Great find! I love Miss Annabelle. I've had my eye on a local one for years but the owner wants solid gold for it.

Now, how to flatten 55 year old plastic? I don't believe you can. I've experimented with pieces and they're just made differently than the 70s and newer stuff you can flatten in an oven or between sheets of glass on a hot day. I end up re-making all my old plastics that are curled.

Quick tip, photograph or carefully scan any plastics that have curled and you want to repair before they get worse. I've had plastics just shatter or splinter like slate in games due to subtle temp changes. The worst was a game I brought out of 50+ years in a dark basement. One week in our gameroom and the plastics were destroyed.

Cheers,
Art.

Nice find, congrats !

Looks like it's cleaning up real nice.

Enjoy!

Ken

Miss Annabelle is great old machine. The plastics and BG have avaliable reproductions. Mine had the fan and girl warped the same as yours, there was no way for it to be saved. I went with the repo. A great pin to play but I've had mine for sale for a long time with no bites.

http://www.pinballrescue.net

http://www.pbresource.com/special.html

Scroll Down through the Back Glasses. I think steve said he has one left $295.

second pinball rescue..not only do they have the plastics..they also sell thr background scenery with the woman and the animation wheel..

best repro plastics on the market imo

Looks like the mice liked Annabelle too! I had a machine where the mice cleaned off all the paper on the coils but left the wire part alone! Luckliy I still worked!

JBK....good find! Wonder if the one Steve has is original or a repo?

I would like to get one of these machines someday. My daughter's name is also Annabelle and I have a new glass hanging on the wall in her room. Would be cool to have the machine too.

Nice score. Looks like a fun project for sure

--Jeff

Congrats on your find.

One of the neatest backglasses out there.

I remember him telling me it was a repo. I was looking as my Annabelle has a soild BG but is peeling BAD! The price is a little high for me. Miss Annabelle is not a keeper for me and I haven't been able to sell it, So $300+ for a BG is not in the cards.Miss Annabelle Backglass.JPG

It is good to see it working. I guess the animated backglass is skill related.

Hi 72Devilz that looks like a perfect project machine. I'm glad to see it landed in the right hands. Please keep us posted in the progress with lots -O- pics!

First Gottlieb with score reels. The gobble hole moves the fan, this feature is a carry over bonus from game to game.

One of the best wood rails every made.

looks like a fun game. Nice find.

I played one of these recently that was lovingly restored. It's an unsung woodrail; one of the later ones. The knock on it (no pun intended) is that it has no "specials", but nonetheless I think it's a lot of fun and gorgeous as well.

I put up some of the requested pictures in the above mentioned thread.

You're inspiring me 72Devilz. Picked up this title a few months ago and it's in my project cue. Playfield is nice, but BG has lost almost all its blues. Will decide after bringing it back to life if a new repro BG is justified. Mine didn't have legs. What does yours have? Wood or metal?

Steve

Mine had standard Gottlieb metal legs. I sandblasted them and found only one layer of paint. As long as they were the original legs they were standard charcoal grey/black. As best I can figure I am the second owner of my Annabelle. It spent its life in a bowling alley. When it stopped earning the owner took it home for his kids to play. It spent forty plus years in a garage until I bought it from children of the original owner.

Miss Annabelle should have 31" metal legs that are cream/ivory in color (same color as the coin door and bottom playfield tray).

Hi 72!
If it were mine I'd make some attempts at an Annabelle replacement. First I'd scan her and fix the image on the computer, print and mount on some spare plastic and see how it looked. If it wasn't satisfactory then I'd opt for a professional printer and be sure to keep the original warped Annabelle stored with the machine. (Along side the schematic etc)
Not sure if that would work, just an idea.

If the image fits on 8.5" x 11" size paper, then a waterslide decal onto a piece of plexi might work.

One thing I did on mine (and any game with a root-target behind the back glass like Sunshine or Queen of Diamonds) is to take few washers and use them to shim the unit so it sits about 3/8 of an inch farther away from the back glass.

That way any warp in the plastic doesn't drag against the glass and ruin it by making a scratch. If you study it, most of the Miss Annabelle's have a pretty good gouge where the fan has been dragging against the back glass. You can't tell it's been shimmed, at least I can't.

Great work 72! I love reading threads with photos of restores that guys do to bring old pins back to life. Keep up the good work.

looking good.

Looks great!
If you feel inclined, a good buffing with #0000 steel wool can make stainless steel really shine.

Your game is coming along nicely!

Yikes! I thought you were referring to this:

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This article explains it:

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/10/annabelle-the-true-story-of-a-demonic-doll/

It's also referenced in the movie The Conjuring

Your game looks awesome, btw