Jacks Open.

Never see one around here.

Some of the add-a-ball titles are tough to find even here in NY, because of the lower production numbers. Still want to find me a nice "Gold Strike" without having to take out a second mortgage.
Oddly, I've seen more "Pleasure Isle" machines for sale over the years than the replay version "Paradise". "Bowling Queen" and "Rack a Ball" seem to be fairly easy to find lately.

"Sky Line" is another game that I once thought was rather scarce, but they seem to be popping up everywhere lately.

proof that location matters... sing along's don't seem to show up around here often at all... there are a few others on my "wish list" that don't pop up often either... nice examples of "bon voyage" seem to exist everywhere except within 500 miles of me...

whereas my target pool found me (thanks boilerman!)...

i agree that jacks open almost never shows up... i got mine off of a cl seller who started at 3000 and eventually got down to 300 (yes, it was a wreck)... but we never see those posted in the cl or ebay threads...

Most of the early 60s Williams games seem very hard to come by.

Lets see for EMs in DFW all I see that is plentiful are the following titles...
So what I am trying to say is anything that is worth a damn hardly comes up and when it does there are 40 vultures waiting with wings spread.

Bank-A-Ball (there are a rash of them)
Sing Along (again...there have been a rash of beaters of this title.)
1960's 4 player Gottlieb "C game" turds in rough condition.
1970's Williams "pointy people games" for 200 dollars that rot on CL.

This is the extent of what can be found EM wise in DFW area at any given time. 850 dollars for a F$%^g "Student Prince" 700 for a Toledo *eye roll*

dallas.craigslist.org link

I know where one is, but the owner won't sell it, so I might as well NOT know where one is...

Actually i perch on the lamppost. Easier and quicker to divebomb

--Jeff

gonna have to try that, as we have no shortage of vultures here in nj (counting myself amoungst them )....

I found a picture of way2wyrd in action.

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fortunately, we don't have too many black vultures around here... although more and more of them have been showing up...

up here we are turkey vultures...

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yeah we have a ton of those in Austin. Actually beautiful birds. you never realize how big they are untill youre up close

--jeff

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We've passed on several local Central Parks just waiting for the right Hurdy Gurdy to come along. I always thought Hurdy Gurdy was rarer due to it being an AAB but, I was wrong, they made more Hurdy Gurdys than Central Parks. I just don't see them too often here in replay happy southern California.

they are indeed nice looking and large birds... it's always cool to see a big bunch of them clustered together, especially right after they have fed and they are just hanging out*... makes them easy to observe and watch them interact...

* ok, it's more cool to watch them feed... what can i say, i'm a sick human being...

yea, i would think aab's would be as rare as hen's teeth in cali... they aren't even all that common in states that adjoin aab states...

Well, we're still looking for that Hurdy Gurdy (ROAD TRIP!!!) but we recently lucked out on a Jacks Open when a buddy finally found a Lucky Hand here in California. We also have a Ship Ahoy found locally so we know there are AABs to be found. (crossing fingers for that Hurdy Gurdy...)

That's because between you and me, we bought them all!

It seems like there is always a Lucky Hand for sale in Wisconsin.

I thought they were all in Connecticut. That's where all of the east coast ones seem to come from.

I agree that 1960s WMS EMs are hard to find.
That is part of the reason that i have sought them out
and my collection has a very heavy dose of 60s WMS EM pins.
There is one that i am still waiting to see in the flesh
and that is a WMS Whoopee (4P),
its not that they are that low of production (IPDB says 2075 units),
just have never seen one in person.
WMS Reserve is also kinda rare, only have seen my buddy Sam's game.
The GTB EM pin "NOW" is kinda rare, seems most are European re-imports.
Also do not see many Bally KickOff/Quarterback pins.

Your profits go Whoopeeeeeeee.....

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I would say just about any nice EM is hard for me to find right now.

That Sure Shot looked pretty nice. What happened to it?

All of the better titles are extremely hard to find here in Edmonton. If one pops up on Kijiji its gone in a few hours. Less popular EM's, or beat up pins, can be on there for a month or two. Here the pinball prices are higher than other areas.

Some guy bought it for the 795 dollars 3 days ago and now he wants to flip it for 1300 dollars and won't budge from his price.

Gottlieb Atlantis for me.

Still patiently waiting for a Bally Starjet to surface within driving range

true, they never pop up around here... i wonder where they all went?

actually, that is pretty much true for most of the "popular" wedgies... "we" (speaking for the jersey contingent) seem to have a reasonable number of gtb multi-player games show up, and a fair share of "fun, but not the popular" wedgies show up as well, but ones like "atlantis" are rather rare... for example, you can find target alpha's all over the place, but good luck finding an el dorado...

we seem to have a "reasonable" number of 60's wms machines, but not a lot... we also seem to have quite a few 70's wms games...

Daisy May - anywhere!

Craigslist here is ok. You have to search each category for pinball in, games, or collectables, or video games. Kijiji has a ad page for pinball, and is easier to navigate.

I know where there is one...............................

Ken

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Here in DC/MD/VA, seems like all I see for the most part are 70s Williams games... one of the biggest distributors of pins in our area, was extremely frugal, so my theory is that he wasn't going to pop on any old Gottlieb, although I do remember seeing more and more of them in the mid 70s.

The Gottliebs that he routed seemed to be out on location forever.... I remember seeing a Royal Guard and a Sing Along at a department store that he serviced all the way up to the late 70s. 10+ years in the field back then was pretty rare, at least in our neck of the woods. Bally 60s games - very rarely see them either... I'd love to see some stats on the distribution of Bally EMs from the 60s... I don't remember seeing any Bally EMs from that time period... weird.

Interesting that Snow Queen/Snow Derby was discussed; I've only seen 1 for sale here since I've been in the hobby, starting way back in 1988. And woodrails - most of my leads for those come out of Western Maryland/West VA areas.

Nice work bench!

So when they were producing that game, was everyone at the Williams plant making Whoopee?

I can top that!

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Mine was like that for awhile.

I have been looking for that machine for 20 years.. only seen one sold in that time.

it was the first pin I remember playing and I played everyday for a whole year

it took me 2 years to find a nice flying carpet, was a hard title to find local. I had 5 atlantis' over the last 3 yrs.
the only other title I want that I can not find is strange world...

they don't even need to be local I would ship a star jet and strange world but can't find them

There was a Strange World on Rockford Craigslist last year for $200. I didn't pursue it. Rockford is fairly close but I knew at that price it would be gone quick.

There were three at one of the Allentown shows several years ago. I used to see them on location here in NY state back in the day. A few years ago my brother picked up a really nice one at a garage sale. It now resides at the Silverball Museum.

And it was. I wasn't able to jump on it quickly enough either.

Pretty sure the line forms here.