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Why is a wedgehead called a wedgehead?

By cory79

4 years ago


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#1 4 years ago

What really is considered a wedgehead? From what I can gather is they are older pinballs.

#2 4 years ago

The shape of the head is the shape of a wedge. Only single players from the 1960's to late 70's. Gottlieb and Chicago Coin had a few. Williams had inverted wedge heads.

#3 4 years ago

Here’s some visual examples of wedge heads. Only one of these is mine, though.

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#4 4 years ago

Wedge head is easier to understand and spell, than 'Trapezoid Head'.

#5 4 years ago

I sometimes used to call them angle heads. They are in fact trapezoidal as you said.

#6 4 years ago

What is a zoid, and how do you trap one?

#7 4 years ago

Zombie version of the Noid.

Quoted from wolverinetuner:

how do you trap one?

Dead pizza.

LTG : )

#8 4 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

Zombie version of the Noid.

Dead pizza.
LTG : )

But it must be Dominos pizza.

#9 4 years ago
Quoted from ibuypinballs:

The shape of the head is the shape of a wedge. Only single players from the 1960's to late 70's. Gottlieb and Chicago Coin had a few. Williams had inverted wedge heads.

With some exceptions.

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#10 4 years ago

Yeah, like what the hell were they thinking!

#11 4 years ago

The same reason a reverse wedgehead is called a reverse wedgehead like my Wing Ding. I want to place mine between Atlantis and either Dimension or Astro

#12 4 years ago
Quoted from pinaholic:

The same reason a reverse wedgehead is called a reverse wedgehead like my Wing Ding. I want to place mine between Atlantis and either Dimension or Astro

When you come down to it, they're both wedgeheads. Which one is reverse or inverted? Who's to say?

#13 4 years ago

Bally did "fake" wedgeheads in the mid 60's by use of tall painted triangles on the face trim of the backbox, giving the illusion of a tapered head. Here are a few examples:

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#14 4 years ago

and here is my wedgehead on my virtual cabinet next to a real one, and my wedgehead on my homebrew

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#15 4 years ago

They call them wedgeheads because they are square shaped (not).

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#16 4 years ago

Because...Engineers

#17 4 years ago

Not to be confused with a Square Head

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#18 4 years ago

Or Egg Head

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#19 4 years ago

Or Good Head (part of Bill Clinton’s collection)

#20 4 years ago
Quoted from JethroP:

They call them wedgeheads because they are square shaped (not).[quoted image]

That's a wing nut!

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