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Ben Heck Crafts Pinball Love Letter to Bill Paxton

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Ben Heck Crafts Pinball Love Letter to Bill Paxton

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If there are two things Ben Heckendorn loves, it's crafting immaculate homemade gaming machines and prolific actor Bill Paxton. Thankfully, Mr. Heckendorn's latest project lets him explore both.

Appropriately dubbed Bill Paxton Pinball, Ben Heck's latest project marries the many, many, many film and television roles the actor has appeared in over the years with a full-sized pinball cabinet.

Sadly, the cabinet is being constructed as a one-off personal project. As Heckendorn explains, the use of numerous copyrighted sound clips from Paxton's various films would make selling the machine a legal nightmare.

But why Paxton when the more obvious geek choice is Bruce Campbell? Heckendorn explains:

Why Bill Paxton? Well it's as good a theme as any - I guess I could have gone with a more obvious geek choice like Bruce Campbell but to be honest, Paxton's more interesting and has made movies people have actually seen. In the end what this project is really about is building something very complicated from scratch, so the engineering is the real star.

No Mr. Heckendorn. I believe Bill Paxton is the real star.

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"movies people have actually seen?" Um, Bruce Campbell has been in movies people have seen as well. Sure, there are about 5 versions of Army of Darkness, so arguably some of them have not been seen, but that's still a rather gross generalization.

I wonder if it'll contain any sounds and images from Brain Dead (that weird movie he did with Bill Pullman)?

Better question, who's next? Richard Basehart? (laughs... pauses...) Actually, that might be the coolest thing ever.

Oh, please tell me that when you run out of balls, the machine says "Game over, man! Game over!"

ThaBenMan:
Oh, please tell me that when you run out of balls, the machine says "Game over, man! Game over!"

I think that's practically required by the Geneva and Prague conventions.

This is the most epic pinball machine ever.

Pinball Wizard was written for this man.

...I want to get this.
Now.

I didn't think they could make pinball any better, but now someone has gone and done this!

Legal nightmare yes, completely awesome, hell yes.

I would think it would be better if the game laughs at you in such a manner.....

"Heh"

 
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