So I picked up a project Jungle Lord a month or so ago. Playfield has some wear, cab needs work, etc. As much as JL has the absolute best art package ever made....well, it doesn't, but it's still fun as hell to play. I was batting around ideas for a retheme to take a stab at one...and I've settled on the epic John Carpenter classic.

Working on some designs for the playfield and plastics currently, and my bud's working on reprogramming the sound board and making new ROM's. Another friend of mine is a storyboard / scene artist out in LA, and he's planning on helping with the PF and cab artwork.

Going to start the JL tear down hopefully this weekend and get this party underway. Always open to input or opinions. Some music for attract mode...

Donor game...

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I know man…right? As soon as I posted the thread I couldn’t help myself. I went back out to the garage, took off the glass and dove in, at least to get started. I need to get Justin some scans of the plastics anyway.

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She kinda looks like Michael Myers already.

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Are you kidding? I was going to frame this thing and make it the centerpiece of my entire house. LOL.

Seriously though...sure Skip. I’m sure we can figure it out. It does have a tiny bit of flaking, but not bad compared to a bunch I’ve seen of this title. I can bring it to York if you want it.

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And awesome. I’ll keep that in mind as I get through this one. The inside of this one is pretty clean.

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Yeah man. Already done, and my other one is already sold and gone. I think I did that the night after I got home from your house.

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Shit! Skip do you have the lower flipper assemblies, or at least both brackets? It looks like both of the stoppers on these are busted with chunks missing down near the coil lugs.E548D713-E529-490C-82D0-38B2EB23E38A (resized).jpeg
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If anybody needs plastics let me know. The bottom right sling has a chip out of it, and the left main tiger plastic has a crack and a chip off the top left corner, but the rest are really nice.

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Definitely, thanks Alex. It’s going to be a process. I’m anxious to get it moving though. You and your pop will be down here trying to pick it up when I’m done. Make sure you bring the pinball armor.

Plastics, rubbers and ramps off.

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Cool. Let me know how much you want for them and if you can bring them to York.

Definitely a cool pin to retheme. Multilevel games are always fun.

If Skip doesn’t take it, you’re welcome to it.

Just trying to come up with ideas. He and I are apparently both deep in thought.
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Of course, that goes without saying. In the words of Barney Stinson...challenge accepted.

Although it would be much easier to incorporate if I were doing a Trading Places or True Lies retheme.

Bottom PF surface is stripped other than mechs and a few metal posts. Two of my ramps have some dings at the bottom that it looks like somebody tried to straighten. Anybody have a nice set I could grab or swap out?

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Done, and kudos for the great price. I’ll let you know if I come across anything else I need. Thanks man.

Definitely. You mean the Vampire I restored and took to A-town?

As for the Stern Drac, I had a good example, but his PF was nicer than mine and cabs were about equal. So I swapped out my shooter hive, coin door, plastics and my backglass and shopped it with Titan rubbers and LEDs. Sold another Pinsider the leftover game for a great price, which was still a pretty decent example.

I don’t think any of us did. A lot of people don’t even realize that John Carpenter transposed the music from some basic chords/notes that his father taught him on the piano when he was a kid, and he even composed and played the music for the movie himself.

With only a $300,000 budget, he didn’t have many choices. The movie went on to gross over $50 million after release, even though it had flopped and was heavily criticized in the first few weeks.

Your Jaws retheme was part of my inspiration to attempt one myself. You did a phenomenal job with that game.

I’m going to take my time though, because I want to do it right. I might be hitting you up for some advice and input if you don’t mind.

Maybe the first and second. I’m trying to keep it as original as possible. Don’t want to dive into the latter movies, or the Rob Zombie remakes.

Man, when you’re searching for ideas...people really put a lot of time into analytics for cinematic murder.

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Thanks man. Still have some tweaks to make on that one, but should be bringing it to York. I just moved it and set it back up earlier today.

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Unfortunately I did not, but that sounds awesome. And classy on the nod. Now I’m going to look for one of those posters to hang in the game room next to this thing when it’s done.