Distroying Pinball Machines just for fun.

[PinPal]

I found this clip on You-Tube from a place called TNT Amusements. From the top of a building these crazy people Pushed 5. Pinball machines to there death :-(  As they where not good enough to be sold to the public. Some people would have paid them a fair bit of money to buy them or to restore or maybe for parts alone.
I don’t care about the video games that where destroyed but the Pinballs I do.  
What’s you’re thoughts on this?


Arcade Video Games & Pinball Machines Destroyed! TNT Amusements

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[PinPal]

And I found this from the same place, throwing a Black Knight of the rooftop to!  Unreal!!! My prized pinball is a Black Knight.....

TNT Amusements Infomercial Part 8 - Reason 10 & One Day Rentals

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[beaky]

WHO THE HELL GIVES THIS PERSON THE RIGHT TO DECIDE WEATHER A PIN IS TO BE DESTROYED....
I have many negative things i would like about this guy but I won't because they are that bad the moderators would have to remove them.

[Mr Pinbologist]

I think these guys have been watching American Chopper.. thats the sort of shit THEY did on their show 

what a complete and utter WASTE, even if they were beyond repair these morons wasted a LOT of what would've been usable parts. i reckon someone ought to throw these guys off the roof 

[pinnies4me]

There was quite a bit of controversy on RGP about those videos recently. Arguments like "They are his to destroy", "Why not sell as projects" etc. Personally, I think just about all games are savable if enough effort goes in, so no good reason to destroy - even bits are useful for other games, cabinets to restore other games with serious damage etc, but I suppose he wanted to demonstrate he will only sell games of a certain standard. Can't say I disagree with his sentiment, but I can't say I see what he did as appealing to me or any other hobbyist.

[ddstoys]

Can't get you tube at work .  But I don't think you will like my video then.   But mine was staged with no real usable parts just search for pinball shooting Aussie style I think it's called

[Strangeways]

It is a shame that TNT posted these videos, as I found their "Understanding Pinball" videos very informational and interesting.

But these videos will hopefully hurt their business, as NO-ONE likes to see this kind of rubbish. I cannot see any logic behind throwing perfectly good machines off a building. There is no reason why this should be done. I've seen worse container pins than the ones thrown off the building. Complete tossers !

As for the Black Knight video - I love Todd's comment -

"not up to our expectations of quality, and we will have to dispose of it"

What kind of idiot is this person ? What it proves is simply that his company does not have the level of expertise to restore or recondition these games. Even in 1996, someone would have paid $100 for this game. Surely there's better ways to advertise your business ? maybe showcase a poor machine's restoration ?

All this dick head is proving is that he is an arrogant moron !

[Boots]

Apart from being wasteful and stupid, doing something like this would probably be illegal.
Throwing heavy items Pinball or otherwise off a building roof with no safety barriers would land anyone in Aus in jail.
I doubt these guys even had a permit to do this, and besides now the twits have to go clean up the mess.

[Strangeways]

Apart from being wasteful and stupid, doing something like this would probably be illegal.
Throwing heavy items Pinball or otherwise off a building roof with no safety barriers would land anyone in Aus in jail.
I doubt these guys even had a permit to do this, and besides now the twits have to go clean up the mess.

Exactly.

The time taken to put legs on the machines, cart them up on top of the building, stuff around with setting up a video camera and then the cleanup would have been the same as parting them out. Why not place them in the yard with a big sign "Free Pinball" ?

I notice the negative comments on the youtube video have been removed and comments are now disabled. There's also a thread on the RGVC which has the same theme.

I thought Pinball was about "preservation". 

[chris288]

WTF. I couldnt watch the end of it.

I know pinball and video games are inanimate objects and as such are not living things ( Im sure there are members here who will disagree ) but throwing a machine off a building is so sad considering how much fun they have given people over the years.

I dont see why they couldn't have done a basic resto on it and donated it to the local childrens hospital. I'm sure such a gesture would have resulted in increased business for them .

Nuckledraggers!!!

[MrMaloo]

I could only watch it to about halfway before I stopped it .

These guys are an absolute bunch of    .

When I first started watching it I thought surely the machines are empty / parted out etc. and it was a set-up (similar to Daniel's vid) . But no they were pretty much complete but now useless .

[pinnies4me]

Nuckledraggers!!!

+1, about sums it up

[ktm450]

Dickheads, what a waste, if they wanted to get rid of them they could have donated them to a local orphanage or childrens hospital, do something charitable instead of proving what wankers they are 

[Creech]

Look on the plus side, now everyone does know what wankers they are!

[Caveoftreasures]

I was hoping that one of the idiots on the roof slipped and went down with the pinball machines.

Some people think that showing off is the way to go, but unfortunately, all these guys did was show the world what a batch of tools they were !

There were alot of great re-usable parts on all of that stuff.

If u want to tell the world that you dont sell crap, just tell the world exactly that, you dont need to climb on a roof and piss off half of the pinball/arcade community !