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— This Week’s Top 5 Stories —
1. Deadpool Pinball Gameplay by Dead Flip
Following the reveal of Deadpool Pinball from Stern, last week we saw the first reveal of Deadpool Pinball gameplay! The stream took place on Dead Flip’s Twitch Channel and was a high quality stream of the Pro Edition of Deadpool.
Click here to watch the introductions of all team members involved with Deadpool Pinball!
Click here to watch a walkthrough of some of the rules from Tim Sexton!
Click here to jump to the start of gameplay footage!
The Deadpool team was there for the stream, along with Jack Danger in a full Deadpool costume.
And hey, was that a Golden Girls shirt? And a Godzilla shirt!?
We’ll be doing a Deep Dive into this machine later this week on TWIP, stay tuned!!
2. Zombie Yeti Interview
Left to right: Pro, Premium, Limited Edition
Jeremy Packer (AKA Zombie Yeti) joined This Week in Pinball’s Podcast last week – check out the full episode here! Here are a few of the highlights from the interview:
On the long crazy journey of the creation of the Deadpool pinball machine:
After Ghostbusters…Deadpool was brought up, and this was actually before the [first] film came out by the way…it was sort of a slow start at that point – I think it was six months after Ghostbusters was safely out that we even started the early concepts and ideas for that one. The short version is – I think I had one or two pieces that were maybe going to be locked in and final, and then all of the sudden it was “we’re putting this on hold”, and that was 2016, so it went on hold until spring of 2017