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Yesterday (9/29), we received our collection of stickers from "Mystery Pinball Company" in the mail. Combined with the release of their puzzle challenge, the rumored new game offering from this secretive company has once again been making the rounds in the rumor mill.
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While Knapp has covered the recent updates pretty extensively, we wanted to take a minute just to collect all the clues here for reference and offer a few additional thoughts about any potential connections to the cult classic film Labyrinth.
Not sure if this has been mentioned specifically, but buried it the bottom of the puzzle sheet, there's a reference to a new website for the Mystery Pinball Company - https://www.mysterypinballco.com/. There's not much on the site right now, other than collecting all the clues so far. We imagine there will be more here to review either as we get closer to Expo, or shortly after.
The stickers we received were postmarked from Denver, CO, though there was no identifying return address listed on the envelope.
The ties to Labyrinth are starting to become a little more obvious. Reading through the synopsis of the film, here are some points that stand out:
The color in the lockdown bar photo appears very similar to those seen in Jareth's jacket, and Hoggle's cap.
The cabinet photo looks incredibly close in color and tone to something that incorporates the visual of the Labyrinth itself.
Terminator eyes? That one's still a little odd.
The 13th hour clock motif appears frequently throughout the film
Colin is the chief pixel pusher at Kineticist. He's a lifetime gamer who became enamored with pinball after taking in a family copy of the 1979 classic Joker Poker (the EM version). Since then he's bought, sold and repaired many machines, competed in all kinds of tournaments, and contributes to This Week in Pinball, the New England Pinball League, and Pin-Masters of New England. Previously, Colin spent over a decade working in marketing for agencies and tech startups. He also started and ran a music blog, happy hour website, and wrote a regular craft beer review column for Central Track in Dallas. Once aspired to be an artsy film director.
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