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Quoted from PappaDubz:
Came across this EM on a YouTube video
Does anyone the name of this Pin
Thanks in advance
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Williams "Triple Action".

#13105 1 year ago

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jrpinball

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There's another very similar version called "Star Action". Exactly the same game, except that "Triple Action" has a yellow base colored cabinet, and "Star Action" has a white base colored cabinet. Also "Star Action" is strictly an add-a-ball version, and lacks a replay unit. The scoring is 10X the values on "Triple Action".
Both games are from 1973.

#13106 1 year ago

JFP

PappaDubz

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Phoenix, AZ

3y 53,800 427 2

That spinning wheel really got my attention
Is that in other EMs?

I would off liked to see a boxing theme pin with that spinner in the middle of 3or4 pop bumpers

Thanks for the info

#13107 1 year ago

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jrpinball

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Quoted from PappaDubz:
That spinning wheel really got my attention
Is that in other EMs?
I would off liked to see a boxing theme pin with that spinner in the middle of 3or4 pop bumpers
Thanks for the info

Williams made a similar game a year later, called "Star Pool". It also features the same type of spinner.

#13108 1 year ago

IZY

izzy

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Also the spinner is similar to the one used on TOTAN

#13109 1 year ago

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jrpinball

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Quoted from izzy:
Also the spinner is similar to the one used on TOTAN

Was going to say that, but we're talking EMs. I once referred to TOTAN as "a glorified Triple Action".

1 week later

#13110 1 year ago

JAG

DodgersFan32

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3y 34,550 280

The latest pickup.

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#13111 1 year ago

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Garrett

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Nothing special about the title I picked up last night but the pin's history was the surprise. Great art package on Wizard but I do have a fondness for Bally pins as well. Had a non-pinhead, but big music fan with me to help move it, loved it as he's a Who fan.

From the few pictures on the FB ad it looked to be in pretty good shape overall but hard to be sure. Expected to see the usual wear on a popular title.

Betsy said she is selling her house and retiring in Florida. We walked into the finished basement and I was quite surprised. I asked her if she knew the history of the machine and she said "I sure do! My Dad bought that pinball machine brand new when I was 8 years old. It's been with me ever since!"

Can't wait to get it cleaned up and playing fast once again.

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#13112 1 year ago

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jrpinball

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Quoted from Garrett:
Nothing special about the title I picked up last night but the pin's history was the surprise. Great art package on Wizard but I do have a fondness for Bally pins as well. Had a non-pinhead, but big music fan with me to help move it, loved it as he's a Who fan.
From the few pictures on the FB ad it looked to be in pretty good shape overall but hard to be sure. Expected to see the usual wear on a popular title.
Betsy said she is selling her house and retiring in Florida. We walked into the finished basement and I was quite surprised. I asked her if she knew the history of the machine and she said "I sure do! My Dad bought that pinball machine brand new when I was 8 years old. It's been with me ever since!"
Can't wait to get it cleaned up and playing fast once again. [quoted image][quoted image][quoted image][quoted image][quoted image][quoted image][quoted image][quoted image]

Curious to know the meter reading on it. Rare to find a HUO game this old.

#13113 1 year ago

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Garrett

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Quoted from jrpinball:
Curious to know the meter reading on it. Rare to find a HUO game this old.

I meant to look at it this morning but forgot, will add a pic later after work. This pin wasn't just decoration for Betsy, she played it! Always great to see lady pinheads.

Cleaned up it should look stellar inside and out.

#13114 1 year ago

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jrpinball

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Quoted from Garrett:
I meant to look at it this morning but forgot, will add a pic later after work. This pin wasn't just decoration for Betsy, she played it! Always great to see lady pinheads.
Cleaned up it should look stellar inside and out.

It appears to have had a fair amount of use despite being in a home environment for it's entire life. I wonder how often it was waxed, and if it's the original ball.

#13115 1 year ago

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Garrett

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Quoted from jrpinball:
It appears to have had a fair amount of use despite being in a home environment for it's entire life. I wonder how often it was waxed, and if it's the original ball.

