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Original Dancing Girl Mold from BBB Remake Illinois Pinball

By Troy

1 year ago



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#1 1 year ago

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Original Dancing Girl Mold from BBB Remake Illinois Pinball

Added: 2022-08-19 18:39:44 UTC • Ended: August 19th, 2022
Condition: Used, good condition

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$ 750 (OBO)

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I believe Gene had this made in his effort to recreate the Dancing Girl for the BBB Remake. I picked this up in Bloomington, Illinois a couple years ago. Would make a nice conversation piece for the BBB collector. It is a heavy flexible rubber mold.


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#2 1 year ago

Or maybe the paper weight collector too?

John

#3 1 year ago

Yes its possible. But Someone will probably want this.....maybe.

#4 1 year ago
Quoted from Dayhuff:

the paper weight collector

can use a garden rock as a paperweight as opposed to a $750.00 chuck of rubber

#5 1 year ago
Quoted from transprtr4u:

can use a garden rock as a paperweight as opposed to a $750.00 chuck of rubber

Yes but it wouldn't be as cool.

John

#6 1 year ago

Um..if this can be used to make new dancers it's worth more...like a lot more.

#7 1 year ago

From the Gene Cunningham Interview: "When Pigs Flew" Next, Cunningham went about tracking down most of the original part creators for the machine. Often companies will use other manufacturers to create parts for a pinball machine. Cunningham was able to find many of them and get them to recreate the originals for his new table.

While the process seemed to be fraught with obstacles, Cunningham went into the details of just one of them: the dancing girl.

The back of Big Bang Bar's playfield is occupied, in part, by a big, plastic, see-through tube. Inside the tube is what appears to be either a nude or bikini-clad dancing girl. But Cunningham couldn't figure out how to recreate the showpiece toy or where they were made.

The problem was that he needed the original cast to make a mold of the figure, which could then be used to create the rubber figures.

"I MADE MY MIND UP THAT IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. IT COST ME A LOT OF MONEY, BUT I KNEW I COULD DO IT."
"I looked around and around and I couldn't find anybody," he says as he pulls out the figure from a pocket. "I don't remember the name of the company, but I found one that made toys. So I took the one out of my machine, the green one like this; this might even be the original one I took with me. I don't know. Because, see, she danced; she wiggled. So I went to different companies. 'No we can't do that.' So I went to another toy company. Finally the third toy company I went to, I sat at the guy's desk and I said, 'I understand you make molds' and I showed him one like this in the green. And I said, 'I want to make these, but everyone says they can't make them.' He said, 'Well, Gene, just wait a bit' and he went back in his back room and came out with the solid one, not the mold but the solid one and said, 'Will this help you?' I said, 'Yes, thank you very much.' I didn't ask anymore."

Cast of the figure in hand, Cunningham was able to get a mold made and eventually create all of those wiggly, rubber tube dancers.

#8 1 year ago

I think if your actually going to use the mold for making more then it's worth it for sure. Just my opinion.

John

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