Brewster, NY
Check out www.backtothearcade.com Great Bally and Williams signs and cool"play pinball" stuff.Something for the video game guys as well. Check it!!!Scott
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Oh yeah, these are awesome and priced more reasonably than I expected. I'll order one as soon as my funds recover from my latest pin splurge!
I would rather have my signs done in EL wire, just for safety's sake... (cheaper/cooler too!) You never know if/when a sauced individual's arm could go flying into to one of those bad boys, breaking the neon. 
Hey nutshell, they have a Ballys and a Williams sign on there.they do custom stuff as well.I'm glad you guys like it.I'm definitely gonna get one just haven't decided which one yet!!Scott
Quoted from kwiKimart:I definitely want the Williams, Bally, and Data East signs.
How cool is it that they even have a Data East sign?
this guy that runs back to the arcade gets alot of his neon from a guy oversees named GU. the dude sells on ebay under different names (ill have to find one of his auctions). gu is the man when it comes to all things custom. i bought my recognizer neon from him last year for $80 bucks and its awesome. alot of the times on ebay he doesnt list the exact names of the signs (for fear of disney and other co's coming after him).
ill have to find his info and post it here asap.... its a great way to save some $$ and cut out the middle man 
oh wow... looks like gu's prices went up a bit. but he still sells the recognizer neon ... code name "custom tank neon"
the good thing is its free shipping and if you do get a cracked neon in the mail, he will replace it for you.
3 weeks later
Hey guys.. thanks for the mention of my company. I've been working with the manufacturer Endofthe line mentioned for a while now to bring a lot of cool arcade inspired designs to the market beside the standard "Game room" and "Arcade" neons you see on ebay. I'm a fellow pinhead I have a
Black Hole, F14, Haunted House, Space Station, and a Dr Who in my basement + a ton of vids.. (mainly vectors). I'll offer up a special.. any pinsider who orders gets upgraded to free Air shipping. That cuts down the delivery time from 15-21 days to 7-12 days. Just note it in the order comments you are a fellow pinsider and I'll hook you up.
- Mike
I must have the williams sign at some point.
http://www.backtothearcade.com/index.php/products/williams-neon-sign
Yes, those are cool. It is hard to find pinball related neons. I have been using a Craigslist app for the last year to find a neon sign for my gameroom. 99.9% of what is for sale seems to be beer related. Mostly Bud/Coors/Lite etc. I hate beer and have not had one ounce in at least 25 years. I have been looking for something to do with Tequila, wine, or gameroom related. Recently I came across two nice ones that I picked up. The big one from 5 Rivers winery is huge compared to the ones on this site and has a backlit panel. It had to have been $500+ when it was new. It also came with a dimmable transformer, which I have found is very important. Most bigger neon signs are very bright when you put them in your house. Too bright to be over or near a pinball machine. I have retrofitted the smaller sign with a dimmer too. Dimming a neon is easier said than done. The new neons have electronic power supplies that simply cannot be dimmed like the old-school transformers could. You have to actually replace the transformer with one that contains a dimmer.
John
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