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The Grasley Garage! High Speed in a Bucket & Monster Bash!

Pinball Shenanigans·video·38m 21s·analyzed·Jul 23, 2025
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TL;DR

High Speed reassembly from parts bucket reaches playtest stage in one week at Grazley Garage.

Summary

Mike Dus visits Grazley Garage to document Kevin's restoration of a High Speed pinball machine that arrived as disassembled parts in a bucket. Within one week, Kevin reassembles the playfield, installs it in the cabinet, and conducts a first playtest. The episode also covers Kevin's acquisition of Monster Bash (from Ray, who sold it to fund a Tron Pro), and gameplay on multiple machines including NBA Fast Break and the newly acquired Monster Bash.

Key Claims

  • High Speed playfield arrived completely disassembled in a bucket with no labeling or organization

    high confidence · Mike and Kevin describe the condition of the machine at the beginning of the visit; Kevin confirms 'literally a five gallon' bucket with all parts mixed together

  • Kevin completed playfield assembly and installation in less than one week (started Tuesday, completed by Saturday)

    high confidence · Mike states 'like this was in a bucket on basically Tuesday is when you started and uh less than a week later it is now a full-on highspeed'

  • Dan Shadic provided a second reference High Speed to help Kevin complete the restoration

    high confidence · Mike explains 'our buddy Dan Shadic dropped off a second highspeed at Kevin's just so he could use as reference so he can actually piece this thing together'

  • Kevin won the Fork River tournament event, winning five rounds of round-robin play but being eliminated in the first round of brackets

    high confidence · Mike states 'Kevin Grazley. This guy won every single game and then got knocked out in the first' after 20 players competed

  • Ray sold Monster Bash to Kevin to fund the purchase of a Tron Pro modification

    high confidence · Kevin clarifies 'And to fund that, Kevin is buying Ray's Monster Bash' and Mike confirms 'Ray needed some money to buy Tron'

  • The High Speed had a clear ramp initially missed but discovered in the bucket, requiring reinstallation of playfield components

    high confidence · Mike explains 'you installed the black ramp initially because you didn't realize there was a clear ramp in the bottom of the bucket'

  • The Monster Bash has multiple switch issues including non-functional Frankenstein and 2-bank target returns, plus phantom flip issues

    high confidence · Kevin confirms 'switch issues and Frankenstein doesn't go back up and the the two bank under him doesn't go back up either' and 'phantom flip doesn't work'

  • The Mystery playfield installed in Monster Bash has no identifying marks or origin information anywhere on it

Notable Quotes

  • “It was a highspeed in a bucket. Legit. It was literally all the wire was at the bottom of that.”

    Kevin @ ~3:45 — Describes the extreme condition of the High Speed machine upon arrival, establishing the restoration challenge.

  • “That is actually some pretty significant progress. I know. It's been two days of solid.”

    Mike / Kevin @ ~5:30 — Highlights the rapid progress made on reassembly within just 48 hours.

  • “This is like the exact same one, but in 100 times worse condition.”

    Kevin @ ~8:15 — Kevin describes the condition of a 10 Strike machine being used as his workbench, emphasizing the variety of restoration projects at the garage.

  • “Kevin Grazley. This guy won every single game and then got knocked out in the first.”

    Mike @ ~10:20 — Announces Kevin's tournament victory at Fork River, establishing his competitive pinball skill level.

  • “It was in a bucket a week ago. Who fixed this thing?”

    Mike @ ~31:00 — Expresses amazement at the transformation from parts bucket to functioning machine in one week during first playtest.

  • “Kevin's now just the plate swap guy. How many swaps have you done now? Probably all of them. More than I wanted.”

    Mike / Kevin @ ~42:30 — Humorously reflects on Kevin's increasingly common role performing playfield swaps for various machines.

  • “There's no sticker. Uh there's no indication whatsoever anywhere uh what where this came from. And even on the sides... There's literally no printing on any edge, sides, top, bottom.”

    Mike @ ~47:15 — Documents the mysterious origin of the Monster Bash playfield with no identifying marks.

  • “I am Count Dracula and you're not.”

    Monster Bash game audio @ ~53:00 — Captures iconic Monster Bash character callout during gameplay demonstration.

