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WTB BBB tube dancer

By zr11990

7 years ago



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#5 7 years ago
Quoted from xTheBlackKnightx:

"BB Barbara", an unlicensed remake

So do you know where the licensed dancer is being sold commercially?

#7 7 years ago
Quoted from xTheBlackKnightx:

If you want an original, they are still floating around, but so have not check lately.
Or you can go here:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/bb-barbara#post-3667248
I would do it quickly before PPS shuts them down with a CDL.

Good luck finding one of these floating around and if there is any good luck also getting it before someone else. The problem is if they send a CDL then the CDL sender should have that product available for sale otherwise people that need those unobtainable parts are left with no options to keep these pins functional. Instead of sending a CDL maybe they should ask to buy the item being sold then resell it themselves.
If you had a $15k to $20k pin and the dancer was broken there were none available for several years and those owners that had a WTB ad here where out there for years.

#9 7 years ago

xTheBlackKnightx
BB Barbara came about because a pin owners dancer was twisted and we helped him by redoing it so that is why she came to be so it basically almost paid for the process to redo her and then one additional ordered one paid for the supplies so to recoup our time we posted her for others who may need her. I think we nailed the process but took 3 generations of the model and 4 generations of the molds to get acceptable results if not really good quality Barabaras. If we invested several thousands to do injection molding would have been best but for these hand made to sell to a few works. We did have to buy a vacuum chamber and pump to get the air out of the molding material and casting material which has given us a really smooth finished product and no bubbles in the final casting. I have had smooth on distributers calling me for business since we ordered tons of casting and molding materials and colorings first only through the company web site. Our pricing is going to somewhat expensive but will be cheaper than trying to find an original somewhere somehow a and will be due to trying to make a flexible durable toy and have it function properly and not break. The hardest part was in the final casting when we originally got air bubbles, missing hands or feet or poor detail, no mouth, nose or ears, Barbara is tiny at around 5 inches tall and to try to get any detail which we did I think is amazing using this process.

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