Yeah i see it now,never compared the pic to the current machine.
The most unusual thing about houdini is the theatre/pops/ramp section being the center of the playfield.
Just this superfunctional strange cluster of things in the middle.
It amazes me?
It is an absolute instant classic.
Period.

Oh wow,i sense some anger right there...were you in on one of the Zidware pins?

Zidware was a damn rough situation,i absolutely love jpop pins,but it turned out our pinball visionair was a horrible,horrible businessman*.
That aiw/raza/mg topic was all over the place,everybody got into random digital fights with eachother,armchair wrestler’s opinions everywhere,binary rage,numeric confusion...wow those where a bunch of crazy years..
I watched that topic like a hawk.
I believe i remember that at one point,if you entered that topic you passed a picture of the gates of hell.
It was a lawless topic where not even a brave moderator dared to tread.
Yes..the days of the demise of Zidware...

*Some ritalin could’ve saved everybody from a lot of misery...

I understand dude,but apparantly making pinball is hard?
Everybody goes bankrupt or gets in serious trouble.
I am trying to stay as objective as i can,cuz this is a happy place over here.

Thanks Dragon,some fridays it is a monumental task,i barely lay my phone down sometimes while building.
Keeping an eye on what the guys are doing and “pausing” them when i see a photogenic moment.
It is waaaay too much work,but it’s a real fun and cosy topic...everybody’s happy over here...couldn’t ask for more.
Thanks everybody!

P.s. Best beer in the world

Yeah,let’s regroup in the alley everybody! It 180’s your opinion about everything straight away,or most of the time you forget your opinion
Works everytime!

Yeah you are a solid guy John,you stick with your (JPOP) opinion and that says a lot about a person.
One can read you as a stubborn or solid guy but eitherway you stand your ground.
I remember we bumped heads in the JPOP topic back in the day...
You were like:” JPOP is a crook!”
I at that time was like still hoping for a positive outcome:”what do you care?! You only buy Startrek pinballs!! Look at your collection!!”

And now today,i push the zitt pinball icon and i see Despicable Me Pinball Madness is on your wishlist.
It just goes to show we pursue the same stuff man...and we all deal differently with drama?!

I bumped heads with Josh Kugler too a while ago,and now i play his Houdini (and lord knows i tried to find sumtin negative about the code )and i think the guy is a giant.
If you have a Houdini in a home situation,it is just a blast man..

Sometimes stuff gets real dark but everytime in hindsight i go like:”fuck this is a great guy? Why did i go medieval on him?!”.

You catch my drift right?
I guess it is human to bump heads sometimes but let’s keep that minimal cuz we are all here for the same awesome hobby.

Great news!
The Road Show speaker panel that i sent to Slovenia,brought us a donation of €60 for the Crazy Mansion project from fellow pinsider Rygar!
Plus i have my first feedback on pinside!!
Thank you so much pinball friend!!

Hey friends!
The guys work late so we’ll see when they are here!
Let’s kick off friday!

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So exciting news from earlier this week
Our package from Fast pinball arrived!
I guess they can retire by now,we must have bought all their boards (joke).
It passed customs and no tax was added to the package!
It was not like we manipulated anything
Wink wink say no more...

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I am done looking at our broken and not connecting boards(i already gave the broken p-roc away) so i sent them to Aaron...i hope you can fix one bro!

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Next thing i did this week was an update to the alley...it gets dark earlier and it gets hard to find parts with your flashlight(according to my son i am very old and that’s the problem , yep...he actually said that ) so we need more light in the alley...already made a roof over the alley so i can easily add a light ... i took my spare tube light home from my shop.

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I started fitting the thing to my somewhat unusual roof

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Drilled a hole into my boiler room

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Look! Awesome!

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Adding some pvc tube for the wires

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Had to cut out this board a little to accomodate the tube

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The wire went in for a while but bumped into sumtin..

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Ah...pvc pipe is not facing the hole..
And i have no helping hand..mi pushed the wires in a bit but the tube is stressing the wires too much..

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I came up with this!
Hahahaha!
This was alley crap and it pushes an aluminium profile up so the pvc pipe goes just a little higher

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To prevent everything falling of this barstool,i gently placed this plastic piece of old crimp inbetween the wall.

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Yup! Hahaha!!

Look! Brilliant!!

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And the wires are inside!
The ceiling in the boiler room was garbage already so i just stomped a hole in it

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And then one of the neon tubes fell out...

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I connected the tube to the bulb in the boiler room figuring the lamp holder would work on one tube?

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Wrong...it doesn’t do shit

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So today i bought a new one,they are real slim tubes and kinda fragile..

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I made fire!!! No wait

Look! Stuff is real easy to find now!
I already found 3 complete sets of Williams pops

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Yeah...i know, but i had this entire thing laying in my shop so it was free.
I fugured : one tube and this shitty shitty job is done...
I took the path of least resistance

Allright...gonna think a bit about another upper playfield on the left...we still have one unused flipper button on the left so we could put that to good use over here...way to empty here on the left...it needs sumtin cool...

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This feels very good

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Hey brother! Good to see you,nah it was pure manual sweaty labour
Gonna hit the alley later tonight , i really need to focus right now lol

Yeah man...i am gonna cut this upper playfield , we’ll see how this pans out

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Hm...not too bad...

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It would be kinda fun if you could shoot a passage on the graveyard playfield and enter a wire to the second upper playfield!

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Hey! A nice flipper mech! Score!

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Hm yeah...it would fit exactly under the lower playfield wiper motor...

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