Entities

KevinpersonMike DuspersonRaypersonDan ShadicpersonGrazley GaragevenueHigh SpeedgameMonster BashgameTron ProgameNBA Fast Breakgame

Signals

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    restoration_signal: Kevin completed full playfield reassembly, installation, and first playtest of a High Speed machine in under one week (Tuesday start to Saturday completion) from completely disassembled bucket condition with no labeling or organization

    high · Mike confirms 'less than a week later it is now a full-on highspeed' and 'this was in a bucket on basically Tuesday is when you started'

  • ?

    restoration_signal: Kevin has become known at Grazley Garage as the 'plate swap guy' with experience on multiple machines; Monster Bash receiving unknown-origin playfield with no identifying marks

    high · Mike jokes 'Kevin's now just the plate swap guy. Yeah. How many swaps have you done now? Probably all of them. More than I wanted.'

  • ?

    product_concern: Monster Bash exhibits multiple switch failures including non-functional Frankenstein up mechanism, non-functional 2-bank target return, and phantom flip detection issues

    high · Kevin states 'switch issues and Frankenstein doesn't go back up and the the two bank under him doesn't go back up either' and confirms phantom flip issue

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: High Speed first playtest reveals kickout mechanism alignment issue requiring manual ball ejection, but overall structural integrity and flipper function are sound; playfield layout and basic mechanics functioning

    high · Mike observes 'the new playfield holes for that kick out mechanism is in the wrong spot' but notes 'there's like no major uh malfunction' overall

  • ?

    collector_signal: Kevin experiencing rapid machine acquisition cycle with three significant purchases in short period (Medieval Madness, Creature from Black Lagoon, Tales of Arabian Knights consecutively, plus Monster Bash); Ray trading Monster Bash to fund Tron Pro modification

Topics

Playfield restoration and assemblyprimaryHigh Speed machine reassembly from disassembled conditionprimaryMonster Bash acquisition and switch repair needsprimaryGrazley Garage restoration projects and inventoryprimaryTournament play and competitive pinball (Fork River event)secondaryPlayfield swap procedures and mysteriessecondaryMachine gameplay and first playtestingsecondaryRestoration resource management and referencesmentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.82)— Enthusiastic and celebratory tone throughout. Kevin's rapid progress is praised frequently. Some gentle frustration about switch issues and restoration challenges, but overall the mood is one of accomplishment and camaraderie. Playful banter and friendly competition between participants reinforces positive community atmosphere.

