[Music]
Am I gonna hit the trailer?
Hard right. Oh, that's too hard right wheelie. Huh? He's drifting. Holy sh
sick drift. Mike,
I'm Mike Dus and this is Pinball Shenanigans. Hi doggies. Oh I just set up my new camera holder. I didn't do a very good job. I did it while I was driving. I don't recommend that, by the way. But I'm heading over to the Grazy garage. I got to bring Kevin uh some LEDs. He's shopping up Indiana Jones for a customer. Also, I hear our buddy Sean Bennish is picking up his Barra today and dropping off a new project, which is a 1980 or 81 Ballet Medusa, which is a really cool game. I used to own one of those. It's got the upper playfield. It's got uh I think four flippers and uh it's a really neat game. They didn't make a whole lot of those. So, we're going to go snoop around over at the Grazley garage for a few minutes and uh bring him some LEDs so he can finish this uh Indiana Jones for his customer. So, we'll see you there. Oo, I think I'm missing out on some of the action. Oh, is this Brad Wells? I wasn't sure if this is uh Sean Bennish or Brad Wells because that pole position thing that Kevin has had for a while, he's decided he's not going to end up restoring it. So, that is going to go to Brad Wells. So, maybe that's whose vehicle that is. Hi, doggies. Let's go see who it is. Yeah.
Oh, is this Benish?
I wasn't sure if it was Brad Wells picking up the pole position or you dropping off the Medusa. What's up, buddy?
Yeah, a little bit. You know,
always recording the shenanigans. So, what do you think of the Paracora? I wasn't sure if it was going to be all folded up. So, we actually get to see the finished finished product,
isn't it? Cuz the last couple things were um the new pop bumper caps and the lane guides and uh looks Yeah. Incredible. So,
it's sick, man.
Did you bring him a new uh project?
But as long as he's not sick of me yet.
Oh, yeah. Do you got something in your vehicle?
I do have something.
Oh, okay. Cool. Well, I'll be here.
I don't know if that's any good filming, but you can see that.
Oh, yeah. We, you know, I'll record everything and anything. I'm silly like that. But cool, man. Why don't you play a ball or two here while we're uh filming?
Okay. Sure.
Yeah. Let's see the skills. You You
Sean is no slouch. He's got a collection of a lot of machines. He's got like machines on three different levels in his house. I think it is now.
No,
you got the basement, that one floor, the main floor.
Sub
and then like that little side room. You still have games in the side room.
Hell yeah.
Oh, yeah. Okay. You still host a league night?
I'm back in it now. So, you should join back up.
Yeah. Yeah.
Try city. Tri City Pinball League. Yeah.
And it's uh what? Kitchener, right? That's where you are.
I'm in Waterl.
Waterlue. Okay. So, it's all the same. Kitchener, Cambridge, Waterlue.
Tri city as they say.
Exactly. So, how's it playing compared to the uh
It's amazing.
It's like playing something that's
Well, it's better than new, right?
Well, yeah. It's like
I mean what's with you and the lightning flippers?
Well, ball times can get a little long on this, especially like in Tri City where there's a lot of really good players and stuff. So,
you've got like Tololises and
I mean most leagues have those sort of killer players you guys here in London too, but I mean unless they're just beginners, you don't want to be having 45 minutes games going.
Yeah, exactly. I mean, you're already having a decent ball as it is. So, wait. This should be in two ball multiball, shouldn't you? It says two on the display. Do you have some weird setting that I don't know about? Cuz even when I was messing with it before,
I got to lock that. I think I got to lock that. Um
the top the ball on the top.
Yeah, the the orange shot.
Well, see, it's dancing to on the displays. I thought when you play three ball multiball, it dances threes on the displays. So, I think you're supposed to be in two ball multiball. I say uh you you need a refund. Get your money back.
I don't even know anything about this game.
I don't know if it's a rule thing or a lack of knowledge thing or what, but anyway.
