Sega New Astro City Restoration

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Since there are not many people doing Candy Cab restores, figured I would share the progress of ElectricGrave's 2 New Astro Citys from the Group Buy that went horribly wrong.

These cabs were to be received in good shape, working order and cleaned.........
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Been watching the n-g thread, what a turnaround with that machine.

How'd you guys handle the art on the side? Tape it off?
 
Been watching the n-g thread, what a turnaround with that machine.

How'd you guys handle the art on the side? Tape it off?

It was taped off, but honestly it looks a little off since these cabs were obviously in a HK arcade full of mass chain smokers... Idk if ElectricGrave is gonna order or make repros. he might just leave it as is.
 
Great job. I'm glad I got my money back from that fiasco.

I'm just glad ElectricGrave got the replacement parts needed for them. As they were both non working and one had a broken top shroud, marquees, speaker shroud, and rear cover due to them strapping the cabs the incorrectly.

I personally still feel Kingsley lost zero money in this and not only made profit but will continue to make more off parts and the rest of the cabs. At this time I only recommend Matsu for buying a Candy cab directly. These cabs were the worst Ive ever seen and what pisses me off even more were the false promises of someone that is apparently doing this for a living.

I understand ppl on this forum have purchased cabs from Kingsley and had no issues. But that is exactly what I expected this group buy to be. The least they could have done was wipe down the outside of the cabs and check if they were in working order....
 
As a child of the seventies I have a strong aversion to those plastic cabs. Too cold and spacy. Ugh.
 
Wow, those looked like crap. I bought one from Kingsley a while back and I was really happy with it.
It was in far better shape than those.
Japan must be running out of those type cabinets and have started to ship us the leftovers.
 
Yeah, I feel bad for everyone who got in on that group buy. I was fortunate enough to find a guy selling his (relatively) locally. 3 hours round trip, $300, and it included Xmen Vs SF, Xmen COTA (each with an A board), about 200 tokens, and an extra restrictor plate. I needed to clean it down pretty well when I got home, but it was nothing compared to the messes I saw some out of that group buy.
 
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Yeah, I still ended up out $60-70 at the end of the day and not receiving anything.

Only deal with that jackass if you don't mind being lied to and don't really care about your money. Other than that I highly recommend him.

Pretty much turned me off of the used arcade scene period.
 
Wow, those looked like crap. I bought one from Kingsley a while back and I was really happy with it.
It was in far better shape than those.
Japan must be running out of those type cabinets and have started to ship us the leftovers.

There are still plenty of good Astros over there. This group buy I expected the cab condition to be the same as the ppl that got ones like you Alex and I expected too much.

This particular group buy was too obvious, the cabs came from Hong Kong and were most likely some OPs leftovers. EG's cabs had obvious signs of being outside at one point (Not from HK humidity), were abused to shit, and a pure ashtray.

As usual like any group buy the seller cherry picked his own out of the group. The only thing "good" I can say out of it was the rest of the ppl were refunded and EG got the parts he needed from Kingsley to make the cabs complete.

This is probably the worst Group Buy in NG history as I've seen the results of Egret II, Q25/mini cute, AstroCity buys go alot smoother, in far better condition and on time.
 
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Just a heads up. Kingsley is now IMO a total POS seller and scammer. These are all the cabs that were refunded from the group buy on NG forums.

The Kingsley Store

$1250 for a used, "tested" and non reconditioned New Astro City.

Please everyone avoid this crappy seller and goto Ken at thegameroom.com or Matsu for you Candy cab needs.
 
Yeah, Kingsley was trying to sell me some of these for $550 shipped a while back, now all of a sudden they're worth $1250 without shipping or a CP? Something's fishy.
 
Just a heads up, I got an email from Kingsley today asking me if I was still interested in an Astro City. These are almost certainly the leftovers from the NG.com group buy so be aware if anyone gets a similar email.
 
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