FS: Reproduction Missile Command Marquee (add your name NOW)

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FS: Reproduction Missile Command Marquee (add your name NOW)

I'm opening up "pre-sales" on the Missile Command (upright, no cockpit yet) marquee. However, I am NOT accepting cash at this point in time. I just need your name/address via PM and I will notify you as soon as these are ready to ship next month. That's right, you got it!! NO MONEY TO BE PRE-PAID.

I just ordered the acrylic and I almost have the artwork ready to go. Once I have the plastic, they will be cut to size (with holes for speakers). Once they are cut, I will begin the screening process without delay. Now that I'm well on my way to having the Missile Command control panels completed, I'm putting the marquees on the fast track.

About the Missile Command marquee. Cut from 1/4" cast acrylic sheet (Plexiglas) and artwork directly screened onto panel. Includes speaker grilles and wood blocking (to mount speaker) pre-assembled and ready to use. This is 100% compatible with OEM games. Just drop it in and go!! Your price is $50 shipped to any destination on the planet! Multiples are $50ea.

If you would like one of these at the price listed, you need to send a PM to me by the end of this month with your full name and address, otherwise you lose out on the price. I fully expect that if you send a PM and I add your name to the list that you will purchase one when I announce the availability next month. Agreed? Good.

Enjoy and watch for more cool items from RAM Controls!!

P.S. If anyone has an original COCKPIT version of the Missile Command marquee I can borrow, that would be awesome!!
 
This is one of the few MC parts that I don't think I need - the marquee on mine has escaped relatively unscathed over the years.

If, however, you were to offer the clear plexi bezel (with High Score Today, Player One etc printed on it) - then I'd be all over it. On most MC cabs I've seen these are in a pretty poor state.

Good luck with the marquees though - always good to have a source of brand new MC repro items.
 
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Could the cockpit parts be reproduced to the extent that only a new cabinet would need to be built? I mean, could a person build a cockpit MC from just the boardset and common parts to the upright/cabaret? Sideart, etc...
 
I think so.

The electronics are the same on the cockpit as they are on the upright. I'm guessing you'd need a larger wiring harness though. The only other significant differences are that the cockpit includes a cooling fan (upright does not) - and the monitor. Cockpit used a 25" monitor along with a half-silvered mirror.
 
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. An original harness could be used with extensions, or modified, or a custom harness made. You'd also need a 25" monitor, power brick, AR2, PCB, trackball assembly.

A replica cabinet would have to be built. For people like me who could build it, with exact plans - I'd want/need exact plans. Problem is - how do put time into the plans and sell them, without it just being copied. Would have to reduce that abuse.

What then would be needed? The mirror, big marquee, control panel, the back piece of art, and the side art? Is that all?

I see it this way - There's a demand in this little hobby, but not like you could sell 200 pieces of any of that. Classic Playfields is making a kit with all new artwork that would use a donor Dolly Parton machine..then you use the new bg, pf, stencils, etc..and have a new designed machine. If there's interest in a custom classic Bally pin, surely there are enough people interested in building a replica Missile Command cockpit or Quantum, while making it financially rewarding for those doing the real work. I don't believe that this would kill the value of the original, complete games, any more than reproduction sideart being available would.
 
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+ set of metal brackets for marquee, etc.., speaker grilles

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. An original harness could be used with extensions, or modified, or a custom harness made. You'd also need a 25" monitor, power brick, AR2, PCB, trackball assembly.

A replica cabinet would have to be built. For people like me who could build it, with exact plans - I'd want/need exact plans. Problem is - how do put time into the plans and sell them, without it just being copied. Would have to reduce that abuse.

What then would be needed? The mirror, big marquee, control panel, the back piece of art, and the side art? Is that all?

I see it this way - There's a demand in this little hobby, but not like you could sell 200 pieces of any of that. Classic Playfields is making a kit with all new artwork that would use a donor Dolly Parton machine..then you use the new bg, pf, stencils, etc..and have a new designed machine. If there's interest in a custom classic Bally pin, surely there are enough people interested in building a replica Missile Command cockpit or Quantum, while making it financially rewarding for those doing the real work. I don't believe that this would kill the value of the original, complete games, any more than reproduction sideart being available would.
 
Didn't thisoldgame run the bezel with the white text? Not saying that it shouldn't be done, just curious if the same one?
Yeah. I think they did. Can't get them anymore though. Someone else did stencils once upon a time, so you could get your own plexi cut and then paint in the lettering. Can't get those anymore either.
 
just out of curiosity: did those missile command prototypes with the huge extra displays on top ever surface? wouldn't they make a wonderful topper?

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That model was a proto. Never went into production as players reported that the huge marquee was a distraction.

Here's a MC design mock up. It shows two extremes. One is the massive proto above, the other is for a far smaller cab. Interesting that the small cab shows the very distinctive shape of what eventually became the MC upright. So, looks like they settled on something in between the two shown here:

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When the concept art was done for the large proto, the game was called 'Armageddon':

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The smaller cab depicted in the concept art also got built. Note the mini trak ball:

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Anyway. I'm completely derailing this thread. Dave, make me a plexi bezel and I'll stop.
 
Sorry for continuing the "hijack" but one more question......

Did that huge display do anything? Was it interactive with the progress of the game or was it "static" and just lit up like any other marquee?

Thanks
Jeff
 
Sorry for continuing the "hijack" but one more question......

Did that huge display do anything? Was it interactive with the progress of the game or was it "static" and just lit up like any other marquee?

Thanks
Jeff

I was thinking.. if it wasn't and someone built a replica of it, you could have some sort of random/programmed light thing, like used for the B9 Lost in Space robot replicas. Geek alert!! haha
 
Did that huge display do anything? Was it interactive with the progress of the game or was it "static" and just lit up like any other marquee?

that display was indeed interactive and followed the progress of the game. i've scanned another picture along with the text which gives out more information!

I was thinking.. if it wasn't and someone built a replica of it, you could have some sort of random/programmed light thing, like used for the B9 Lost in Space robot replicas. Geek alert!! haha

that's why i put it up initially. wouldn't it be cool to have that geeky blinking marquee box above the cabinet? seems to be "mappy"-sized ...

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for your info: the photo in the book is that clear, you can read everything on the marquee and see all the symbols, so a photoshop expert could probably recreate that in a heartbeat. unfortunately, i know nothing about PS!

@dave: sorry for hijacking the thread, if there is enough interest and momentum, we could start our own thread ;)
 
That giant thing wouldn't be much good as a recreated marquee, yet it would look nice in poster form, framed. Someone would have to scan and vectorize it though.
 
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