Transcript

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Dude, you have so much bonus. How did you even build it up that fast? That's a good question. Oh, add that to the list. You're not doing very good. That's precisely why. Spinner. There we go. I hit it the first time. First one. Yeah. Okay, let's just What? I'm Mike Dus and this is Pinball Shenanigans. [Music] All right, Ray and I, we're going to go for a little uh tour over to the Grazley garage. Kevin is fighting tooth and nail with these uh what he refers to as a piece of high-speed projects. Well, basically, he got a high-speed delivered to him and um it was kind of all wrapped up. So, he didn't really know exactly what he was getting himself into. It came with a new playfield, new back glass, I think. And then he unwrapped it to find that basically the playfield, the original one, had been stripped and was in a bucket. So, it's basically a highspeed in a bucket. The parts are in a bucket. Parts are in a bucket. So, not KFC bucket, but a high-speed in a bucket. High speed in a bucket. That's what I'm calling it. Fortunately, our buddy Dan Shadic dropped off a second highspeed at Kevin's just so he could use as reference so he can actually piece this thing together because nothing's labeled. It's uh parts in a bucket. So, he's got to turn that bucket into a high speed. And uh Kevin sent a few photos and we need to see what we need to see this live. We got to check out the action. see the the chaos Kevin has got himself into. So, we're going to go pop into the Grazley garage and uh check out the action, see what's going on. Yeah. And you can also see his um fast brakes. You haven't seen those, the finished product yet with the topper. Uh we can check on uh Medieval Madness progress. Maybe he's got his powder coating in and uh his ball boulder. He was working on uh like a animated not baller but uh it's called 10 strike bowler from like 1957 or something and uh he's working on that as well. So check out all of the action. All right, let's go see what Kevin is up to. Oh, in other news, I just bought a pinball machine like 10 minutes ago. Oh yeah, Williams Trizzone. One of the best pinball machines ever made. So, I got to go for a tour and pick that up about an hour away. Knock knock. Hello. How are you? Congratulations. Are you clothed? Ah, got two happy campers right here. Freaking Tron Pro modded to the tits. And to fund that, Kevin is buying Ray's Monster Bash. I am the bad influence on everybody. On everybody. Actually, you were the first initial bad influence and then now I've kind of reversed the roles. Wow. Okay. What the f is going on here, dude? Too much stuff. Is this the high speed in a bucket? This is This is But it looks like it's coming out of the bucket. It is. It was like a pile and like now because it kind of looks like a pinball machine now. Yeah, for sure. It's still, but all the like everything was like twisted and kind of into a ball. Yeah, that's typical. Typical harness. So, was it actually in a bucket like No, like literally a five gallon. It was a highspeed in a bucket. Legit. It was literally all the wire was at the bottom of that. So, and there's there's still more highspeed in a bucket. It's not all made its way out of the bucket yet. That's field swapping, right? So, you've got it laid out here. Yeah. I'm kind of just This is sort of now kind of mostly done. Working my way. Wow. That is actually some pretty significant progress. I know. It's been two days of solid. Oh, two days. Okay. So, you've got Where's the uh the sample? High speed. This one. This is the sample. Yeah. And where's the Oh, there's the other cabinet there. Okay. Uh I did hear that that cabinet was much better than this cabinet. And colorwise, I guess so. Someone has uh done a little bit of touch-ups on this. Oh. So, um yeah. Okay. This this had some work done to it, you know. Oh, what the hell's going on with that? It's got a whole bunch of stuff inside. Yeah, I think it's popsicle sticks and LEDs. Seriously? Okay. Interesting. It's got some pretty uh fancy LEDs. Like look at these freaking eight bangers here. Yeah. So you have you uh have got your hands full of some someone took the time to uh try and redraw the art. They didn't do the best job in the world, but what you going to do? It's a high speed. Oo. I see some uh red powder coating has come in. Some chewy bits. Mhm. Under the Yeah. Yeah. Normal. I love the red powder coating. The powder coating. Yeah. Didn't even I didn't even see that. It was blending in. Yeah. So, here's all the rest of the stuff. So, the ramps and everything kind of Everything's sort of piled up. Ah, okay. It's like the blood red from It is blood red. That's exactly it. And so, I kind of figured it it matched the dragon that's on there. So, sure. Yeah. It's got the castle. Holy powder coating. You went with every piece possible. Yeah, it was pretty worn out and even like scotch bright and stainless didn't make it look very good. So, no. Oh, okay. The whole works. Hey, Jay and I were uh driving a pork river u last night for a pound. Hello. We saw your daughter and her boyfriend on the way. They were like, "Yeah, you did." Yeah, we were honking at him. I don't think uh they knew what was going on. Just Matilda might have recognized me, but uh Tom, I don't think knew that Jay was in the car, but yeah, this thing is looking pretty freaking sweet. Love all this powder coating. So, how much was the damage for uh all these Playfield parts? Do you know? Um Oh, powder coating. Actually, he still hasn't sent me the bill yet. Hasn't sent you the bill. Okay. So, I