It's interesting how BGs can fade and look better.. love that White wizard look!

TWINKY!... The only issue with CC IMO is that the parts can be more difficult to find... the games themselves play very fast and the rules are quite fun.

I actually got one of these working with my son, had a lot of fun with it.

There is a sibling version of it (gunsmoke?) where the same animation is used only instead of the peacock, it is smoke clouds for a gunslinger theme.

There is a guy in the East coast who had a twinky parts machine I was able to buy some parts from.. if one of you grabs this, I can send you his contact if you need any mechs... but this is actually a very fun game.

Well, it came out a year earlier, and does not have the post save. Curious tho, if you know how the gunsmoke timing button works? I was not able to see the same track mechanism that twinky uses? This track mech that kicks a physical ball is quite interesting.. as when you have it cleaned up and working well, it actually makes hitting the animated score feature quite challenging (before servicing it, I could hit the 500 every time.. but after, it became quite challenging and fun).

Coin slots are probably worth that... but when it is cleaned up, it will be worth gold, b/c it is a fun classic with Backbox animation

Yeah.. those are cheap for sure. Just come up with a value for the visible parts to you, and make sure you add tax and auction fees.

Many people have heads for these things, I know I needed a Joker poker head, and am able to Frankenstein it together with a cleopatra parts cab I acquired.

The small sys1 transformer, which was the old reason to dread these, can be mitigated now with LED displays, so yeah.. if you have time and space, get it for the right price.. at best, you can bring one back.. at worst, people are always looking for sys1 parts

IMHO anyway.. I'd be all over these if I were closer.

More the opposite I find these days.. lol.. maybe peoples friends, but people chime in with great price.. wish I was closer.. Price police are shunned and banned. I just smile and keep scrolling

Wondering what bottom cab that is.. def not pro football.

Hope someone saves her from the coffee DIY platform. PF looks like it will clean up, actually pretty decent maybe since minimal wear near kickouts. System 1 head should be easy enough.

The topper bit is hilarious... trying to think of when backboxes became a thing, somewhere post-pre-war

Not a pin, but maybe interesting.

vancouver.craigslist.org link

Post has been lingering for a bit... all the pin projects from the listing seem to be gone, but this poor Sea Raider just sits apparently in the open
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Most of us want our kids to like pinball tho.

Yeah.. or someone in Aus should snap it up for sure!

Really cool tho.. thanks for sharing.

Great score.. make sure to adjust the flippers properly.. they are inline now, but they should be more like a cradle so you can better hit the spinner.

Also, look into hi-tap or beefier flipper coils and you have a winner IMHO!

meh.. vari-targets.. they are just decoration.

Set it up just like this:

Some real gems I've come across have been the product of stripping layers of custom paint to find perfect a original underneath. you never know

I guess it depends if you are bringing it back for you or for resale. One could say that about the majority of playfield swaps and so forth.. for someone who could not find a decent deal on this machine, it sure would be a great opportunity for elbow grease.

IDK, maybe more like 6+ yrs ago.. 3 yrs ago, this title was already on a lot of radars. I'm glad a local friend has one I can play once in a while, and glad these are on the radars so more can be saved.

Thanks for the update. pretty sad. Can't stand people who think they deserve to turn a profit or value when they do not even know how, or can't be bothered to properly store/itemize what there even is for sale. Wonder how frequently they go pending offers, meanwhile, the items and location become more dilapidated, high offer bidder probably looks and walks away, and the lot is then trashed.

Yup. xlations:

Not working = Just a switch or fuse

Turns on, but something wrong, probably a switch = Serious project

"Vintage Pinball everything is there and in tact.". lol.. pretty funny post in context with the photos.