Has anyone else had this happen to them?
I believe it happened during "Winter Has Come" mode. I held the ball too long on my left flipper, and all of a sudden the flipper went dead, and the dmd animation said "Flipper frozen: hit other shots to thaw".
After I hit some shots, my flipper regained strength and the dmd animation said "flipper thawed".
This really caught me off guard, but I thought it was a really cool idea / trick during the mode.