Damn, man. I wish I could nab your TSPP, but don't have the money.

Hmmmm, this is odd. Why not list them? The vids... the price

" I WILL NOT break it up, "

Well, that, for starters. Anyone serious enough to buy all that can contact him for a list....really.. =|

Yep, I read it. Still needs a list.

Sorry to see you leave, I always enjoyed your posts. You will be missed.

Hard to know if I can afford it if I can't see what I'm buying (the vids that is, your pins are in your pinside collection obviously)

Bummer! Even your Doctor Who?

Sorry to see this. I hope you need the money for something good and there isn't any problems. I always dreamed of buying a large lot like this but the distance and my current financial status doesn't allow for this to be the one. I wish you the best in your sale and whatever you do next.

Gotta ask, is this in anyway related to the things we have PM'ed about in the past?

WTF: Wealthy Sugar Momma who will buy Al's collection and have it professionally delivered to my home in Texas. In exchange, I will rub bunions on demand.

Inquire via PM.

http://www.welovead.com/en/works/details/bfdzmovD

GLWS Al!

Someone is going to adopt what looks to be a sweet collection. You never want to hear someone is leaving the hobby but GLWS.

The words of Mark Davidson:

"Back in 2002 A good friend of mine, Al Warner, asked if I could re-created the moving Dalek head that was on the prototype Dr. Who pinball machines. For whatever reason I agreed. I guess I said yes because I love a challenge... I had never seen Dr. Who before, and never looked at the Pin, but within a month I had bought a machine at a US Amusements auction as Al coached me on."

Al has had a positive impact on pinball and its community, both are appreciated. The Wobble Head is the first "mod" that I can ever remember inquiring about since it brought some extra "life" to Doctor Who like the early machines. And when Mark finished his work, he had built an indestructible mod as I know someone who has one of the first ones made, it is still going strong! Al is a good guy and I have appreciated his posts since the RGP days. GLWS, I wish you the best!

Brad

Best wishes to you Al ! I hope what ever comes next brings you happiness.

LTG : )

Im sorry to see you leave the hobby as you were one of the good guys on RGP. I think i started collecting just after you did. Best of luck Al and i hope whatever you get into next brings you much happiness!~SpOoKy

Price and list?

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Sorry to see a well respected member of the community leave

This is as seismic as when Peter Hirshberg sold his home arcade that I had written about years ago in GameRoom. http://peterhirschberg.blogspot.com/2008/03/gameroom-magazine-cover-story.html

http://lunacityarcade.com/photos.htm

Sorry to see you're leaving the hobby.....

That was a great article. I think we all wish we could have a Luna City in our back yard.

divorce?

I wish you well in the future, Al. I'm glad both that we were able to meet your family and experience your amazing collection and that you had the time to stop by and hang out this year at TPF. I hope you're able to get it sold for what you want out of it.

Al,

Hope everything works out for you. I am guessing this means the end of any wobble head kits as well?

Per his request, send him a private message and he will provide the information.

Marcus

All this because BOP 2.0 is delayed? I kid, Al.

Sorry to see you leaving the hobby but life has many seasons. Good luck with the sale.

PM sent.

There are rumors that Al is building an ark in Georgia, but these are only rumors...

Brad

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If a group wants to get together and buy his machines as a group and subdivide them, I would commit to buy the following:

IJ, CFTBL, TSPP, AF and possibly BoP and AFM if the package price were 'right'.

If there are others who would buy the other machines, you can PM me and I'll keep a running list for the remainder of the machines.

Glad to hear its not bad news, too much of that lately! Good luck to you and your new direction in life.

Brian

To those who PM'd me saying this is a disallowed auction for want of a price or list: I am going to allow the thread to continue as this is a respected community member leaving the community and we are going to let him go out as he see fit, please stop PM'ing on this calling it an auction. Thanks.

Wow, what a bunch of douchebags... for real...

Let me know who you are, so I can send you a "REAL Pinside Dick of the Day" shirt..

Al,

Given that this is a pinball forum I would bet you can sell all the pins as 1 if you break them off from the vids and other stuff.

Agreed for sure. But seriously...do you have that shirt in a medium and how much?

Pretty easy to surmise that the pins conservatively are worth around 45K. The vids and other items add to that amount, if you have that much cash laying around shoot a PM. Why make it any harder than that?

If there is a group buy going on I'd be interested in the getaway

This issue again?

Unbelievable.

I will state this again: there is no written policy anywhere on Pinside that says that you are required to list a price for any pin listed for sale. There is no such requirement listed in the community rules.

If you list a pin for sale in the Market section of Pinside, there is no requirement to list a price. In fact, you can check a box that says "I want people to make me an offer".

So thanks for, uh, not being inconsistent with the non existent rule against so called auctions.

There is a difference between not listing a price and running an auction. Tigerlaw stated people were accusing him of running an auction, he clarified and said he wasn't.

Not sure we needed a rant on this one.

Looking forward to Al's next post..

WTT - My 33 pins and vids for your collection of 636 animals. Must have one and only one male and one female of each species. I hope it includes hippos and lions, not looking for too many creepy snakes. I'll have mine loaded in a 26 foot rental truck, you can drop yours off at my grand boat (see pic).

Without endorsing the tone of this post, I agree that it would be helpful to update the forum rules if a) auctions or b) "make me an offer" listings are prohibited.

As par for the course, your post doesn't even make sense.

best wishes on your new adventure.

glad i got the chance to meet you at Expo.

More whiners on pinside than a large day care center anymore. Good grief. If you are interested, pm the op, and get the info. Too tough? You weren't serious anyways.

GLWS

Seriously?? Some people need to get a f'ing life!!

If you're interested in Al's shit, PM him. Not interested, move the f' along. If his post really bothers you, go have a f'ing beer before you go PM'ing the moderators.

Then again, all some people do their entire life is PISS AND MOAN!! I hate people like that.