Yeah, I
you're blowing this game up right now. I don't know about that. It's cool because there's so many rules. You want to You got to hit the bear and Kora targets in order just come up and it'll give you a little laughter sand. Oh, does it actually laugh?
Oh, there you go. See, it was like
Oh, it's like a safety ball.
Cuz I know you can do that with a top ball. I didn't know you could do it with the bottom ball.
Yeah, it's got some good sounds on this game.
The classic sort of defender sounds.
Yeah, exactly. I love how Williams did that. Recycled some like arcade sounds.
Didn't go in. Surprised it didn't lock, but
uh is that available for lock? Oh, you need the R and the A,
right?
Really? It's a lock.
Don't Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I see the lock light. It wasn't lit.
I thought
that was bonus value collect.
Well, coming to Tri City Pinball League very soon. Beautiful. Better than new Barraa. Wanted to also show off this brand new CPR back glass. It's just beautiful. Obviously to go with the CPR. Is it a gold playfield? Did I hear you say something about that?
Yeah.
CPR gold playfield with the new plastic set and new everything including super cool.
And I bought this off a guy um in Clare, Michigan
really.
And his dad bought a a cottage
by the lake and this was in the cottage
and his dad was like, "Haul it out to the corner." This was back in 2018. He said, "Haul it out to the corner. It's trash." and he said, "No, Dad. Let me look." So, I got this for 2,000 American.
Oh, actually, uh
I thought it was going to be like
like 20 bucks.
It was functioning and stuff. You wouldn't believe. Um I jumped on pinside and got it. And there were a lot of people that were upset they didn't snag at first cuz you can't find these very easily.
No, they never come up. Anyway, she's a beauty. All right, Kevin's dealing with the trailer over there with Tyler. Me and Sean are going to snoop around in the uh garage here. Yeah. Have you seen this Whirlwind 2.0 total chaos cabinet job?
It's all right. I played it.
Have you played it?
Yeah.
Well, I guess it is. Yeah, I played one game on it um before he tore it apart. I didn't mind it, actually. I thought I'd kind of hate it, but I didn't. But this is what else he's working on. Just a shop job for a customer on this Indiana Jones here. Customer wants it like all original. So, it's getting the black rubbers and uh it's it does have this mod on there and the little motorized uh propeller. It also has this mod, but I don't think that's going back on. This uh like Zeppelin or whatever that is. This is pretty beefy. It's like cast iron. Someone made that little light that turns on. Oh yeah, that's what these LEDs are for. So Kevin can finish this job. So the customer um he bought this like 10 years ago off a dude that's local. Okay.
Ben, our buddy Benedict. He lives like 10 minutes from here,
right?
And uh he sold all his machines 10 years ago and uh and now he's wants to rebuild his collection. So he ended up buying this machine back offend. So he's getting this exact same machine back. But
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah. except it's going to be uh nicely freshly chopped up. And yeah, so that's what's going on with this. I'll leave those there for Kevin. Do you have one of these?
I do not.
No. You want one? That's a
Dude, there's a lot of machines I have. This is one of them for sure.
Yeah, this is a A-lister for sure.
Oh, yeah.
I uh had one and uh actually had two. I sold them both, but uh be nice to get one back one day. But prices kind of like tripled uh since I sold my last one. But there it is. It's looking good. Looking good. He should have this done by the weekend. And then this will be out of here. And then the pole position thing is going to be gone. Um and obviously Baracor is gone, but you're replenishing that space with uh Medusa. So, we'll go haul that out of your vehicle. I'm going to hire you as the cameraman
and uh me and Kevin are going to haul out the Medusa.
I won't narrate, though. I won't say anything.
You don't need to narrate. Just don't hit the off button while you're recording.
Okay. Now, your fingers in the camera.
See, because of the sun.
