Quoted from Starscream:

Could we be treated to a few pics
I'd love to see what a NIB older pin came in, (sick of seeing all the Stern boxes lol)

Quoted from badbilly27:

I see your STTNG and raise you a NIB BBB opened a few months ago.

Quoted from badbilly27:

Did you open the NIB STTNG? I made the plunge on the BBB and never looked back. Love it.

Quoted from DanQverymuch:

I've asked repeatedly, but never gotten a response, whether anyone personally ever opened a NIB pin from yesteryear and found leaking batteries in it. Didn't they ship with dry cells, which almost never leak? Are we talking urban legend?
My DM was HUO from a Williams office employee. They had never opened the head. Dead dry cells.
I wish someone who did find alkalines, leaking or not, in a NIB game would set me straight so I could stop wondering...

Quoted from Richthofen:

I was just trying to back into the number he was putting out there. There's not a lot of $25k pinball machines out there. This is a high-run game relative to the era. A comparable item would be a ST:TNG issued to the cast members. And at least those contained a placard on the game.

Quoted from Aurich:

That's what Rarehero has. If I recall correctly people were offering him $20k for it before he opened it, though he'd have to corroborate that, I'm just going off memory of the story.

Quoted from Jam_Burglar:

FYI, I've pulled original batteries out of Nintendo vs. boards from the 80s and found no damage. I don't think that it's anywhere near a given that there will be battery damage. It wouldn't suprise me if you found damage but I wouldn't assume the board is toast just becuase the original batteries are still in there.

Quoted from JoeGrenuk:

I think you've got it pretty right, but it's actually worse:
A NIB turns into a HUO in the time it takes to slide it out of the box and put legs on it. Let's say the $12k NIB in your example got opened and set up. Bang, it's HUO and worth, say, $8?
Open that $25k box and it turns into that same HUO game above, at $8k.
Now you have a HUO SS and a $17,000 letter.
You'd be FAR better off dropping $20k for a NIB BBB and taking your wife on vacation with the change.

Quoted from pinlawyer:

Is Cassandra Peterson still considered a "celebrity?" I wouldn't recognize her in the supermarket without the get-up. I doubt I could tell her in her get-up from an impostor.

Quoted from Olddragon:

I never understood the Elvira thing.

Quoted from Olddragon:

So, Elvira has boobies and Cassandra doesn't? oooo-kaaaayyyyy.
And, by the "Elvira thing"... I understand the character concept. Heck ya', she was way marketable. I just don't understand why most men fall over their tongues ogling over her. Elvira looks like a skunk with tits. Cassandra looks WAY better. Hey, but to each their own!
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Quoted from RobT:

What strange, though, is that picture shows the actual bar already on the front of the pin. I don't think they usually came that way. The actual bar would be packed in the box, not already attached. The bar was not attached on this SS. Perhaps they did it differently for MB?