Hey! I just acquired one. Took maybe 8 months to get. Tried to buy a few at about $200. Finally found one on CL a friend picked up for me. Just keep an eye out on Craigslist and let friends know..hopefully you find one!

It took me about 6 months to get a Marvel one on Craigslist. The seller was only asking $60 but after talking with her and hearing she just was getting divorced and money was tight I gave her $160.

I just gave one away. But Zizzle is a drain monster and just not fun. Not only that, they aren't are hardy as you would like (wear around rollover buttons after very few plays etc..). My daughter got bored with it real fast, but I have yet to ever hear the end of the complaints that I got rid of Party Zone (or that I should get another one).

I am getting a players condition WCS94 going for her from Xmas, and hopefully that fills the void, and it could be a good starter pin with a little depth for her to grow into.

I had the same thoughts as you with the Zizzle, but it turned out to be a dud, waste of time, money lost, and a space hog gathering dust.

Zizzles are only selling for big bucks on Flea Bay because buyers don't realize they aren't getting a real pin, and are either too embarassed to file a Pay Pal claim for being scammed, or don't know they can.

I say get a real pin for them later, or a consolized Neo-Geo if space is really a concern (my daughters favorite thing to play is our Neo-Geo arcade machine)

I wouldn't want a Zizzle after playing a real pin, and even kids can tell what sux and what doesn't too...

Bob C

PS - a day at your local amusement park would be a great gift and a big hit also

They just released a new one! Video posted today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xSOtNer0zbQ

What is a zizzle? My nizzle, fo shizzle

A 3/4 size pin with POTC or Marvel theme. For home use.

I bought a NIB POTC zizzle on CL for $80. It is what it is and worth every penny of $80 but not much more. I put it in my kid's BR and he loves to brag/think that he owns his own pinball machine. He's 7

I have a Marvel Heroes vs Villains i am thinking of listing on Ebay.
I am in CT also so maybe we could work something out without any shipping.
The potc seem to sell for a little less. let me know if you would like to talk about it.

space hog....?

i am looking for one as well ! don't care which title, my little one needs a pinball table in his room so he could be just like daddy! Feel free to PM me , thanks...

why don't you just look for a home edition fireball, or a wico circus? I see these go for between $150-$400, and it would be closer to a real pinball than a zizzle

I have seen about 5 or 6 of these pop up locally; POTC mainly.

Hmmm. I wonder what the price point of this pin will be in 6 months. I thinking this may be a large loss for Stern.

We have 2. The biggest issue with them is the plunger. Both plungers have broken and fixing them is a pain in the ass.

I actually find them to be fun games. My kid likes his, but it took some modding. I popped in a post between the flippers, and one at the top of each lane. His Marvel machine is decked out with LEDS and figures. *Shrug* I paid $40 for his Pirates machine.

all I could find was this WTF?
ebay.com link: Super Heroes Zizzle Prototype Free Standing Pinball Machine w Coin Token Timer

boston.craigslist.org link

I'm not trying to be dramatic or anything, but I think these Zizzle machines are a complete joke, and a spectacular waste of money if you have to pay more than $60 for one. The fact that people are paying loads of money for these things is just absolutely mystifying.

I had given them the benefit of the doubt and had nothing negative to say, but after playing a couple of them, holy shite... They're just god-awful cheap, damn-near unplayable on any level, and seem like an excellent way to turn kids OFF of pinball.

Stern's new little machines seem like a MUCH better product for getting kids into pinball, but yeah...those things fail on price.

Congrats! How do you like it?

I modded my kids a couple of ways that really helped take care of the drain situation... of course I had an extra machine to rape parts from. But you CAN take a post out from just below the 3 pop bumpers and install it between the flippers. That made the biggest difference. I also put one at the top of each outlane to help kick balls out, and I actually put one right at the very top in between the two lanes, which helps collecting that goal easier.

I haven't replaced any of the buttons on my machine, but I expect that microswitch buttons would work.

*I* think it's a pretty fun game to play, and so don't my kids. I've beaten it, but it's not as easy as one might think. I definitely wouldn't be paying 500 anything for one, but I picked one up for $40 a bit ago, and its well worth it.

Are the big orange rubbers on that video for tournament play?

They just sold a Zizzle Marvel on Ebay for OVER $300.00!
It even had a couple problems.
I'd say you got a great deal. People aren't believing it but
the Zizzle Pinballs are going up up up! True Story!

I just bought one for 20.00 off CL. Had the plunger issue. I had to modify the spring to make it work. Was harder to repair than some of my EM barn finds. It's definitely cool for kids in the 8 and under range. Good starter to get kids ready for the real thing.

What city did you find a Zizzle pinball for sale? I've been checking
CL in every city in Georgia for months and haven't seen ANY listed.
Is that a good deal to buy a $20.00 pinball in California and then drive
to Miami, Florida to pick up all the broken pieces?
Jeesh, the details people leave off!
If it's a broken plunger, then that might be tricky to make a permanent fix
but if it's the spring, it's a piece of cake! Not to mention your child
is having more fun with his own machine and parts are so much
cheaper than the full-sized machines! Zizzle is the way to go for kids!
Easy to work on too unless you have an extra set of chromosomes.

You did WHAT to your kids? Those poor kids!

