Episode 240: Lego Batman-Joker pinball
Luke Horwath (Luke99 Studios on YouTube) shows off his custom Lego Batman-Joker machine...made entirely from Lego. Dwight Sullivan joins in the fun as we played this unique game at Expo.
Highlights
- Luke Horwath started the Lego Batman pinball project in July 2018
- The machine contains all 39 villains from the Lego Batman movie
- The Lego Batman pinball machine uses over 7,000 individually hand-laid pieces with no glue
- The machine features five total motors powered entirely by Lego motors and batteries
- Luke's parents initially refused to buy him a pinball machine, prompting him to build one
- Luke has also built a 13,000-piece fully operational Lego claw machine
- Luke is currently working on a secret project related to roller coasters
- Luke's projects now occupy an entire room of his house
Notable quotes
“This is amazing. This is a working Lego pinball machine. Not just any Lego pinball machine. A Lego Batman pinball machine.”
“I've done a full city layout. I've done other minifigure scale displays. And this is my first ever life-size build, combining my love of Lego and then my hobby of pinball as well.”
“So I finally walked into the kitchen at dinner sat down and finally asked the question mom and dad can we get a pinball machine for the basement you know what they said you're grounded no they they just flat out no.”
“One of the more challenging things was definitely building the flippers as it is all mechanical and all Lego.”
“The Lego motors spin really, really fast, so I needed to gear it down, so smaller to bigger gears, to make sure he could spin slow enough, a perfect difficulty for the player.”
“It's all battery all using the LEGO system so it's all LEGO motors, LEGO wires, and even the battery boxes are LEGO.”
“I would want some cool room. A Slimer. Oh, no, please. What? I'm just kidding. No, no Slimer. This thing that spins. Clayface. Clayface, right? He's pretty cool, and I would want to build some rule on that.”
“Between the pinball machine, claw machine, and then other projects, we're taking up about an entire room of the house at this point.”
Entities
- Lego· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Brick World Chicago· event
- Chicago Expo· event
- Ann· person
- Brady· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Luke Horwath· person
- Luke99· person
- Lego Batman Joker Pinball· product
- Lego Claw Machine· product
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