lots of good options here. There's the WTF burger with WTF pickles.
Oh,
look at that. What uh flavor do you think and what year do you think this gum is?
Cherry 97.
Yeah. And what about this green one?
Watermelon. That's like a 2001.
And this white one.
Hey,
kitty. Are you mousing around?
But um
I'm Mike Dus and this is Pinball Shenanigans. Tomorrow Kevin and I are going on another pinball adventure. I'm just going to give you a brief summary. Someone posted a mousing around in the pinball groups locally here yesterday and there's a lot of competition for it. It was a reasonable price and out of all the people that were interested, Kevin ended up securing the deal and it happens to be in the Niagara region. So, deal secured. I got a call yesterday from someone who said that they had a Gilligans Island for sale. Honestly, it was like 24 hours of discussion and negotiation and kind of back and forth and do I want to sell? Maybe I shouldn't sell, maybe I do want to sell. I haven't played it forever. So, it's it's been back and forth, but finally the deal was made and they also happen to be in the Niagara region. So, tomorrow morning, bright and early, Kevin and I are going to go on a little adventure. Going to go pick up a mousing around at the one location. The other location is 25 minutes from the first one. Grab a Gilligan's Island and it should be another fun day of shenanigans. So, see you tomorrow. Yo, what is going on? Another day, another pinball adventure. I am on my way to Kevin's. We're gonna hop in the truck, go grab a trailer, head to Niagara Falls, and uh hopefully have success with grabbing our two pinball machines. So, I'll bring you along a little bit here and there and see if I can record some of the action once we get to our destination. So, here we go. All right, made it to Kevin's. There he is. Ready to rock and roll? You excited about deer mousing around?
Cool.
All right, time to rent us a trailer. Who the heck's 1099s? 1099s. Hey, man. How's it going?
Found it. We got quite a bit of snow on top of the U-Haul here. Big iceberg chunks. We're going to try and hit these tracks here and uh
get rid of some of this stuff so we don't piss off anybody behind us on the highway. Here we go. Oh, we got a little bit. All right, we've been driving for close to a couple hours. We're getting close though. Our ETA is in like 15 minutes. So, uh mousing around here we come.
So, this is the stairs, eh?
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I got rid of the rail thing there. Okay. Take this door off here.
I love pie shaped stairs. They're my favorite.
Oh, drum kit.
Could be a fun arcade carpet. All right, there it is.
Motion around. How long have you had this for?
Uh, not too long. Uh, half a year, I think.
Oh, really? Oh, okay. Do you remember where like who you got it off of?
Uh, yeah. It's a It's a guy named Vince Louis Léger in Montreal or really like further into Quebec.
I met him in Kingston for it.
Oh, wow. How far is that from here?
Like 5 hour drive.
5 hour drive. Oh, wow.
Yeah. I just I was looking all over the place trying to find something that is fun to play like that has ramps and that is in an old like electro uh mechanical also that's not like in the 5000 range cuz it's my first machine.
Yeah. Yeah,
I found it for 3,000.
Yeah, that's reasonable.
Probably the best I'm going to find for the money that I have.
Yeah, good bang for your buck. Definitely.
Fire it up.
All right, let's Oh, it's got lightning flippers on it.
Is that not the ones that come with the machine normally?
I don't know if these are
Did this have carrot flippers originally?
Yeah. So, they're like little staggered. The lightning flippers a bit shorter, so it makes it 100 times harder to pull. That's actually one of the few reasons that I was trying to sell it because uh for a first machine it's extremely challenging.
Beats the crap out of you.
I mean it's been great to work on my skills and to you know get a little bit of uh ability going so when I go to an arcade I can actually do you know get a good game going
but uh I've sat here for so many hours just like drain drain.
Yeah. Yeah. Well they changed it from the long flippers to the short flippers and there's a pretty significant gap there. Kev, let's uh see you see your skills with the lightning flippers.
It's your game. You got to give it the first uh go here.
