Collections tend to expand to fill all available space

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moonriver
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Amazing! what a diverse collection.
Now I can see how I was the underbidder on all those Morphys working models! :HaHa:
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That is a very impressive collection Tim. I can see some of my favourite machines there: Chicago Coin rifle games including Coney Island and Shoot Out, EM pinballs, both Indian Head and Clamshell mutoscopes plus others like Sega Helicopter etc. Your collection is better than the best arcades of my youth!
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Thank-you for the compliments. I needed to find a way to try and limit how fast I collect pinballs, so to limit myself I decided to only collect EM models with animation in the light box as I had rarely seen them come up for sale and there were fewer models than others. But before I had the downstairs game room finished at one Las Vegas auction there was a boatload of animated backbox pinballs that went for reasonable prices, I picked up most of those pins at that one auction. Some had the minimum or reserve set too high and were passed, but later I got them from the seller at reasonable prices as he didn't want to deal with shipping them home and back again. For a couple of years they were stored in my garage like sardines in a can with lightbox and legs off until the room was ready for them. Best tool I ever bought for them was a pinball dolly, I can roll them direct into the garage if repairs are significant.

Top of the EM pin collection is the Mermaid, which has an original playfield that I had a detail artist do a perfect restoration on the bottom 1/3 of the playfield missing paint, which was common on that model. It was about the 4th Mermaid he did, but I was in the queue a long time to get that done so didn't have the game in my room until 2+ years after I bought it. I also tried to specialize in EM games that used magnetic tape to further limit the collection, tape used for sound effects (Haunted House etc.), background, and/or control, 4-track, 8-track, 6-track loop (flying carpet), custom reel loop (Sega Heli), and 4-track compact cassette (Gunslinger dialog and control). But I made exceptions to those rules for the games in the middle of the room. On the back wall are full size animatronics (not real animal head mounts) as my interests do vary.
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According to comments from the last five women with whom I've shared domicile, my understanding has always been: -
"Jeremy's collection constantly exceeds all available space."

I don't intend to bore anybody with the myriad of adjectives that usually tag along as well.
Suffice to say they tend to be variations of: -
Heavy
Dirty
Ugly

BP !PUZZLED!
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You left out some of the other common descriptions I have heard more often like OLD and JUNK as in 'why would you want that... piece of...' although I guess that could apply to more than games :-( , just have to be selective of your friends/relations, or keep the collection quarantined away from the house, I have also heard the comment 'how much was that, more than $50?' from someone thinking maybe it would be cool to pick one up for the garage !PUZZLED!
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