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Post by ILoveWinona on Jul 3, 2014 4:30:36 GMT -5
At Sam's Town Tuesday night I saw two new penny slot machines with the "Beetlejuice" logo. ----- It was great to see images of Winona as Lydia on the slot machines. ----- The one annoyance is you have to play four dollars a pull to win just about $260,000 now. It is a progressive machine and the jackpot will rise over time. ----- But slots like these come and go, Star Wars, Gone with the Wind, Sex and the City, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEAt5RQsjK8 ----- Some nice pictures of Winona on the slot machines on YouTube. ----- Rusty |
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Post by bigdaddy on Jul 3, 2014 14:14:49 GMT -5
very nice....so these things come and go??? What happens when they go? Sold off? Melted down?
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Post by ILoveWinona on Jul 3, 2014 15:29:59 GMT -5
very nice....so these things come and go??? What happens when they go? Sold off? Melted down? ----- They don't sell them off or melt them down. ----- The video images and payoffs of the slot machine program are changed and the actual slot machine exterior stays the same. ----- Rusty |
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Post by bigdaddy on Jul 14, 2014 21:09:16 GMT -5
That is REALLY disappointing. I was seriously thinking of investing in one. Have it in the basement. Get the grandkids hooked on gambling and have them dance with Winona while I took back their allowance I would give them for doing stuff around the place. Bet the idea makes the next edition of BAD GRAMPA from the Jackass people.
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Post by ILoveWinona on Jul 15, 2014 23:26:13 GMT -5
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Post by bigdaddy on Aug 6, 2014 7:30:36 GMT -5
Drat. Curses...with a profit margin THAT low it will take me FOREVER to rake off enough kiddie allowance money to make it even worth while. Have to stick to pinball machines. At least you can buy and sell those on ebay...
seriously, I knew that the prices of slot machines had gone through the roof but wasn't prepared for THAT much...and yes, the retro ones are way more...the old ones from the 50's are nearly worth their weight in gold now...
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Post by ILoveWinona on Aug 7, 2014 3:10:33 GMT -5
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Post by bigdaddy on Aug 7, 2014 17:33:29 GMT -5
very neat, site, by the way...you can spend a lot of time just looking at the designs...very cool...
So I was over today at this storage place that sells off stuff left over from the abandoned sheds, just like you see on the A&E show without the drama...most of his business is used tools and stereos and furniture and toys and the like. He also has a way cool version of Plinko...looks just like the one from THE PRICE IS RIGHT...and a very beat up old pinball machine.
So naturally, I ask about slot machines and when the last time he saw one...if ever.
Well, the whole place just freezes over. The owner sort of STARES and then said;"..about 2 years ago now. Opened up a shed with my brother and he flew backwards like there was a meth lab or a grow op inside. There were four or five just lined up against the back along with some other stuff...they're illegal in Canada...worth two years if you are caught with them if you are not connected with the OLG slots in town, they have to be licensed." (In Ontario, Canada the OLG runs the slot machine casinos you see in a lot of places.)
He went on to say you can IMPORT the things, Canada Customs doesn't prohibit them in SPECIFIC detail, but once you get them here, you can't USE them. If if you want them for home use, even if you just want to decorate the rumpus room with one, hey have to be disabled...and he isn't even sure importation wouldn't be without their problems, either. The Criminal Code says if you gamble with it or collect bets with it, you can't run it OR import it.
"Hells bells," he continued."PINBALL machines were illegal in Canada on the books until 1975, T.O. still has a by law that says you can't have more then two in one place...and that's just PINBALL...the way around it is to specify for home use, maybe disable the coin op...but that's PINBALL...the slots are way more trouble then they are worth."
So I asked what happened, and he told me they called the police, and the machines were seized, along with some other REALLY suspicious stuff..the racketeering boys were around for a while going over the records, that sort of thing. Says that the machines have always been a great hook to catch folks...they buy them illegally, maybe only have them around to decompress or for parties, or whatever...and sooner or later someone gets careless and they get scooped up on a police raid and they can throw 'running a gaming house' at the owner and see who wants to sing.
Suddenly the PLINKO board is looking MIGHTY good. Hell, would even improve the little buggers hand eye co-ordination. Who could object to THAT???
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Post by ILoveWinona on Aug 8, 2014 0:48:18 GMT -5
It's interesting that Canada will crack down on people that buy pinball machines. There are so many other ways to gamble besides betting on a pinball game, poker games, crap games, illegal bookies. That is so funny. -----And speaking of pinball machines has anyone played the Dracula movie pinball machine that has a few images of Winona on the playing board? ----- Rusty
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Post by bigdaddy on Aug 8, 2014 13:55:18 GMT -5
They tell me the laws were written back in the day, when everyone was worried about 'hep cats' and 'jitterbugging' and kids being corrupted by 'be bop' into being "J-D's". Nobody enforced them except to be mean, and by the time they were taken off the books, it was the dawn of the video revolution, when it didn't MATTER anymore.
As for the DRACULA machine...got to watch it up close and personal the last time I was in Niagara Falls. There was one around, and I watched a couple of people play it so I could just take in the machine itself...it's pretty involved with lots of cool features that you need to be standing back from to appreciate.
Not a fan of the bumpers...they have Winona on them, (she's in the green formal dress with the hat and just underneath that is her with her hair down later on in the movie..) but the lines are really thick and sort of remind me of a colouring book...I would have liked a finer line used...
The machines, when I last took a look usually run around 5K...a pretty good average...Star Trek usually sell for over 7K, and Addams Family for over 10K. Sometimes you can pick up a generic one or something really square like a Playboy pinball machine for under 500 bucks...
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Post by bigdaddy on Aug 25, 2014 21:26:31 GMT -5
So dig this...OAKLAND Cal just legalized pinball machines THIS MONTH...yet someplace else that had the things banned for 'moral' reasons...but the laws were kept on the books...
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