don't know. He's still working it out. Yeah. Oh, is that the 10 strike? Oh, yeah. 10 strike. There's some uh And this is 10 strike, which is now upside down and turned into my workbench. Oh, is it? Did you similar before? Yeah. Okay. I thought so. Yeah. So, this is like the exact same one, but in 100 times worse condition. It's all stripped down. I thought that making for a good workbench right now. Yeah. So, I did the one for Ben. And then this is Eugene. He dropped that. But it's Kevin won this at Fork River last night. Is that what this was? Or where it Cory had it? Actually, Ray, that's right up your alley. There you go. You too. Winner winner. There you go. For you. There's no right. What am I going to do with this? I don't know. Same thing. It's not not really pinball related, is it? It's a It's a weird prize to be issued. Who? Cory. Oh. Well, yeah. So, um, at Fork Fort last night, we had 20 players. And guess who ended up in first place after the round? Robin five rounds of pinball. Kevin Grazley. This guy won every single game and then got knocked out in the first. First, first first and then the bed was shut. Yeah. And then it was out. Then he was out. Didn't even make the semis. No. No. Oh. Oh, yeah. You You had a buy. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Top eight. But Well, this is definitely a fine mess you've got yourself into. Oh, where's that fun uh hack that you were uh showing? Oh, yeah. That's where we went. That's right. It was on Oh, here we go. Okay. I got a new submission to the pinball degenerates for hack of the year. Is it better or worse than my Viper turret hack? You decide. Here we go. Well, let's throw on the light. So, if you don't have the correct resistor value, what you can do is take 27 resistors, twist them all together, and you got that. Add up the total. That'll do the trick. That's all you got to do. Is there another one of these on the playfield? No, that's just the one right here. Okay. I was going to see what an original one would look like, but this same block is here. What is this thing even? Is it a bridge rectifier? It looks like So, this would be it, I believe, actually. Oh, okay. Yeah. So, that hasn't got on there yet. So that makes up for one little ceramic sand resistor. This is a 100 ohm. Is it 100? Oh yeah, there it is. 100 ohm. So what are these like 10 10 ohm resistors? There you go. It's all you got to do. That's perfect. It is pretty impressive that this was a ball of wire and it's come along this way. That is uh you made significant progress in a short period of time. And let's see the playfield. I guess it depends on how how you brand new and shiny of time. That's going to be freaking incredible. But man, this may be the uh worst starting point he's ever This is more basket Casey than the NBA fast break basket cases. How quickly did I put uh Indie back together? Where's the playfield? Like fast. Oh, Ray, you put your Indie together in no time. That was I think I did probably a week or less. The entire thing top and bottom. I know. I had the cab done. Yeah. Got the green rubbers. Like is that the longest rubber in pinball history? Like what is that? 24 in. Mind you, the the I left the kick here had been on there 6 months or more. Got new displays, so that's a bonus. Anyway, Ray wants to go see the arcade. So, let's go. Cool. You haven't been here in a in a little bit, eh? No, I haven't. Yeah, that's been a while. All right. Well, that was the thing that we call it the Grand Den arcade. It's like Oh, so it's an actual arcade thing. Yeah, it was it was a bike you would ride. You put in your like quarters and it would jiggle around. But Well, good for you. We didn't take the platform. No, we just took the bike. Yeah, I still got the saddle bags and seat and stuff in the other garage to put on. So you could put like a real motor in and away you go. He was going to do that originally, but then I was like, man, just what are you going to do? Yeah. Ride it around the arcade and then novelty wears off. We're done. Oh, look it. The Zenith sign is installed. Oh, check that out. Oh, yeah. I remember my parents having a Zenith television that fits there perfectly. He wasn't sure if he wanted to put it there or like in between these signs, but looks good there. I like it. Sign heaven here. Yeah. Still got a few more to go. A few more. Holy crap. Where you going to put him? He's He's getting to that point. Actually running out of space. The top hat is going in here. Oh, cool. which over there. And this was like an arcade in uh where was it again? S Marie. Sue St. Marie. Okay. That was Kevin's old stomping ground. Well, you were asking about the uh the NBA fast brakes. Yes. Here they are. Oh, there they are. Yeah. And with the topper. Cool. Cool. These are like the nicest NBAs on the freaking planet. The separate and uh Yeah, that was a smart idea to chop the uh topper in half. No kidding. We should have a quick game, beat up on each other. You want to throw a loony on it? No. No. All right. I'm going to kick Ray's ass and then uh we'll uh You want to record it? Sure. Why not? Let's do it. Okay. How do you uh link it together again? Do I get to hit the start button? Press start and I'll say wait for Okay. Good. Now you're getting Now hit start. Okay. [Applause] Basketball scoring and uh we're just going to play for like four quarters or whatever and whoever has the highest basketball score wins. But we're going to have to basically be playing the same game at the same time. So So if I start a multiball, you're going to be playing a multiball and vice vers. All right. All right. We