eBay - 3rd Party Are machines worth 2x as much if purchased from Walt Disney World?

[coinopper]

Lunar Lander $7,500

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Gorf and Tornado Baseball $4,500

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I asked the seller if they had any paperwork to confirm these were purchased from WDW. Reply:

"To answer you question, I would say no.

I was the Cast Member who purchased them through way was known at that time as property control.

While I would have received a general receipt for payment at that time, it likely was not itemized to specify each item, plus being almost 40 years ago, although I saved all that stuff, I have no idea where that would be buried.

Items such as this had an asset tag with a number stamped in aluminum with a little printed D at the start, and property control usually pried those ID tags off at purchase.

I just looked at lunar lander and the picture I added here shows the rectangular area where that tag once was, and is no longer there having been pried off at property control.

I have not pulled Gorf or Tornado Baseball out to see if either or both may have that tag still on the machine.

With all the things I purchased over the years through property control, less then half went out the gate with that iD tag still attached"

So, in other words, the seller has nothing to prove these came from WDW, and even if they did, why would that effectively double the value? lol

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[steph]

Um, no....

Personally, where a game comes from has no value to me.

... unless it's some kind of one-of-kind custom machine with verifiable authenticity.

A game from Micheal Jackson's Neverland Ranch would not be worth any more to me,
.... but a personally signed MoonWalker with MJ's autograph, now that would be special...

... but that's just me...

Steph

 

[mbert0]

Inherently? No.

I would however pay up to own the specific machines I played there as a kid if they somehow materialized.

 

[rod90]

I believe that there may be a nostalgia factor. It would have to be provable. I do not think that it would be that high?

 

[braddw]

It's only worth more too the individual. I would pay more for a game verified from a local arcade. It's happend twice wide body Mario from shakeys pizza and a empty moonwalker with og side art that's undergoing restoration. Both of these games where a good price in my eye's

 

[Brtlkat]

BFD if they came from WDW, Add's nothing to the value.

 

[Brtlkat]

This is funny though, How hard is it to plug them in? "I haven't tested Gorf or Tornado Baseball since the time I purchased them 37 years ago" Hang on It get's better "This one has even MORE collectibility because it came from Walt Disney World.

 

[alfonzotan]

I went to the Disney arcade at Pleasure Island when it was still open (I've forgotten the name of it, but it was a big multi-story deal), and based on the abysmal quality of maintenance on the games I saw, I would actually factor in a discount on anything that came from there, based on the reasonable expectation that they'll need a lot of work.

 

[KaBoom1701]

I used to go to the arcade at Disneyland back in the day. It's where I feel in love with SWT UR cab that I now have.

But simple answer is no unless it's a Fix it Flex or some Disney themed game.

 

[SFIINerd]

collectibles 101: if u claim prominence 4 value, ppl have to agree the prominence HAS value and u need to prove the prominence. this guy has neither so he is a clown.

 

[coinopper]

The seller also sent me a followup message with this photo:

Tornado Baseball still has yellow printed out if order stickers which were placed on the coin slots when they prepared the machine removal to prevent additional coins to be inserted before transport.

Those who know these out of order stickers know they were custom made at Disney and used only there.

Nope, a yellow sticker that says "ORDER" is not enough evidence for me. But like others have said, the only added value here would be for some Disney or WDW collector, and even then I don't see a yellow sticker multiplying the value by a factor of 2 or 3.

The only thing I see that's unique about the Lunar Lander is that the insides of the cabinet are white instead of black. I've only see another LL like that, so I'm curious to know the history behind that. Were those the earliest/oldest LL cabinets, or the last dedicated LLs (before production briefly switched over to using Asteroids cabinets near the end)?

 

[flex]

I bought 2 of my San Francisco Rush machines directly from Disney in Florida. Has some tokens, arcade cards in bottom of cabinet. It was an Ebay auction.

 

[EGOBRAIN]

I bought a Jambo Safari Naomi Universal Stand up cab that was located inside a Disney World Arcade. There is a sticker inside that notates it's Disney Serial Number.

To me, this adds Zero Value to the cab.

 

[advans13]

Guy is full of goofy's shit.