Pinheads in the Boston area, take note:

[mmcirvin]

If you're having trouble finding the Wii version of "Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection" in retail, there was still one copy of it going for $19.99 at the FYE store at Burlington Mall, last I checked. Come and get it.

You can also experience the weirdness of what's going on over there. They're shooting a movie, apparently a Kevin James comedy about a mall cop (my psychic power tells me that jewel thieves will be wackily clonked on the head in this movie). It's odd that the listed release date is post-Christmas, because it's clearly intended as a Christmas release: they've put a bunch of Christmas trees up, what looks to be the shell of a mall Santa display, and one of those pools filled with plastic balls (my psychic power tells me that there will be a wacky fight scene in the ball pool).

There are signs all over saying that most of the shooting will be at night, but when I went there today it looked like they were getting ready to shoot some crowd footage; there were some lights and cameras up, and all these extras milling around waiting to be told to walk somewhere. One of the ceiling-mounted flatscreens near the cameras had a still image on it identifying the mall as "West Orange Pavilion". It's like living in the world of make-believe!

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[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, and South Shore Plaza (I almost typed 'palsy'? I don't know why I didn't think of that years ago, although really we just called it 'the Braintree mall') , too? Someone was shooting something at the Brighton mall-plaza thing on Western Ave between Soldiers Field and the Brightony end of Harvard, right before we left the area. I still don't know what that was.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been told that they're shooting at South Shore as well.

(And that the image on the ceiling TV was really a piece of cardboard taped over the screen.)

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...Also, there was a fake kiosk set up in the wing by the food court (it's apparently where the love interest works in the movie), and a couple of the nearby storefronts had been redressed.