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Title: South Park:the return of the Toppers
Post by: Extra Ball on April 22, 2010, 01:08:07 PM

My South Park was missing the toppers, pretty common kids knock em off, or they get broken. I have sourced a NOS Cartman topper toy (hopefully on its way from the USA), and decided to make my own text topper as these dont seem to be available.

This is this mornings effort, found a half-decent pic of one from an old ebay listing, mucked around with the contrast, and I think it printed ok. Then I used some old perspex I had in the shed, and sandwiched the print between. Legs are from bunnings, 30 cents each. Whole thing cost me 1.50 I reckon, and whilst its a not as good as an original its decent enough for me. Oh the cartman will owe me 32 bucks with postage, and the toppers will probably add 200 bucks value to the machine :cool:

(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/Gwind/spheaders005.jpg)

Example of an original:

(http://www.arcadegamesuperstore.com/images/classic-pinball/south-park-pinball-bg1.jpg)

Title: Re: South Park:the return of the Toppers
Post by: MrMaloo on April 22, 2010, 05:11:21 PM

Well done Greg . Looks OK to me . You decided against going for the four figures under a topper dome then ??

Great work mate .

Title: Re: South Park:the return of the Toppers
Post by: Extra Ball on April 22, 2010, 05:32:21 PM

I think that if can go original then you should. If I wasnt able to source the cartman toy I wouldve went with my custom idea.

Title: Re: South Park:the return of the Toppers
Post by: Caveoftreasures on April 22, 2010, 05:34:33 PM

Looks great mate. Toppers are always a great personal touch to any machine.

Bargains on ebay everywhere. ^^^ Well done. Looks like the original to me.   ^^^ ^^^ ^^^

Title: Re: South Park:the return of the Toppers
Post by: Redback on April 22, 2010, 06:38:47 PM

Looks M'kay


Red

Title: Re: South Park:the return of the Toppers
Post by: Extra Ball on April 28, 2010, 08:15:40 PM

NOS and 34 bucks posted from the USA, and Cartman sits proudly on top again  ()

(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/Gwind/sptoppernew003.jpg)

Title: Re: South Park:the return of the Toppers
Post by: Strangeways on April 28, 2010, 11:34:48 PM

Looks great, Greg - really adds that final touch to the machine. Looks really good !