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<blockquote data-quote="Crawley" data-source="post: 271357" data-attributes="member: 2300"><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/2018/IMG_1976.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/2018/IMG_1976.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>But I was very interested in playing this machine. It's a Williams Firefly. It never made it in to production only the design documents were created. And someone ended up taking those and building the actual machine. </p><p></p><p>It's very unique in that it has 8 magnets on it, including one between the flippers. It gives a bit of a floaty feel to the gameplay when the ball passes over them. But my understanding is this machine is still being tweaked and was being built up to a few days before the show started. It was still very playable.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/2018/IMG_1977.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/2018/IMG_1977.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Here's a closer look at the playfield. Each of those metal circles are where the magnets are. Hopefully this one gets completed as I'd love to play the final version.</p><p></p><p>Something similar was done last year with another Williams concept EM called Typhoon. And that was playable at the show last year (and this). And is also pretty interesting. Can read a little about it here and see some pictures: <a href="http://vfwpinball.com/makehtm.php?game=1972%20Williams%20Typhoon,wms_typhoon" target="_blank">http://vfwpinball.com/makehtm.php?game=1972 Williams Typhoon,wms_typhoon</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crawley, post: 271357, member: 2300"] [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/2018/IMG_1976.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/2018/IMG_1976.jpg[/IMG][/URL] But I was very interested in playing this machine. It's a Williams Firefly. It never made it in to production only the design documents were created. And someone ended up taking those and building the actual machine. It's very unique in that it has 8 magnets on it, including one between the flippers. It gives a bit of a floaty feel to the gameplay when the ball passes over them. But my understanding is this machine is still being tweaked and was being built up to a few days before the show started. It was still very playable. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/2018/IMG_1977.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/2018/IMG_1977.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Here's a closer look at the playfield. Each of those metal circles are where the magnets are. Hopefully this one gets completed as I'd love to play the final version. Something similar was done last year with another Williams concept EM called Typhoon. And that was playable at the show last year (and this). And is also pretty interesting. Can read a little about it here and see some pictures: [url]http://vfwpinball.com/makehtm.php?game=1972%20Williams%20Typhoon,wms_typhoon[/url] [/QUOTE]
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