When did you try volunteering? If in the last year, covid paused the group except for a handful of top techs. The tech program is tough to run for just 1 guy that has 3 full time jobs. And before he arrived a few years back, there was no program. We always welcomed new techs.

I know the tech program very well, and although not perfect, its pretty amazing for anyone that devoted time to it.

Someone posted that tech provide parts, We do actually. We love the family the MOP built. I myself have made lifetime friends because of the MOP. I personally have donated, parts, time, blood, sweat and now tears. Its become part of our lifestyle.

Thanks for stepping up Johnathon.
Heres one thing I have learned about the family at the MOP, never, I mean never count them out. John did not get to where he is by painting himself into a corner. Jonathon, Johns son, is just as ambitious as his father. They are constantly shifting and transforming multiple businesses. Its who they are, not by choice, by design.

I agree, cheap land in the same area is plentiful, and do a tilt up construction building. The issue is the power grid. Thats why a weed farm is leasing the existing building it at such a high value, the infrastructure is there.
The building they wanted, the old newspaper plant, had the infrastructure and the sqftage.

Sorry wrong dude

Well said, I gave up 100s if not 1000s of hours and dollars to the MOP. I would do it again and again. You know what I got in return? 6 years of good times, friendships that will last a lifetime, and no fucken shit, I got a dog. This place has opened up opportunities for so many people. It truly is a family of techs. I walked in 6 years ago a guest and am walking with an experience I know will never happen again.

Dude you give laser wars more credit then it deserves. She's a beaut Clark.

Captain and the crew have been big supporters of the MOP for as long as I can remember. It would be easy to guess they will be involved. If you have seen Captain aka Chris auctioning in the "barn" he can jam through games when he needs to. To do this many games, it would take multiple weekends, and leave very little time for the logistics of moving stuff out. But if you ever saw what it was like the days leading up to events and the Halloween party, you would know the MOP tech crew can get it done.
Details are leaking out and dates should be announced soon, so start saving.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/an-insider-s-guide-to-the-banning-museum-of-pinball-machines#post-6417746

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GD, people will find a reason to bitch about everything.

I predict the real bargains will be Arcades. There are some 1200 of them.

I just reached out to RK about this the other day. As far as I know he's the only person with a bunch of games at MOP. If you guys need help with loading them let me know, I can round up a few volunteers.

Captain's is working on that. One of the techs was finalizing the list Saturday.
Once they know the order, we will add a link here.
Bidding live should be fun, thats if you are local and can make it. They should be announcing preview times shortly too.

There are tons of EM "other" games. There was a building that had about 20 shooters, and in the back of the arcade room maybe another 20 novelty arcades from ww2 era. Some really cool stuff. We had a tech that loved to tinker on them and got a few playing very well. There are a few racing style EM machines as well. A few bowlers and some Bingos stashed away somewhere. Not sure if this terminology is correct.

That space pilot game on the far right works very well. You have to fly around in circles and hit these loop things to score. Pretty fun technology for that era.

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You did not miss them. A bunch of these came in the last year. We just set them up and play tested most of these Gots in the last 8 months.

That was Matt and Tom, small ground issue and a few other fixes and she was playing great.

It was sold to a tech

Attila the hun was on auction at MOP 2 years ago and did not sell for $100. So chances are they will find a 2nd in storage at some point.

Well said. I spent months @ MOP, and would do it all again. As a matter of fact, a bunch of us are. We are reaching out to other museums to keep it going. And if they sell off later, so be it. Its about a brotherhood, some people will never understand.

They do. It should be up for auction.

Yeep And then it broke again. That HH was cursed. I think at the old the sound went out.

I laughed everytime I heard easy fix, or must be a fuse.
I am sure not 1 of the 200 techs are capable of swapping fuses or a flipper spring.

Transporter was the only machine I bid on and lost it by $500. I am pretty bummed. The machine was spotless. We museum techs have a huge advantage, we know ever single machine like the back of our hands.

That Charlies Angels was in the tech room for the last 3 years. I don't think it had any boards in it. Did it turn on?

Firepower actually played very well. It was the go to game for a bunch of us techs after hours. It will be really interesting to see how much that goes for considering I have had 3 of them and all sold for under 1500, including 1 i sent to captains to sell.

not work, and neither was phoenix

He's doing a good job at that. Evident in Star light for 10k.

We could never get Jolly park playing. We had a 220v to 120v convertor for it, but everything was in a different language and we could not get it out of the menu.

Actually Verne turns on, language issue again. We only had 1 invertor for 2 machines.

10,375 not including Shipping. Why?

WOZ is broken as shit.

Oh not the rug man.....

People are fleeing CA because of the overly PC rules on Hummingbird juice.

Oh yeah looking to buy a BSD.

That Sega SW has a hell of a back story. It never fully worked due to missing some major components. I was sent too pick it up after another tech bought it down in Chula Vista. He failed to mention it was on the 2nd floor. And half Of the machine was missing.
We busted his balls for so long he moved across the county And never finished rebuilding it. Then it sold for 9000$ or some other stupid number.
There are literally dozens of machines like this. You should have seen the rig job on Shadow. I give it 2 weeks of solid play before the battlefield just falls apart.

Ultraman code or lack of is pure garbage. That was a guy I knows machine at Captains that sold for 8300 without fees. He was pissed rightfully so after he unboxed and started playing it. The new owner is gonna be even more pissed dropping 10k on that turd.

And so it begins.

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Now this, this is a nice HGT

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Did you get my Transporter? That was a good deal on a beautiful game. Thats the only pin I bid on.
I won the jukebox and wayyyy over paid, but it had sentimental value.