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Ahh, so that's what classrooms look like inside.

I always had to stand in the hall or outside the principals office.

I have already got my deposit down on DeLorean 2.0 (a.k.a. - Cybertruck).

Lol! In grade school two of us had desks in the hallway! We were allowed to start the day in class. We were kicked out to our hallway desks pretty quickly. In highschool I spent most days in the vice principal’s classroom on in school suspension. Same guy was in the classroom with me. Not really something to be proud of but it made me who I am.

Years 5 and 6 here (8-9yrs) i spent at a desk in the principals office doing my work the teacher sent out each morning. I had to leave the office every time he had a meeting or a phone call and stand out in the secretaries office till he opened the door.

Just because i made a swing at the teacher, wish i could've reached his chin back then.

It got worse from there....

That's awesome. Love the set and the Nintendo one too. Classics.

I keep humming and hah'ing about the jacked up Lego prices lately, so I don't have the Time Machine set yet. 'Cause, ya know, I'll go over and over whether I spend $200 on a Lego set or not... while seeming to have pretty quickly just up and spent about $50k on pinball machines in the past 2+ years. Priorities right? lol

Shouldn’t the speedometer go to 88mph.. Are they all like this?

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Yes. No speedos went over 85 mph at the time. "I can't drive 55"... gas crisis era and the government at the time thought that if the car didn't show speeds over 85 mph, then people wouldn't drive so fast and the vehicles would be better on gas.

Back to the Future used all kinds of movie magic for that sort of thing. The speedos got fudged... like an artist painted over the real numbers and shuffled the markings so it went higher and could show 88 mph. Watch closely to the mall chase scene when they show the speedo. Three times it is shown and you'll notice the odometer there too. It jumps around... 32,065 or something like that, then 31,950 and then back to 32,070. It took them more than one take to get it right and so spliced the footage together.

Not so sure Bob Gale and Robert Zemekis counted on people watching the movies 100 times on Bluray and being able to scrutinize the tiny details.

Marty bonks his head on the steering wheel at the end of the first movie as he is trying to get the stalled car to start when he's at the starting point on the road leading to the clock tower... and the horn goes off just as he does this? The horn button isn't in the steering wheel centre pad, it's on the turn signal stalk. You push it in to honk the horn.

Or the door pull straps... those were loose add-ons for the first 4,000 cars made and then built into the arm rest on the 5,000 or so cars after that. I think the engineers just forgot not everyone's arms are as long as JZD's were. The movie cars had the loose style. And in that mall scene where Doc is explaining how the car works, you can see the pull strap on the driver's door in three different ways. First time it's connected correctly, second scene it isn't there at all, and the third time it's tied in a knot instead of using the hoop. I figure Christopher Lloyd kept bumping into it in that scene and so had them remove it and then they forgot to put it back on the same way.

Tons of stuff like that. DeLorean stuff was hobby #1 until pinball came along. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

Yep, Prospector. It was actually the first pinball I bought. The pictures for the Pinside archive are of mine. Part of me wants to completely restore it, and another part wants to leave it be as is.

I've never got into the big hole or the 150, but I can get it into the 20s and left 80 hole pretty regularly. Let me know if you want any close ups or other pics.

And they are only 150hp, or so I have heard. Fun getting up those hills!

The 80s nostalgic signs and plates are awesome!
I'm a sign guy myself, great job!

Well, it looks pretty good as it is, so I'd opt for the leaving it route! The patina on those old games is worth keeping if it's not too excessive!

You put some pretty good pics up on the IPDB, so my curiosity about the game is very much satisfied with those thanks

Amazing playfield art! Lots of the pre-war games have either no or pretty boring artwork, but this is an exception!

I wonder how many of us pin guys own these?

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where the hell is this at? I'd buy another in a second for this price if it runs and drives.

eBay. Didn’t run or drive though.

If only a DeLorean could reach 88 mph. Wasn’t the original speed-o-meter maxed out at 85? That’ll never get you to 1993 to buy a TZ NIB.

yes the speedometers usually only go to 85, but i've had mine over 100 several times. My speedometer goes to 140 on the one I currently have.

A few, A guy in Houston has one. And it's mandatory to own a Data East Back to the Future pinball machine if you do.

no it isn't, because the BTTF machine is a pile of dog shit.

That’s why it’s being remade in 2023!

if it's made by JJP, it will be a pile of dogshit all over again. Time will repeat itself.

What makes you think JJP would have the license? It was a Data East property. Gary Stern has an autographed BTTF poster in his office. He dressed up as Doc Brown in a promotional ad. I think it’s safe to say Stern is all over it. Maybe with Kapow.

You could…. Cut the logos off the boxes and mount them on the wall

Green Acres in Midland, TX. Proud to be overseeing this delightful space. Always fun to play when no one is around

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DE also had the GNR license and look how the second one turned out. DE one is GOLD. JJP is version is trash.

Stern also had POTC......and then JJP made one.

So just because DE,SEGA or STern had a license...doesn't mean JJP isn't going to try for it.

So last night I’m playing pinball and my wife is like would you make a video? It takes like 10 tries because I don’t know the song. She then posted it and tagged Marco and Stern. Stern just shared it!

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Wow...someone doesn't like JJP

JJP doesn't like us. That's why it's our fault their playfields are crap.

if they actually made a good game, i'd be for it. But most of the games, the layout and rules suck. Most of the rules are overdone to the point, where there isn't a point. Every shot counts for something. All slop accepted. Too much shit, to the point where you just don't give a shit anymore. The only game they have that is somewhat intuitive is dialed in. And the layout just doesn't do it for me. POTC has a great look and layout. But the rules are so overdone, you just stop giving a shit about trying to figure anything out. GNR is a shitshow all around. When you use the inserts to do animations, instead of pointing you in the directions you are suppose to go....you have failed...and badly. There is a reason you see at last 20 GNRs for sale at any given moment.

In saying that, Hobbit is a great game for home.

I'm sorry i sold mine, but i was so disgusted with GnR that i couldn't bear it looking at me.

FuckJJPPunkin

Best spot in west Texas! Chosen_S

Two questions:

1. What is the story on that Neo Geo MVS? The scale looks off but it looks neat.
2. Is this a public location? I've got family out in San Angelo and would love another excuse to head up to Midland and get fat at the Barn Door.

It’s at Green Acres mini golf in Midland. I think it’s $15 for all you can play.

I see my post in that snapshot. Can we go back to talking about De Loreans again?

Are they 4 cyl or 6?

Dunno much about cars from the United States, cept i had a Chevy Rampside for a few years not long ago.

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Question for the slot machine owners. What do you use for stands? I'm picking up a Bally quarter slot this weekend with no stand and open to ideas. More unique the better. Have a couple beer/whiskey barrels I'm considering. Will have to be cut open and reinforced though to support weight