Independence Day
Sega, 1996As post says...Please help. I have a very nice Independence Day pinball machine but it needs the alien bash head halves badly! Mine are almost gone!! Any solutions or help greatly appreciated. I am sure if anyone made these again they would sell out as every game needs one.
Any creative solutions out there?
That's funny you ask this. I was just playing a Independence Day a few hours ago, and half of the alien head was smashed up. Must be pretty common. Hope you find one!
I have searched all over for one but I haven't been able to locate. Mine works fine but the left side is broken.
I may ask Matt to see if maybe he can tackle this. He does some amazing stuff at back alley creations!
Weird. My head has no colour at all. Never even realised it was mean to be painted. It's not that the paint has chipped off, it's just a off white bone colour. Wonder if at some time there was a repro run? Now I really want to replace it - grrrr
Quoted from Tmezel:How does this work and why is in two halves.
When the head is shot, it splits open to reveal a hole for a ball lock
Can anyone offer up your head for a short period of time? I bet if you offer your head, you can get a free repro......
My head is broken on one side so I am not sure mine would be of any use. I would for sure send it if it could be helpful.
I will gladly offer up mine for this to happen for everyone, no problem. But mine is REALLY bad. Does not look anything like it should now. Tops both broken off and the lower sides too! And worse yet is I do not have the pieces. D'oh!
Yeah I am missing the pieces too. Blind, do you plan on just taking a mold, could you add on the missing top broken part with your artistic skills?
I am working on this with Blind Voyeur anybody care to speak to his credibility before I send these off to him
I will give you a credit ref on Ryan (Blind Voyer). Straight up guy with a ton of talent. He was a action figure guy before pinball. I have seen Ryans figures in person.....full sculpted and flat out mind blowing...this guy puts 27 coats of paint on the eyeballs alone. He is extremely maticulous and his results are something that you guys just plain won't believe. The bash toy on ID4 is flat out childs play for Ryan. I stand behind Ryan 100 percent...send your bash toys to him...if they disappear, I personally will pay for you another set....Jump in! You will be glad you did. Totally cool guy, and somebody that is all for the pinball community, he does this because he loves pinball and art, a true asset to our hobby.
Is anybody currently working on this? I have the alien head. I have a professional prop maker and painter ready to make the molds and paint the pieces. He knows everything about high density impact resistant resins and is an amazing painter.
I think I can have finished pieces with a minimal lead time. Just don't want to step on anyone's toes or duplicate someone elses work.
Quoted from dangerwil:Is anybody currently working on this? I have the alien head. I have a professional prop maker and painter ready to make the molds and paint the pieces. He knows everything about high density impact resistant resins and is an amazing painter.
I think I can have finished pieces with a minimal lead time. Just don't want to step on anyone's toes or duplicate someone elses work.
I have been hearing for a long long time that someone was going to make the heads.....so far, no heads. Please build it.
Quoted from dangerwil:I think I can have finished pieces with a minimal lead time. Just don't want to step on anyone's toes or duplicate someone elses work.
DO IT!
Let me check with my buddy to see how they held up on location. They take a lot to make with all the holes in the. Where the rods go into them require them to be drill to a specific depth and it needs to be flat exact other wise they will not open or they will fly off. The actual head is no prob but the mounting areas take a lot of time. Also I made them thicker in the areas where they where breaking at the top. I'll get back to you guys once I hear if they still live 
id4 alien.jpgI sent my heads to blind voyer a couple months ago, I finaly got my orignals back but no new ones or any explanation aa to why. I dont know if he is actually going to make any or not and have not been in contact with him since. Somebody make these please
I need one of these too! Any updates on how they held up on location? Any idea what kind of price point we might be looking at?
, does anyone know how to adjust the heads so that there is no gap between the 2halves when the head is closed? Looks like the only way is to take the servo motor cometely apart and adjust the gears?
Quoted from BackAlleyMatt:Let me check with my buddy to see how they held up on location.
Pretty sure your buddy and I were talking about just this at league last night while playing. There may or may not still be mounting issues with it if you whack it really good, but in general they are still holding up. Looks-wise, they still look really good.
Any update? Just an impatient ID4 owner
Quoted from aobrien5:Pretty sure your buddy and I were talking about just this at league last night while playing. There may or may not still be mounting issues with it if you whack it really good, but in general they are still holding up. Looks-wise, they still look really good.
With the way the back screw holds the head in place, there shouldn't be a mounting issue that is not the fault of the motor itself. As long as some sort of lock washer or something is on that screw, it should be good. Whatever it is, it will be better than what we have, so let's get them made!
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