Okay. Let's get your finger off the camera here. Hold on. Hold on with your right hand.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
There you go. All right. Okay. So, got the new cameraman. Me and Kevin are going to do all the heavy lifting here. You didn't even take the head off of Medusa, man. You hauled it up the stairs with the head on, silly boy. Can't be doing that with the hernia.
Yeah. Shout out to Should I guys are awesome.
And shout out to Manny for helping you out.
Yeah, even more so.
Getting the machine out of the basement. So,
Manny Pereira.
Manny is a good dude. Brother, don't. Larry, not so much. Stay away from that guy.
All right, we got the cart. Did you have this game set up in your games room?
Oh, yeah.
Okay. So, I might have played it when I was there.
Oh, she plays.
I honestly look like OG hinges.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Oh, son of a What? You got a screw in there.
Yeah.
Oh, Kevin already got stabbed by a screw.
Good start.
That's Medusa's fang.
You're going to turn to stone in about 5 minutes, so hurry up, buddy.
There's There's her tooth right there.
Oh, son of a
Sorry about that. I did not know. Honest to God,
you booby trapped it.
I was going to say it was a trap. So, this is 81, you said?
That's an 81. Yeah.
Same year as um Centaur and Fathom. That's sort of like when I was starting out in pinball,
2017. That was kind of like the the three the three uh
the holy grail games.
Holy grails of that era. All the same year.
And you have them all.
I do. I am a very fortunate man.
The dogs are the true stars of the show.
They are.
Okay.
Certainly the cutest.
Kevin is a close second.
That's right.
Uh you're kind of running out of space there, buddy.
Down here somewhere. All right, we do stuff. It's in. Must be excited. You got some playfields and stuff for us?
I got all that stuff. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Let's go check that out.
Plastic set, I imagine.
Oh, for sure. And I've had this stuff for like 6 years.
Oh, wow.
Yeah. So, this is long overdue.
This must be exciting for you.
It is. It's a culmination.
It's like Christmas early.
Okay. So, I even have the James Rees James Rees's rails. I got a new apron.
Oh, no way. A new apron.
It's like just feel how heavy that sucker is. I can't remember. I got that off some guy in the US.
And shooter gauge.
Shooter gauge.
Got manuals.
That will that always helps. Plastic set
CPR.
And James Rees Rails. I don't even think he's in business anymore.
No, he is not. What else? Some sundries.
Um, drop ts. I think they changed the white ones and didn't change the red one cuz the red ones look new, so I just threw everything in there.
Some LEDs, rubber kit. But are you going translucent?
I'm going to go translucent. But threw that in there. I have them. And
like bolts and a ball. All right. That is a goodie box.
And we have the playfield somewhere. Take that.
Oh, yeah. Here. I'll grab it.
Okay.
Playfield up in the front.
Oh, cool. Don't even have to unbox it. Is this also CPR?
That is CPR. Yes, I believe.
Nope. I don't see Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Join Valley. I got that from um what is it called? Planetary Pinball.
Oh, yeah.
And um I got a deal on it back in the day. And because this little display was was cracked, but I mean, you just use the original display anyways.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Okay. We'll have to unwrap this and get a closer look. And then you got me some chocolates, I see.
Yes.
Oh, thanks. Appreciate that. All right. And legs. I see. Right.
Yeah. The legs are always good. Okay. Bring all this in. We got to unwrap this uh playfield and have a quick peek. It looks nice. You're making a good cameraman so far. Well, I guess we'll have to wait and see once I get to the editing room.
I don't want to uh let the dogs out or I'll be a dead cameraman.
Yeah. Would be like
these cuties. They can't be out of out of large. They might eat somebody. A You're a good dog. You haven't eaten a baby in at least a week, right? Yeah. So cute. Too cute. Oh, he is so good.
I love the extra dog footage. Okay, do we have any uh here? Come on in here. Probably uh be better to see this thing minus the glare without the sunlight. Yeah, this thing looks pretty sweet. I just love the artwork from this era. Cool. Remember how much you paid for this? You bought how many
was US? Um, yeah. 19, sorry, 20 uh 18 or 2019. I'm thinking 500 US.