They have one in Missaga that has the uh you call the carrot flippers with like the sideways lines on it. A bit longer,
right?
And he also had it so that this guard here was removed like
Maple Pinball.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. That's my sort of stomping grounds for when I play uh big tournaments.
Oh, really?
Shout out to Maple Pinball. Shane gave me for uh not shouting him out. Oh, really?
Cuz I said like when I was doing a video at your place, I said I couldn't go to the the last adventure you were on cuz I was at a big tournament. Shane called me as soon as he saw that. He's like, "Next time you got to uh say you where did you go to Maple Pinball?"
It was just a big tournament.
So go to Maple Pinball. Best place to play pinball in Ontario perhaps, but you're actually uh doing all right here. See? Yep. Commentators curse.
Uh I was getting kind of so frustrated with you that I had to give myself a little bit of a like a crutch. You would say I put a piece of pipe cleaner from there to there guarding. Did you just at least like get some kind of removed and then I went back to
I think we should stick it back in for I might need it. Check it out.
It's got some fun tunes. It's kind of hard to hear. It's pretty quiet, but you can never really hear it when when I have played it at Maple cuz it's just like a 70 other games going off at the same time.
There's a volume knob inside.
Do you happen to have the little Valley plaque that used to be there?
No. This is how it came.
Okay. Probably get one of them 3D printed or something.
You guys work on the restorations together or
Yeah, we tag team on some uh projects. Yeah, we're tag teaming on one right now. An old EM called Alaska.
Oh, cool.
So, he's doing like the cabinet. I'm doing the playfield. Other buddy's doing like bottom board. Other buddy's probably going to do the head with some crazy collaboration we're doing. How long does a project like that take?
Uh, can be like a couple weeks to a couple months. Just kind of Oops. But yeah, she uh she flips and makes noise and Oh, cute little uh match sound or soundtrack. All right. So, uh I guess the big question is um does the can we access and open that lock? So,
well, I tested
Oh, wait. You don't even need it. So,
all right. Good.
Trying to unlock like that.
I've never played it.
Hey, kitty.
Are you mousing around? You looking for a mouse?
Absolutely love it.
Are you looking for a mouse? Sorry, Dan. Chadock, you did not win. We won. Apologies, but uh most around is coming home with us.
Okay.
Yeah, that was a good idea.
Before you do, are you going to go around this post here or should I move this stuff? Would that be easier?
We can go around. Yeah.
Okay. I'll try to move this out of the way, too.
Try not to crash into your symbols.
Well, that's what they're for.
We should be.
But um you want to record from the top or
Oh, yeah. Maybe from the bottom.
From the bottom, sure. Yeah, that
that's the money shot.
Get Kevin's behind in there.
There you go.
We'll send that to Dan.
Yeah, good thing I took this door off.
I was going to say a little tight.
Okay, on the count of three. One, two, three.
You good?
One, two, three. Oh, this is going to be so fun. I can't wait. One, two, three.
Okay, here's where we get to triangulation.
Okay,
one, two, three. Two, three.
Okay,
don't worry too too much about little nicks and scratches. That's fine. It's not exactly a palace in here.
All right.
And I've nicked it and scratched it plenty times moving stuff in and out.
Stopped by these grocery bags.
They're security bags. One, two, three.
Well, I think you're around the hardest part now.
Oh, wait. Circling around.
Yeah.
So, on three. One, two, three.
Totally off the card here.
Yeah. Let me just see if I can There we go. Back on the T. Maybe I should have opted for removal. Okay, let's just uh if I can tuck myself in here.
All right.
And you tuck yourself there.
We just got to go up.
Okay, we're almost there.
If you can stand it up.
I can I can do this. Let me just Let me just get in position.
Yeah, I think you've cleared the hardest part like getting it around the corner there at least. Okay. So, on three or we're going to give this a go.
Yeah.
One, two, three.
Nice.
Hey, let's just slide it around.
Should have taken my jacket off.
