Twilight Zone
Bally, 1993Here's one TZ mod you probably don't have. This is original & slightly used (during testing) and will look great in your machine. Or maybe it won't since they never used blue and went with white. In any case this is a piece of TZ history you might be interested in.
Picture: http://imgur.com/3P3NJ
PM me with an offer if you are interested. I will not read this thread. Thanks for looking!
Quoted from pin-tastic:Price ??
It says make an offer.
I belong to another forum (i've been a member for two 2 years) and I still can't buy or sell there as they require 100 forum posts to do so.
Quoted from AHinton:I will not read this thread ...
???
That's a rather odd thing to say in the first post of your own thread.
Quoted from AkumaZeto:its worth a few hundred or more.
then he should take it to ebay where auctions belong.
To me it is worth $1.
Is there any documentation that there is indeed a blue proto powerball? First I am hearing about it.
Quoted from shlockdoc:Is there any documentation that there is indeed a blue proto powerball? First I am hearing about it.
lawlor talks about it often
If this is worth a few hundred bucks then I am going to buy a bunch of white ones and dye them blue.
"Blue Balls for everyone!!"
Yes there are. I believe Pat gave some out at Expo at some point. I was offered one about 4 years ago but was putting money elsewhere. If legit it is probably worth 3-500. If someone else can reproduce them it is worth about 100, just MO of course.
I think it would be much harder to track the blue on the playfield. I'm guessing that's why they went with white instead.
That is actually pretty cool. I don't think you can dye ceramic - but hey, I'm all in for a blue ball!
Quoted from Whysnow:"Blue Balls for everyone!!"
no thanks.
people will just post up offers, to the guy who registered today. where he can get market value then come back under his real name, or put the reserve on fleabay after we price it out for him.
only be good if we all offer less then to bucks for it.
I guess I should clarify.
I'm not going to monitor this thread looking to debate what it's worth nor can I answer any questions about it. I'm not going to put this on eBay. I would have done so already if I wanted to do that. I'm looking to quietly and anonymously sell this item. If you don't want to make an offer then I understand. If you want to bid $1 go for it. I tried selling this on gamesforum.ca earlier this year but nobody answered me.
Thanks.
Quoted from gweempose:I think it would be much harder to track the blue on the playfield. I'm guessing that's why they went with white instead.
Exactly. TZ has a dark playfield and the blue powerball almost disappears when it is in play.
LTG 
Yep, read an article on this yesterday. Apparently, with the kind of ceramic they used, only two colors were possible during production. Blue and white. The reason they went with white WAS because the blue was hard to see on the playfield, but not TZ's! They had a WH20 in a more complete stage of production that was ready to go to a show(like a vendor expo kinda thing) and they tried out the blue ball in the WH20. As you can imagine, it was very hard to see against WH20's dark blue playfield. It was then decided to use the white ball across the board and the white one went into production.
Neat history, don't think I'd want one, though. I would never use it and I don't need trophies.
It most definitely disappears into the artwork ... this is a shot taken at pinball expo (many many years ago) ...
I remember Jonathan Deitch being awarded a blue powerball for being (at the time) the biggest supporter and tech helper of TZ. Mid 90's I believe it was? Anyway, everyone was pretty congratulatory yet envious of Jonathan at the same time
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