Oh, that's not bad.
Nope. Okay. So cool. Let's h grab this camera and maybe zoom in a little bit here. Close this door. Get rid of a bit of the glare. Oh, this Zeus character's got a couple girlfriends. That's like uh what? Neptune. The dude with the trident.
Yeah, that's Neptune's code cove. You want to um hit down all the drops up here, right?
Yeah.
All the drops here and then collect your bonus.
The color is just vibrant. All these pinks and yellows and purples. It's quite the palette. And what are these guys doing here? Concocting some sort of planetary potion or something.
I don't know. It's probably nefarious though.
And you build up your bonus this way.
Oh yeah.
2x 2x 5x. Um and you get various specials up here.
Doesn't it say something like Gorgon in the uh speech?
Yeah. Yeah. I think I remember something about a Gorgon
track mode and uh you got the skill shot. You come up here and you try to like trace it as the lights are going up and if you can like have your ball trace that as the lights are going up then your your gorggon's light and if you like so if you hit all of them for example you'll get all five of these gorggons and that lights your spinner because there's a spinner right in the middle here.
Yeah. and you shoot it up and every time you rip the spinner, it's worth tons of points.
It's a really cool uh skill shot. It's not easy though. Can you get it consistently like to time it to the top thing?
Uh I don't usually nail it, but um
as long as it's up there in that zone, then you get good spinner value.
Partial points. So if you partially nail it, you get um you get points. You get a lot of points if you totally nail it.
Yeah, this thing is beautiful. And the outlane drains are notorious for uh just
oh it's got that weird orientation of like posts just kind of like it's like a plinko in the outlanes.
You don't want it on the pops
and it always plinkos out.
You got a shield of the gods. So
Oh yeah, that's a cool feature.
You got a you hit a you hit a button and um you can you can jam the ball up. You only have so many of those.
Your shield of gods looks like this. When you hit the button, it goes.
Yep. It's keeps your saves your ball from the middle drain.
Yep. Just like that. Very cool. All right. Well, this will be uh pretty fun. Hey, wait. Isn't there a upper playfield, too? Oh, no. It's not a twole play field.
It is a Yeah, it does feel like an upper playfield. I was kind of expecting two playfields, but I forgot. It's actually
Well, it's got another another nice thing is the zipper flippers. They go
Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's
you hit enough of these, the flippers go together and then it's um harder for it to drain down the middle there.
Right. I forgot about that. That's pretty sweet. All right, Baracore is all loaded up, ready to go home. These guys don't want me to film pole position going for a ride, but I thought it was fun to see pole position going down the driveway. So, we'll do one little clip of it. Brad should be here shortly to haul this thing away. All right. This is how you play a driving game. Are you getting in there?
No.
No. Okay.
These guys are afraid to go for a ride down the driveway.
I just don't want to sit on the dirty.
Yeah, there's a lot of dust in there.
Oh, they just don't want to get dusty. All right.
Dusty.
I'm afraid no dust. Although, I got a dust proofing right now. Okay. Ready? Start your engines. Am [Music] I going to hit the trailer?
Hard break. Oh, that's too hard.
He's just pulling a wheelie, huh? He's drifting. Holy
Brakes. The brakes.
Sick drift, Mike.
We're good.
Uh slight hiccup uh in the uh moving of
pole position onto the trailer. You remember you said something about a wheelie?
Yeah. Well,
we we got the wheelie. Not quite. To
be fair, this thing is always wheeling. It's only on two wheels.
Well, all points.
Fair. Speaking of Ben Benedict and uh the Indiana Jones,
I I can do that either.
No, I wanted you to stand on the seat.
Get right up in there. That's how you really do it. Yeah. There you go.
Convertible pole position. Yeah. Yeah. Ben has come. And Ben is now gone. Adios, amigo.