Pictured in this listing are two glow-in-the-dark playfield plastics, apparent one-of-a-kinds. We asked their owner, Mark Hooks, how he obtained them. He replies: "The pieces just showed up in the mail right when Williams closed down their pinball division with an unsigned note. It was short and said I was the only one listed as owning a Dracula on a certain website [at the time]. "I have my suspicion that someone at Williams sent them to me. I always thought they were prototypes because they were unpainted, unlike the production models, and were molded from glow in the dark plastic. It makes me wonder if they were considering a blacklight for lighting. Feel free to post the pictures and the story. Maybe the person who sent them to me will see it and tell us more." Also pictured in this listing is a game with prototype stacked slingshot plastics showing Keanu Reeves & Winona Ryder's characters on them. According to designer Barry Oursler, these plastics were removed prior to production because the actors [or perhaps only Winona Ryder] would not sign a release to use their images. However, we have been told Williams did not remove these plastics from the butyrate sheets that held the full set of playfield plastics if someone was to buy the plastics separately. Thus, while these 'prototype' plastics may not have left the factory on any game, it would have been easy to obtain them and retro-fit them onto a game. An earlier game that used a magnet to move the ball across the mid-playfield is Sega Enterprises' 1973 'Galaxy'.
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