What an awesome gift, those kids will be so excited! You're a cool uncle

It's only a drain monster if you don't know how to play it!
My five-year-old son can't stop playing POTC, and he has a blast!
Plus, no problems with the machine at all.
Of course, that's a boy's game. Sorry, no Sugar Plum Fairies
or Barbie on POTC. It's too fun for that girlie stuff!!

Man! All you guys forget how little it takes for a kid to have fun unless you already spoiled them with high-dollar, high-repair-cost expensive machines. I bet you will buy them a new Ferrari on their 16th birthday too. Quit making excuses about blaming kids when you know you just want the Big-Ticket machine for yourself. Zizzle is GREAT for kids!!

I'm reading all these reviews on the Zizzle and no one has anything positive to say about them. I guess I'm the first to post anything positive. I'm 38 and I own to zizzles. I also own two-full size pins and Sterns Transformers the pin. The pin is an amazing machine it is very fun to play. I have a marvel and POTC Zizzle which the pics can be seen on Facebook. The first thing to remember is the Zizzle is not a pinball machine it's a toy. However if you mod the playfield add some nice artwork to the sides and put real pinball parts in the machine these toys are a blast to play. These machines are what influenced me to play pinball and start my personal collection.

I purchased a Zizzle POTC off of CL for $80 last summer, from the original owners who got it for their grandkids when they came over, but got rid of it because they were too old for it. I then spent a few more dollars in parts (eg. added better flipper buttons, flipper bats and flipper rubber, etc...) and additional LEDs, toys and blinged it up. I also cleared the play field with about 4 layers and polished it up. I also added additional posts to the two side drains and the center drain to keep it from being too frustrating.

It was given to my sister's two boys, 3 & 6 years of age, this past Christmas. I'm not sure how much my two nephews are playing it, but the elder one was over here a couple of weeks ago and his pinball skills are much, much better. He's now using the flippers independently, and I can see him aiming for shots now. He's only been over my house three times since the Zizzle. I wish I had taken pictures of it, maybe when I'm over my sister's place again I will post it in this thread.

I think it's worth getting a cheap Zizzle pin for the younger crowd in the hopes of developing the younger generation's interest in pinball.

Care to share how you cleared it and with what? Also what flipper bats and rubbers you used? Having a hell of a time making ours better.

Syco

simpler(?) to try first.. move the coil forward or back 1/16" to see if changing the plunger/coil startpoint might help them hit a little harder. not deep enough could be making them mushy, or too deep making them slowish. I'll admit it right now too that I AM just guessing (and maybe right?). these units were mass produced slammed together, something 1-2mm off wouldnt have been noticed in production, but might be why-how your flippers are TOO weak?
no cost but a little effort experimenting with coil-plunger start position/relationship.
(hell, if it works.. sorry I didnt think of it a long time ago!)

check plunger pull angle and plunger puller angle stuff too while there, any kinking or binding in any of the stroke causing plunger to drag in its sleeve? small adjustments to where the coil casing is planted might (finally!) get your stuff working better, I hope.

I found this website and followed most of the mods that he suggested. The hardest part was drilling out the two flipper buttons so that better arcade type buttons could be fitted, and then rewiring them, which made the game play so much better. You obviously have take all the tiny screws from the bottom so that panel can be remove to access the electronics. I didn't take any pictures as I went along, unfortunately. I really didn't think modification of a Zizzle would be that popular.

See this blog site:
http://zizzlepinballmods.blogspot.com/

Did not even consider trying that.

Already did all of these but looking for more.

it didnt occur to me either for never having the problem myself, but the startpoint depth of plunger in coil-sleeve can very likely affect strength and speed. a friends HvsV has a somewhat mushy left flipper, really hard to make the ramp on the right side..
what if my latest guess is IT? I can see how coil mech could have been planted 1-2mm off if the pf moved that much on an assembly line. right flipper no problem but that left one, ouch.
the guess is the coil needs to be 1/16 or 3/32 closer for slightly deeper plunger startpoint.
same left flipper is kinda spongy bouncy when catching too, like not strong enough.

What's a reasonable asking price for Pirates of Caribbean Dead Man's Chest. No modtifications made.

I wish I could tell you. I will say this I recall they retailed for $300 back in the day when they were at Best Buy and I always felt bad I couldn't get one at the time, but I did later on at least.

I had one myself I got second hand from an owner who let one fall into partial disrepair like 7 years ago now. Sad thing was after I fixed it, it was dead in less than a year as the lame motherboard on the underside blew rendering it junk. I got lucky with it otherwise, having only paid $20 for it and zizzle at the time was still open I think on the way out of doing the stuff. I ended up doing a lot of hunting for parts with no luck, eventually found out John Popadiuk did the tables and found him instead. Ended up talking to him for awhile one day about tearing a POTC table of his down and restoring it, and he was both happy and shocked I'd bother, so he mailed me all the busted parts I needed free which was cool. When I got it, the sound switch was mostly fried, flipper was non operable, power switch was janky too, didn't like to reset either too well but internally was otherwise sound. I played the hell out of it every day for months along with the wife until it died and I never got bored of it. Sure it's basic like an EM table, but it was entertaining to use and wasn't a stupid wonder machine where both flippers fired at the same time. If I ever bumped into another again for cheap I'd buy it, mod it, and store it until I had an itch to play and pull it out as I don't have much room for another right now, and when the 3 year old gets a bit older pop it in her room since she likes to play.