Block
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- Pausing results in all the blocks to be obscured from the playfield and the "next block" window(s) to be blanked out, so you get no extra time to think over where to put the next block.
Source: Pause Scumming - The animators claim this couldn't be fixed without breaking Elsa's model, so they obscured it a bit by having her body block the view of the phasing.
Source: Obscured Special Effects
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