weren't synchronized there. We're going to try this again. All right. All right. Don't forget we got $5 on the line. There you go. Ray didn't hear that. Who do you want to be? Let's go. [Music] [Applause] Are we synchronized? Yeah. All right. I haven't done anything. Oh, come on. [Applause] Keep going. Hit the break that habit. Here we go. [Applause] He's [Music] kicking my ass. [Applause] Get back to the game tonight. Hey, did you see the display? I just psyched myself out there. Okay, half 10. Now you got to use the center button to shoot free throws in the back. So use the center. All right, here we go. There you go. This is my chance to catch up. Oh, okay. Getting closer. [Music] Ready? Oh my. I've trained 15 times so far. [Applause] It's not that far off. How much time left? 20 seconds. And we come back here. Buzzer beater time. [Applause] Retreat on the left. Oh no. Come on. 4 seconds. Is that for a quarter or for the whole game? [Applause] Good thing Ray didn't hear that. We put $5 on that thing. There you go. That's your linked NBA fast break action. Here it is. Trizone. the best game ever made in the history of pinball. I was wondering what the theme was on the way here. And um of course it's um this whatever that is futuristic space outer space like Jetson's kind of look. But uh time to pack her up. All right, I'm back. What's up, boys? Hello. Okay, Ray and I were here on Wednesday and uh this was um on the rotisserie and you were fighting to assemble it. Now, it is Saturday, so just a few days later, and this thing is now the playfield is done and installed into the cabinet, and it is gorgeous. This playfield is amazing. And looks like you got a new plastic set on here. Uh you had uh some issues finding some hardware, I hear. Yeah, but we got some we got everything taken care of. It looks like you managed to um yeah, get it all together. like this was in a bucket on basically Tuesday is when you started and uh less than a week later it is now a full-on highspeed. I mean we're going to power it on. We're going to see what it looks like and um you know it's uh it's not a finished product yet but man oh man have you come a long way in just a couple days. The clear ramp is awesome. I love it. It's uh I guess you installed the black ramp initially because you didn't realize there was a clear ramp in the bottom of the bucket and then had to proceed to remove everything, reinstall the clear ramp, install the um uh ramp decals, all the rivets and all the hardware and ramp flap and switches and everything that goes along with that. So, that was a little bit of a setback. Uh, these pop bumpers are awesome with the different colored skirts and the clear bodies and caps. The targets, they look either mintally cleaned or brand new. I cleaned the out. You must have cuz they I thought they were new when you sent me the photos. Those on I think the back one has a little line on it. But are the uh um star posts all new or are they ultrasonicked cleaned? Man, they look amazing. Yeah. Got the yellow posts. We got the transparent uh rubbers throughout this thing. It looks like new um spinner decals. And you had fun installing the plastic set too, right? It's a lot of spacers. A lot of these weird like metal spacers, plastic spacers. These are the kind that you have to like use a soldering gun to heat out of the old plastics and then rinse and repeat to install on the new plastics. Is there a lot of these things? Cuz I only see a couple at the moment, but Oh, well, there's a lot on the spacers, too. And all the the aluminum spacers are you have to heat out as well. Oh, really? Yeah. They're all stuck into the plastics. Wow. But yeah, there's like a bunch. And then even like those. Yeah. So, it's not just like popping on plastics. It's uh like laborious for most of them because they're all layered, too. Uh that's uh that would have taken some time, but it turned out amazing. Well, let's turn this thing on and see what it looks like. Well, I'm closest to the power, so let's see what happens. Oo, look at that. Want to see my red pop, though. I noticed that. Um, oh, this is uh this is pretty cool. You got the yellow um ball scoop there. Isn't it normally like red or Yeah, I think so. I've never seen a yellow one. That's kind of cool. So, full LED job. And of course, brand new playfield, but you've come a long way, my friend. It's like a one week or less. And then you're doing the full cabinet, too. Yeah. But I just wanted to make sure I could put this back together and have it work. Yeah. And I'll just rip the whole playfield out. Yeah. So, does it actually play a game? I don't know. Not very well. Not very well. Okay. Well, let's uh let's give it a not very well game here and see what happens. Here's the first issue. Oh, yeah. Oh, we got three points. The ball is having a little bit of trouble kicking into there. So, so the the new playfield holes for that kick out mechanism is in the wrong spot. So, it's actually hitting the second ball. Oh, yeah. So, you have to go under the plate field and push it out yourself. I tried to pop it out, but I failed. Oh, I see. Okay. You need to like actually push the ball yourself. Okay. Well, you know, this is the basically the first play test game. There's going to be a lot of more things wrong than right, I'm assuming. But that's how it goes, right? You know, that's why I wanted to do the cabinet first. Yeah, exactly. Well, look at that. All flippers are flipping. That's a good start. Does the ball run up the ramp? Look at that. I didn't have a sensitive outlay in Well, get your pen and papers out. Start writing down