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I was in early. Early enough to request the "next to last" serial number and was trying to organize a "truckload" delivery to GTA. However I was likely almost the first one out as well. Just had a bad feeling about it and the theme wasn't sitting right with me after a bit of reveal. Too bad...

It's been a long winter and I haven't updated this thread in a while. Well, started in September and now it's March, and our contractors still have "possession" of the garage. :mad: But we're getting closer. The inside of our house is done and we're just in the process of having the new...

Without knowing anything about the specifics, the first thing I would do (as I know you are safety savvy too Dave) is to look for any "puffed" electrolytic capacitors (the X on the top will look bulged, if not actually leaking fluid). Those are normally the first thing to go, and very often if...

Maybe it's an optical illusion of the pictures, but it also looks like the pawl or kick arm is awfully close to that LED too.

Old painted backglass, kept exposed to large temperature changes, delaminates and eventually flakes off big time. That's why some people go to lengths to preserve it. If not already delaminating, in theory, it would take an awful long time to delaminate if a backglass were kept in a stable...

I remember the Cafe story well and although this article was a bit thin in that department some commenters attempted to make that more apparent. As I remember it, it was the inability to obtain a liquor license for a year (because the area quota was on a moratorium) that sent them packing of...

In the course of doing a little nostalgic searching with a fellow collector (the loafer) I happened upon this past article about the history of pinball (in light of the Pinball Cafe establishment licensing fiasco) that I thought members might be interested in reading here (if it hasn't already...

A repro playfield in an old beaten cabinet with scratched plastics is a little like an over-inflated cosmetic surgery ... it looks out of place. Common sense says that well kept or restored original stock or NOS will have a higher value than repro, but that doesn't always bear out in reality...

Interestingly enough, I "think" the "black market" version is quite outdated. By coincidence I had the forethought to create a personal clone of the entire she-bang just a week before it went under (call it intuition or I am psychic perhaps). However, I had that perfect clone online for my own...