Backglasses are available. Plastics and card tray decals have been repro'd. Drop targets are available. Cabinet stencils availaible. You just need a "Target Alpha" (hopefully a beat one) to sacrifice (hardly a sacrific!) in order to convert to this more desirable version. I have everything I need except a playfield and stencils. I would submit a sanded smooth "Target Alpha" playfield and just have the "Canada Dry" graphics applied to it. No worry about cutting, drilling, routing playfield blanks. This would dramatically cut costs. Anybody with me? Does anyone have the ability to do this? I have spoken with John Greatwich about doing this, but he doesn't have the art file.

It would be nice to own an original one, but I have a tired "TA" in the woodpile and I have everything else to convert it. I wasn't aware until recently that the plastics were repro'd. I managed to get an NOS set, and thought that they would be the next hardest component to find. Now that just about everything else is available, and since "TA"s seem to be growing on trees lately, I thought conversions would be a viable alternative if only someone would repop the playfield.

There are NOS copies floating around here. I don't know how many, but I did get one through another collector.

You got a great deal on that game. Yeah, you had to ship it from overseas, but the total cost is worth it for that title. Just about everyone on PinballOwners who has one specifies that they will "never" sell it. I'd really like to make my own though, being that I have everything except the playfield and stencil kit.
Boilerman, let's try to get this ball rolling!

I can't read French!

Je veux en construire un moi-même.

Hmm. Why so cheap? The English translation is hilarious. Prove that you're the king of the fork and amortized???

That's the price to rent it!

Found this photo from 2010. This may be the glass I ended up with, but I didn't buy it at this show.

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That's pretty much the whole idea. It's just a "Target Alpha" with different artwork, but I'd much rather look at "CD" than "TA".

I don't know about that. As I mentioned already, there are NOS ones around, and how many guys will need one for the existing lot of games. Now if the playfield were made, it would make sense to repop the glass too.

Along with myself, it looks like I may have drummed up one or two others who might want a playfield. We'll need a lot more demand than that, but it just might happen eventually.

Thanks John.

It's likely that the seller in Atlanta just didn't realize what he had.

Hmm. Yeah, Joe would certainly know what he had.

Bumpity bump...

Yeah, what will it take to make this happen? I have absolutely everything except for a playfield and a painted cabinet. That can be done fairly easily. Those who wish to convert their "Target Alpha" machines should be willing to strip and sand their playfields to bare wood and send them to whoever can do the artwork. This would save an enormous amount of work. The technology exists. Would love to see this happen somehow.

I think you mean BG, not PF.

So you've said. I've invested in absolutely everything for the game, including a set of NOS plastics. Everything, including all the paperwork.
This is the route I'd like to take, and so would others. I don't think there are very many originals in good condition available for sale, even overseas, and the costs would be prohibitive even so.
I'd like to hope that someday a playfield will be made, but if not, oh well.