The Crazy Mansion by the Pinball Amigos

Well Fridays continue to be awesome thanks to this new pinball build. Kudos to you guys for barely letting off the gas after the Minions build and slamming the pedal to the floor on this one. Very entertaining.

Well crap... just poured a nice IPA and sat down to enjoy todays update...

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Same here I think the convertible although you made it a difficult choice because both of them look really awesome.

Ahh, read post #942 above...they have a plan to do just that.

This post freaked me right out !!! Just the day before last Thursday I was at my in laws looking in a drawer for a screwdriver to remove a broken door handle...and there was the very same nose pencil sharpener!! I picked it up and thought "how cool, never seen one of these before". So when I saw you guys using one the next day I yelled out "holy $#!t"

Now that is a great idea!! Just made me think, how about a game mode or multiball mode where you have to hit targets that are blinking on a timer, if you don't make the shots in time you get a little jolt thru the flipper buttons or the corners where your palms are resting...

Count me in for an autographed shirt!

I got your back Fooped, the amigos are the coolest. Catching up on the Friday thread every week, it's a nice diversion from the stress of an average work week. Pour a nice quality beer and see what's happening, its something I look forward too. Who else takes the time to document their build with a weekly update? You can count on the amigos for an entertaining live update including responses to our occasional posts and actually taking our feedback to heart and incorporating it into the build. Pretty awesome stuff. Three beers to the Pinball Amigos !!

'Control panel overlay' is the graphic sheet you need to restore the control panel.

At a local barcade this morning for the Founders beer 20 years celebration. Barrel aged beers and breakfast...and look what they have!! Never played one till now.

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Breakfast poutine, flite of founders, CBS release, 2015 Blushing Monk...the CBS is superb.

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I hereby declare Friday the 13th of April,
"Black nail Friday."

Great fun tuning in again Amigos, best thread on the web !!

Just had my Friday evening beer/crazy mansion update session. A lot of great progress today, entertaining as always. Those air brush effects Mic did look great, the 'concrete' really looks cracked and weathered. That mailbox, freakin' awesome!!

Another awesome update Amigos!! The details on the roofing shingles look great! Nice job cutting the holes for the fans so uniform with a handheld jigsaw, I am no good with that tool. I can already see the game filled with smoke, strobes flashing like lightning, and then you send the ball up the left ramp and trigger those fans to clear it all out...

Hey it is a Good Friday! You guys really, really should film and be featured in some cheesy B movie cut scenes for the display. You gotta do it. Thanks for the free entertainment!

Adjustable slope on lower playfield is an insane and awesome idea. That hasn't been done before i'm sure. The pinball amigos can handle it...

Okay hold up...no nail polish today ?

Cosmokramer, I think? It isn't me for sure

You guys take an idea last week and make it a reality today. Even if you don't 'play' with it lowered,just for full screen video is cool. Playing a ball on it while it is moving would be crazy.

An XL will work just fine for me. When do the shirts go on sale for the rest of us chumps?

There you go showing of your jigsaw skills again! Coin door placement is great, didn't see that coming for some reason. Will there be an option to have a shirt signed like you did for cosmokramer , i'm jelous now...maybe for a small extra fee or just for asking cuz you guys are rockstars and thats how you roll? Count me in for an XL either way.

Also may I suggest a beer for next Friday... Lagunitas yearly 420 release, it is well worth seaking out.

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That's what she said

When my wife and I were dating in high school, I came home wearing one sock many a night.

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While you're at it you might want to go catch up on their first project...

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/we-are-building-a-minions-pinball-updates-every-friday

You'll never look at a store endcap the same way again .

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At the VFW show so this Friday about evens out on the entertainment scale in your absence

WOW !! That is a really pink plane. Please don't die on us now, Bas.

You can keep your skull whisky decanter and glasses in there!

great work guys! stoked about the shirt, I will take a week off of work and just pull up a lawn chair by the mailbox and wait for it...

cosmokramer send back the shirt and gifts...open the polls...this aint over yet!!!

"Special delivery" !

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So the lower playfield angle will not be moving while a ball is down there? just lowered to show cut scenes? Else you will end up with a ball in the cabinet.

Wow, that wire guide is so simple, works perfect.

Shirt looks great, La Fin Du Monde is world class!

So...that lower playfield...what are you going to be shooting at?? drops, or standups? Can you squeeze an orbit loop down there? Also will you use separate flipper buttons or just one set and the basement flippers only activate when a ball is down there...