I didn't ask those questions. But it appears she did keep the playfield clean from debris. The ball did not have any corrosion on it either. Betsy was a player.

#13116 1 year ago

MAO

MikeO

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Quoted from Garrett:
I didn't ask those questions. But it appears she did keep the playfield clean from debris. The ball did not have any corrosion on it either. Betsy was a player.

While it is a clean example, the 25 cents for one play dymo label looks like it was routed prior to dad buying the game for her. The coin gear is what will usually tell you if it truly is HUO or possibly spent time on route prior to her ownership.

Knowing when Betsy turned 8 would help to truly age the game.

Regardless, a very nice example.

#13117 1 year ago

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Garrett

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Quoted from MikeO:
While it is a clean example, the 25 cents for one play dymo label looks like it was routed prior to dad buying the game for her. The coin gear is what will usually tell you if it truly is HUO or possibly spent time on route prior to her ownership.
Knowing when Betsy turned 8 would help to truly age the game.
Regardless, a very nice example.

That is quite possible too. I wish I had bought it from a guy because I could have asked how old he was. I'm 54 and she appeared a bit older than I but hard to guess how much older, she has spent a lot of time in the sun/outside. I've sent a message asking for a picture of her when she was a kid playing it to keep with the machine. Might be able to determine the year her dad bought it. We'll see.

#13118 1 year ago

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jrpinball

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Quoted from MikeO:
While it is a clean example, the 25 cents for one play dymo label looks like it was routed prior to dad buying the game for her. The coin gear is what will usually tell you if it truly is HUO or possibly spent time on route prior to her ownership.
Knowing when Betsy turned 8 would help to truly age the game.
Regardless, a very nice example.

I would think a new machine would have come with pricing cards. Perhaps dad made the Dymo label, and kept it on coin play so as to make it like a piggy bank.

#13119 1 year ago

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Garrett

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Who knows. That would be an average of 447 games a year.

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#13120 1 year ago

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Garrett

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Mistake

#13121 1 year ago

MAO

MikeO

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Overland Park, KS

11y 88,400 3,624 41

Quoted from Garrett:
I wish I had bought it from a guy because I could have asked how old he was.

You could still ask her when she turned 8. What can she do? You have the game.

#13122 1 year ago

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mark532011

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Quoted from DodgersFan32:
The latest pickup.

good grief, that AbraCadabra underside looks absolutely brand new!

#13123 1 year ago

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Sea_Wolf

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Louisville, KY

5y 85,550 1,809 16 7

Quoted from Garrett:
Nothing special about the title I picked up last night but the pin's history was the surprise. Great art package on Wizard but I do have a fondness for Bally pins as well. Had a non-pinhead, but big music fan with me to help move it, loved it as he's a Who fan.
From the few pictures on the FB ad it looked to be in pretty good shape overall but hard to be sure. Expected to see the usual wear on a popular title.
Betsy said she is selling her house and retiring in Florida. We walked into the finished basement and I was quite surprised. I asked her if she knew the history of the machine and she said "I sure do! My Dad bought that pinball machine brand new when I was 8 years old. It's been with me ever since!"
Can't wait to get it cleaned up and playing fast once again. [quoted image][quoted image][quoted image][quoted image][quoted image][quoted image][quoted image][quoted image]

Congrats on the nice pickup. 2 years ago I wanted one so bad I drove to a place an hour west of Chicago to get this one that must have matched their 1971 Naugahyde furniture collection...

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#13124 1 year ago

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Mopar

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Quoted from Garrett:
I'm 54 and she appeared a bit older than I but hard to guess how much older,

If she was 8 in 1975, she'd now be 55. Her Dad picking up the machine any later that 1975
would make her now younger than 55 (that's if she was 8 when her Dad purchased the machine).
Maybe it was set up to be on location, but never (or very little) actually was..

#13125 1 year ago

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Mopar

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Quoted from Sea_Wolf:
2 years ago I wanted one so bad I drove to a place an hour west of Chicago to get this one that must have matched their 1971 Naugahyde furniture collection...

