Pinball Magazine that features Mark Ritchie discusses the lightening flippers that ended up on Fish Tales. That game was also designed for regular sized flippers. Williams had a very big buyer of games from France in that time period. When he came stateside to look at FT, he said the regular flippers gave too long of ball times for his market and asked that the center drain be widened. That would have changed design geometry so they compromised with the lightening flippers. They were supposed to be put on export games only, but when the game went to production they left them on domestic games too. This may have been same reason BSD got the lightening flipper treatment. The French distributor might have requested similarly like he did on FT. And as Paul Harvey would say....that is the rest of the story!

PS. This thread has to be the cheesiest marketing effort ever to over price/sell a game in pinball history. Worse than Imamculate Baywatch and even worse than the current Stern Beatles price pimp.

I think the big buyer was actually in Germany... no?

Williams removed the standard size blood red flippers and installed the shorter lightening bolt flipper to decrease game times. Thereby mucking up the designer's shot layouts, where he wanted the ball to go.

LTG : )

I have lightning flippers on my bsd and had them on ft and noticed no difference in the shots when using regular flips.

It's a hell of a lot easier on BSD with reg flippers.

Way. Easier.

For sure.. just saying i cld make the shots the same with both types of flippers.

The thread can finally be closed

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