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->''"Who don't like big juicy melons?"''
-->-- '''Hellen'''

''Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons'' (usually just called ''Big Juicy Melons'' or ''Whoa Nellie!'') is a single-player {{Physical Pinball Table|s}}, the first pinball machine from [=WhizBang=] Pinball.

In 2009, sensing a growing interest in "boutique" pinball games, industry veterans Creator/DennisNordman (design) and Creator/GregFreres (art) reunited at Seattle's Northwest Pinball and Gameroom Show. The two soon formed [=WhizBang=] Pinball, with ''Big Juicy Melons'' as their first project.

Instead of a modern game, ''Melons'' is an electro-mechanical table that was made by reusing the components of a 1957 Creator/{{Gottlieb}} ''Continental Cafe'' on an all-new playfield, wrapped up with new art and current lighting and imaging techniques in an original theme. Three other machines were similarly made using a modular solid state system called "[=PinKit=]", and the result is a [[{{Retraux}} retro throwback]] that remains true to the integrity of the electro-mechanical era while weaving in modern sensibilities.

The game was publicly unveiled at Pinball Expo 2011, and all four tables were quickly sold for a hefty price. Some die-hard fans have since taken to creating their own tables, with Greg Freres sharing the cabinet art and [[http://www.classicplayfields.com Classic Playfields]] selling playfield plastics.

The creation of ''Big Juicy Melons'' is documented on [=WhizBang=] Pinball's [[http://whizbangpinball.blogspot.com blog]].

In October 2014, Creator/SternPinball announced an agreement with [=WhizBang=] to mass-produce ''Whoa Nellie!'' tables, using a blend of electro-mechanical and solid-state components such as mechanical score reels, real bells, a digital soundtrack, and modern serviceability features while retaining the original's look and feel. The tables were released in early 2015 for $6,500 each.

A digital version is available in ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade'' and ''Stern Pinball Arcade''.

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!!Whoa Nellie! Check out these tropes!

* AlcoholHic: There's a ''very'' drunk guy in the lower-left corner of the playfield whose sole line of dialogue is full of hiccups.
-->"''*Hic*'' The brest band ''*Hic*'' best brand ''*Hic*'' ever!"
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Melony and the twins. Melony has blonde hair, Hellen has medium-brown hair, and Ellen's hair is almost completely black.
%%* BMovie: In pinball form! Feels like a raunchy comedy than no respectable theater would show.
* BoyfriendBlockingDad: The Mellon patriarch wields a shotgun to deter would-be suitors (or worse) from his daughters.
-->'''Dad:''' "Hands off the twins!"
* {{Cap}}: The score caps at 9,999 points, as there are only four scoring reels in the backbox. However, the Stern release has a miniature DMD below the left flipper that can display higher scores.
* DifficultButAwesome: The "Thumpin'" feature, achieved by lighting all four bumpers, then shooting the center hole. The first time you collect it, it turns off all of the bumpers, at which point relighting them makes them worth 20 points instead of 10 for the rest of the ball. If you can somehow manage to pull it off twice in one ball, it also doubles the value of lit targets, from 200 to a massive 400. This is ''incredibly'' risky not only due to how difficult it is to relight the bumpers, but also the fact that you have the potential to set yourself back significantly if you drain with fewer bumpers lit than you started (since lit bumpers are by far the easiest and safest way of scoring points in this game). If you can pull it off, however, you unlock the potential to achieve truly ''massive'' scores that are virtually impossible otherwise.
* DoubleEntendre: The game is ''filled'' with sexual innuendo, usually involving the girls and big melons.
-->'''Hick:''' ''(pointing at a flock of geese)'' Look at them honkers!
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Out of all the Mellon sisters, the one featured on the backglass, the promotional materials, and on TheMerch is the blonde Melony.
%%* {{Fanservice}}: '''LOTS.''' Lifting all those heavy melon crates requires the girls to do lots of bending over...
%%* FarmersDaughter: The Mellon girls -- Melony, Ellen, and Hellen.
* FartsOnFire: A bucking horse on the playfield gets its flatulence lit by a match, forming a fireball (score light).
%%* GirlishPigtails: The twins have these; Hellen has one, while Ellen has two.
* GonnaNeedMoreX: One of the playfield plastics has a photographer who comments, "I need a bigger... lens."
* HeadTurningBeauty: On the backglass, Melony is standing while holding a pair of melons, oblivious to the lustful farm workers (and horse) completely [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted behind her]].
* MsFanservice: Melony and her sisters are busty [[FarmersDaughter Farmer's Daughters]]; their attractiveness is key to the game's humor, as they're surrounded by men who're taken in by their appearance and various {{Double Entendre}}s about their "melons".
* OfficiallyShortenedTitle: Nordman and Freres often shorten ''Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons'' to ''WNBJM'' in writing.
* {{Retraux}}: The game was made with cannibalized parts from old electromagnetic pinball games, despite being made in TheNewTens.
* SkillShot: Soft plunge the ball so that it goes into the blinking lane near the shooter lane exit to score 200 points and light one of the bumpers. Notably, this can be repeated any time the ball re-enters the shooter lane.
* ToiletHumour: One of the playfield plastics shows a horse shooting a green melon out of its posterior.
%%* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Three of them, even.
* VisualPun:
** The horse with its [[FartsOnFire fart on fire]] is a "hot ass".
** On the backglass is a collie dog playing with a melon; maybe he's feeling melon-collie?
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-->"Nice action! And the melons ain't bad either."
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