I have a Magic Town with the exact panel like surface.
Of course original is ideal, but if someone hadn't already began pealing
off one side, I'd leave it (I have another one). It was actually very well done..
Also, in a 2 or 3 year span, all in different locations in N.Y. State, I picked
up a Flipper Clown, Flipper Parade, and Flipper Cowboy with exact matching
painted on panel like substance. I redid the Flipper Clown's cabinet. That
stuff was a bitch to get off..

#13126 1 year ago

DJP

Sea_Wolf

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5y 85,550 1,809 16 7

Quoted from Mopar:
I have a Magic Town with the exact panel like surface.
Of course original is ideal, but if someone hadn't already began pealing
off one side, I'd leave it (I have another one). It was actually very well done..
Also, in a 2 or 3 year span, all in different locations in N.Y. State, I picked
up a Flipper Clown, Flipper Parade, and Flipper Cowboy with exact matching
painted on panel like substance. I redid the Flipper Clown's cabinet. That
stuff was a bitch to get off..

Yeah luckily that was an oil based brown paint job that was intact, so I just lightly sanded primed and painted over it. The legs I gave to a guy who sells parts in town.

#13127 1 year ago

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stavio

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6y 110K 474 16 13

Just got my buddy's "new" set up leveled and dialed in.

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#13128 1 year ago

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Ballypin

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Quoted from Garrett:
...she appeared a bit older than I but hard to guess how much older, she has spent a lot of time in the sun/outside. .

Congrats on the pickup. Your comment above immediately made me picture this...

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#13129 1 year ago

JAG

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Quoted from mark532011:
good grief, that AbraCadabra underside looks absolutely brand new!

Thanks. Im selling/trading it with a wild kingdom to be able to put towards a Godzilla or a Gangbusters arcade game for my fathers mancave.

#13130 1 year ago

TAB

DanMarino

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Clarksville, MD

3y 97,300 4,287 6 15

Just bought a Card Whiz in a Jet Spin cabinet!

Also picked up a project Fireball at the same place!

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2 weeks later

#13131 1 year ago

AN4

kangourou

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Lyon

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The last one, restored and 100% full working.

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#13132 1 year ago

MJG

Mikala

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Nice looking 300!! Original Backglass?

#13133 1 year ago

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TheCnyPinGuy

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Just got a 1955 Williams Jolly Joker !!

And she still works !!

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#13134 1 year ago

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kangourou

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Lyon

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Quoted from Mikala:
Nice looking 300 !! Original Backglass?

Yes, original but slightly discolored.

#13135 1 year ago

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firefighter

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Getting back in to the AAB Phase of collecting. This is on my wife’s side of her wall.

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#13136 1 year ago

Ant16bar2

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Allamuchy Township, NJ

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#13137 1 year ago

Ant16bar2

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Allamuchy Township, NJ

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#13138 1 year ago

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jrpinball

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Quoted from Ant16bar2:
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I see a slowly growing collection of classic wedgeheads. You must have another game on the wanted list, no?

#13139 1 year ago

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TheCnyPinGuy

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Sherrill, NY

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EM Folks

I am trying to Locate a ball for my Jolly Jokers Williams 1955

Any help would be awesome or anything of workable standards

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#13140 1 year ago

EJS

Pinball Outpost

11y 223K 14,848 1

Almost done! Going to keep original caps since they have the marble finish and are in great shape. Repros are in the cash box.

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#13141 1 year ago

Ant16bar2

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Jr to be honest there is nothing out there that I want .These machines are the ones I played in my youth . I sold both of my pitch and bat games Base Hit .If one comes up for sale that I’ll buy . Keep your eyes open for a Williams base hit . Thanks

#13142 1 year ago

WHY

Sarge

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12y 67,550 676

Before I bring home a non-working Snow Derby and World Fair, I wanted to get a picture of the mathematical oddity of an entirely working lineup

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#13143 1 year ago

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Garrett

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