For anyone who's ever wondered what goes into the production of a real pinball machine, here's a video tour of the last remaining pinball manufacturer, Stern Pinball:
It's amazing to see how manual the process really is -- I though it would have been much more automated than this. Definitely shows one reason why new pinball machines are so expensive -- anything this labor intensive to manufacture can't be cheap.
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