Post an Image of a Favourite Monster or Sci-Fi Collectible!

[Lazarus]

That's the one.   I think it was missing the topper though.   It was very out of my price range.  But it was lovely.

[Hepcat]

Huh?! You mean somebody was trying to sell a Monster Mash pinball machine bereft of the top piece?

[Lazarus]

Not the backboard,  but I don't think it had the ornaments that are on top in that picture.

[Mike Scott]

The "Topper". The little piece with Frank, Bride and Drac on it.

[John Pertwee]

My Doctor Who pinball machine had an optional topper, perhaps not all of them came with one.

[Hepcat]

There is a Monster Bash pinball machine at the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.

Oh man! I'm all over any cool pinball machines:



I play them every chance I get:



So someday I absolutely, positively have to swing for another trip to Vegas if only for the Pinball Hall of Fame!

[marsattacks666]

Oh man! I'm all over any cool pinball machines:



I play them every chance I get:



So someday I absolutely, positively have to swing for another trip to Vegas if only for the Pinball Hall of Fame!

Hepcat.
The Pinball Hall of Fame is a super rad place and experience.

[Hepcat]

I just found out earlier this evening that a Bally Elvira and the Party Monsters pinball machine has been installed at the Time Capsule Board Game Cafe just a kilometre down the road from my house!

[Hepcat]

My Doctor Who pinball machine had an optional topper, perhaps not all of them came with one.

Oh wow! If you mean the Bally Dr. Who machine from 1992, I'm very jealous.









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAVIKu34PBE

[Lazarus]

They have that Elvira one at the local arcade.  It's a good one.  The place USED to have an Addams Family one but they sold it.  The putzs

[Hepcat]

Speaking of Party Monsters, here's the trailer for the classic Mad Monster Party flick from 1967:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5fe7D14Jp8

And here are a couple of the promo posters Frank Frazetta rendered for the movie:





But it was Jack Davis who designed the characters who appeared in the Mad Monster Party movie. Here are a few of his sketches:

[John Pertwee]

Yes. Mine looks just like that with the topper. They originally planned to motorize the Dalek head so it would move. The game is programmed to do it and only a few had the motor installed before they stopped. I know a guy that rebuilt his so it would move.

Oh wow! If you mean the Bally Dr. Who machine from 1992, I'm very jealous.









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAVIKu34PBE

[Lazarus]

That would have been AWESOME.  Weird to think the property was practically dead at the time.

[John Pertwee]

The machine came out in 92, and even though the TV show had ended they still were releasing a new story once a month in book form and the Magazine kept interest going. They produced hundreds of original novels that kept us happy until it came back in full force.

[Hepcat]

Pinball machines are not just amusement devices to me but are works of art.

Skateboards too can be works of art. I have a vintage Nash Shark skateboard very similar to the skateboard I had as a kid:



When the first generation of skateboards hit store shelves in the early 1960's, the boards were made of wood and the wheels were steel.

More recent boards that The WOMAN has been admiring since early this century are these wild Emily the Strange models: