Bally World Cup Soccer (94) cleanup

[Duckman]

I like the purple flippers, nice touch.

[goodolddays]

Looking super nice    . Once again we see the reward is worth the effort 

[johnwartjr]

I was going to go with purple flippers on mine, then I got these from the game designer on eBay..




WCS is John Popadiuk's best design. Period. I've played them all, and while CV is OK, it's no WCS 94 :)

[ktm450]

WCS is John Popadiuk's best design. Period. I've played them all, and while CV is OK, it's no WCS 94 :)

Absolutely agree John, same with ToM is ok but poor wizard mode, his other games artwork does look better but WCS has the best gameplay IMO.

Love the transluent bats can you get them anymore?

[johnwartjr]

I'm not sure if they made any more than the 3 I have, honestly. Might ask John Popadiuk?

[ktm450]

Very interesting, wonder why those bats were made in the 'motorola' molds instead of right way up 'W' bats?? 
Interesting to hear the story of those, maybe they were not mass produced because the translucent plastic is not a strong as the normal plastics??
Do you know the history of them John?

[johnwartjr]

I can ask!

[johnwartjr]

and here's the response from John P:

"well being new at Williams I was experimenting with a lot of stuff. it was encouraged. So on WCS we looked at trying to make the game really hip, so molding the flipper bats in teal polycarbonate was the trick. Zaccaria did this as well as Bally in the 80s.

But in this case, with advice from Pat Lawlor, the bats did not last more than 3 days on a game. The design was not made for this material. So we had a few made and it stopped there."

So, it appears I have a neat conversation piece here, and am probably better off not using these bats!

[ktm450]

Very interesting John, I thought this may be the case, it seems transuecnt colours are a lot weaker plastic.
They look very cool though, bit of pinball history in your hands there mate 

[MartyJ]

Thanks for the history on those bats John.  John P designed a cracker of a game.  WCS94 gets a lot of love...I hope I don't enjoy it too much as this one has to go to make room for something special 

Couple more pics...

I've scoured the globe for one plastic which I need to replace...MarkC did have them but sold out....

Otherwise its coming along nicely.  This will be a very snappy game to play when its done..

[Strangeways]

Looks very nice Marty !

[goodolddays]

Sweet 

[ktm450]

Looking good Marty, I'm tipping you are after the large plastic under the left ramp, if you have any luck finding one let me know, I've been searching for one too with no luck unfortunately

[johnwartjr]

Looks great!

[MartyJ]

Full steam ahead on this now, the majority of the playfield is back together.  Just finishing off each lamp PCB (re-flowing header pins) then its ready to fire up.