I actually bought an Avatar a few months ago from a local operator. My buddy offered to pay for it and keep it at his house while I get my basement finished.

Anyway, I'm going to pay him for it and it's getting taken this week to a fellow Pinsider's house for a tear down and rebuild. LEDs, flipper / pops rebuild / magnet repair (started locking on and was unplugged) and a thorough cleaning. It's absolutely filthy. He's going to strip the topside, tumble everything, fix anything that's broken and put it all back together.

I can't wait. I've bought a few pins from him over the years and he does a phenomenal job.

I'm excited! I'll have to take some before / after pictures.

It's a Pro. It was routed all its life, but there isn't any playfield wear. The cabinet is a little dinged up, but that doesn't bother me. Once it's all cleaned up, it should be really pretty. At the end of the day, I'll have much less in it compared to what I see them selling for in the marketplace.

Some of them I do, but not all. I did my Metallica and TWD, but none of the others. I'll definitely go back and check out the pictures. I'm interested to see what everyone has done.

Where did you get the green plastic protectors? They look pretty cool.

Does anyone know where I can get a new Amp suit guy? The one on mine is broken. He's missing some of his bullets.

I found one on Marco, but I don't think it's the mechanism, but a little figurine.

http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/880-5118-00

I'm having magnet issues. Can anyone jump in here and help out? Thanks!

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/avatar-magnet-issues

Fuckin' Big Points!

Does anyone have a ColorDMD in Avatar? I'm curios to see what the dots look like, but unfortunately all that's on the ColorDMD website seems to be the smoothing. I was wondering if someone could upload some video of the dots?

Awesome, thanks!

Thanks for taking the time to do that BigPhil, I really appreciate it!

What are your thoughts on the ColorDMD for that title? It seemed a little bland compared to TWD or Metallica (which are the other two that I own).

Some of the animations looked nice, but the text and the amp suit guy looked a little boring.

Would you recommend it? I passed on Demolition Man because it seemed boring too.

Has anyone put a fuse on their magnet, like people do for Addams? My magnet is unhooked because it locked on and I suspect blew the transistor. I don't want to replace the transistor if there is something else wrong and blow it again.

You can do it via USB.

https://sternpinball.com/?post_type=game_code&s=avatar

Don't quote me on this because I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure this is how you update it:

1. Download .zip file
2. Extract files in .zip and copy the .bin file to the root of the flash drive
3. Power off the game
4. Flip dip switch #8
5. Insert USB stick into USB port
6. Power on game and follow prompts to perform update

If it's like my TWD, once the update is finished, it will tell you to remove the USB stick, flip dip switch #8 back and then power cycle the game.

I think Marco sells them for $25.

Marco sells them, but I don’t know if they ship internationally.

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/803-5000-B1

What version of the code are you running? Mine does that all the damn time. It was supposed to be fixed in a code update, but mine has the newest code and it still does it.

https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/sb177.pdf

This is what I bought when I had dmacy strip the topside of mine and make it pretty again.

If I remember correctly, he said he needed to drill some mounting holes in it.

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/880-5118-00