Well, you should already know my opinion, but I voted for Future Spa anwyays. Just give the word!

I'd also consider Shuttle once the prices are known, since I don't think there's a way to vote for multiples?

Don't intend to ever own another Comet, I've only ever seen one Pharoah in my area and it was fully restored+cleared already, and I don't personally like Wizard.

*edit* Derp.. approx 50% of a repro playfield would put most in the 350-400 range?

I'll uh....get right on that? I have an old friend that I'd love to see that I think is in Ohio, but not real sure where. Would kill to pick her brain for a few hours.. Seriously though, I'm pretty sure I will never visit Ohio. =P

Which all have HAD repro playfields, at the very least...smh...

And explain to me where the hell I can get a mint Future Spa at *any* price, since I've seen ONE NOS playfield in the 6 years I've been in the hobby, it's in a game of a local collector to me, and he won't sell it for any price....believe me, I've asked. The playfields have never been repro'ed, or the plastics, or the backglass. Have never seen a playfield that would be worth trying to restore, and I have one already with VERY minimal wear. It's too complicated to be fully repainted, even the stupid inserts are screened with FOUR COLORS instead of just BLACK, and every one I've ever seen except that ONE NOS was yellowed and gross, unless chicks with "hairy" legs is your thing.

I'm sorry you missed your window, but frankly, what does that have to do with me? BK has had playfields run TWICE from what I understand, plastics were run.. pretty sure the backglass was too?

If it was that important to you, which it's clearly NOT since 350 bucks is your ceiling, you could go find one. Just because you don't want to spend the money is ENTIRELY DIFFERENT than *not even having an option*, which are the games I'm advocating are more important to run first. The fact that you personally want to be a cheapskate because you missed them or simply didn't want to pay the price earlier when they were available has zero bearing on the games I'd rather see be *POSSIBLE* to be restored.

I can't just go out and conjure something that doesn't exist out of thin air. You can go buy a restored game, or wait for these to be run, or wait for a repro PF that's already been run to hit ebay....there's at least an option, even if you find it not to your liking. Frankly, I'd rather that CPR was going to run Future Spa, but apparently they just hate the game because there aren't thousands of people crawled up it's rear like Paragon... I'd *rather* sit on a waitlist for two years and pay them 1k for a new production playfield than have to jump through hoops trying to convince someone else to make some kind of alternative solution, but they don't have any interest, because CPR's bottom line (and in some cases their very survival, which I can't argue against..) will always take precedence over what's actually needed. You're taking a VERY narrow view of what's best for the hobby, simply because it would benefit you, IMO. Your opinion is only the most popular games should be preserved....my opinion is that as MANY DIFFERENT games as possible should be preserved. Which one of us is right? I dunno.

Hold on.. I gotta see if I still have the pic on my phone...it's pretty funny...

Yep...

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Oooh, word. That's a great one for this. That's always been a reason I have avoided Space Station...the Sun Process playfields have a much better color profile IMO also, something to be aware of...the difference is fairly noticeable!

Papa A bank.

Black Yawn? Not so much. Seems that it's popularity isn't what you perceive it to be. It's not like it's....Crescendo.

You are right about the inserts. I do remember that, but there's a good reason for that... non-finned inserts get cupped WAY easier. It's the lesser of two evils. I do understand though... Future Spa is just as bad if not worse about cupped inserts, but I'm not sure how it would look with finned translucent ones in those big inserts they used for the letters...it would probably look fairly goofy.

You totally didn't answer my part, and instead opted to go full on politician thinking that you can just throw out "but...THE ECONOMY!! *spooky music and jazz hands*" but whatever...this is the type of response I've come to expect on Pinside. IDGAF about the economics of that. I have to assume they at least did SOME research, since they grabbed the license for the rights to do these five games. They are already interested in making them, they had the rights to do so before I asked about it. So whinging to me about the economics of it is entirely a futile endeavor on your part. If they had the rights/art to Black Knight right now, it would be on the list...it's not.

Gotcha. Could've sworn those ones down by the flippers were all clear...

I apologize. We've been so busy with getting things ready for TPF and me working overtime that I was never able to get mine sent out. It's stripped, but I don't have a functional game to install it on anyways. Hope you guys get what you need to tweak and work out kinks. I'm a definite buyer when it comes out.

I'm in....unless it's the CaptainNeo version where there's dicks everywhere too. Sorry, @quiddity.

Picked up a Future Spa last night, so I no longer have JUST a playfield...now I actually want that hardtop ASAP so looking forward to some positive news on that!

FUUUUTUREEEE SPAAAAAAAA. =F

http://www.pinballgifts.com/store/p75/Hardtop_Pinball_Playfield_Overlay.html

Fixed that for you......