New member of the club. Picked up on the way back from MGC. Thanks to FatPanda for what is turning out to be a great game. Already tough and as he said, once I get a fresh coat of wax on there it’s going to be brutal. Those outlanes make my TWD look very forgiving!!

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I've only had the game a month and can't stop playing it. Get's 10x more plays than any other game in my collection now... I suspect some of that is the newness, but I really can't see it wearing off anytime soon.

The reason I quoted the CPR question is that I also put my interest in via email to CPR (does anyone know if you are supposed to get an acknowledgement? because I didn’t). Anyway... game was clean when I set it up and didn't have to do a single thing to it (thanks FatPanda for keeping everything in top notch shape). Finally got around to doing a quick cleaning and waxing and wow does the ball zip now. Of course, slower than my newer games, but much faster for a Gorgar than it was before. I could maybe get 10-15 spins on an average spinner rip before, but now can easily get 25+ on a solid hit. I'm crediting this to a faster ball with a freshly waxed playfield since that's all I did. Didn't have my teflon lube handy, so no lube on the spinner rod... but thinking that maybe a small drop would make it even better. How many spins are people typically getting? And I can hardly even imagine how much smoother that ball will be zipping around on a brand new clear coated playfield... come on CPR!!

That’s what I’m afraid of too. What we need is a good restore thread by HEP or similar with a restored or NOS playfield for this title. That would push up interest and maybe more people out there would commit to a preorder? Or is there one out there already that we can all start posting to in order to generate interest.

Me love Gorgar. Gorgar need playfield.

My thoughts on the new backglass is that some people with blown out back glasses wait til they go to sell the machine and then feel they need to replace it in order to justify the cost they want to get out of it ($800-900 or more). So, the new owner gets all the enjoyment that you could have had for a few years anyway. Now, if you plan to sell someday with current crappy backglass, then no worries of course.

Having said that, I could probably use new backglass myself (though current one isn't that bad) and just can't seem to pull the trigger... so that's my hypocritical post for the day!! LOL. But if new playfields ever get released, you can bet I'm buying new PF and new BG immediately and making this a top tier game in my collection.

Agree on all counts. That restoration looks fantastic!! And I'm also waiting on a CPR playfield to start a restoration. Love this game and it always brings me back to my childhood in the early 80's playing it at a local arcade.

Will buy one in a second if they are announced/released. I wonder how many “interests” they need before committing to build? Makes me want to commit to buy 2-3 just to get the one I need.

I was checking out the CPR Playfield website and it looks like Gorgar is in the preorder phase. Am I looking at it correctly? I thought they had previously just been gauging interest... but i sent an email with the preorder button and got an automatic reply telling me they would let me know when the time comes to pay for my order.

Is it finally here? Ok, realize the next phase still may take quite a while, but it feels closer at least.

Thanks for clarifying that. Memory wasn't the best I'm sure, but I didn't realize it was at pre-order status before. And you're right... old site was a bit easier to navigate and figure out.

https://classicplayfields.com/shop/pinball-plastics/gorgarplastics/

Gorgar plastics now out of mothballs on the CPR website. As far as I could tell, these haven't been in stock at any of the usual suppliers for quite some time. Now just need to get that playfield into production and we will be all set!!

I think we need to start a new club... “Waiting for Gorgar playfield Club”. I’d be a charter member for sure.

I think we’d have lots of company. Unfortunately not enough to get CPR to move this to actual production yet.

Hard to say what the market will support, but i suspect it will sell fairly quickly if listed at $500. Probably leaving money on the table, but descriptions aren’t as good as photos so it’s hard to say for sure and if truly as bad as you are saying, then $500 might be fair. I paid almost double that for one in decent shape... but not a great one. “Pretty bad” means different things to different people. I want to replace my PF and BG as soon as they have a CPR playfield out... but that doesn’t mean it’s bad, just not as perfect as I’d like.

Post some pics maybe?

Yeah, didn't realize it was disassembled and not playable. That affects value greatly of course. Sorry if I missed that earlier.

Pretty happy with mine at 6.5 using the PinGuy just above the flippers between the slings.

Sweet! Will most likely wait for the silkscreened version. Though would be interesting to hear reviews of the digital printed version as it comes out.

Definitely need one of those for mine (especially after the CPR playfield gets made). But, ouch... $50 for shipping? I guess Amazon has spoiled me with great shipping rates.

EDIT: found that Marco has shipping approx $10. Much better!!

I've been on the list for quite some time as well... from the sounds of it they never respond to let you know you're on the preorder interest list. I would have thought it would make it to production by now, but I know they've been busy with getting up their digital printing method. Hoping we hear something in the next six months at least. I would urge any club members to get on the list if you haven't already... there are a lot of these pins out there in need of a playfield swap or full restore!!

Sending low offers for pins you aren’t even sure you want seems like a quick way to send a message to sellers that you aren’t serious. Based on what I saw on those pics, I’d buy 5 Gorgars at $800 and resell all of them for a few hundred more. Even at the cost of a new backglass, you’d have a great pin at a steal.

But, of course, this is the club thread so I guess you’d expect owners to say this.

They posted a week ago on Facebook that they were closing preorders and completing them under their new system. I commented asking if this was good news for Gorgar? Please see their response on Facebook...

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I thought I read that somewhere as well... but can’t recall where.

Are you sure you're not thinking of CPR? I don't think Mirco takes a list... but I might be wrong.

I was going to ask if anyone can vouch for the quality of the Mirco playfield?. I've only bought a couple from CPR in the past and have been pretty pleased.

I learned a long time ago that the money you put into a restoration rarely comes back to you when/if you go to sell the unit. I'd say do it only if you want to keep the game for a while or are willing to take a loss on your investment and especially the cost of your time. Not directed at you... just general statement for those considering a restore.

This lists as a 4ohm speaker on Amazon.

This lists as an 8ohm speaker on Amazon.

Anyone know what the original is?

This looks awesome. I really like the 3rd pic where it looks like he’s reaching for you. Seems more menacing than the other pic that makes me think of that party song “I put my hands in the air like I just don’t care”. Ha. Either way will be a cool topper. Let me know if make more than 1 and want to sell…

Are there any leads on another company making replacement MPU boards since rottendogs are no longer available?

Thanks… I was hoping to find the rottendog to replace both boards as I’ve had problems with the 40 pin connector and not exactly sure which board it is. But I also don’t know much about the replacement board, so maybe I need to just have mine gone through.

Very helpful… unfortunately it appears they are not in stock and not taking new orders. But hopefully that will change at some point in the future.

Did you talk to them at pinballpcb yet? I had issues with my flippers on the new board they supplied. Different problem… mine would flip ALL THE TIME… even after tilt or when a game wasn’t even started. Never seen such a thing. Sent board back and they replaced it (or fixed it, not sure which). Works perfect now. Wish it had better QC leaving their shop, but in the end they provided excellent customer service.