The Wizard of Oz (pinball)

''The Wizard of Oz'' is a Jersey Jack Pinball, Inc. pinball machine designed by Joe Balcer and released in April 2013. It is the first US pinball machine with an LCD in the back box as well as the first one to have color on the monitor produced in the US since the Pinball 2000 games.Jersey Jack Pinball CEO Explains How He's Making The Beloved Arcade Game Cool Again (VIDEO)
/ref> Although it is not the first pinball machine with a LCD worldwide because MarsaPlay in Spain manufactured a remake of Inder's original ''Canasta'' titled ''New Canasta'', with an LCD screen in the backbox in 2010.

''The Wizard of Oz'' is the first widebody pinball machine since 1994Top Ten Things You Should Know About Wizard of Oz Pinball , Ministry of Pinball
and the first new US pinball machine not made by Stern Pinball since 2001.No Place like Jersey: Inside the factory of the wizard of pinball , Polygon
/ref> The pinball machine is based on the classic 1939 film version '' The Wizard of Oz'', itself based on the 1900 novel '' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' by L. Frank Baum.

Description

The backbox has a 26-inch HD display that displays film clips in full color and the playfield is illuminated by RGB LED lights that can change into any color as industry firsts.Jersey Jack Pinball, Wizard of Oz: Pinball is dying. Can arcade entrepreneur Jack Guarnieri bring it back to life?
/ref> Widebody pinball machines as ''The Wizard of OZ'' offer more playfield space and more to be packed in but has been too expensive because pinball sales have been in decline since 1994. The machine also includes two completely filled out upper playfields.

The machine costs $9,000 and Jersey Jack Pinball, Inc. has spent $2 million into the production.
/ref> Jersey Jack Pinball licenses its flippers from Planetary Pinball Supply and builds its soundboards in partnership with Massachusetts’ Pinnovators. The sound system supports stereo and has 600 watts of power. A $300,000 inkjet printer was used for printing the artwork. Jersey Jack tested more than 10 different playfield finishes, rolling and shooting hundreds of thousands of balls. The machine uses Williams parts.

Toys includes ruby slipper flippers, Munchkin huts and roofs, the disappearing witch, the witch legs in the house, the witch castle walls, the throwing apple trees, the state fair balloon, the topper, the laser-cut Oz head, a crystal ballInternet Pinball Machine Database: Jersey Jack Pinball, Inc. 'The Wizard of Oz'
/ref> that displays videos, a spinning house and flying monkey assemblies. The machine includes 5 flippers with a reverse flippers mode, 4 pop bumpers, 2 slingshots, 5 magnets, 2 in front of the wicked witch, 2 vertical up-kickers, 1 drop target and 1 spinning target.

See also

* ''The Wizard of Oz'' (arcade game)

References

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