My home-grown Whoa Nellie Big Juicy Melons EM conversion of a 1957 Gottlieb Continental Cafe. Three EM versions currently exist---this one, collector Brad Grant's home-grown creation, and the one made by Whiz Bang Pinball. Whiz Bang also made two solid state versions. Stern recently announced its plan to make WNBJM. After getting my home-grown interpretation up and running, I was lucky to also acquire one of the undrilled Whoa Nellie playfield art boards, which I'll hang on the wall behind the Melony standee.
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Here's a close-up of the playfield for all of the Melony lovers out there. Note the Greg Freres autograph on the apron card. Since taking these photos, I have extended the green chicken wire mesh over the backbox side banners to achieve a more finished appearance. Coincidentally, the game plays best with a strong pair of replay knockers.

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Whizbang's Whoa Nellie color test board. A few color improvements were implemented between the first and second Whizbang playfield runs.

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Most here will recognize this as Zombie Yeti's Alice In Wonderland art, from the infamous Zidware project. This is a limited line art print with a reflective silver foil finished (making it challenging to photograph).

Jeremy Packer (a/k/a Zombie Yeti) nailed this theme, in my opinion.

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