The matching boot does look like a Hogan boot but here's a few guess's in favor of Warrior. And like you said just guesses lol.

Warrior changed up his gear a lot so him having yellow boots on wouldn't be too far fetched.

Having Hogan twice on each side would seem too repetitive in my opinion. You have macho man Hogan and flair already Warrior would be the next natural one.

Looking at the original translite DE and the WWF were fine with using the Warrior on that and he's even shown as one of the 3 major stars being bigger and on top. But all of the real life Warrior issues is what kept him off the final design.

I also feel that they just changed the Warriors head to Hogans head and colored his tights a different color. Those backbox Hogan bodies look way more like Warriors body. Hogan was always a big guy but he wasn't as cut up as the Warrior.

Again fun guesses of what might have been

I've been wanting this art since I first saw it. If you can do it, I for one would be interested big time.

I'm going to need more photo's if I am to get it done.

The side are is fine as I can get it done identical both sides and just adjust the height of the stars. If you look at the words Royal Rumble" it'll have to have the "E" of rumble closer to the front on one side & then "R" in Royal closer on the other.

I can then either match the current artwork on the front & Headbox with a blue background (which I'd rather not do) or find out somehow what matches the Proto artwork

Or do a combo of the 2

Haha same here, I was searching for a wrestler who wore a blue and white track jacket. Now my eyes have been opened.

I have always thought this is a weird and awkward looking pose for hogan. It does look like they said "slap a mustache and bandana on the warrior and let's ship it"
Here's the warrior fathead with a similar pose...complete with pinball machine...just saying

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Exactly! Also that is the exact picture of him that's on the side of a WWELE. I thought it was kind of a wink wink to Royal Rumble why he was chosen. IMG_9043 (resized).JPG

It all makes sense now....

Love the cab art on the wrestlemania Le, looks fantastic!!!

The le version looks like it could be a decent game. I've only played the pro version and wasn't impressed.

Check out the WWE members club thread. The 7 of us LE owners are a tight bunch that love our LE's and will defend them to the end lol.

Does the pro version have many defenders?

What's the difference between the Pro and LE other than the artwork?

WrestleMania Pro is a steaming pile of dung.

I've only played the pro but I think the rules and call outs are better with the LE

Yea! He's great!

This game is amazing, great for multi player action, I torn it down and cleaned it up easily one of the best DE games out there.

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Yeah I'm convinced it was originally warrior. It'd be awesome if someone could uncover this top secret wwfrr prototype. It's gotta be sitting somewhere right?

Anyone have their royal rumble outfitted with led bulbs? Which ones did u use? I just got some comet leds but I think I need to order some different ones. I've been seeing some ghosting in the inserts.

Its not bad ghosting I used standard leds in the inserts but better off to get non ghosting bulbs. Comet has them. bright white worked very well.

I just finished shopping mine out for the first time since I got it last year.
Somehow the upper PF diverter coil got all messed up and the diverter is stuck open. The coil is stuck and won't eject out- any idea what that issue that might be? The spring seems to be fine- I did have to take the diverter off when I took the upper PF off so I may have just messed something up there.

Other than that it looks great! I took the outlane posts out to make it play a littler harder. I'm bringing it to PATZ this weekend too.
I'll post some pictures tomorrow

Anyone know if these are available? It's the diverter above the pop bumpers, not sure if these are used in any other data east games. One of mine is cracked and I'd like to replace it. Thanks

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I get my WWFRR parts from Terry at Pinball Life. This looks like what you are looking for - http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=531

Just saw this ..Sad

Of course I found them right after I posted. Thanks tho maybe someone else will be looking for them

I think I have an issue with my video mode. Everyone says it's easy but I can never get the bar to move at all on my machine. I push the flipper buttons like crazy and it doesn't move at all. Am I doing something wrong or is there something that needs to be fixed? Thanks

Sounds like an issue mine is super easy in fact too easy not like fight mode on LW3.

Anyone know where to get a plastic set? Or at least the lame plastics?

What happens in Video mode if you select that on ball launch? I always just focus on pop bumper to get 100K - 1M per pop added to the score.

