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Winchester Mystery House Pinball Machines Now Shipping; Beetlejuice Playfields Being Populated; The Making of Star Wars

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Barrels of Fun's new Winchester Mystery House pinball machine recently began shipping to customers. The first few machines that shipped were prototype games that were built by the Company's engineers. As I mentioned in previous articles, two of those games on location for the public to play, one at Ayce Gogi in California and one at Glow in the Park in Wisconsin. I hope that more show up on location so that I can get pictures and some games in on one. Since the initial prototype games, Barrels of Fun has worked at cleaning up the wiring under the playfield. Below is the first image of the new and improved wiring layout. pinside_forum_8989488_121ce52c2500.jpg
Speaking of new games on the line, Spooky Pinball recently shared a short video of its employees hard at work populating the playfields of the first Beetlejuice machines. Hopefully we get to see Beetlejuices start shipping before the end of the month. The upcoming "Pinball at the Beach" show, which takes place at the Tradewinds Resort in St. Pete's Beach, Florida is supposed to have several Beetlejuice machines for the public to play. That's less than a month away, February 6th through the 8th.

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This morning, Stern Pinball released a new video in its "Making Of" series. I love seeing behind the scenes of how games are made. This one is for its recent game, Star Wars: Fall of the Empire.
Another cool behind-the-scenes video about Stern Pinball's factory recently made its way to YouTube. This is cool because Stern often does not allow videos to be taken during its factory tours. The popular YouTuber channel "Tested" was allowed to film the factory tour at last year's Chicago Pinball Expo. If you missed Stern's annual factory tour at the show, this is a great way to see what it was like.