Sources
OPDB and IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (3 fields)
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB Kick-Out Holes used IPDB Drop Targets ×3 used IPDB Pop Bumpers ×4 used IPDB Flippers ×7 used
- theme
- IPDB Carnival IPDB Circus Flipcommons Catalog Circus used Flipcommons Catalog Carnival used
- credit
- IPDB Dan Lee — Software IPDB Dan Forden — Sound IPDB Dan Forden — Music IPDB Eugene Geer — Dots/Animation IPDB Scott Slomiany — Dots/Animation IPDB Pat McMahon — Art IPDB Python Anghelo — Design Flipcommons Catalog Dan Forden — Sound used Flipcommons Catalog Dan Lee — Software used Flipcommons Catalog Dan Forden — Music used Flipcommons Catalog Scott Slomiany — Dots/Animation used Flipcommons Catalog Eugene Geer — Dots/Animation used Flipcommons Catalog Python Anghelo — Design used Flipcommons Catalog Pat McMahon — Art used
Sources agree (10 fields)
- display_type
- dot-matrix OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- technology_generation
- solid-state OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 4 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 6 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1994 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- opdb_id
- G4qdD-MrR3Z OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- name
- Pinball Circus OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- system
- williams-wpc-s IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- production_quantity
- 2 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 4354 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (11 fields)
- opdb.images
- OPDB [{"type":"backglass","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/6129b674-7ff5-4e96-8eb9-c772e18126ee-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/6129b674-7ff5-4e96-8eb9-c772e18126ee-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/6129b674-7ff5-4e96-8eb9-c772e18126ee-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":664,"height":311},"small":{"width":250,"height":117},"medium":{"width":640,"height":300}},"title":"Backglass","primary":true}] used
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- IPDB Bally used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Midway Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of WMS Industries, Incorporated used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-24.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-25.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-26.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-27.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-28.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-29.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-30.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-31.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-32.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-56.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-53.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-54.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-51.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-50.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-55.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-47.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-52.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-5.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-33.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-9.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-6.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-34.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-35.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4354/image-36.png"] used
- ipdb.model_number
- IPDB 60020 used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB James Loflin states five sets of prototype playfields were completed for this new pinball machine design. We know that two complete prototype machines were made. One had belonged to Steve Kordek and is now in the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. The other one is in a private collection. There was knowledge circulating of a Pinball Circus that had shipped to Germany, suggesting three games were made. We asked Ken Fedesna, former Executive VP/General Manager over Williams/Bally/Midway from 1988 until their close of pinball production in 1999, if he could clarify how many were made. He replies:I looked through my Operation Meeting notes from 1992, 1993, and 1994 concerning Pinball Circus, and found that we only built 2 Engineering prototypes total. One was sent to test in Germany, but it was returned. Not sure whether it is the one Steve Kordek had that is now in Vegas, or the other one, but my notes clearly indicate that only 2 were ever built. An earlier all-mechanical game with a 3-dimensional playfield is Keystone Engineering Company's 1933 'Kicko Aristocrat'. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB Flippers (7), Pop bumpers (4), Drop targets (3), Kick-out hole (1). No left outlane. Buy-In feature. The lower playfield has three flippers: two are offset and a third one rests vertically nearby, for flipping balls that drain from the Ring 3 playfield via the corkscrew habitrail. Flipping a ball on the lower playfield up the left center ramp delivers it to the Ring 2 playfield where its one flipper is used to flip the ball up a ramp to the elephant's trunk. The elephant then raises its head to roll the ball along its trunk to the habitrail behind it, routing the ball to the Ring 3 playfield. This playfield has one small flipper and a mini-slingshot kicker in place of a left flipper. A skillful shot up the rear ramp of this playfield delivers the ball to a magnetic ball lifter which elevates it to fall into the clown's playfield. Two small flippers on this final playfield are used to score the three drop targets and to score a jackpot behind them. After jackpot, the ball is returned via habitrail to the right flipper on the lower playfield. used
- ipdb_rating
- IPDB 7.4 used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog midway-manufacturing-company-a-subsidiary-of-wms-industries-incorporated used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog pinball-circus used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog the-pinball-circus used