(Topic ID: 187412)
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Jungle Lord
Williams, 1981
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Fort Branch, IN
I also knew someone who was looking for one for years and never found one. This is a highly underrated game, it is a lot of fun.
Quoted from maglar:This is a highly underrated game, it is a lot of fun.
It is a great game. I liked the early red version better.
LTG : )
I also agree that it is a great game and highly underrated. However, I would assume that two key factors preventing the availability of a reproduction backglass are:
(1) The backglass would be expensive to reproduce especially given that it is has some mirroring
(2) The game has always sold at relatively low prices, so the reproduction backglass would represent a high % of the total game cost
Having said that, though, I'm also one who believes that there would be plenty of folks willing to pay that high % of game cost for a replacement backglass, regardless of what the economics say.
Then why run blackout? See those games in average to better than for $700-800. I bought a reproduction for mine. I like most of us want game nice and we all spend way more than game is worth. I used to think why put $250 + boards + rubber etc etc on a $500-700 game? Well I then decided I'm not buying a game as an investment I'm buying it to collect and play. Once I grasped that reality I stopped worrying about price of parts. Case in point the basket case Star Trek I bought that I now have close to $2,000 in. Ha ha
Wow, I never noticed there's like a city in the background of that glass, I thought they were cavemen/women - there's the real WTF.
Looks like BGResto has done it, without the mirroring.
http://bgresto.com/?p=959
My original is OKish. The game is not worth the cost of replacing the backglass.
Quoted from solarvalue:Wow, I never noticed there's like a city in the background of that glass, I thought they were cavemen/women - there's the real WTF.
https://www.amazon.com/Tarzan-City-Gold-Edgar-Burroughs/dp/1440462607
PPS has a forum where you can request parts, and they have multiple partners they work with for reproductions, including someone who does backglasses besides CPR. I requested Alien Poker BG and they ran them based on original screens, including mirroring. Talk about an under rated game!
It might be worth inquiring to Rick if the Jungle Lord bg screens have been found. The more vocal support there is, the more likely it will happen.
Nice find OP! I'm on my third glass, the least-worst I've found so far.
Lack of good backglasses keeps the price of this pin way down. Nobody is motivated to do a restoration, when they only have a seriously flaked backglass to put back on the pin. There should be a good market for a quality repro glass.
Quoted from winteriscoming:PPS has a forum where you can request parts, and they have multiple partners they work with for reproductions, including someone who does backglasses besides CPR. I requested Alien Poker BG and they ran them based on original screens, including mirroring. Talk about an under rated game!
It might be worth inquiring to Rick if the Jungle Lord bg screens have been found. The more vocal support there is, the more likely it will happen.
I saw the Alien Poker glass in Texas And it's one of the nicest reproduction glasses ever done
This is like the 10th thread on JL bg's. Yes BGResto makes these.
They don't do mirroring on them, but they are much better than the flaking ones most people have.
The search button is your friend.
Quoted from Black_Knight:This is like the 10th thread on JL bg's. Yes BGResto makes these.
They don't do mirroring on them, but they are much better than the flaking ones most people have.
The search button is your friend.
Don't want one of those. I want one to match the quality of the Alien Poker glass.
Quoted from Black_Knight:This is like the 10th thread on JL bg's. Yes BGResto makes these.
They don't do mirroring on them, but they are much better than the flaking ones most people have.
The search button is your friend.
Hmmmm saw that before like 3 years ago. Don't see a place to order one? Just exactly how does one order a repro glass from them? Or is a mail in your glass and we fix it? Cost?
Quoted from mikep28:Hmmmm saw that before like 3 years ago. Don't see a place to order one? Just exactly how does one order a repro glass from them? Or is a mail in your glass and we fix it? Cost?
Use the "Contact Us" on his website to email him.
He'll give you a price, but guessing $250 ish.
Brand new glass, shipped to you.
Be aware that he is sometimes slow to respond, and to ship, since it's a second job for him and he travels a lot. Do not order from him if you are impatient or in a hurry. You will get your glass if you order, but it may take quite a while.
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Sign me up for one. My Jungle Lord is a keeper and I’m willing to spend the money on a new glass. I’m sure there is a market for at least 100 of these things. Is that not enough to justify the process?
My god that game has an ugly backglass.
I can understand why nobody wants to redo it.
How Connie Mitchell kept his job year after year at Williams is a total mystery to me.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:My god that game has an ugly backglass.
I can understand why nobody wants to redo it.
How Connie Mitchell kept his job year after year at Williams is a total mystery to me.
Sure it’s ugly, but at least it’s not as bad as Flash. What’s going on in that art? What’s the story line there? There’s water and some women and what looks like a young Rod Stuart? I’m confused...
2 months later
This game follows well in the Williams era and theme of very fun games with ugly backglasses. I really wish I was a graphic designer. I would absolutely re-do the backglass and create an alternative. And to really make the game look better, a hard top to match my new re-designed BG. Anything but this sketchy Tarzan/Jane afraid in the metro-Jungle look. I agree with CrazyLevi - how did Mitchell keep his job? Anyway, looks like I'm still on the hunt after owning this game for 12 years. I'm tired of looking at a Firepower BG in its place. Still, I would LOVE to buy someone's re-design, even on translite, over the original.
10 months later
Joe exotic glass perhaps? This is also a keeper for me and would like a new art glass buying the original is a dumb idea ... I was just thinking about putting another game glass into it
Quoted from Spudgunman:Joe exotic glass perhaps? This is also a keeper for me and would like a new art glass buying the original is a dumb idea ... I was just thinking about putting another game glass into it
I have an original in 9.9 condition if Interested
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