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Cocktail Pinball Tables?

January 12, 2012 | Jon Chad

Good afternoon loyal pinballers!  Now, I know you all are pumped about AC/DC, but let's reel it in for a second!  Come down from your happy place and let's talk about cocktails.  Oh, you're paying attention now, aren't you!?  Well, specifically, let's talk about cocktail pinball tables.  I have only seen a handful of these in person, but they've never been available to me to play (I saw one in the back of the Pinball Wizard Arcade, but they were still working on it).  To me, that size pinball machine is ideal for the 20-something crowd.  Show me a 20-something, fresh out of college who has the glut of space to fit a couple of full sized pinball machines.  Alec an I have to keep our machines in the Center for Cartoon Studies media room.  For 2 nights I had my Jurassic Park Machine in my apartment and it practially took up the whole thing.  I'll get down from my Novus box in a sec, but, seriously, would someone please start making smaller machines and more cocktail table machines? 

In the spirit of this kind-hearted plea, I designed a crime/mugging/bankrobbing cocktail table:

The bank is lifted from one of my favorite games of all time, Monopoly.  There's that lane on the left side where you can tunnel under the bank.  Sigh...if only!  In other news, it. is. SNOWING here at Drop Target HQ, and Alec and I are hunkering down and scheming about issue 4...

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