Quality control is the key issue here.
repro glasses.. gee.. where would we be without them? Original Gottlieb glasses are FAMOUS for the fade in the colours. I was looking at the original artwork for GENIE backglass the other day and i can honestly say that ive never seen a backglass for this game out there that comes close to the depth of colour when original... truely a stunning glass!
Playfields... restores are fine but the restorers can only match whats already there, which is some corrupt colours. Any restorer will tell you that a playfield actually changes colour from top to bottom... a yellow on the top will not match a yellow on the bottom etc.
When you take a playfield right back to the ORIGINAL colours youd be suprised just how vibrant it was from factory. My Bank A ball was a dark green with cream colour under plastics etc... take off the linseed based finish and the colours just leapt out at you.
ALL pinballs were very colourful from factory.. they had to be... the idea was to catch your eye as you walked into an establishment... take a peek under the lock down bar to where the artwork has seen no sunlight etc... will be a very different colour to the rest of the game.
So yes.. repro PF's do have bright whites, but so did the original PF... not the yellowed out cream you see.
Im all for repros.. the only ones im not too keen on are some of the bumper caps and shooter housings etc for woodrails... the plastic they use is different and lacks the natural marbelling that existed then.
Any repro that you may consider buying really must be licenced.. mainly because the stipulation to it being on the market is that "The reproduction should be of the same or better quality than the original and truely match its content"
... something like that anyway.
This clause allows you to buy a licenced reproduction knowing that you have not compromised your machine in anyway
