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Aussie Pinball Forums => General Discussion => Your Collection => Topic started by: goodolddays on February 23, 2012, 08:01:30 PM
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Will post some pics when the game is home
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Don't be so cruel, I hate cliffhangers!! ^.^
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awesome, happy for you.
How is your wife - liking the idea now.
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new pin day is better than Xmas and it usually happens more than once a year!
congrats in advance!
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and the title is ? ? ? ? (we at least want EM, SS, DMD or something you teasing mongrel.lol.lol.lol) %.% %.% %.% %.% %.%
ok, i guess we will have to wait for the photos ! ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ pinday, is BEST DAY. Excellent.
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awesome, happy for you.
How is your wife - liking the idea now.
Cheers Jady. My wife is coming around to the idea I think .. she has no choice anyway %.%
Nick and Brett .. you guys should already know the title , if you read my posts that is &&
Only one more sleep till you find out anyway :D
This is my 3rd new pin day in 10 weeks #*# but expect it will be my last for a while . !!!
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was it the game u won on ebay. i think i remember now. it was a bargain from memory ?
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was it the game u won on ebay. i think i remember now. it was a bargain from memory ?
Could be Brett .. all will be revealed tomorrow
Cheers
Dave
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That was a very good buy considering the work done and extra aftermarket parts that had been added. ^^^
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That was a very good buy considering the work done and extra aftermarket parts that had been added. ^^^
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That gave it away #@#
Post pics when you get it - nothing like a "new pin day"
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Well that inspired me - I just went and played mine!
Brilliant game, one of the best of the era.
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Having a new pinny delivered to your collection, is like getting your hands on the "new" girlfriend for the first time, unwrapping her, and turning her on.
You just never know what will cum next ! && and like the new girlfriend, every one wants to see the new photos of her ! in action &&
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Soon - You wont be able to access that door !
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Soon - You wont be able to access that door !
:lol Never use it anyway
OK .. Creech is here now .. here's some pics .
It needs a good clean and I will be replacing all the black rubber with white .. just don't like black.
She also has a teething problem .. I am guessing from being moved as didn't do it when I played it onsite last week .
Whenever you shoot the ball into a hole (eg snack bar) the ball is not returned to the playfield until the machine does a ball search and finds it .. any suggestions on that ?
Also had to adjust the lockdown bar which was way tight . Off to play a few games , if I can stand it not returning the ball
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as you can see there is very little wear around the snack bar hole .
I still can't believe I scored this game with all the bling and extra's for just over 3K #*#
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Excellent Score ! Well done. Very cool score indeed. $#$
Creature definately turns heads wherever people see it. So many inexpensive bling/add on mods u can do for that title. LEDs alone kick it right up. Yeh, worth a rerubber n good clean n stripdown to make her like new again. Thats half the fun and is worth every second of time investment.
The audio cranked up is very fun. I think u have done well. The ball return shld be very easy to fix, check the contact on the switch n bend it etc. Check and reseat/push on every plug behind the translite, and just check every plug is tight under the playfield.
Congratulations on your new Pin. Extremely well done Goodolddays. Have fun. ^^^ ^^^ ^^^
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Excellent Score ! Well done. Very cool score indeed. $#$
The ball return shld be very easy to fix, check the contact on the switch n bend it etc. Check and reseat/push on every plug behind the translite, and just check every plug is tight under the playfield.
Congratulations on your new Pin. Extremely well done Goodolddays. Have fun. ^^^ ^^^ ^^^
Thanks Brett . I am stoked that I got this machine .
Here is the list of mods and new stuff that it came with
New black legs installed
New coin deeor with decal installed
Leg protectors installed
New Chrome bolts and legbolts
New chrome Ball Shooter
New Chrome Trim
New glass
New mirrored speaker panel
Mirror blades installed
Custom Pricing and instruction cards
Speaker upgrade
Full leds
New Ramps
Green ramp globes
50's Car mod (the pink expensive one)
Back blue led strip
Chrome flippers
It also has a LED top header from Pinball life.
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the extras alone are worth $500 plus all day long. very good pricing. got to be happy with that.
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Congrats Dave, you did really well. Great game that you should never get sick of.
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Thats awesome Dave, very happy for you. I love it when you are almost ready for a multiball and it's strobing away like a old film projector.
Can you post a picture of the topper and the creature mod lit up out of interest.
and how are the cabinet decals?
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Congrats on the new creature mate. I saw one that el-timbo is doing for a client at his Hot Rodded Pins business and it is incredible. Well done on a great score
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Here's a couple of pics of the topper for those who were asking .
I think it compliments the theme well and throws off a lot of light in a dark room .
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and you got the adults only version of the topper as well &&
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What a PITA to clean ::) . I expected that but geez . Haven't been game to pull the ramps off yet . Trying to do one area at a time .
