I took the bait on this one. I'm right in the middle of a Kiss restore. My game has the German backglass in it with a little bit of paint lifting in the bottom corner, so the purchase wasn't entirely necessary, but it'll certainly be the cherry on top of the project. And I'll have the German version to hang on the wall.

Scheduled arrival is Thursday by end-of-day.

Sorry guys...I got caught up in the Xmas season.

The glass looks great, as promised. It isn't at all muddy or soft like some of the other repros I've seen out there. Mirroring is well done--better than what BGresto offers to substitute for mirroring. I've taken some pics of the PPS/Outside Edge glass next to my original Euro glass (which I now see would have been more than acceptable to use in my restoration, but my Kiss fandom really wanted a perfect glass, and the original rune "S's"). I've held up the glass to the light and backlit it with a flashlight, and it seems to light fine. It arrived within a week of ordering. At $249 with $30-ish shipping, I give the repro a thumbs up. Thanks to all parties involved for securing the licence and getting a repro done right.

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I finally got my Kiss up and running after a full restore. Here is a picture with the PPS/OE backglass lit with #44 bulbs. I have since changed to Comet frosted retro LEDs and it looks just as good with little to no "hot spots" visible. I put the original German glass back in to compare and the colours on the original are a tad deeper, the blacks are "blacker", but overall I'm very happy with how this looks.

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Here's a thing I just noticed...the repro has "1 2 3 4" mask cutouts. My original does not. My game doesn't have player-buy-in insert lights in the swingout backbox display board in that location either. Are there some Kiss games that do? Protos? Early production? I've taken a look at a few other Kiss games via Google images, Youtube and Pinside, ones with their swingout boards visible, and none have insert lights in that location.

It makes no difference that they are there on the repro, they just always sit unlit.

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