Arcade Collecting > Pinball
F2K Preorder Notice
CheffoJeffo:
Got my tracking number -- should be here Monday. :applaud:
Xiaou2:
heh Its ok Saint. I get a lot of people riled up.
As for CPR, their renos are usually inferior to the originals. A combination of them getting people who are not artists to do work for them, is a poor decision. At very least, you would think they would hire One good artist to do Quality Control, and fix the messes that the noobs made.
Color is especially a problem, because only a real talented/trained artist can visually look at a group of colors and realize that one does not match the correct hue, shade, intensity..etc.. in an instant.
The technical tracers cant.. and their only excuse is Color fade.
Firstly, most fade on Pins is the cabinet. Unless the thing is sitting outside on a sunny beach... its rare to see notable playfield color fade. Glass reflects a bunch of the UV rays, and so does the Mylar. The mylar usually yellowing a bit due to an inferior chemical formula... but under it, are colors like new.
White is especially hard to fade, because white reflects. White usually is just dirty and the surface worn/pitted... and the thin layer of lacquer they put over the playfield has yellowed more, getting much darker.
As for all the Fade 'stories', one can pretty easily search and find a Pristine machine with No wear/fade whatsoever. The thing is.. the company doesnt care enough to even check... and its leaders/owners just are not good with colors, and THINK everything is fine. In fact, they were completely in denial when I brought up the countless errors in one of their plastic sets. Needless to say, I didnt purchase, and kept my original set.
If you are going to pay over $600 for a new PF, it better be Damn Perfect. Thats a huge chunk of change for mediocrity and errors. Even spending +$100 for a sheet of Plastics is insane, let alone for a set that doesnt even match your game (a game that has no fade).
So what... they pay one artists to clean things up, and whats it gona cost them? Add another 10 spot to the bill. Whoop tee doo.
ChadTower:
Even with all that it's way better than having nothing to swap into burned out machines. Not everybody sits and clenches their butthole over a blue being slightly off from whatever the original was - assuming that the original on every single playfield in a given machine's run was identical.
CheffoJeffo:
I'm with Chad on this ... most F2K playfields are worn to the wood. Beats the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of not having an option.
CheffoJeffo:
Agreed ... except they are still worn to the wood.
It makes no economic sense to buy a new playfield for an F2K because I'll never recoup it. I look at it the same way as I do my MultiExidy -- it's a machine that I am going to keep and play forever.
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