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What a PITA to clean ::) . I expected that but geez . Haven't been game to pull the ramps off yet . Trying to do one area at a time .
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It is a bitch to clean but well worth it.
Congrats on your great new game, it is one of the best bally/wms dmd's imo and you got yours for a steal in fantastic condition.
Gillman is good!
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Beautiful machine.....congrats.
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Thats real nice dude one of the ones on my list for sure. Congrats ^^^
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Best score so far 194,660,470 .. 3 ball factory default .. long way to go .
This is an awesome pin . Great fun #*# #*#
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My 18 year old daughter has taken great pleasure in knocking me off the top of the leaderboard with a score of 245 million .
Game ON %.%
Coincidentally she also has the current high score on Firepower #@#
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There great scores, adds more fun when you have to get your name up there above a mate or family member.
Don't forget to send a photo to the high scores thread - hoping high scores section soon.
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As this is just a clean , not a resto thought I'd just continue this thread.
Finally have stripped the PF down enough to clean it properly . Hope I don't have to do this too often as its a lot more work than a EM or SS.
It was worth doing though as I found 2 of the pop bumper bases had worked loose, a broken post rubber in Pop bumoer area and a loose metal ball guide as well as the Snack Bar plastic broken in 2 places (common prob it seems)
I plan to strip the pop bumper assemblies down while I've got the playfield pulled apart just to check them.
Here's a few pics . In the 1st one is an example of the dirt (ball tracks).
I've cleaned the top 2 3rd's of the PF so far (down to the top of the inlanes/outlanes) , including removing PF posts and cleaning them and the areas under them .
I had previously cleaned all the readily accessible areas which iswhy bottom 3rd doesn't look too bad.
Wish me luck in getting it all back together properly !@#
Hopefully I'll figure out why the centre ramp lights don't work during the reassembly.
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The flash shows up the Creature toy more than you really see it when the game is running with all the Leds etc.
Here's the last pic for now of the whole PF
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Nice work, is the creature lit up with a green led when activated?
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Nice work, he's kinda scary looking compared to the holo, I like it! ^^^
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My 18 year old daughter has taken great pleasure in knocking me off the top of the leaderboard with a score of 245 million .
Game ON %.%
Coincidentally she also has the current high score on Firepower #@#
OK - here is the tip for some decent scores on CFTBL.
Apart from shooting for FILM etc -BEFORE you start Multiball make sure you have gone around the RIGHT ramp about 12 times ( you will have gone through the Video Mode at 8 and the SnackBar hurry up at 4 ) - 12 times starts SUPER SCORING where EVERYTHING is worth massive points - the trick is to time this to start with Multiball and get the Jackpots while SUPER SCORING is on.
If you can manage that you are a true wizard.
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That creature looks cool Dave under the playfield. Good luck with beating your daughter's high score. A frustrating game - I can have a three ball drainer or a ripper - no in between. Move your car is one of my favourite modes on any pinball.
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good pointer Wotto, I haven't focused that deep will have to strive for that now.
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Cheers guys .
Didn't expect that much interest so quickly .. obviously a popular game here .
Must say I am VERY addicted to it atm.
Yes, Nock and Tony , The Creature toy is pretty cool.
Thanks so much for the tips Wotto , I sure need em and won't be telling my #1 competition (my daughter Jade, who as I type is out there thrashing Firepower again :lol ).
Yeah Tony .. I like Move your car too and try my hardest to get max points on that while its running .
Gday Jday , yes, Creature lights up green, but with just a single lamp ... will have to do something about that .
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It was worth pulling the Pop Bumpers apart .. spoons were black.. wonder when this was last done ?
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You should put flashers in the pops while you are at it.
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You should put flashers in the pops while you are at it.
No need .. that mod has already been done before I bought it #@#
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you did get the works with this one, that's a mod I want to do - how does it look?
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you did get the works with this one, that's a mod I want to do - how does it look?
I recall I saw one with just GI added (not flashers) that I thought did the job pretty well of lighting up the otherwise dark area. These were wired with the other GI, so they varied with the normal GI (off and on for different modes), more like pop bumpers on games from that era
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you did get the works with this one, that's a mod I want to do - how does it look?
Looks really good , they light when a ball hits the bumper skirt . Currently has chrome bumper caps which I am going to replace with Teal, because I think Teal looks better + will let more light out from the bumpers.
I'll have to post a vid of this machine at some stage
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Made a few small changes while I have the PF stripped .
Green post rubbers , teal bumper caps and Green flipper rubbers .
Have also swapped the start button to green (pinched the one in my driving cab)
Now to put it all back together and play it again ()
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Finally installed my Caddy topper yesterday but ran out of wire so only have the headlights wired to Move Your Car flasher so far
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Brilliant topper!!
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Brilliant topper!!
Awesome topper ! Fits in perfectly.