James and Kristin Whitt’s Corner

Twilight Zone Pinball Promo Video

After finding the promotional video of my other pinball machine, I started to look for one for the Twilight Zone. I finally found it. Too bad they don’t make these anymore for new pinball machines.

Creature from the Black Lagoon Pinball Video Promo

While cruising around the internet, I found a video promo that was made by Bally for the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Since I actually own that pinball machine, I thought it was something to watch. Kind of cheesy, but I liked it. You can watch it below.

Twilight Zone Pinball Machine

Well, last Wednesday Kristin and I picked up the pinball machine that I always wanted, Twilight Zone. The great thing about it was that it was only about 1 1/2 hours away from our house. The story goes like this: I was reading the newsgroup rec.games.pinball when I came across an add for a Twilight Zone that the guy had to move quickly and was prices exceptionally good, better than I’ve seen in about 9 months. After talking it over with Kristin, we decided that it was something that we were willing to get, so I gave the guy a call around 6:00. The guy let me know it was a first come, first serve. He already had someone from Columbus, OH coming Thursday, someone from Tennessee was coming Friday, and someone from North Carolina was going to stop by Saturday Morning. It had to be out by Saturday afternoon because he had another shipment of pinball machines coming in for him to repair and he had no room for some of them if the Twilight Zone was there. He had kept it from the last round 6 months ago when he had a shipment come in to fix up. He said the only way I would be able to get it is to come up that night, which we did. We finally made it down to Georgetown, KY around 8:00 and checked it out. The machine was in excellent condition, so we bought it. Believe it or not, but it actually fit in Kristin’s jeep liberty perfectly. I’m planning on adding a few mods to make it look nice. The pictures I took didn’t come out too well, so I’ll post some pictures of it once I get some good ones.

Creature from the Black Lagoon Pinball

Kristin and I headed up to Columbus, OH for the coin-op auction that I found out about a little while ago. We went up with the intention of getting a pinball machine for me. We did bid on a couple and ended up getting the “Creature from the Black Lagoon”. Once we got home, we did notice that it had a few issues that we didn’t notice when we got it, but what can you do. I’m now in middle of tearing the top of the playfield apart so that I can clean it and get all the parts nice, clean, and shiny. The one bad point that comes to mind is that it didn’t have the hologram in it which makes it really cool. Might find one at some point in time. Here’s some pictures I’ve already taken:

And here is a couple of Molly being a bad cat with the pinball machine already: