This BBB has been bought from a friend of mine. He has knew a lot of pinball events and have thousand of plays. It has been 100 % redone with playfield and cabinet... not brand new.

He told me he sold it for 22000 euros in February of 2022.... so 7 minths ago.
Come on...

If you want more details just ask. I have all the history on this pin: sold in Australia and shipped to France to the biggest french dealer and then my friend and now in Germany.

Here is a picture of this pin taken... from a pinball event:

https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=5244&picno=64277

This pin is IPB with the only difference to have brass plate and the white insert. That’s it.

Oh and GLWTS. It’s pinflation....

If you have doubt, can the seller provide the serial number written on the back of the cabinet, it’s the SN 07 like the one on the picture. (There is no brass plate, we can’t see it on this one, it’s unfortunate)

No. The playfield has been restored by a professional, clearcoat ...it’s the same. The so called « prototype » batch had a playfield with a white insert between the bumpers (instead of yellow). That was the only difference.

In this batch: There have been 2 real gold, and all the other were brass plate but 2, one in purple and one in green.

I think calling this "prototype" or 1 of 14 makes everyone think it's an original.

Not sure why it’s so quiet now but let’s share some more picture for interested buyers. After all this is a 40 k pin. Some of the pictures are a bit old but it’s better than one.
I have the chance to have played this pin a lot myself.
It stays in a showroom for couple of years: main attraction of transcards. This dealer really nicely bring the BBB for people to play it at events too in free play.
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if it was an original prototype out of Capcom's plant, this worth more for sure for a real collector. Now the Capcom original and this remake has more than 90% of their BOM the same so they are almost identical: the remake was even built with a lot of Capcom parts left.

Now this limited serie from IPB with brass plate (which didn't aged well by the way, better to pay to have a green like some I've seen) has only limited the fact to have a different insert. I know in this crazy world people are realdy to pay much more for a CE or LE with a lot of added features, but I think the ad should also expose a bit of history and what they are really buying and explaining what is this so "special" serie about.

Also the 14 BBB limited is not true because IPB planned also to build with brass plate the nb 100, 200 and I know for sure than one of the EXXP has brass plate too because it was the last one even built: so at least there are 17

This pin worth a lot of money for sure but at this price, it's good for people to have a treacability and some history for this not HUO BBB. That's probably one or the really few which is not HUO by the way.

I was talking about the side rails and armor.

HUO ?? You’re right.. I didn’t even noticed.
How can you say HUO ha ha ha.
Good laugh

I assume it’s the same for Kingpin: it’s really unlikely one of them will be remade then.

We know that there is 14 originals Capcom but no one has a clue of how many pins this limited serie from IPB number is in reality: the plan was to built 20 of them.
99% of the people has no clue and can’t differentiate those pins (Capcom/IPB) anyway also because they look identical.
Putting as a reference: one of 14 misguide a wealthy buyer to make him think it’s an original IMO.
Once the pin is sold ...who will care again?

The brass plates, green and purple were assembled at the same time as the other ones as we can see in pictures of the build.
The prototype name is a bit misleading: only thing is the original Capcom game had also the white insert between the bumpers.
It’s probably why this was called « prototype » by IPB.

Some other BBB were assembled with brass plate and were not called prototype such as 100 and EXXP 16 so it’s a bit complex at the end to differentiate this from the regular production other than the white insert and « 0 ».

Yes exactly.
Built with left over parts and some of them were put aside from the regular build.
This happened because price and value increase a lot (money was needed too) and there was enough boards left to make it happen.

00? Is green (given to Gene’s daughter)
The 1 and 01 were made with real gold
02 to 012 are brass plate
013 is purple
100 was supposed to be gold as well (or brass plate )
EXXP 16 (last BBB) same as 100.

I have honestly no idea If there is any 014 and more. The only thing is Gene planned to build 20 brass plate in total.

If I remember well, the real limitation was one of the chipset impossible to reproduce.
Yeai it’s a good point, he might have use some airborne, football or breakshot for his needs. Those BBB sold for twice the price as the first order because of demands.