^^I'd forgotten about those.
I dont see any extra holes where a flourescent light would have been. It seems to me that a fluorescent light would make the marquee a whole lot brighter.
Are you saying someone peeled the marquee and stuck it onto a piece of cardboard?? Thats dumb.
I guess I'll look for a CE board and marquee soon.
TK monkey did you say you have an extra marquee because this one does have the plexi-glass piece still.
Could be someone found a peel and stick marquee for WW (I have no idea if they existed for WW, I'm fairly sure they didn't) and put it on cardboard, could be someone cut down something else that had the SF logo that big printed on cardboard.
{PERSONAL THEORY}I think the peel & stick marquees for champion edition were limited run things for early conversion kits sent by capcom. The marquees for the dedicated champion edition machines were screen printed on plexi/lexan, I have two different types of peel & stick marquee, one of which I know to be part of the artwork set for a very early type of CE conversion kit (yellow/black instead of white/black coloring, some other color differences). The other is a dark grey/black, I'm guessing once peeled off and stuck to a blank piece of plexi/lexan/whatever is the normal translucent static coloring black/white. Both pieces are NOS and I haven't peeled them, as I haven't finished scanning them, but they're on backing similar to other adhesive products and they're definitely not translite or printed plexi. It makes sense that they would have been made available with the early conversion kits so operators could just peel & stick over a clear piece of marquee plexi they might have before the more complicated to produce art was out there with the dedicated cabinets. Just a function of trying to get the new product out there earning money as interest in SFII may have been waning in the fastest way possible. Given that I'm almost positive it was only done for CE conversion kits, I doubt the peel & stick was done with the original World Warrior marquees.{/THEORY}
Way too much rambling on my part, but I've seen a bunch of different CE art at this point so I've had some ideas knocking around about it.
As far as a champion edition marquee goes, I don't remember if the big blues were a different size of marquee or not (looks standard sized from the picture) you might want to measure to be sure. The ones on ebay for the 20" dedicated machines are about 7.5" x 25", I think the ones for the z-cut 25" units were larger. As i haven't finished scanning them, neither of the pieces I have are for sale at the moment, but normal CE print on plexi marquees can be had on ebay for 15 or 20 bucks in real nice shape. I know MilitiaMan still has a ton of artwork from a raid he did a while back, he's who I got my yellow/black set from and he's been a great guy to deal with. Pretty sure he's got the yellow/black marquee and bezel still for sale if you're curious what I mean by the extra colors. He had 2 sets and I bought a set and the 2nd cpo so I could make sure to get the best available to be scanned. If someone picks up the marquee/bezel and wants the other cpo, the spare may be fore sale.