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The lost Kingpin is found!! We all know eight Kingpins exist. Seven of them are more or less accounted for but one of them has remained hidden until now so I'll call this one number eight. It's been in storage and unplayed since before the year 2000. When I took the backglass off a little tag with a number "8" written on it fell out so maybe this one is production number eight.
The condition is incredible. Playfield is like glass. There is no shooter lane wear. Pop bumper biscuits are like day one. Cabinet is 99% with just one teeny tiny scrape on one side of the backbox. It even has an original keychain plastic. This thing plays lightning fast. The Capcom flippers make Bally/Williams games fell antique. Ramp shots are so fast you can't see the ball. Audits tell the story. Game shows only 97 plays. Shooter lane and playfield drain have absolutely no wear so I believe it. I gave it a good basic cleaning, put in new balls and flipper rubber and that's it. It has zero errors and plays like it just came out of the box. Here's a full photo set, Enjoy the pictures!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mike217/sets/72157652935416630

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I'll try it again:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mike217/sets/72157653317421042

Album has 48 pictures.

Reloaded:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mike217/sets/72157652935416630

Not much to tell. It was owned by a collector who was very private. He bought in the late 90's and tucked it away until now. It's cool that there are some collectors like this otherwise we would never be able to find a hidden treasure. It's nice to know there are still some awesome finds out there.

No plans yet, have to enjoy it for awhile first.

Yes. It's new home is near Boston.

Good eyes, I haven't installed them yet after transport.

I will work on that. I never bought a video camera but finding someone to shoot some video shouldn't be a problem.

Believe it or not, yes. The last one we had was supposed to go to Gene at Illinois Pinball for him to use as a model for making a Kingpin reproduction. We held that Kingpin for Gene for two years but unfortunately it didn't happen. The pictures of KP and BBB used on Genes flyers were both my machines at the time. Gene said a reproduction KP could not be made without a donor Kingpin to serve a s a model because he didn't have the tooling or parts to reproduce the Hotel Lex assembly.

No, definitely no response.

LOL, just call me PINdiana Jones.

Because that question is just rude and belongs on the following list:

1. How much did you make last year?
2. How much do you have saved ?
3. Do you have any naked pictures of your wife? No? Want to see some?

I emailed Rick at Planetary Pinball to see if he was interested since they have the Capcom rights now. He said he would let me know if and when the time comes.

I would like to see Kingpin remade. It's too good of a game not to. If PPS would buy it I would like to see the project proceed. If someone else snaps it up first then at least I gave them the chance. I have received some very tempting offers. I'd buy a repro in a heartbeat for my arcade but am afraid to put the original on location.

Yes, it was right here.

That is true, here is a lineup I shared with the Boston Pinball Association many years ago at one of my open houses:

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Fill me in on the process, I have no idea of what this would involve. PM is fine if it's lengthy.

Refresh my memory, please. I'm sorry but I forget if I did plastics in Joust or not. It was many years ago. If I did I must have been happy with them because I don't remember any issues.

Hey Dan, great to hear from you. Wow, you got me thinking about the "old days" So I scrounged up some more old pics. So long ago but so many great memories. I wish I took one of the ice cream truck we had in the driveway for the day or the 20 lb roast beef I cooked for you guys. Hard to believe we had 60 to 70 pinheads over at a time.
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Plonk, you have achieved troll status. You got a polite answer and now you're being confrontational. Please start your own "Kingpin value" thread if you feel the need but that is not the topic of this thread.

And for the record I am not disclosing price as a courtesy to any potential future owner. It will be up to them to share what they paid publicly or not. I will not put them in position of being accused of overpaying or underpaying or whatever.

Exactly, my post was intended to be humorous not hostile. The naked picture joke was a line from a movie and I thought it was funny. Your assumption that I am bragging is also a misunderstanding. Sharing is not bragging and I was sharing. If you took it any other way you misread it.

Yay!

Nope, just a pinhead who will open his doors to any other true pinhead and pour him a monster martini just for showing up. Sorry if that concept offends you.

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Hah, that's my rescue Casper. She always gets to shoot first, house rules. Hope you get to stop by someday. Casper pours a wickeda$$ martini.