Attack from Mars

[Cow Corner]

$12500 is a very serious amount of moolah... anyone that pays this for any pinball be it blinged with LED, polished to mirror or gives blow jobs has either so much money that it has no real value anymore, or has rocks in their head... ridiculous asking price

Pinballs giving blow jobs......maybe 12.5k is cheap. Site it and watch the cash roll in.........
 

[Caveoftreasures]

i know a bloke who just bought a cactus canyon, a monsterbash, and a attack from mars and dint get any change from $35,000 (yes 35 grand).

funny thing is his wife left him over it. now he had the money, but you can see why the wife thought he was nuts. i think there are ALOT of far better titles than the 3 above for alot less coin.

in a competition, i would put my Starship Troopers up against all 3 titles above, and i reckon the majority of people would take the Troopers pin anyday over those 3 for gameplay and a insane audio/dot matrix animations/ unreal multiball etc etc. but thats just me. $12,500 for ANY pinball machine is starting to get towards the finatical point of view. but then again, people who buy x-box'es must think any person who hands over a few grand for a 15 yr old piece of wood with wires running thru-out it is also crazy/finatical ?  where does the nutty/finatical start, at 2 grand, 6 grand , 12 grand.  i guess its all relative to income really.   

[Cow Corner]

35k on 3 pins...wow. to the extreme!

[ktm450]

If I was going to spend that sort of cash, not that I personally ever would, I would want it restored to original like eltimbo does. 
The mods on that look terrible, especially those saucers, I cant see an extra $9k of work in a PF swap and some paint, but good luck to him 

[MartyJ]

Certainly some work installing new parts has gone into the machine.  The eBay history shows purchases of rubber kits O/S, ROM's O/S etc for the AFM.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/220758399716

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/110767262633

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/260472010545

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/160674832673

I didn't see where the cabinet art was from....Hopefully its not the local inkjet knockoffs.  If they are Wayne's next gen then they will last no problems.

[piesrule]

Certainly some work installing new parts has gone into the machine.  The eBay history shows purchases of rubber kits O/S, ROM's O/S etc for the AFM.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/220758399716

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/110767262633

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/260472010545

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/160674832673

I didn't see where the cabinet art was from....Hopefully its not the local inkjet knockoffs.  If they are Wayne's next gen then they will last no problems.

Great detective work!

[blue95]

I'm going to hav to make an effort and get to the Cricketers Arms before it goes.

[MartyJ]

I certainly appreciate the amount of time that goes into these types of restores and the parts costs add up so quickly.

[Retropin]

I certainly appreciate the amount of time that goes into these types of restores and the parts costs add up so quickly.

Absolutely.. same as cars... can buy a whole one or parts from the wreckers and pay 10X the price

[pinsanity]

I didn't see where the cabinet art was from....Hopefully its not the local inkjet knockoffs.  If they are Wayne's next gen then they will last no problems.

They look like Treasure Cove's who made them under sub license from BallyPinball (Wayne) at the time: (Allen at TreasureCove scanned a cabinet and then had them stitched together, corrected in Photoshop/Illustrator and screen printed):
http://www.treasure-cove.net/AttackfromMars.htm

The seller has another set available which shows the instruction text on the coin door decal the same as TreasureCove's above:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Attack-Mars-5-Piece-Cabinet-Art-/110801755032?pt=AU_CoinOp&hash=item19cc4c9b98

You can watch a vid of TreasureCove making the screen printed decals for AFM here:
http://www.treasure-cove.net/images/screenprinting/AFMprinting.wmv



There is another set (which has been currently unavailable for a couple years now) was made by PhoenixArcade under license from IPB, these sets were made using the original films from Bally/Williams. I have one of these sets on mine.



Price comparison to a HEP restored machine:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Attack-Mars-Pinball-machine-Rare-High-End-Pin-restoration-/150730101142?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item231836d196

[Caveoftreasures]

like someone said with another listing, one seller advertises a title for X amount, then everybody advertises their title at the same amount.

so does that mean every listing for a AFM that is in great condition will be asking $12,500 ?  probably, but 99.99 percent of collectors just will not pay that much.

BUT its A VERY NICE machine.

[Retropin]

I reckon id be physically sick were i to hit the But It Now button at $12.5K... i know id be divorced!!

[Replay]

i know a bloke who just bought a cactus canyon, a monsterbash, and a attack from mars and dint get any change from $35,000 (yes 35 grand).

funny thing is his wife left him over it. now he had the money, but you can see why the wife thought he was nuts. i think there are ALOT of far better titles than the 3 above for alot less coin.

in a competition, i would put my Starship Troopers up against all 3 titles above, and i reckon the majority of people would take the Troopers pin anyday over those 3 for gameplay and a insane audio/dot matrix animations/ unreal multiball etc etc. but thats just me. 

Wow, maybe that was his plan... well done I say hope he was in AUS..

better game than  CC, MB & AFM , that Sega pin sure is underated

[Cow Corner]

Why do you hope he was in oz?.... you snagging the missus or chasing the pins?He has rocks in his head if this story is true and someone will be picking up some bargains down the rd on some very over-priced cookies, esspecially cc that game is a Turd with a capital T.
Not one of those three pins is worth 12k on its own so why would you pay 35k for the 3 of them?
Surely you would be after a package deal to compensate for the obvious fact that your brain is a quarry!
 

[pinnies4me]

....in a competition, i would put my Starship Troopers up against all 3 titles above, and i reckon the majority of people would take the Troopers pin anyday over those 3 for gameplay and a insane audio/dot matrix animations/ unreal multiball etc etc. but thats just me. 

...better game than  CC, MB & AFM , that Sega pin sure is underated

ST is fun and likely one or if not the best Sega, but there's a reason the market pays a premium for games like those three.