Literally. Once I had the basic ideas down on paper I started t...
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WhizBang Pinball: December 2009
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Monday, December 28, 2009. The Measuring Gremlin Strikes Again. We hope everyone survived the holiday season so far and wish everyone a great 2010! Within the next few posts we should have the blog caught up to our current progress and be able to update you with the very latest progress inside the studio. Oh well, tomorrow I'll fix what I f'd-up today.". I told him we now have a great "hook" for a country song and have since trademarked the line and started writing more lyrics. Friday, December 18, 2009.