Yeah, I worked up a sweat. Okay,
that is the hardest part.
Yeah, you got it.
We survived barely.
Well done.
I was going to say Oh, we're not actually.
Zoe back.
Here we go.
Okay.
Hey, you got it.
Got it.
Hell yeah.
Yes, we're out.
Well done.
Uh, when Kevin you thought this might be a nightmare,
you're right. Hello.
It definitely was
uh a man of my word.
It's okay, Zo. Go, go, go, go. Run, go, go.
Oh, so we So, now we have the luxury of going about 25 minutes away from here to haul another pinball machine out.
Yeah, I heard you're getting a Gilligan's Island. Uh, you know, I played it last night just because you told me that you were getting one. Yeah, it was pretty fun. Yeah, I'm excited about it. That way for me.
Nice. That's a fun day. You guys just go around get pinball machines. That's so sick.
Yep. It's a It's a fun hobby.
Wa. Careful here.
This is deadly. This is all ice.
Yeah. I got to come out here with some salt.
Y so much better than that.
Yeah. So when you like repaint the cabinet, do you like just paint over what's there or do you
I'll strip it right down to like bare wood.
So you like redo the paint from scratch just like get it exactly?
Yeah,
that's pretty cool.
Luckily for these ones, um like I'll repaint the whole thing, but then these are vinyl decals, so you can buy those and then it'll be completely done, but then all new artwork and then molding and powder coat everything. I see.
So be like some cool orangeish powder coating cheese.
Cool.
Yeah, like kind of crafty.
Yeah, craft dinner. Powder coating. It is loaded.
And uh yeah, thanks for taking over the camera. Of course. All right, we worked up an appetite. That was a challenge. So, we're going to WTF, we the finest burger company for lunch. Lots of good options here. There's the WTF burger with WTF pickles and WTF awesome sauce. Now, this is a little story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, and I'll tell you a little bit about how I became we the finest burger. All right, WTF burgers were good. And now we are off to Gilligan's Island. We're like five minutes away.
Oh yeah. I was asking if you remember what year you think you got this machine in. Do you know?
So I bet it was like
Well, Gary was still with
35 years ago.
35 years.
Well, has it been that long?
30 30.
This came out in ' 91.
So the girls were 85. I was born six
cuz Gary was here
96 maybe about 96. 91, right?
That's right. So these guys used to run the machines for a few years and then they'd
Oh, the Hamilton operators.
The Hamilton operators.
Yeah. Yeah.
So that's some of the signs.
Extra rubbers.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
Plunger link. Solder.
That is so cool. I got
Oh, you got him.
Yeah.
The big boy.
So, I'm trying to get a apple pie tree, right?
Oh, you're uh the actual big boy.
Yeah,
that is so cool.
Well, it looks like uh
how much money you
It's definitely been loved.
Yeah, it works. The multiball, the whole thing when you get back on, it's just nuts. It's great.
For the longest time. Got the glass off so you can see. Oh,
look at that. Already cleaning it up as we go.
Look at poor Skipper.
Oh, Skipper. He'll clean up. Gilligan.
Oh, yeah. And then you hear the Skipper say Gilligan.
He messes up.
He's got one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right. Gilligan and Skipper are all packed up and ready to go on a 30 stair tour. Well, maybe not that many. Whoa. Don't try and move the machine one-handed down the driveway by yourself doing,
but we got it out. Yeah. Here, you take over. I'm just onehanding it for the sake of the video. But those stairs weren't horrible. I mean, they were stairs and this is 300 lb, so there's that. But it was a lot easier than mousing around, that's for sure. All right, she's in. All right, we made it back. Dutch, what's up? He's come to investigate and help out. What uh flavor do you think and what year do you think this gum is?
Cherry 97.
Yeah. And what about this green one?
Um, watermelon. That's like a 2001.
Yeah. And then this white one.
Mint.
Mint.
Like 2012.
