Pinside Outage, Loads of Code, Aliens are Coming, Interviews with Dave Brennan and Nick Baldridge, Billy Madison Pin, Stolen Metallica – TWIP 4/12/21

— QUICK HITS —

Pinside Suffers Major Outage

The largest pinball website in the world was offline for much of last week. A huge thank you to Robin and the Pinside team for all their work getting the site back up as quickly as possible!

We posted a few updates on TWIP’s social media channels to keep people updated:

After Pinside was back up, Robin posted some more information on what happened and what is being done on this Pinside thread:

Did you miss Pinside while it was offline?? Resources like Pinside are kept alive with YOUR support!!

PLEASE CONSIDER A DONATION TO PINSIDE TO HELP SUPPORT THE SITE AND KEEP IT GOING!!!

Loads of Code

Last week new code was released for many different machines from several different manufacturers:

Alien Pinball Shipping

Last week Pinball Brothers shared a post on Facebook showing an Alien standard version box! Check it out:

Melissa from CoinTaker shared in the comments that Aliens are slowly shipping and that larger quantities should be shipping in a few weeks. She also shared a little insight into the XV version showing on the box, as Pinball Brothers are offering just the standard version and limited version:

Interviews

Last week there were two notable interviews on different podcasts:

• The Slam Tilt Podcast: Interview with Dave Brennan from American Pinball

• Flippin’ and Mashing: Interview with Nick Baldridge, creator of Ranger in the Ruins

Installing Expression Light System on Led Zeppelin Pro Pinball

How to Remove a Playfield From a Spike 2 Stern Pinball Machine

PinClash AIQ Qualifying

Reminder – PinClash on Avengers: Infinity Quest is going on now and ends April 30th!

Click here for more info!!

TMNT Limited Box (with Pinball Artwork)

Congrats to Marco Pinball on 50 Episodes of PinTech LIVE!

High quality pinball apparel!

#pinballforall

— Cool and Crazy Stuff —

Billy Madison Custom Pinball

Meet the Ladies of Marco Pinball

New Hobbit Mod from The Art of Pinball

Stolen Metallica – Let’s Find This Thing

The Mystery Of The Metallica Pinball Machine On OfferUp

La Verne Police Searching For Custom Metallica Pinball Machine Taken During Burglary, Later Listed On OfferUp

La Verne Police Seek Help to Locate Stolen Metallica Pinball Machine

Other Quick Hits:

• Happy birthday Doug Polka, Jake Danzig, and Jason Rufer!!

• April Stern of the Union!

• ColorDMD releases Big Buck Hunter!

• IGN: Unboxing the *Amazing* New Avengers: Infinity Quest Pinball Machine

• Brain Junk Podcast: The Shady Game of Pinball

• Article: Local pinball wizards keep the classic arcade game alive

• Article: He’s a wizard when it comes to fixing pinball machines

• Article: St. Louis County loosens restrictions on restaurants, bars, arcades and refs

• Article includes pinball: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Keeps a Sentimental Game Unrelated to NASCAR in His Podcast Studio to Remember His Dad

• Article includes pinball: “I used to wear sleeveless shirts & long shorts just like him” – Novak Djokovic’s brother Djordje on idolizing Rafael Nadal

• Led Zeppelin

• Star Wars Comic Edition Pin

• Avengers Infinity Quest

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

• Heavy Metal (contract game)

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• Guns N’ Roses

• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

• Pirates of the Caribbean

• Dialed In!

• Hobbit

• Wizard of Oz

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• Monster Bash Remake

• Attack From Mars Remake

• Medieval Madness Remake

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• Rick and Morty

• Alice Cooper’s Nightmare Castle

• Total Nuclear Annihilation

• Jetsons (contract game)

• Dominos (contract game)

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• Hot Wheels

• Oktoberfest

• Houdini

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• Ranger in the Ruins (uses Cosmic Cart Racing module)

• Heist (P3 Game Kit)

• Cosmic Cart Racing (P3 Game Kit)

• Lexy Lightspeed (P3 Game Kit)

• Cannon Lagoon (P3 Game Kit)

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• Retro Atomic Zombie Adventureland

• Fire & Brimstone

• Food Truck

• Merlin’s Arcade

• The Who

• Gladiator

• Yukon Yeti

• Machine Age

• Barry Oursler Black Hole Revision

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• Celts

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• Alien

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