Shrek

http://www.sternpinball.com/shrek_playfield.html
Replay: 19.5 million

Ah, vacation. This week my wife and I went to Florida with my mom+stepdad. It rained and was overcast the entire week, which wasn't really how I hoped a trip to Florida would be. BUT, while we were at Universal Studios, drenched, we popped into the arcade and found "Shrek". It's a new machine, based on the movie(s) of the same name. You know, about a green ogre. How else could you justify putting green legs on a pinball machine?
I only played a pair of games, so didn't get a great feel for it. It has targets and bumpers and ramps and talking characters and lights and colors. One new-to-me feature of this machine are "captive pinballs", which are basically enclosed pinballs that move along a short path when you hit them with your pinball. I thought they were going to do something cool like multiball, but no. Like a normal target, with false promise.
The coolest feature of Shrek is that it has an inset "Donkey Pinball" machine. Hit the right series of targets, and it will shrink your ball and put it into a smaller pinball machine at the top. I think they use the technology from Honey I Shrunk The Kids. Because the balls in donkey pinball are smaller, it seems to have a faster pace, and a few times the small balls had so much speed they bounced over the flippers, ending Donkey Pinball mode. I scored over 22 million, so happily I beat it. I didn't particularly love this machine, but didn't get time to really love it since we had to get going to wait in line for The Simpsons Ride. Definitely worth the wait.