Ok - Which of you lot bought the Merry-go-round for £180k???? 
Pleasure Island Auction Today
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There's some weird stuff coming out of the "iconic tinkerboo sweet factory", the visiting kids must have been traumatised
I was a visiting kid. I didn't turn out okay.There's some weird stuff coming out of the "iconic tinkerboo sweet factory", the visiting kids must have been traumatised
Also bidded on a toffee heads only sign from the tinkerboo. Maybe i will flip this to an Everton fan
Lot 989: Animated Tinkerboo family breaking nuts (BTR)
Am i seeing this correctly? Therapy it is..
Tinkerboo aside, my favourite lot was the start your own scrap heap kit;
I didn't even bother following it.
I live local and have regularly shook my head as i've driven past. Really sad to see the place shut down but anyone who lives in the area knows that most of the decent and larger stuff got stripped out within a few months of it closing down.
I don't really have space for vids and I knew they didn't have any pins, hence why I probably cared less about the auction. Oh, and on the subject of price; the winning bid is only the winning bid when they actually pay up. Is there no chance of people not actually completing the sale or do they do something to prevent that happening?
I live local and have regularly shook my head as i've driven past. Really sad to see the place shut down but anyone who lives in the area knows that most of the decent and larger stuff got stripped out within a few months of it closing down.
I don't really have space for vids and I knew they didn't have any pins, hence why I probably cared less about the auction. Oh, and on the subject of price; the winning bid is only the winning bid when they actually pay up. Is there no chance of people not actually completing the sale or do they do something to prevent that happening?
I was watching and it was funny at the time... Nothing at all.... No-one bought it... and then after they gave up... the girl on the Web said... "oh... Wait... Someones Bid £180k"... which was followed up by the auctioneer saying "Any takers at £181K then"..... And everyone clapped and cheered...
A large amusement park being broken up and sold off whets the appetite ... even some guy in my village mentioned it to me yesterday
But when I looked at the lots, what a sequence of cr@p. Other than the Point Blank, the dodgems and galloppers there was literally nothing of any quality.
And even with point blank, a game I loved when it was in pubs, there is a two player PlayStation One version which looked pixel perfect to me and played extremely well
But when I looked at the lots, what a sequence of cr@p. Other than the Point Blank, the dodgems and galloppers there was literally nothing of any quality.
And even with point blank, a game I loved when it was in pubs, there is a two player PlayStation One version which looked pixel perfect to me and played extremely well
The bloke who bought the carousel "by mistake" is going to be on the Jeremy Vine show shortly.
Total sale price £245,700
Total sale price £245,700
@RobZombie you been drinking wine again [emoji848][emoji18]The bloke who bought the carousel "by mistake" is going to be on the Jeremy Vine show shortly.
Total sale price £245,700
Who's in Lincolnshire?
We used to have a members map on here. Has it gone @Paul the link is dead?
http://www.pinballinfo.com/community/usermap/
http://www.pinballinfo.com/community/usermap/
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RobZombie
Thankfully I didn't see this thread until the day after the auction. I bid on a load of arcade machines in Blackpool last week. I think I need to delete my eBay app.
Seems like the controversial £180K (£245K inc ) mistaken bid for the Carousel is still being sorted. There is video of it being sold here and discussion that the gavel had come down before the bid arrived;
https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/the-carousel-sold-says-pleasure-1319011
) mistaken bid for the Carousel is still being sorted. There is video of it being sold here and discussion that the gavel had come down before the bid arrived;https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/the-carousel-sold-says-pleasure-1319011
Heard about that on Jeremy Vine yesterday... 'by mistake' yeah right...more like sh*t himself after he won it. 
. The carousel does look nice though.... but maybe not in my garden.
. The carousel does look nice though.... but maybe not in my garden.
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I was stalking that auction before it went live and it looks like the good stuff was already creamed off by some eagle eyed vid collectors There was defiantly two pins , can see the legs in the pics zoomed in and a nice two player out run ... all about getting there first
