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BrianSoton said:
Prices in Europe are above UK prices at moment, tried to ship some and they want well above UK fully working serviced prices for machines needing work plus shipping šŸ„“
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I've found the opposite to be true last couple I've bought were well under what UK sellers have been asking and conversion rates are good at the moment
 
Mozie said:
I've found the opposite to be true last couple I've bought were well under what UK sellers have been asking and conversion rates are good at the moment
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Yeah. I saw a Robo-War for 1,100 euros.

Trouble is, it was a ā€˜non-selling sellerā€™, which is another phenomenon Iā€™ve noticed in pinball. Someone lists a pin for sale, or investigates possible pricing to sell a pin, but doesnā€™t respond to queries - and itā€™s not for the reason I sometimes donā€™t respond to queries with board games (i.e. Iā€™ve had 80 people contact me about 100 items, and it takes me a while to get back).
 
Ashbo said:
That looks šŸ˜šŸ˜šŸ˜
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Yeah. Iā€™m looking for a US one with speech and a spinning back-glass. There are two I know about in the UK, but neither is for sale.

Iā€™m seeing if this is also a US one. Hard to tell from the pictures.

I did check last time I saw a Black Hole how easy it was to convert an export model, but - sadly - it would cost about Ā£2,500.
 
Dotteddown said:
Wow that looks a beautiful pin šŸ˜
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Yes, but I want one with a spinning back-glass :eek:

I know thatā€™s a little picky, but - if that isnā€™t a US edition - I can probably import one from the States in a couple of years.

And, yes, Black Hole is beautiful and seems to be massively under-rated - at least, here in the UK. I absolutely love it on Pinball Arcade. The dual playfield, the constant threat on each playfield, and the challenge of getting multi-ball is just something special, and it looks pretty amazing with full LEDs (disappears into praising Black Holeā€¦ :D).
 
No if thatā€™s what you want then wait one will turn up.
Prices will fall too I think in coming months if the general market is anything to go by.
Not a major issue if your looking to keep of course.
 
Dotteddown said:
No if thatā€™s what you want then wait one will turn up.
Prices will fall too I think in coming months if the general market is anything to go by.
Not a major issue if your looking to keep of course.
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Well, Iā€™ve got a bit of a planā€¦

Weā€™ve got three pins currently - Lord of the Rings, Fish Tales and Godzilla.
  • Iā€™m looking to get an older pin with lots of drop-downs in the near future (pin #4)
  • Then, Iā€™m looking to save up for a pricier Bally/Williams next year or the year after. I was looking to get the CGC reprint of Medieval Madness (due early next year), but any new pins now have to fill a radically different niche from Godzilla, so Iā€™m wondering if I should be looking at B/W Indiana Jones with the daft six-ball multiball and the biplane sound effects instead (pin #5)
  • Then, at some point, I get a US Black Hole - possibly if/when I start going to the States more in the next couple of years, and can view a few pins (pin #6)
I might, theoretically, want to get a cheeky EM as well. I like Jackā€™s Open/Lucky Hand, but am also open to Blast Off. Again, not many of those in the UK, so I might need to import.

I donā€™t really want any more than six pins as - based on our experience with 800+ board games - the marginal pleasure of extra items flattens off and eventually decreases. We canā€™t fit more than 4-5 pins into the house for the next 2-3 years, anyway.

Out of the pins we already have, I think LoTR will get sold first - and Iā€™m not looking to sell that for a fair old while.
 
Wow !
One is plenty enough for me, well at least for now.
I could sell my two retro fruit machines to make room šŸ˜‚
Top gears and Royale exchange both good Nick with batteryā€™s took of boards with a spare mpu each too !
 
VeeMonroe said:
Yes, but I want one with a spinning back-glass :eek:

I know thatā€™s a little picky, but - if that isnā€™t a US edition - I can probably import one from the States in a couple of years.

And, yes, Black Hole is beautiful and seems to be massively under-rated - at least, here in the UK. I absolutely love it on Pinball Arcade. The dual playfield, the constant threat on each playfield, and the challenge of getting multi-ball is just something special, and it looks pretty amazing with full LEDs (disappears into praising Black Holeā€¦ :D).
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You're taking a lot for granted and wishful thinking. Almost certainly not going to happen realistically.
 
Dotteddown said:
Wow !
One is plenty enough for me, well at least for now.
I could sell my two retro fruit machines to make room šŸ˜‚
Top gears and Royale exchange both good Nick with batteryā€™s took of boards with a spare mpu each too !
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Well, Fish Tales is currently out of action, and so I couldnā€™t get onto the pinball machines on Friday night!

I had my older son playing Godzilla, my husband playing Lord of the Rings, and my toddler playing Fish Tales with non-working flippers.

If Iā€™m lucky enough to have a third kid, Iā€™ll need five pins just to get a game in!

Iā€™ve already had to order an extra step-up stool because my toddler keeps nicking the one in the kitchen to play Fish Tales.
 
Rob zombie said:
You're taking a lot for granted and wishful thinking. Almost certainly not going to happen realistically.
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I donā€™t see why not. A mint Black Hole US edition is $5k in the US, and Iā€™ve got costings and details for how to book a container to ship one into the UK.

Given Iā€™ve imported/exported items as random as a crokinole board from Canada and Games Workshop stuff to Australia, I donā€™t see why a pin should be any different.

It is just a matter of whether we can afford one or not, which is about lifestyle/geopolitical/economic factors and not the plausibility of any particular pin. There are plenty of Black Holes in the USA - itā€™s not rare over there. Given there are people spending Ā£Ā£Ā£Ā£ on NIB JJP pins, especially, itā€™s not unrealistic that I could pay dramatically less than that to import something I really wantā€¦
 
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If suggestions are still invited, a very left-field candidate is Bally Spectrum. Themed from the Mastermind colour-code challenge game, and a 'what the flip is this about?' type of game. Another low production run, though. The reason being unsold units, since no-one (myself included) understood it.

I should think the toddler's landed to have Fish Tales working again.
 
Iā€™ll look it
Jay Walker said:
If suggestions are still invited, a very left-field candidate is Bally Spectrum. Themed from the Mastermind colour-code challenge game, and a 'what the flip is this about?' type of game. Another low production run, though. The reason being unsold units, since no-one understood it.

I should think the toddler's landed to have Fish Tales working again.
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UPDATE: Looked up Spectrum. Thanks for the suggestion :) It is a bit of board gamer's crack cocaine, that one. I'm not familiar with the game Mastermind, but it reminds me a little bit of solo Hanabi, or similar, but in a pinball table. I'm not sure what I think to it. I think I had eight pins, I would definitely consider getting one, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about it being one of four, and our only example of an 70s/80s pin - especially as it seems to be pricer (in the States, at least) than the widely-produced old Sterns (e.g. Meteor) due to novelty and rarity. I've added it, cautiously, to the list anyway :)

The toddler is delighted to have Fish Tales working again. He keeps bringing his little stool and pointing at the DMD shouting ā€œFish. Fishā€ šŸ˜
 
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AlanJ said:
Hey you gotta get a mastermind board game - icon of the 1970's is that !!
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I don't have a historical collection, over here :p

I did for a while. I had stuff like a 1963 3M bookcase edition of Acquire, the Valley Games reprint of Avalon Hill's Titan, and a box set of Monad/Venture/Sleuth. It was just taking up room, without getting played, so I think the oldest board game we have here now is my mum's Totopoly - and that's entirely here for sentimental reasons.
 
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