to make the to-do list. It's just the outlane sound. Is that the out lane sound? Oh, there we go. It stopped. Love the soundtrack on this game. Uh, it's like Hey, you know, it was in a bucket a week ago. Who fixed this thing? This was a a heap of parts. Oh, it's needs a little dialing in. Oh, no. All right. Oh, it registered the out hole at least. Yeah. [Music] So much bonus. I guarantee like 2/3 of that came from this out. 700,000 I think. Uh, it's still going. It's still going. I got to stick my finger in here. I feel like something bad's going to happen to my finger. No. Okay. All right. Here we go. Look at that. There we go. Try and rip a spinner. There we go. Side ramp. Yeah. So, dude, you have so much bonus. How did he even build it up that fast? This is a good good question. Oh, add that to the list. All right, we'll do a manual kick out. Oh, that was almost a bad kick out. Don't worry, Rob Edwards. This thing will I'm not going to give it to you. Just like this. My side hurts. Oh, there's a replay. Oh, having a killer game here. Hey, the topper works. Works. The sounds. None of them work. The sounds work even though red. Oh, the green kind of work. Let's tilt Bob works. I didn't tilt. This thing's amazing. And I can't drain in the left out lane. So, I like that. Okay, I just need one more red light. Oh, that was good. Actually, that should spot it. Boom. Now, see if we can get a multiball going here. [Music] Who doesn't like free points? Oh. Uh, you want to know something funny? So, that switch doesn't work. So, you can't actually get away. No. If the escape is lit, you can do it by escape, but you can't do it by get away cuz it doesn't actually work. Oh, okay. And how do I do that? I hit a bunch of lights. No, I don't I don't know. I think I played one test through here, right? Yeah. Okay. I think it's by hitting the rest of the lights. So, let's try that. We'll just We'll just cheat it just for fun. I I was doing a cheater game just to test the switches before. Holy moly. Hell of a game. All right. You know, break my finger. So, I think we got to go like this. Hey, all those switches work. still escape. I think that might escape. Oh, you have you had to hit the ramp again, I think. Oh, that's the new outlines sound, I think. There you go. Yeah. All right. Escape. Here we go. Uh, easier said than done. Come on, Mike. Hey, I escaped. Steve Ritchie would be proud. He was a kick out of the ball, Mike. All right, manual. You what? Now you got to do the other ball or Here we go. Am I supposed to finger out the other ball or is this two ball multiball? That's I don't know. Oh well, it's over. I didn't get too far. Escaped, but I think I got caught like a kilometer down the road and car broke down. Yeah, flat tire. Okay. So, that's, you know, ice. Not bad. All things considered. First play test. Well, I'm happy that I put all the stuff in the right spot. Yeah. Yeah. No, there's like no major uh malfunction. So, Oh, yeah. Here we go. The high score tunes. Oh, you hit the start button for me. Oh, no. I got to go around. A B C D E F G H I. All right, you got me. It's not working. Oh, you It is working. It wasn't working. Who's got the high score? I All right. It wasn't working. Well, it's uh pretty impressive. Pretty impressive. Uh the I noticed that this 10 strike is still making a very good workbench for you. Look at that. Sorry, Jean. Jean, thank you. It's really come in handy. All right, so what's behind door number one? You guys went for a little road trip over to Rays today. We did. I see. And um completed the transaction that was, you know, Ray needed some money to buy Tron. So Ray got his money and you got a monster bash. M. So, this was on location for a little bit and, you know, she's a little dirty. Ray pulled it off location and then uh stuck it uh in his place. It was folded up. It's been probably what, a couple few years now, right? Y since I bought the Iron Maiden off him. Yeah. Yeah. That's at least a couple years. So, fresh off route monster bash. But that's the way Kevin likes him. That's messed up. Alla Medieval Madness from Pinup Arcade. All a creature from the Black Lagoon. Pinup Arcade as well. But here it is. This is a holy grail a title. This like back to back to back. Three of them in a row. Yes. With the Tales Arabian Knights. Do you have any money? Do you need to take out a second mortgage? Possibly. Second. I think we're on bigger number than that now. It's like fifth mortgage. Okay. So, have you said you played kind of a couple games on it and there's a couple switch errors. Yes. All right. And otherwise, it's playing. It's switch issues and Frankenstein doesn't go back up and the the two bank under him doesn't go back up either. The two bank under him. Like there's like a there's like a a two bank of like standups that kind of sinks into the playfield so you can shoot the ram. Okay. It doesn't come back up either. All right. This is really populated with a lot of characters like from the factory. Like it kind of looks like someone's mod jobs, right? But that's all OG. There's Dracula hiding in his coffin there. There's a little bit of a whammy on that one insert. Sorry, what you were going to say? Like we were debating so I I kind of forget how many characters there were. I wasn't sure if uh Dr. Frankenstein and Eigor were supposed to be there. I know the the other four are supposed to be like these two. I'm pretty sure they're original, but I couldn't remember. So, these guys are static, but the mummy, this thing opens and closes. Her head moves up and down. Oh, actually, it's not static. Huh. I never knew