We're missing a carriage bolt. Good eye Dutch. I didn't notice that at first. Another carriage bolt here. Uh, someone probably tried to break into the coin door here. The screwdriver. Oh, wait a minute. Check this inch. It is a quarter. I find one quarter in every single machine. It seems like I can't get at it though. Might have to leave this in there for a minute. Okay, but it's there. Actually, you know what? Check this out. Two quarters. But anyway, this is what Gilligans looks like
out in the sun.
It's got its uh fair share of bumps and bruises. But, you know,
it's pretty old. Oh, sweet. Check this out. Laniel Automatic
signed for my collection.
And I think I just seen one of these also on my Jurassic Park that I got. Boom. Adding that to the collection. I've got like six of them or so. This carriage or this
hinge bolt looks like it's coming out. But
you said you tried before.
Uh maybe some new T- molding is in order.
New barrel spring and shooter rod, but that's
usual par for the course. All right, mousing around is out and uh it's going to need a little bit of work. It's in the right hands for that. We got the not correct coin door. Some weird shooter rod and shooter plate
holes for I assume a lock.
Yeah.
A weird lock bar.
Any money in here? No. Oh yeah, this lock bar.
That is not correct. The uh arts peeling some good chunks of wood out of there. That's amazing.
That's been glued.
Uh wow. How does that even happen? Someone must have tried to wedge this through a tight space. Look at that. This is all good before footage right here. And then check this out. The bottom was replaced and it's like um construction adhesive.
Yeah, that's going to be amazing to take out.
That is going to be fun. They almost aligned the hole for the speaker properly. And they even cut a hole for the little vent back there. But yeah, I think uh you're going to have to replace all of that. That's pretty cool.
But I think is the plan. We're going to set this up and give her a go.
Dutch wants to play this, I think.
Why is there lightning flippers?
Good question. We all also asked the same thing. Okay, Dutch got mousing around set up all by himself while we were dropping off the trailer. So,
they don't make these things very light.
Hello. I was very impressed. Oh, sounded like the knocker went off. We got
I think it was the kickback.
Oh, yeah. There was a there was a report. I don't know what the report was. You want to check that for fun? Going to have to replace that single slot coin door.
Good stuff. Why are these here? One, two, three.
Bolts there. They go nowhere.
Interesting.
One, two, three. This is a rivet. What was the point?
Is this some This is the old coin mech. Oh, I just added actually works.
Um,
so
that button.
Hey, here we go. Let's see. What do we got? Switch 21. Mouse E.
Ball diverter.
Malfunction diverter.
Okay, that's it. So, mouse E. One switch. I
assume this diverter and that diverter.
Oh, this here.
Stiff.
This is not a diverter. That's just a switch.
Oh, no. That's probably If the diverter doesn't work, it probably doesn't hit that switch.
Oh. Ah, I see what you mean. Either that
that switch wouldn't be registered
or there's a switch on the diverter.
Wait, no.
This ramp will register this switch, but the whatever switches in the mouse hole won't be getting registered. Comes in through there and out through here.
I believe
I'm thinking either the the diverter switch is this. Yeah.
Or on the actual like assembly itself is a switch telling the game that it's closed.
Oh, I see. Yep. Yep. Okay. Well, Dutch is gonna play his very, very first game of mousing around in his life,
and I'm sure it's going to be amazing.
Oh, I can't wait. And we might have to turn up the volume so we can hear it better cuz it was kind of quiet at Buddy's place. So, let's get the volume going.
Um,
I don't know if it's Is it knob? Okay.
Yeah. Oh, it's all the way at the one end. So, it might be completely silent
or might that might be might be backs.
We'll find out shortly here.
All right. Watch your ears.
That sounds reasonable. Oh, the diverter's
trying to do something but failing.
All right.
Okay.
We'll just employ the trusty hand diverter.
Yeah.
Just whenever I hit the ramp, just do that.
