Officially in the club. This game is great, been looking for a bit, found one that is really pretty nice for a good price. Great rules here, and a great change of pace from my other sterns..

At expo, decided to get a xpin white dmd due to great prices, and throw my plasma in another game that needs it. Per a reccomendation, used the blue and yellow gels to get an amazing teal, really goes well with the game, the camera shot is lighter, but in person its more green/aqua.. very kewl..
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I think show price was 267 maybe w gels. easy decision. Im adding quartich to the amp suit, and a banshee, some spotlights, and using one of the extra gels and plexi to light the link coffin.. subtly .. speaker lights are easy and Ill also do that to match the display.. other than that, have a few other ideas Ill work at and post here.. great game.. good ol bang for the buck..

First to mod the amp suit,, leg was cracked so I had to remedy that first, some jb weld and all is better. I got a a Quartich in the mail, added him but wanted to add some light in the suit, so I drilled a small hole and added a 3 smd strip to the bottom grounded to green and blue for the aqua color, turned out pretty good...

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Next the coffin, decided to used a piece of translucent plexi, then cover with a blue gel piece from the xpin. add a light strip underneath in green, again for aqua color, and used some thin super strong tape to hold the figure down, befores and afters look pretty neat really...and its sturdy as hell

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Yea, I just used a jewelers screwdriver, flat blade to pry a little and it came up pretty easy, had to ad a little glue to keep it closed tho..

you can buy one at mezel mods for the star trek ramp, easy to install, 12v power and ground, they prob have install instruction there too..

see my earlier post in this thread, used an xpin white display with gels to produce a teal, looks really cool, I have a blue led display on my tron, and the Avatar gets "whoa" from guests, very good looking with that color. Also a color DMD with upscaling in any color you wish for a little more is really awesome as well..

Looks fantastic, nice job for sure. I love Comet too, great customer service. I use CT as well, they do a nice job. Love the ice blue. That pf protector looks great. I have a metallica with some raised inserts already, I may just have to do one of those....

Well put there Rarehero, I completely agree and I absolutely love the audio in this game, one of my very favorite from Stern.. Its really good..

Made some spacers for my speakers, and added some teal leds to them to match the display, photo isnt good but its dead on..

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Woa, I leave this thread for a week and come back to a clinic, nice work gents.

I consider Avatar to be among Sterns very best modern games for audio both music speech/call outs, and audio theme integration, it is really hard for me to imagine folks would want to change it.. obviously not everyone will love it, but I still feel it was done so well... a huge piece of why this game lasts for me..

I recommend xpins white dmd, then you can put any gel over it to make it whatever you want, blue looks awesome, I made my Avatar teal.. if you sell the game you can move it to another if you choose..

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I feel the same way after owning a few years , it still has me playing it often, others tend to enjoy it as well, great game

See post #182..

So, I am officially back in this club. I purchased a very unique Avatar, a new in box LE, that has some damage. It was a unique find and game that needs full teardown and disassembly before I can even put a ball on it. I have some videos and I am documenting the journey.. I'll share soon.

I missed my Avatar pro so much, hopefully this will payoff.. here is a taste of what I'm dealing with..more to come Avatar fans.. if there is a mech or teardown you need help with, I have done it..

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Not the last nib LE.. I'll share this story of this one in its own thread

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Yes, should be the exact same, if it were me, I'd replace all at once so there is no matching issues.. since u are already paying shipping.

I agree with this, I just finished my LE, tried pinstadiums on here with cool white GI, pretty amazing looking really. The pinstadiums are set with warm white and aqua combo.

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This is a good idea, the LE version has one of the weirdest ways to open and close the cheap coffin.. I hate the engineering of it, too much crap at the point underneath the playfield, a redesign would be killer and much needed

Just saw your post Bassproal , I restored an Avatar last year, I had to buy a plastic set at marco, check and see if they still have them..

Sounds like you blew a fuse on the power supply board, if indeed no coils are working. Do they work in test mode?

You can take normal pinball legs to a chrome shop and have them chromed, you don't need to source one. Hell I did all the metals on my Avatar.