that. And obviously him, Frankenstein goes up and down. He goes semic-ircular movement. He moves across this track on the playfield, which is the same mech that Williams used in Fast Break for the uh point guard guy. See that semicircle um slot there? They repurposed that. Well, uh which one was first? Yeah. Uh which one was first? They're both 97, so I'm not sure. So, here is the uh what I thought was a Miro playfield, but as it turns out, grabbed it weird. As it turns out, this is a we don't know what the heck playfield this is. It doesn't look like CPR. There's no sticker. Uh there's no indication whatsoever anywhere uh what where this came from. And even on the sides, like show me the edge here. There's literally no printing on any edge, sides, top, bottom. So, is this new old stock? Is it one off? Like it hurts. But anyway, this is going to be installed and uh it's going to be pretty nowhere. Kevin's now just the plate swap guy. Yeah. How many swaps have you done now? Probably all of them. More than I wanted. Yeah. 100% more than you've wanted to. That joust was something else, man. Wow. Okay, let's uh power this on and play a quick game. See what happens. Monster bash in the freaking house. No WPC reset issues thus far. Not yet. Well, that's good. Well, the the the night is young, right? Yeah. Here. Hey, there he goes. Oh, We got a credit dot for a couple switch issues. Yeah. Uh left and right flipper proximity, I think. Whatever that is. Oh, I think that might be the phantom flip. Yeah, the opto still work, but um phantom flip doesn't work. I I feel like the phantom flip doesn't work on most monster monster bashes. Yeah. I am Craula and I feed you welcome. I haven't played one of these in a while. I played it at rays when it was set up there, but that was a long time ago. Let's try and get some Frankenstein multiball. Oh, it's supposed to be down. No, the targets are supposed to be up. So, you can't you can't actually get Frankenstein. Oh, so that is like a little motor that would come up. Uh, I see. It's like a attack from Mars. Okay. So, is there another multiball that we can get or Drait? No, Jack does not a multiball. Wash pit is up the middle. Yeah, let's try and get like a little bit of everybody just to see. [Music] I want to see a little bit of creature. Oh, yeah. That's another character creature, but he's under the playfield, right? Yeah. Well, pretty successful at hitting nothing. There's Dracula. He's lit. Oh, that's like medieval madness sounds back there. Okay. Do I just got to hit the draft targets one more time? No. Got to scoop. Oh, I see. We're still on wheels here. Oh, yeah. The tilt's tight, too. You're going to get like double double dangers a lot. [Music] Just to spam the whole playfield while I'm trying to get the scoop. I'm still trying to get Creature. Oh, there we go. Come on. Lights up under there. That's so reminiscent of like James Bond. So, this game came 20 years earlier. Yeah, Bond totally ripped the or borrowed it. Okay, so this should be Dracula. Check him out. I am Count Dracula and you're not. [Music] So, how do you um get the what did you say? Well, there's mo there's mosh pit. That's the multiball. Yeah. And then monsters of rock. Is that the like mini wizard mode? That monsters of rock is the wizard mode. Monster bash is the mini wizard mode. Okay. And you just need to like play every character, which you can't do because a little difficult with Frankenstein not working. I'd like to hit Dragons. Also, you started Mummy Mayhem. Oh, okay. She just skipped through the intro. There we go. Back off. I believe dungeon a go. Oh, tickled his leg there. Back in my day, we didn't have jackpots. [Music] A Simpsons kind of call out there like Grandpa Simpsons, I guess. Or just generic old guy. All right, let's uh try and bring in some creature. [Music] Dracula seems to be lasting a long time. I think the timer resets every time you hit him. Oh, really? I don't remember uh it lasting that long. I think I think it's probably set really easy for poachers. Yeah, for the location it was at. Yeah. Okay, let's try this monster mosh pit. Just hit up the middle like what? Six. And I haven't even looked into it once yet, have I? You hit a spinner like one time. I think that counts. Oh yeah. Still there. Probably better from the left flipper. I mean, right? R is for red. My favorite car. I take a look. Who's that guy? I don't know. Cinder. Cinder. Yeah. How come every time I want to shoot the spinner, I'm on the left? I guess try a post pass. Maybe Dutch, you need to play this because my You're not doing very good. That's precisely why spinner. There we go. I hit him first. First one. Yeah. Okay, let's just What? That was a post pass. All right, you take over three. Oh goodness. Mosh, pit it up. I'll try. I don't usually go for it. I try to go for like the monsters. Well, then you haven't seen mosh pit multiball on this yet since you've had it home. Oh, you have? Okay. Yeah, cuz I'm the greatest. Oh, that reminds me. We've having an ongoing battle on uh Doctor Who cuz you had about 50 loops the other day and I knocked you off to 51 loops. 54. Oh, I beat you by three. Was it? You beat me by by four. Okay. Oh, yeah. Cuz 50 + 4 is 54. That's That's right. That's right. Very good. And so I beat you 2 days later with a score of 55. Uh, okay. So, when I was here Wednesday and Kevin and Ray were uh chatting it up, I went and played a game over there and guess what happened? What' you do? I missed the side ramp about 15 times and I got literally zero. So, I'm You're currently the victor, but not for long. Oh, yeah. We shall see.

