Yes, another pinball related post. Ohhhh c’mon, it’s not that bad, we promise you’ll enjoy this one too!
As we are (a tad) obsessed with pinball, when we found out that pinball and LEGO go really well together, we had to let you know what we had found. If you are a talented and mechanically minded LEGO creator, like Teun de Wijs (aka: YouTuber TonyFlow76), you build a fully kinetic depiction of a pinball player flipping one of the greatest machines of all time, Attack From Mars!
For those that want to delve under the covers, Teun states that he used a few new techniques to build this awesomeness:
- a cam wheel for the head movement,
- a 9V Power Functions motor as a generator for four sets of blinking lights, three of which are mechanically activated by switches, and
- three spring-action lift-arms for the “bumping” motion.
Hopefully Teun submits this to LEGO Ideas – we’d vote the heck out of it. Anyway, all we can say is, press play and return to battle soldier!
source: TonyFlow76