Yeah, you can't cheat the mouse hole just yet. You got to earn that. Oh, yeah. She's loud. But I think uh one of the first things you guys are going to want to do is get rid of these lightning flippers.
I ain't no
All right, let's spell some cheese then. One letter. Nice. I want to see you get this multiball.
How do I do it?
You got to spell mouse and trap. Although our E may not work, but you can spot letters. letters. Yeah,
I think if you
point cheese then
that's like a cheese bonus. It's just extra points. So spell cheese and then go into the mouse hole. Might as well see that as well. So trap is spelled. So just need us and e. So since e probably doesn't work, we got to spot the letter through the in lane. Nice. Oh, there's no tilt bob by the way. though.
Oh, sweet.
You put that to your advantage. Is this going to spot it?
Oh, I missed it. No, it it it goes
Oh, it jumps over that switch.
No, it doesn't. Oh, on purpose.
Yeah. Yeah, but
Oh, I did it. It worked.
Oh, all right. Look at that.
Last try it ended up working.
Oh, okay. So, it's needs to be stiff cleaned, lubed, whatever.
Whatever you're into,
you know. All right. So, we need that last E. How the hell do we spot that? Just the right in lane. But we can't
or left in lane
feed that directly. Or can we? How do we get down here? Oh, most hole is available. Right ramp
is Oh, that that
Yeah, cheesy bonus when lit.
I see that. I thought you I thought this was the trap. I thought it was a hole there.
Oh, you can't backhand. Hey, never know.
Nice try, though.
His lightning flippers snappy.
You'd have to have some pretty strong flippers to be able to backhand that all the way. There we go.
Boom. Special.
I got a special.
Oh, wow. Okay.
H.
All right, let's uh spell E.
I was figuring out if I wanted to shout if I was going to shout. Oh
Hey, he saved me the effort of failing.
We are on ball two. We got to try and uh pull it off here.
Oh, there is a hole there.
See the trap is This is just the same as like Secret Service.
Same mech. Boom. The ball eater mech.
Interesting. or kind of like the other half of like a theater magic basement.
Yeah, kind of like that.
Or Yeah, the basement.
Yep. Oh, that I could
And I have no chance of saving that.
No, that is like a freaking Trudeau gap there. Maybe on steroids.
I got a few of those around here. That's about the right. That's about the same size.
Yeah. Creatures over there to our left.
Uh Flintstones.
Oh, yeah. Uh, Dread,
I didn't think Creature or Flintstone's gap was that bad.
Flintstone's gap's pretty bad.
Is it?
The ball just moves side to side a lot.
Okay, there's the trap way up there. I was just making sure it came up. Dutch is going to nail it right now. Boom.
Gotcha.
It just starts my plunge, right?
I think it does start. Now, here is the multiball.
Okay, what do I do?
So, um, you want to get the jackpot. How do you get that again? Uh, it looks like it's up.
Oh, I know what you want to do. You got to uh relock the balls.
Oh, of course.
Classic.
Oh no.
I can't do with these.
Oh no. Is there a restart option? No. Okay. Well, why don't you move on to the center ramp? Hit that death trap three times. Cheat if you have to, just so we can demonstrate. Boom. Look at that. Survived. Now that it's open, spam that center ramp non-stop as long as it lets you. 100,000.
As long as it lets me.
Yeah, it'll like close up after so many shots.
I think it's timed. But that's also a good point strategy in a tournament. Just once you got like two of the three targets accidentally hit, then you can purposely go for that last target. And then, you know, or if you have a death wish, just go for the targets straight up. And once the wall is down, just spam that center ramp. 100k a shot. Nice. All right.
Well,
it's like the original.
It's set to five balls, but I don't think it is. It's like the original version of the WHO dunnit elevator.
Yeah, pretty much.
Oh, that's cute,
isn't it? You're missing your ballet plaque, by the way. You're going to have to uh
bastards
make one. There you go. Dutch's first game of mousing around. Now it's my turn, but not on camera. We've seen enough mousing around for