The NEW Serenity Pinball Machine Thread

POSTED BY: pinballwizard
UPDATED: Monday, February 5, 2007 05:37
VIEWED: 20912
PAGE 1 of 5

1 2 3 4 5 NEXT PAGE

PINBALLWIZARD

Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:47 AM

Hey Browncoats! I'm Peter, and for all those who are interested, I got a shiny idea about a million years ago: take an old pinball machine and convert it into a Serenity game. Once that's done, I'll auction it off for charity in the name of Serenity 2!
My older thread, www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=15599, is kind of cluttered right now, and some might not see the progress I've made so far, which includes this, the machine in question:

And this, a new backglass poster:

Anyway, I've recently found this company based in St. Paul who make custom pinballs, for real. All I do is give them the design, they print it up, and I apply it.
More updates as they happen.

No, I am not insane, I am crazy. Thank you for asking.

RMMC

Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:01 AM

SHINY!

Thanks for the update. I was wonderin' how that was going for ya.

Nice, piccy BTW.

******
RMMC

FLORALBUNNY

Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:28 AM

SHINY!
Very nice choice of cast photos,
pbwizard. Some of my favorites.
Good project idea.
Be sure to post the completed
project for us.
Oh, and nice shirt BTW.
::-)

ßun
~2006~Firefly Summer~2006~
==We aim to exponentiate==
-------Hide the rum!-------

ONTHEDRIFT

Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:58 AM

I LOVE the backglass poster. So very pretty! Did you put it together yourself design-wise?

MISSTRESSAHARA

Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:27 AM

So this is where you dissapeared to. I was wondering about the project. Are you still going to be putting the model of Serenity where that plane is? (is was a plane right?) and the Serenity logo in that circle? I'm buzzing now. It's going to be beautiful and your awesome to auction it off after all the work you put into it.

Course you'll have a few games first though right?

If I'm a bitch, then life just got interesting

PINBALLWIZARD

Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:54 AM

Nice to run into you again too, Misstressahara. I've recently rigged the motor on the top right to spin the whole helecopter instead of the just the rotors. I'll be using old Star Wars model parts to turn it into the Reaver skiff that chased the Mule after Mal robes the bank.

Every time you hit the spinner, it'll send that skiff a-spinning. My dad got a huge laught out of it when he first saw it.

No, I am not insane, I am crazy. Thank you for asking.

PINBALLWIZARD

Saturday, July 29, 2006 6:19 PM

Oh, pressure on the brain. I'm looking for the name of the font used in this picture:

Anyone who has the Serenity RPG, the Visual Guide, or the cards will recognise that image of the Alliance Planets. I'm planning to cover the thumper bumpers with the four planets visited in the film. But I must label them, and that's the font I want, no, NEED to have.
I need intel! Please help!

No, I am not insane, I am crazy. Thank you for asking.

SOUPCATCHER

Saturday, July 29, 2006 6:36 PM

Wow, pinballwizard, very cool project!

A fan, RickMacMerc, did a post on some of the different fonts used in Firefly here: http://blogs.macmerc.com/rick/?p=232 (via Whedonesque). That's a good place to start. Even if he doesn't touch on that particular graphic he sounds very knowledgable and might be able to point you in the right direction or suggest a similar replacement.

Best of luck.

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

Saturday, July 29, 2006 9:50 PM

That's a pretty cool idea, and that picture is really nice!

------

We're all just floating...

PINBALLWIZARD

Sunday, July 30, 2006 3:17 AM

Amazing intel SoupCatcher! I didn't find what I was looking for, but more importantly I found something BETTER, the special computer font just visable on the Lilac Corview screen before Zoe blows it to smitherenes.
I swear, Browncoats are among the best unorganized organizations on this world. Arrr, contradictions ahoy!

No, I am not insane, I am crazy. Thank you for asking.

1 2 3 4 5 NEXT PAGE