Tales of the Arabian Nights
Williams, 1996It has been a while since I finished up a TOTAN and unfortunately some of the nicer ones I have done in the past did not get proper documentation so I did my best to capture this one.
Here is the restore link
http://christopherhutchins.com/gallery/album524
TOTAN 1.jpg
Here is the finished link
http://christopherhutchins.com/gallery/album526
1.JPG
19.JPG
Quoted from CaptainNeo:looks great. I'd want that game if it wasn't redecaled.
Hopefully Chris shows off the front corners and then you may change your mind. With the new leg protection, decals installed properly are a non issue !
Awesome as usual Chris .
Quoted from CaptainNeo:looks great. I'd want that game if it wasn't redecaled.
You don't play the decals.
Quoted from McCune:Hopefully Chris shows off the front corners and then you may change your mind. With the new leg protection, decals installed properly are a non issue !
Awesome as usual Chris .
Thanks Jim.We can't change Neos mind but if given the choice between big gaps,black corners and fade or nice decals?
With proper prep and protections I will take the decals.
Quoted from McCune:Hopefully Chris shows off the front corners and then you may change your mind. With the new leg protection, decals installed properly are a non issue !
Awesome as usual Chris .
Nope, I can't stand how fragile decals are. Seen them first hand. Seen them properly done, but the slightest bump and you got a nice white mark in them. they used to crinkle bad over time on the legs too, but now that we have those metal standoff plates, so that's eliminated. For me decals devalues the game. I would pay more for an original cabinet with slight damage, and less for one redecaled.
and it's true you don't play the cabinet. When I first started collecting I didn't give a crap about the cabinet. Over time and over the years, you start getting more and more picky about crap that doesn't matter. and you start caring about fade, backglass/translite, gouges, inside the cabinet, clean boards and all that stuff, that really doesn't mean a damn thing on how the game plays or how fun it can be.
Quoted from CaptainNeo:I would pay more for an original cabinet with slight damage, and less for one redecaled.
You have a strong opinion but the new decals don't scratch unless you have a sharp screw in your pocket . I agree older decals were very fragile , not the next generation decals , they are much tougher .
Quoted from High_End_Pins:Thanks Jim.We can't change Neos mind but if given the choice between big gaps,black corners and fade or nice decals?
With proper prep and protections I will take the decals.
Overall presentation is king, but nothing beats an excellent original cab with excellent original artwork from a collectability standpoint.
Quoted from turbo20lbs:but nothing beats an excellent original cab with excellent original artwork from a collectability standpoint.
NIB totans are getting hard to find .
Quoted from turbo20lbs:Overall presentation is king, but nothing beats an excellent original cab with excellent original artwork from a collectability standpoint.
To some but there are far more people that would like an unfaded,unbeaten cabinet than ones that meet the criteria.
Was this cabinet too nice to have been stripped and decaled ?
Quoted from CaptainNeo:looks great. I'd want that game if it wasn't redecaled.
I know, really a downgrade from wrinkled and faded original. What a fucking travesty.
Quoted from TaylorVA:I know, really a downgrade from wrinkled and faded original. What a fucking travesty.
bwahahahahaaaa, really needed a good laugh!
@HEP
Beautiful work, I'd take new decals and even a new cabinet over something that has faded artwork and beat up cab.
-Chris
In the end 10 old guys will own passed around originals and everyone else will own new and high quality restored .
This game looks amazing !!!
Quoted from High_End_Pins:To some but there are far more people that would like an unfaded,unbeaten cabinet than ones that meet the criteria.
Was this cabinet too nice to have been stripped and decaled ?
No it was obviously faded. I specified earlier "excellent original cab with excellent original artwork "....faded does not apply here 
Quoted from High_End_Pins:Was this cabinet too nice to have been stripped and decaled ?
No one's opinion matters but the guy who hired you, Chris. End of story.
Insanely beautiful game, BTW.
You're just mean Chris. I went downstairs earlier and I found my TOTAN sitting in the bathroom crying. I said what's wrong and it said "I'm not pretty". Thanks a lot for the self-esteem killer...
I'd LOVE a new set of decals! One side of my TOTAN looks fantastic. The other side has a big black spray painted area where some jackleg drove a forklift through at some point. Besides, you can shoot clear over the decals and you're pretty much golden, right?
Once again, nice work HEP!
Quoted from bjsilverballs:You're just mean Chris. I went downstairs earlier and I found my TOTAN sitting in the bathroom crying. I said what's wrong and it said "I'm not pretty". Thanks a lot for the self-esteem killer...
I'd LOVE a new set of decals! One side of my TOTAN looks fantastic. The other side has a big black spray painted area where some jackleg drove a forklift through at some point. Besides, you can shoot clear over the decals and you're pretty much golden, right?
Once again, nice work HEP!
I totally played your totan at Johns place last Halloween!
Excellent work as expected and above and beyond detail as we have all grown to love.
Thanks for sharing.
My TOTAN has been tore apart waiting on CPR to build the playfield we have all been waiting for all plating done and ready to go. I just now realized that I am ruining my restorations by refinishing cabinets and replacing decals (wait till I get ahold of the guy that charged me $700 for my IJ decals). I just finished up a MB with a cabinet from doug huse, but I still have the original cabinet semi faded with the factory CD bar drilled, it should be worth some $$$ maybe more that the new cabinet To each his own but I would rather have my games absolutely perfect in every way and to do that decals need to be done since I have never found an acceptable cabinet on any game I bought.
There are enough TOTANs out there to make purists and high end restoration buyers happy. It's a great looking game, I'm sure its owner will enjoy it!
Quoted from Lethal_Inc:What does HEP stand for?
High End Pin
Quoted from hwoolmore:I noticed the WPC serial sticker inside the cab was reprinted
Where can i find this!!!!
Harry
I want to know this too. There are a lot of stickers that seem to get replaced by HEP that I honestly have no idea where one could have gotten them, short of scanning them in place, and reprinting them.
Anyone?
I want to know this too. There are a lot of stickers that seem to get replaced by HEP that I honestly have no idea where one could have gotten them, short of scanning them in place, and reprinting them.
Anyone?
i emailed chris about this but got no response. he usually is very good about things like that as he helped me with parts for my funhouse. i hope to own a totan one day !
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