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[HHH]

Good old AI Generator

 

[Calimori]

AI so terrible when you pay too much attension

 

[Calimori]

AH, you beat me

 

[lukewells]

1500 maybe
Guilty pleasure. Mine will be at pinfest next to radical.

mine is alsmot next to Radical

 

[BrianSoton]

Theatre of Magic non working on eBay

 

[Markedkiller78]

The cabinet looks pretty good condition I messaged seller about the playfield and back box / batteries, I imagine they’ve leaked as it says 8 years in storage

 

[Arv]

The cabinet looks pretty good condition I messaged seller about the playfield and back box / batteries, I imagine they’ve leaked as it says 8 years in storage

It's been in storage since 2008. So nearly 20 years, so I'd probably say they've leaked by now.

 

[Markedkiller78]

I knew there was an 8 somewhere

 

[Calimori]

I use to love this kind of thing, like a surprise which is a puzzle and gamble. It could be a quick fix...

We know have a good idea why it won't work, and the very least to be replaced being the WPC-S board if the batteries did their favourite trick.
I would grind off that leg modification and maybe sort some legs out later.

But there are no playfield pictures, unless you count the little underneath through the coin door. Five pictures and they focus on the box, which looks reasonably good except what looks like a chunk out of the top front corner of the back box, which I can't explain how you get without taking the head off as this is either protected when laying on the cab and less likely to be knocked when upright.
The back of the backbox looks very unscraped compared to that front.

If someone gets this, keep us updated.

 

[steve brum]

There's a rear pic
What more do you need!!

Start price would be a fair punt

Current market id put a players working TOM at 4500 max

 

[Calimori]

Agree, the start price would be worth a punt.
If the aim it to get it to working players condition, then there is some headroom. Assuming the playfield is playable, and the mechs are all present and fixable.
If it was closer, I would go and take a look, like the good old days.

 

[stevebm1]

With that leg modification perhaps it was on a ship and bolted to the floor

 

[Calimori]

You might be right as I can't think of better reason to do that, it would get in my way of storing huge amounts of stuff under the pin in boxes.

 

[Fantazia2]

I was thinking bolted to the floor sounds more like it was in a dodgy pub somewhere the locals will lift anything not bolted down.

 

[DRD]

The metal in that ToM actually looks quite clean and shiny for a non worker. So it might at least have been kept dry

 

[Dave Bishop]

Anyone on here snag the TOM? Can’t see it on EBay anymore

 

[Markedkiller78]

Still there: https://ebay.us/m/UMYYwt

 

[BrianSoton]

Now has playfield photos

 

[Jay Walker]

Does anyone recall what's been tippexed out on the instruction card? That might be a clue to something not working, long term, i.e. 'we can't/won't fix that, so alter the instruction card'.

 

[lazyarus]

Does anyone recall what's been tippexed out on the instruction card? That might be a clue to something not working, long term, i.e. 'we can't/won't fix that, so alter the instruction card'.

The Multi ball line

 

[mufcmufc]

2 broken ramps and what looks like a weird hole in front of the trunk plus a cpu board. I’d probably put aside 1k to make it right without being able to see it in the flesh