Earthshaker Sinking Building Kit

mrbill08

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Got mine after a waiting a couple of years for it. They are built very well and worth it if you have an earthshaker as one of your keepers. Can't wait to install mine. Here is a link if you are interested. If ES is one of your grails and you don't have it yet, grab this kit. You won't regret it:

http://www.basementarcade.com/arcade/4sale/Earthshaker/index.html


While I have my building out I am going to experiment with different colored LEDs for the different colors on the building numbers. If it looks anywhere decent I will post about it.

Now I have to wait for the little part that keeps the two states separated to be repro'd - mine is broken and I need the replacement. Someone else is supposed to be working on that and I have been on that waiting list as well.

Bill
 
I just got my Earthshaker fully working this week and someone told me about the building mod and I was all excited until I saw the price. Definitely not worth it to me.
 
So these are available now. I knew they had them once, but I didn't think they would be available any time soon. May have to buy one, but daaaaammmmn that's expensive. Definitely plan on keeping my ES.
 
I disagree about the price being high and consider it a great value. I agree that it would seem pricey if you are looking at the cost of materials alone but well worth it if you stop to think about it. I look at it this way - If I were going to make my own, sure the materials would cost less, but think of the amount of time you'd have to spend tracking down a sinking building to copy, research the electrical connections required, and then making all of the measurements to accurately copy it. Track down all of the materials including a motor that will work, fabricate it, then the time to make all of the adjustments to get it right including the two cams with microswitches to stop the motor for raising and lowering the building.

ES is one of my grails and it is not going anywhere so I am willing to make the investment and spend my valuable time doing something else. I repaired and sold a couple of arcade pcbs and used the proceeds to buy this. The time I spent repairing the PCBs was way less then the time it would have taken me to make a copy of the sinking building as there was no learning curve like there would be for the sinking building.

I think it is a very fair price all things considered as the producers deserve to make a profit as well for the amount of time and effort they had to put in to mass produce these.

And no, I don't know nor am I personal friends with the guys who made this repro. I just appreciate the value of what it takes to actually make a repro and am very glad that they decided to do it.

Bill
 
Okay, maybe worth it to you since you like what it does and value your time and apparently would take the time to engineer it yourself if you had to... but most people don't see the value in a small moving part on the game that has no effect on gameplay. Kindof like a $300 topper on a $1500 game. I'd take the $300 discount and lose the topper every time.

Now at $150 you'd probably have a lot more people interested, it's just a more reasonable price point for a mod for that game.

Wade
 
Okay, maybe worth it to you since you like what it does and value your time and apparently would take the time to engineer it yourself if you had to... but most people don't see the value in a small moving part on the game that has no effect on gameplay. Kindof like a $300 topper on a $1500 game. I'd take the $300 discount and lose the topper every time.

Now at $150 you'd probably have a lot more people interested, it's just a more reasonable price point for a mod for that game.

Wade

I don't expect to ever find a topper for my Pinbot short of buying another Pinbot with one on it. I'm planning on fabricating one at some point, even something simple like that will still probably cost me 150-200$ to make between buying tools and supplies.
 
Insider information...

Hey Guys,

I'm the "Marketing Guy" for these kits (and the author of the manual). Most of the mods people buy are usually a single part or something that was made from existing toys. The ES kit was built from scratch. Every part on it is machined from raw metal and high impact Delron. The wiring harnesses are made one-at-a-time. This is not produced in the thousands in China, it's literally one guy building them on weekends and in his spare time. Mark also designed the device and did all of the CAD/CAM work. It's expensive. We know it. We have NEVER had a return and have over 100 of them out there. It also uses the original software in your game to run so it's actually being controlled by the game, it's not really an add-on, it's an add-in.

We are wrapping up the sales of these and just offered the last of the people on our mailing list to buy them. Maybe in a couple of years we'll make some more, but the sales of this and Wobblehead kits for Doctor Who have been pretty slow.

If anyone wants a kit, it would be good to contact me here by PM or on the link at http://www.pinballobsession.com real soon.

And we have 3 Wobblehead kits left and this will be the last time we offer them. Contact me for info.
 
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