Addams Family Pinball, the Sequel? Plus Giveway!
The Addams Family, designed by Pat Lawlor, is the best selling pinball machine of all time. How do we not have a sequel after 30 years?? Plus we’re launching our first giveaway! Details in the...
Highlights
- Addams Family is the greatest-selling pinball machine of all time
- Wednesday is the second most popular show ever on Netflix, possibly more popular than Stranger Things
- The original Addams Family pinball came out a bit after the first movie and before the second movie (1991-1993 timeframe)
- Tim Burton directed the first four episodes of Wednesday season one and some episodes of season two
- The 1991-1993 Addams Family films were not directed by Tim Burton but by Barry Sonnenfeld, whose crew included Tim Burton collaborators
- Christina Ricci appears in Wednesday as a different character than young Wednesday from the 1991-1993 films
Notable quotes
“Are they going to make a Wednesday pinball machine? Addams Family sequel.”
“It's like the demographic, right? Will 40 to 50-year-old men buy a Jenna Ortega teenager?”
“The vibe of the games is almost cooler than the movies.”
“Let's get pat lawler out of retirement to make the sequel... the dream team.”
“It feels like something Stern would want to pull the trigger on.”
Entities
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Addams Family· game
- Stranger Things· game
- Bash Pinball Podcast· organization
- Barry Sonnenfeld· person
- Catherine Zeta-Jones· person
- Charles Adams· person
- Christina Ricci· person
- Doug Watson· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- George Gomez· person
- Jenna Ortega· person
- Pat Lawler· person
- Paul Heist· person
- Tim Burton· person
- Wednesday· product
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