Holy shit! WOZ is a WIDEBODY!!!

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This was JJ's update Email this morning:


Greetings Pinball Fans;

What a treat, two updates in two days! Today we give you a better idea of what the Emerald City Limited Edition Wizard of Oz Pinball Machine will be.

Unique to the Emerald City Limited Edition Wizard of Oz Pinball Machine:

-Limited to 1,000 units

-Each game will have a numbered plaque affixed to the game, on the front of the cabinet - # of 1,000 etc....

-Certificate of Authenticity, hand signed by the Design Team

-Body armor is in the Emerald Green/Black special finish that Matt has chosen with Jerry. The four legs, side rails, hinges, lockdown bar.

-Emerald Green Mirror effect backglass framing a commercial 26" Wells Gardner LCD monitor which will display scores, animation, movie clips, attract mode, backglass artwork and more.

-Optical non-reflective playfield glass.

-Interactive Emerald City Limited Edition Topper

-Shaker Motor

The game includes:

-Hand drawn playfield, plastic set, decal set by artist Greg Freres. Four major mechanical toys; Dorothy's Spinning House, the Witch's Castle, Flying Monkey, Melting Witch.

-Two mini playfields, three Trumper-Bumpers, one Balloon Bumper, Two magnets, One Spinning target, Crystal Ball, Rollover targets, Winkie Guard drop target, Five Bally/Williams Flippers which include Two Ruby Red Slipper Flippers. (Standard Flipper Bats Available by Request)

-Full color cabinet and backbox artwork created by artist Jerry VanderStelt will be screened on the highest grade adhesive backed vinyl and printed with UV stabilized inks.

-Digital Stereo sound system which will boom the music and effects created by SoundMaster, Chris Granner. Front of game audio connection jack for headphone/ear bud. Component audio connection jack at rear of game.

-Bally / Williams Parts

-One Year Warranty

Oh, by the way.......the Wizard of Oz is a Wide Body Game! It is the same dimensionally as a Twilight Zone.

The only way to pack all of the features and elements that the Design Team wanted to incorporate in this game was to make it a wide body game. As we all know, the size of the back box is the same for a standard or wide body Williams game so it takes up the same footprint in either model.

The best thing is that we get more room to create and you get more room to play pinball! Of the top most popular pinball machines of all-time, three are wide body games. The last wide body to be built was in 1995 with Road Show.

Jack was asked now and then these past months if the game would be a wide body and he said "I just started a pinball company. If you think I would do a wide body as our first game, you must also think I'm crazy!" Now we know.

For all of our loyal customers who have joined us on the Yellow Brick Road, we appreciate your trust and confidence in us. It is because of you that we are able to create this game and propel pinball into the next age, growing a bigger player base that will love and treasure pinball as much as we do for generations to come.

There are many more surprises about this game to be revealed. Next week, we will upload a Video Clip of Game Play on the Whitewood Playfield.

While we would like to tell you everything, it's going to be more fun to show them to you as we go along and ultimately when you open the box and setup your new game, that's the very best!

We're off to see The Wizard!
 
Uh, I've known it was a Widebody for at least a couple months...

...hell, I think Jack mentions it on a podcast somewhere.
 
I thought everyone knew this was a wide body already.

Anyhow, where are all the inserts?
 
It had never been confirmed as a widebody until today. Although Jack never directly said it wasn't, his quote about him being crazy if his first game was a widebody was taken as a "no". Obviously he was choosing his words wisely.

They don't put inserts on a whitewood. They figure that out after they make the whitewood, play it, tweak it, and are sure that everything is where it should be. Once locations are nailed down, you figure out where to put the inserts.
 
I thought everyone knew this was a wide body already.

Just you and Friz, apparently.

It wasn't advertised as a widebody until the Email this morning....pinball news sites hadn't reported this. No one who had put down money as a pre-order knew this. Just you guys!
 
Duh?

Um, I'm in the "knew it was a widebody" camp as well.

The 2 mini playfields pretty much force it to be, not to mention the playfield drawings made it pretty obvious.

This machine is the first exciting thing to happen to pinball in over a decade, I just hope one or two actually make it to locations (given the price).
 
Just you and Friz, apparently.

It wasn't advertised as a widebody until the Email this morning....pinball news sites hadn't reported this. No one who had put down money as a pre-order knew this. Just you guys!

Why so mad?
 
As soon as I heard to upper mini-PFs I pretty much guessed it was a WB...Plus when the drawings came out it pretty much screamed wide body.
 
Why so mad?

LOL

Who's mad? I'm merely stating a logical fact: Jack announced THIS MORNING that it is a widebody. This is a fact. I find it perplexing that you guys are like "oh, yeah...duh...everyone knew that". I bought the game....how did I not know this? LOL
 
I thought it might be a widebody, but was not sure until this morning.

Not being a fan of widebody machines, I don't know if I will enjoy this. Not sure why I don't like them, just never have. Don't like Indiana Jones, Twilight Zone, Roadshow, Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, well, you get the idea.

I think it's amazing that he is letting this stuff out there. So NOT the way Stern does it, and I find that to be a good thing.


Chris
 
I think it's amazing that he is letting this stuff out there. So NOT the way Stern does it, and I find that to be a good thing.


Chris

Yeah i like it too. But i think it's more out of necessity. JJP is brand new, if you don't give info but choose to keep everyone in the dark, you can kiss your preorders goodbye.
 
Then you must be psychic. He's been asked if it was a widebody and has been denying it. Link to podcast, please.

It was one of the Clay podcasts from around January or December of last year IIRC... the guy I went to CAX has a bunch of them on his MP3 player we listened to while we drove.

Let me just say... I'm not surprised... so yeah... i've heard it was a widebody before.
 
Yeah i like it too. But i think it's more out of necessity. JJP is brand new, if you don't give info but choose to keep everyone in the dark, you can kiss your preorders goodbye.

JJP is keeping everyone in the dark? What? Have you seen any of the near-constant updates? Something tells me their preorder numbers will remain just fine.
 
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