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Offline Retropin

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Re: Woodrails up for auction - WA
« on: July 18, 2014, 10:30:37 PM »
The woodies are of that period when bagatelle was becoming pinball.
Lady Robin Hood is probably the most desirable of the lot collector wise as its part of the nursery rhyme series GTB did that started with the flippered Humpty dumpty. But its a dodo to play.
Flipperless machines are great to look at but boring as hell to own.. we have moved on so far from there that the attraction that they once held just isn't there anymore... unless you are stupid like me and like to collect flipperless Stoner games that never get played.
Only one id be marginally interested in would be the 1949 WMS Maryland due to its reverse flippers placed at the bottom of the PF.. but.. and its a BIG but.. WMS only made impulse flipper games at that time so both flippers fire at once.. it took WMS quite a while to catch on!
Reverse flippers are very cool and do make for a great game.. but impulse?.. nah.
Funny.. the one with the lowest reserve is probably worth the most.

I wouldn't want to pay more than $500-$600 for any of these