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About the playfield; I know the first couple hundred had the Diamond Plate; what other possibilities are there? I understand there's a mylar covered one - is this like a plastic piece or is it a clearcoat that's painted or applied?

Also, I have seen the display replaced by an LCD in one instance instead of the usual display assembly (which I think bride of pinbot uses as well.) Apparently the stick display goes bad - any comments on this?

Finally a game play question - how do you start Silly Mood?
 
About the playfield; I know the first couple hundred had the Diamond Plate; what other possibilities are there? I understand there's a mylar covered one - is this like a plastic piece or is it a clearcoat that's painted or applied?

Also, I have seen the display replaced by an LCD in one instance instead of the usual display assembly (which I think bride of pinbot uses as well.) Apparently the stick display goes bad - any comments on this?

Finally a game play question - how do you start Silly Mood?

Playfields are screen printed. For the ones that aren't clear cloated (Diamond Plated) the mylar simply covers the high traffic areas. In essence it's plastic with a VERY strong adhesive backing.

All non LCD displays outgas eventually. It's normal.

There is no silly mood "mode". Rudy is considered silly mood from the time the start button is pressed up until the clock hits 11:30 which is your first ball lock. After the first ball lock he gets grumpy and all comments become whiney/negative.
 
There are also a few Funhouses out there with aftermarket / repro playfields, made by Illinois pinball (IPB PF). They are a good match, clear coated, look incredible. Restored machines like this come up more often than i thought, considering how trashed original Playfields were, but expect to pay a premium (3k+) for the pin.
 
Bad Rudy

Doesn't he use "saltier" language when he calls you Slick? I've heard tell of this, but never experienced it. Thanks for the replies!
 
Doesn't he use "saltier" language when he calls you Slick? I've heard tell of this, but never experienced it. Thanks for the replies!

I just updated the wikipedia for Funhouse.

It now has the most comprehensive information found in one place.
Falling short of fixing the game - it now has it all :cool:
enjoy!

EDIT - damnit some how it reverted back to the original format and all my changes are gone. I'll try reupdating it.
 
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There were laquer PF's, generally covered in mylar. Others were Diamondplate and LS Topcoat. Diamondplate was developed by Sun Process and LS Topcoat was developed by Lenc Smith. These were the two manufacturers that Williams used for PF's.
 
If I'm not mistaken, Funhouse is one of the only games for which Williams has done a re-run of playfields.. (somewhere in the early 90ies)
And a few years ago fullplayfield overlays were also available, so now also some funhouses exist where people have installed one of these..

So what you can encounter:
- Protos with DP playfield
- regular run, lacquer clearcoat, some without mylar, a few with full playfield mylar, and most with mylar on main part of playfield
these are the only versions like they left from the factory
what also exist:
- games with williams repro playfield installed
- some games with ipb repro playfield installed

on my site there's an article about playfield manufacturers btw and also one with changes between prototype and regular run funhouses..
 
Why only 200 diamond plateed?

Does anyone know why only the first 200 have the diamond plate clearcoat? Have the designers ever spoken to this point? Was there something wrong with it, or was it too expensive maybe.. thoughts?
 
It was still in development; Pat Lawlor helped develop it / helped push it. Even earlier games like Banzai Run and Rollergames prototypes had a preliminary diamondplate clearcoat on them.
It was not perfect yet so they only installed it on some prototypes/early sample games.

Here is an article with more information about diamondplate clearcoat:
http://www.flippers.be/pinball_playfields.html
 
Thank you! I read the article, very interesting. Even though it was experimental, there's nothing bad about it is there? IE when buying a Funhouse, the diamond plate is a selling point?
 
Yes because most regular playfields are heavily worn, diamondplate playfields in general are in much better condition.
 
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