What I won on e-bay

[Pop Bumper Pete]

Recently, the good people at Pinball Inc, e-bay’d some stuff they found at the bottom of a filing cabinet.

I bid on and won this;

A CAD drawing of a ramp from the pinball machine that did not make it past prototype, Pinball Circus!

Cool Cucumbers!!!!!

Note the hand written corrections (in red ink)

Also the name of the game is not mentioned on the sheet, it is known at ‘Project 60020’

[Strangeways]

That's a cool piece of history, and it is great that all this stuff is finally available to buy.

Just wondering if you plan on framing it ? Did anyone sign the document. Would be great to hear some history of this game.

[Pop Bumper Pete]

That's a cool piece of history, and it is great that all this stuff is finally available to buy.

Just wondering if you plan on framing it ? Did anyone sign the document. Would be great to hear some history of this game.

Yep, I will frame it

It is signed and dated on the lower right corner, I will ask around and see if anyone recognises the signature

[MartyJ]

That's a cool piece of history, and it is great that all this stuff is finally available to buy.

Just wondering if you plan on framing it ? Did anyone sign the document. Would be great to hear some history of this game.

Yep, I will frame it

It is signed and dated on the lower right corner, I will ask around and see if anyone recognises the signature

Looks great Pete.

Pinball Circus certainly looked like a very interesting game.  Every time we watch Tilt my wife says 'that game looks cool, can we get it??'...Ahh not without selling the house to pay for the only one of two made in existence.

[Prince]

Pete, does it have the draftperson's name printed on the drawing??
Track him/her down and unravel the remains & whereabouts of these pinnies.
Imagine obtaining the "whole" cad drawings - that would be something.

Post your thread on pinballbash and let's hear from our cousins in America.

SC.

 

[pinnies4me]

Cool bit of history there Pete, great pick up!

[chillie]

I have played quite a few games on it in the states a few years back and found it to be very impressive. However at a development cost of circa USD$1.0M each it never had a chance to be a production machine.

Chris

[Pop Bumper Pete]

Post your thread on pinballbash and let's hear from our cousins in America.

SC.

The knowledge base on this site is much better than PB.com

I was surprised that no one on my facebook could help

[pinsanity]

I believe Nova Games in Germany (one of B/W's biggest customers at the time - the 800 pound gorilla) gave it the thumbs down after they were told that the complexity of the design and cost to manufacture mentioned above would add another $1000 per unit to the price.

Larry DeMar told this story in one of the numerous pin vids that have been made - which one though I can't remember.

Forgot to add, there are 2 with the possibility of 3 in existence.

1 for Pinball Hall of Fame in Vegas
1 for Neil Nicastro Director of WMS Games
1 rumored to be in private collection (possibly originally sent to Germany as a test machine for Nova)

And also to add, there are large number of significant parts from the machine in private hands (blank playfields, cabinet art, control panel overlay, mechanisms, the clown face and hands, elephant, custom cut back boards etc) but unfortunately not enough to make another complete machine.

[blue95]

I played the one at Vegas, it was pretty cool