Trip the light fantastic, dance the swivel hips

[austin_dern]

Please, enjoy some more Pinball At The Zoo pictures. They won't last forever, believe it or not! (They should be finished Wednesday night/Thursday morning.)

Fan-Tas-Tic features more hip than any other single backglass at the Zoo.

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Fan-Tas-Tic also has a quirky circa-1970 thing where the flippers are separated by a pop bumper. If the ball goes between the flippers, don't give up and don't flip. There's an excellent chance it'll pop back into play, especially if you give the game a gentle nudge as the ball hits either the top of the pop bumper or the two small fixed bands underneath; the actual gap under there is very thin. But there's nothing underneath the flippers, so if you lift them, the ball can drain and it's your own fault.

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Who doesn't like to go to the Super Circus and climb the giant clown? Note the strong-man holding up the Gottlieb logo on the upper left there.

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Super Circus's playfield promises a bunch of slapstick about to be delivered to clown rear ends.

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And here's jubilee, an early-70s Williams table where --- wait a minute. Computer, Enhance.

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Is that Eugene the Jeep as a sphynx? The heck? (It's not, although the two-toed feet and bright yellow color are evocative.)

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Trivia: In 1623 the Pilgrims attempted to establish a fishing station in Gloucester; it failed. They tried again in 1625; it also failed. Eventually merchant-adventurers from England taught enough of them to fish well that they could survive. Source: Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Mark Kurlansky.

Currently Reading: The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human, Siddhartha Mukherjee.

Comments

[selki]

Note the strong-man holding up the Gottlieb logo on the upper left there.

:-)