Looks really uncomfortable to play.

It's a good thing they took all the guts out then and just added a small light show!

Painful to see. I need his contact info for the boards, cab etc

The website says fully working and get a new high score. But quite a bit of what it says is blocked by my work network so I could be wrong

I couldn't open the above link at work, but did see it here earlier this morning in case this opens for others:

http://uproxx.com/gammasquad/2015/04/this-r2-d2-pinball-machine-coffee-table-is-possibly-the-droid-youre-looking-for/

Seeing all the pins they've destroyed just pisses me off. Don't support this crap.

So no, it doesn't work. I had to open it on my cell phone to see the video so that might have been on the original link too.

$13K and 300 hours to make this? I call BS on this. (either that or it's going to make an appearance on pawn stars soon

By fully working they mean you can press a flipper button and R2D2 will move a bit, then you press something else and get some attract lights!

A playfield that a game needs... its kind of sick. Kind of like displaying a lamp that would be found at Ed Gein's house.

I had similar plans to do this. I found a very nice playfield on CL. I purchased it and started to feel bad about it. It was a Future Spa and was perfect other than a spot of lifting mylar. I found someone who had a completely shot playfield. I sent her mine about a year and a half ago. She is still supposed to send me hers when she does the swap. I haven't heard from her in a long time but oh well, I only paid $15 for it and there will be another shot playfield come by at some point. No need to use a nice playfield for something like this.

Why would you want that as some coffee table? So you can put a drink on it? Just get the real pin, get a cup holder, and save $10k.

I've got a Force II playfield that I've wired with little battery-operated LED lights and have hanging on the wall as art. But then again I got it for $20 at an expo because it had been in a warehouse for 20 years in a stack of other playfields, was filthy, is warped, is worn to the wood in places, and has broken plastics. It was fully populated, so I took everything off and sent it to someone here just for the cost of shipping in case they could use it on other machines.

But a fully-populated DESW playfield is a different story. And I am still a pinball newbie but could wire up some lights and a motor to a button for way less than $13K and 300 hours.

The cabinet is cut up and made into a desk in another place on the site.

http://altars.co/arcade_resurrection/

They kill'em and sell of the parts.

Would be a shame if someone started tagging his page on Twitter and letting everyone know what kind of tasty chemicals are in the paints of pinball cabinets.....

Hello Peeps! I happen to know these guys well. THey do NOT take apart working games. They bought the playfield from Italy, spent 100's of dollars on touching it up, and putting plastics, bumpers, plastic back on. THe bottom part of the pf was empty. The cabinet came a year later from Austria.
This game would never have been feasible to repair. They would have ended in trash. Same goes for the KISS pf too. I know pinball fanatics will not be their fans ever, but I thought I'd try and set the record straight! Cheers, A

This isn't playable that i see. The flipper buttons just make noise, lights and toy move.

Oh, and they also do amazing restoration work on working pinballs, both EM and later ones. Just so you see the big picture. Have a nice day! A

Its an art piece, good for them. If they cut up a kingpin I can understand the hate. Our games are not *rare*. Better yet they are glorified toys. In the end they are just *things*. Things we don't even need, but are privileged to own.