high confidence · Mike describes 'There's no sticker. Uh there's no indication whatsoever anywhere uh what where this came from. And even on the sides... There's literally no printing on any edge, sides, top, bottom'

  • High Speed installation revealed a misaligned kickout hole requiring manual ball ejection for now

    high confidence · Mike observes during playtest 'the new playfield holes for that kick out mechanism is in the wrong spot' and Kevin confirms manual kicking is required

  • Kevin has now completed multiple playfield swap restorations and considers himself primarily a 'plate swap guy'

    high confidence · Mike jokes 'Kevin's now just the plate swap guy' and asks 'How many swaps have you done now?' with Kevin responding 'Probably all of them. More than I wanted.'

  • “You're not doing very good. That's precisely why spinner. There we go. I hit him first. First one.”

    Multiple speakers @ ~56:30 — Casual banter during Monster Bash playtest showing typical gameplay instruction and friendly competition.

  • Trizonegame
    Medieval Madnessgame
    Creature from the Black Lagoongame
    Tales of the Arabian Knightsgame
    Doctor Whogame
    10 Strike Bowlergame
    Fork Riverevent
    Grand Den arcadevenue
    Sault Ste. Marielocation
    Pinup Arcadecompany
    Williamscompany

    high · Mike notes 'This like back to back to back. Three of them in a row. Yes. With the Tales Arabian Knights' and references Ray's transaction to buy Tron

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    competitive_signal: Kevin won Fork River tournament with five consecutive round-robin victories (5-0 record) but eliminated in first bracket round with 20 total participants

    high · Mike states 'Kevin Grazley. This guy won every single game and then got knocked out in the first' with '20 players' competing

  • ?

    community_signal: Dan Shadic provided reference machine to assist Kevin's restoration efforts, demonstrating collaborative approach to complex restoration projects within community

    high · Mike explains 'our buddy Dan Shadic dropped off a second highspeed at Kevin's just so he could use as reference'

  • ?

    design_innovation: High Speed restoration includes clear ramp upgrade (swapped from black ramp discovered in bucket), new plastic set with extensive spacer installation requiring soldering gun heat-removal, new spinner decals, and full LED conversion

    high · Mike notes 'The clear ramp is awesome' and confirms Kevin 'had to proceed to remove everything, reinstall the clear ramp, install the um uh ramp decals, all the rivets and all the hardware'

  • ?

    content_signal: Pinball Shenanigans continues documenting Grazley Garage projects with multi-day comprehensive episode covering High Speed reassembly, first playtest, and Monster Bash acquisition with extensive gameplay footage

    high · Mike Dus hosts episode and documents entire project lifecycle from bucket condition to playtest, including detailed gameplay sequences

  • ?

    mystery_signal: Monster Bash installation using mystery playfield with zero identifying marks, manufacturing labels, or origin indication on any surface (edges, sides, top, bottom); possibly new old stock or bespoke manufacture

    high · Mike investigates 'There's no sticker. Uh there's no indication whatsoever anywhere uh what where this came from. And even on the sides... There's literally no printing on any edge, sides, top, bottom'

  • ?

    venue_signal: Grazley Garage arcade area undergoing cosmetic expansion with vintage signage installation (Zenith television, Grand Den arcade top hat, multiple additional signs); space constraints becoming apparent

    medium · Mike observes 'The Zenith sign is installed' and notes 'getting to that point. Actually running out of space. The top hat is going in here'

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    restoration_signal: High Speed restoration required hardware procurement solutions during playfield installation; Kevin worked through component availability challenges to complete assembly

    medium · Mike confirms 'you had uh some issues finding some hardware, I hear' and Kevin responds 'Yeah, but we got some we got everything taken care of'