I'm stuck workin' a double shift...will have to have fun vicariously through this thread today. No booze allowed

LMFAO!!

looking rather Michael Myers like...

I had a feeling you would switch Lord Grimms eyeball to servo control after last weeks update. Are you going to use those 3 buttons for the flippers? Upper, lower, but what will the 3rd button control?

Cool surprise update! Enjoy your holiday!

That looks awesome. Are you planing to do hand drawn artwork for the playfield on this pinball?

It's black nail Friday !!

So I have been sharing the Friday builds with my coworker Pat...she paid attention my friends, and gifted me this bottle for my 50th birthday this week. My first BenRiach, it's the heavily peated version and is fantastic! My new official Friday sipper while I catch up on both builds, so my thanks to you for the great gift idea for me, haha!

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I believe you are correct Swinks and thanks for explaining this, but let's see if the Amigos agree...anyway it is like a mini Rube Goldberg machine, making the balls return from the basement unnecessarily complicated just for fun, really awesome. Now last weeks work adding the right inlane ball save kicker makes sense.

Are you gonna mount the top part of the coffin lid (the part you have cut off) in a permanent open position?

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I was thinking just that, move the coil under the apron with an armature of some type coming into that space to kick the ball. Another entertaining Friday build!

How about when the kickback activated a curved gate above could stay closed, or randomly or purposefully open momentarily and redirect the ball on varying paths downward toward the slings, left or right flippers, ect. Hell maybe in that moment the left flipper button could be used to choose where the ball goes...
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Yes, have a curve of rail swing out... maybe even have targets on the right and you have a moment to control that gate position with the flippers to hit a kickback skillshot...

Hey, you guys go ahead and work while I sit back with a cold one and watch

It would take me at least an hour to run through there

How 'bout a beam-o-safety meeting??? Great fun today, thanks for sharing your Friday fun with us as usual!

A The Pinball Amigos themed pinball !!

I thought the ball was going to hit that upper playfield but it just clears it...this is really coming together

It's the hair, dude the hair!!

I was thinking last week just wait till you guys realize you need to mock up a full size version of the rooms in the backbox for the video sequences... and this week we have videos. Super awesome fun today, and that minion UFO looks perfect what a great idea!

You are on vacation, but still keep us shmucks in the loop on what is happening in three amigos world...thank you!!! Enjoy you holiday and look forward to Fridays as always!

Pintucky no offense but can this thread hi-jack be over please? Let's keep the best thread on pinside relevant.

'What shirt to wear today'...oh yeah it's Friday one less thing to think about!

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That's what she said.

That should be printed on a line of clothing, lol

Are those new? Never seen them here but my boys would get a kick out of those.

This pin already looks super fun to play and we are not even seeing what the upper playfields do, the coffin inlane, the moving lower playfield and display screen in action...awesome.

Question...will the ufo only drop the ball into the pipe to the lower playfield? Could it be possible to drop the ball early, on the main playfield or the upper playfield? I was thinking of a scenario where when the ufo grabs the ball a quick mini game starts on the screen...maybe a ufo is trying to pick up cows, and you use the flipper buttons to control the ufo and grab the cows or the cow trying to evade capture or something (ufos and cows may have been done already but you get the idea). Then you have to survive the video mode for the ball to make it to the basement.

Happy Birthday and glad you all are back at it today, much fun as always...cheers!!

Alright enough screwing around, get to flipping this thing and see if the shots all flow!! Lmfao

Thanks for keeping Friday's great! I was thinking about the talking heads...would it be possible (or just a stupid idea ) to use them in a mini game mode somehow, where they could be controlled by the player using the triple flipper buttons. For a simple example one of the heads sings a few notes or funny words and you have to make the other head repeat it using the 3 buttons on that side. Like Simon says, gets faster and more notes each time you succeed. Maybe something more original but you get the idea.

Lol it is a strange time, certain items the stores are just wiped out of but there is plenty of food overall. Never have I had to wait in a line for the grocery store to open in order to get the things we need. Stay healthy!

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Another day, another new way this thing is messing with our life.

Has it really been 3 years? They say time flies when your having fun and you 3 have been making our Friday’s just that so I guess it’s true. Thanks for sharing your build and taking our input along the way, felt like being a part of this project not just a spectator. The Amigos rule!!

It’s Friday! Oh wait, oh yeah it’s just another friday like the ones from 5 years ago sans Amigos.

At this point I don’t really spend much time on pinside at all since the Pinball Anigos went on hiatus.