When I was shopping around for Halloween decorations, I came across this interesting, light-up skeleton eel on sale at the JOANN location here in Rochester (https://www.joann.com/). I decided to make my advanced pinball machine themed around that.
The “advanced” part for me was working with el wire and creating a second floor with a ramp leading to it. Further learning from my previous pinball iterations, I incorporated two tunnels underneath the upper playfield. I also found some clear folders that I never used and thought it would be cool to use that for the upper floor instead of plain cardboard so the el wire could be coiled underneath, exposing the inside of the tunnels more. I was inspired by the Black Knight 2000 machine in some of the playfield features, most notably the tunnels underneath the second floor and a ramp leading up to it.
I also added some bumpers to the upper level to make it more interesting, but I didn’t have enough room for nearly as many as I previously thought in my layout drawing.