Anyone know if the Lost World plastics have the same mounting holes as the original? Those look awesome!

I have a set of the blue ones that I would be interested in trading only for a control room plastic. PM me if you have an extra control room. Thanks.

I personally think the orange ones fit with the color scheme of the playfield better IMO.

If i still had mine, I would have totally traded you. IME the orange ones are harder to find than the blue ones.

I'll trade a set of blues with a nickel-sized chunk (basically flush with the center of the bottom screw) missing from the right slingshot for a set of Lost World sling plastics.

Let me know if you want a picture.

Nope. I'm usually the bearer of bad news on all "want to buy/trade JP plastics" threads, but was hoping someone would be able to help you. There are no JP plastics to be found. I've been actively looking for my own machine since last June, and have replied on at least a dozen threads of people looking for all of them, some of them, one in particular (usually the Control Room) etc... and nobody has found them. Occasionally there will be someone that says some obscure company across the oceans has one set available, but nobody can ever seem to actually find them. No reproductions were made, and nobody is willing to speak up or give up originals if they do have them.

I've never dealt with these guys. Here's a link for you:
http://www.pinballuniverse.com/jurassicparts.htm

Dang, great price if they're in stock.

Please let us know. I'd like to order a set to replace mine, and perhaps another set for trade bait. I'm still tempted by those Lost Worlds...

Would someone please repro the DE JP plastics? Especially the control room plastic!

Well, I just recently got a JP. Luckily it came with blue slingshots in good condition. I've ordered a set of orange ones which seem to be easier to find.

I agree that repros would be awesome.

My machine has a busted control room plastic, too. I've got a CNC machine and can use it to reproduce the shapes in plexiglass or PETG. These can be used as protectors for sure, but I haven't done much experimenting with printing out decals to apply to the plastics and make my own repros.

Anyone have scans of the plastics? Looking at old threads, it seems like some were available at one point.

Jim

I just ordered a set myself. They are repros but look fine to me. http://mad-amusements.com/product.php?id_product=412

If someone could get me a good high res picture of the plastic and the dimensions I would be more than willing to try and clean it up and see if I can get a nice one to print. I've been able to recreate several plastics that have come out real nice as long as their isn't a lot of clear in them. Just haven't figure out how to get rid of the glue haze 100% just yet. I have some lexan so could cut it, print the decals and if it comes out nice enough send to someone to test out.

At this point, I'd take anything for the Control Room plastic because mine is completely missing.

I've heard rumors CPR might do repro JP plastics.

I'd be interested in a control room plastic too. Please, someone should be able to make some scans of JP plastics, you'd sell a lot me thinks.

Of course CPR would be the way to go if they end up making them, but I would probably like something a bit better than the broken one I have in the mean time.

If we can get a good scan, specifically of the control room plastic, it sounds like there are a couple people willing to take a stab at reproducing something.

If anyone has scans they're willing to share, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim

Is this the plastic you are talking about and is it close to what it's supposed to look like? I played with it a bit last night off a pic I found on the web.

Having a good high res pic will make things much better but I think this will print out pretty nice. I really need to know the dimensions though before I can make a test plastic. If someone could trace their plastic on a standard sheet of paper and send me a pic of that it should get me pretty close.

jp_control_room_copy.jpg

That is the plastic. Hopefully someone can provide measurements as mine is missing!

I can do a trace today if I can round up some graph paper.

That would be perfect. No promises but I'll do my best to help ya'll out. It wont be perfect but hopefully will be better than nothing assuming I can get it to print nicely.

Do the image look about right too as in the coloring and clarity? All I could find were some grainy picks but memory is fuzzy on this title. For some reason I was thinking that the factory plastics had a bit of a blur to them.

Here's the best image I can find of it online with it in the game:
http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1343&picno=52685&zoom=1

It's the one wrapping around the lower right pop bumper. I'd say in real life it is brighter than your image... but it's hard to tell how that image you have would transfer over when printed.

Mine is broken into 3 pieces and looks like crap all glued together.

I'd start a different thread to talk about the control room plastic. I started one a while ago about it.

Mine is broken also, and missing a big chunk. Maybe this picture helps a bit for size. Every block is 1 cm.

controlroomplastic.jpg

the METRIC SYSTEM?!?!?!

If anyone has an unbroken control room plastic it really isn't hard to create a vector version that could be laser cut. The one goalzzz posted was helpful with the grid, but it's pretty busted up. A dead on from above photo with anything in it for scale reference (a quarter or nickel or something would be fine) would do it if you don't have a scanner.

The artwork is kind of tricky, because that gets into licensing, but I suppose it wouldn't be a problem to make something roughly close that didn't tread on the copyright, and people could print and glue it to the bottom of the laser-cut piece. Better than nothing until CPR or someone steps up.

I don't have a JP to test this on, but I tried to rough up a vector version from the various photos. The scale should be pretty close, but it's hard to find a dead on shot to trace. Someone with a JP want to grab this PDF, print it and cut it out, and see how it fits?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/227626/Shared/jp-control-room.pdf

Looks like this, but don't print the jpeg, it's not to scale, use the PDF:

jp-preview.jpg

this better for the artwork? Been redoing it today.

controlroomplastic_copy.jpg

That looks to be right on. If you create some of these please let me know as I would be interested. Thanks! Great job.

If you're trying to copy the original, your image is missing the yellows and some detail to the bottom right.

Also note that all of the colors are solid. There is no blending. I can see where you've got some yellows in there, but they look blended with the green.

I think you'd be better served waiting for someone to provide a scan. Mine is busted, or I would.

Jim IMG_20130829_145002.jpg

I think the outlines that others have shown are missing a hole. If it wasn't broken, I think mine would have 4 holes.

Check this picture that was posted on IPDB (Edit, I see someone already linked to it, but it still applies):
http://www.ipdb.org/images/1343/image-31.jpg

It has a hole for a clear post. Mine has a clear post in it. Also compare the artwork detail I was pointing out on mine to that on this picture.

Just a note on the control room plastic: It doesn't have a light that shines through it.

I spent some time cutting out the shape on my CNC machine and then hand painted blacks, and airbrushed the other colors. It came out looking pretty good, but light didn't shine through it well since I was using mostly opaque paints. I was happy to discover after installing it, that there aren't any bulbs under this plastic anyway.

I also added a larger clear piece underneath for protection.

Unfortunately my way of doing it isn't quickly repeatable, so there's no way I would be able to produce these for others. The easiest method of producing these faster would be to glue a printout or decal to the plastic. I tried with a few printouts and couldn't get colors I was happy with.

Jim

IMG_20130830_081358.jpg

May be interested in a protector for this plastic in the distant future when I do my JP.

winteriscoming - fyi - I think your ball gate is installed backwards.

Is it!? That's how it came when I bought the game. I can see in other pics of the game that mine is backwards! Good catch. I never thought about it. This will dramatically change the way the game plays for me since I think when a ball is launched, it bounces off of the gate and goes to the upper right flipper and most of the time into the power shed.

Thanks!

Jim

The ball should go right into the pops.......
Then about 10% of the time SDTM (seems like it)

Sounds like your solenoid may be weak. Try cleaning it to see if it gives it that extra umph to get it to where it should be.

As for the control room plastic. If I can get someone to confirm the Aurich made fits I'll make a couple of these plastics this weekend with my art and send it to a couple of people to try out. The decal paper I use is about $10 a sheet so don't want to print anything until I know I've got the decal close.