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What’s even more impressive is that a startup like Barrels of Fun got a shot at rendering the “Dune” film franchise as a pinball game even before the first Labyrinth table had been assembled.

“We had storyboards and prototypes and stuff to show them,” van Es told me. “I think when they saw the passion and the detail level that we were doing for (Labyrinth), I think they truly believed that we had the passion in the right direction to tell their story.”

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Houston pinball machine maker readies new ‘Dune’-themed machine