Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons

Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons is a boutique pinball machine first manufactured in 2012, by WhizBang Pinball (Dennis Nordman and Greg Freres). Only 4 were produced at the time, 2 electromechanical models and 2 solid state models and they retailed for $13,999 each.

In 2015 the table entered mass-production (exact numbers unknown) through Stern Pinball, who built the game on their SPIKE control system.

Game play in Stern's version is slightly different from the original WNBJM. Each top lane on the left lights just one pop bumper (changing scoring from 1 point to 10 on that bumper). The gobble hole has been replaced (there is still a hole, with a turkey reference; but the hole has an ejector instead of ending the ball in play).

The cabinet is custom. Meant to look like an antique fruit company packing box, the cabinet is made of distressed wood. It can be deployed with traditional pinball machine legs; or with a custom lower cabinet to be used as a base.