Try to alternate flipper button pushes rapidly instead of both at the same time. L R L R L R L R

It took me a while to figure that out

If you are talking about the mode where you wrestle, i've always used left flipper and launcher button and can win everytime.

You have an advantage during video wrestling mode. Meaning, your bar fills up super fast.

Ah, that makes sense!!! Thank you. I kept looking for cool "hidden" animations on the DMD and never understood the mode!

I think you're on to something. I'll try it out next time I get that mode... thanks!

Update.....it worked! I was the issue not the machine

I haven't seen any plastic set except for the slingshot covers occasionally on eBay

Thank you that's all I've seen too.

Anyone have an external powered subwoofer hooked up to their wwfrr? If so how's it sound? Is there much difference?

In case anyone cares....I did a little how-to topic on removing the upper playfield.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/wwfrr-upper-playfield-removal#post-3749473

That is indeed Bill Alfonzo, later of ECW fame.

Dude, I think you are on to something. That's the one thing I don't like about the cabinet art. The Rumble logo is classic, I love it. But that Hulkster pose looks so generic. That would have totally been the Warrior.

This pin was being made originally right in 92 I think, right around Wrestlemania 8 to Summerslam 92, that was right when Warrior held up Vince for more money, and was gone by survivor series. So that would make sense that they would have swapped it on the backbox.

Yup I'm with ya. The hulkster looks terrible on the back box. It doesn't help that doink and a ref are featured near the coin door. Why not macho? Michaels? Hart? Taker?! Nope.....doink

Ha... I like Doink on the front, the ref, not so much. And I'm probably the biggest HBK fan there is. I do wish he was featured a little more in the game.

About to join the club fellas. A couple of quick questions for everyone.

1. I see a lot of people adding Hasbro figures to the machine. What is the best method to secure them?

2. How hard or how easy is it to remove the 2 center posts in front of the center ramp? The machine I'm picking up has damaged posts.

Been looking to add this game to my collection for almost year, so pretty excited about it!

It does add some low end and ties in nicely with the shaker.

I just finished shopping out a WWFRR for a friend - came out really nice with natural white LEDs and a LEDOCD board:

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Museum putty works great, I would recommend against the bigger Hasbro figures, I found the smaller 3" WWE guys at Target, they are perfect, you should still be able to find them on Amazon, they were made a couple of years ago, and have some of the legends, along with Modern guys and Attitude era guys.

I shot a quick video a while back of my WWFRR with classic Hasbro figures placed (but not attached) to see how it would look. I actually really like it, but took them out and have never had them mounted properly. The Museum Putty as mentioned is probably best, but I've not tried it yet. I matched them up with areas near where the wrestlers appear on the playfield so it sort of makes sense. Added in Warrior and Piper since they're on the proto backglass too.

As for the center ramp posts, typically the posts go through the playfield and have a t-nut or something below to secure them. Sometimes the top screw fuses to the post, or when you try to unscrew it, it just spins the post in the wood. Not hard to fix, but sometimes hard to remove. I've had posts do this on several Data East games. Can be a bit tedious to fix, but not really hard.

1. I don't understand the fascination with adding things that clutter the playfield.

2. They're very easy. There's a nut underneath the playfield that holds them in place. You'll need a wrench up top to hold the post and a wrench underneath to loosen the nut. I think Marco specialties has replacement posts for $3.

I purchased a rough (by my standards) WWFRR a few months ago, and haven't had chance to go through it yet. I'm now starting to think that I want to do a custom re-theme. Not change the theme, but maybe sand the playfield down, and do a new custom overlay. I have a spare NOS playfield, so if I don't like it, I can always change back. I'd also like to change the cabinet art/translite while I'm at it. If I follow through with this idea, it may end up being a money pit, but this is a dream theme of mine as I was a kid growing up in the late 80s and early 90s who loved WWF. Still contemplating, any thoughts...

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I'd be interested in seeing your proposed artwork and to help offset costs, I'm sure if it turns out nice there would be interest from others in buying an alternate translite, decals, or maybe even an alternate playfield too. I've thought about doing my own custom translite in the past, and have been working on custom artwork for my WWF WrestleFest restoration too. Would be fun to see a custom WWFRR!