BunnyBoard (Marble Games Company 1932)

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    Tom
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      @armyaviation

      https://vpinball.com/?post_type=cmdm_page&p=205055

      Introducing BunnyBoard, made by Marble Games Company Youngstown, Ohio, 1932.  This was my inspiration for becoming a table author.  I am probably more excited to finish this table since it was my first inspiration since joining this hobby, and it only took me 2 years to build…  I made a posting at VPF 2 plus years ago about wanting help to build a table, last year someone posted, “dont give up, you can do it”, so i did.  My other inspiration was that i saw someone else built one at one of the other sites and it was based off of pictures, so i figured i would finish this one since i own it.

      Background on this one and how i came to own it.  I did a post on the history of the first “coin operated” pinball, which was Whiffle by Automatic Industries in early 1931, also from Youngstown Ohio.  This one came from a woodworking company in Youngstown in late 1931 in an Oak cabinet carved out beautifully and later in 1932 in a cherry cabinet, which i have.  Pinball became so popular that in the early 1930’s, hundreds of companies began to pop up from wood shops in Ohio to amusement companies in Chicago. https://www.bmigaming.com/pinballhistory.htm, talks about Whiffle and Bally’s first release of Ballyhoo, which was just made here for VPX.

      I purchased mine from craigslist for $100 which included dead mice, urine smell and mouse bedding and nests.  I completely redid mine and now it is a permanent fixture in my home.

       

      ******GAMEPLAY******

      Rules, There are 7 marbles in the game.   I added different marble textures to choose from, click Options/Ball/Ball decal and change through the different marble colors to one you like.  You start the game by inserting 5 cents and pushing the coin mech in which lifts the wires up and allows all marbles to fall below the apron.  This is done in VPX by the coin in (3) button.  There is a push knob on the front of the table which, when pushed in, ejects a ball, or two, to the shooter lane, This is done with the (1) button.  The plunger is pulled back and fire a marble up and out into one of the wire loops.

      Special thanks to the following who made this possible

      Loserman76 for help with the scripting to get this working properly

      Mlager8 for making the primitive wood pieces inside and the wood trim on the outside

      32Assassin for help with testing and troubleshooting

      Thalamus for help with testing and troubleshooting

      I hope i got everyone it has been a long project, Thanks All, Enjoy

      #205061
      Tom
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        @armyaviation

        Thanks to @Loserman76, @Mlager8, @32assassin and @thalamus for all of your help, again :good:

        #205063
        Tom
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          @armyaviation

          A quick wheel and the apron image for the backglass in Popper

          BB logo

          bunny board logo darker

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          #205123
          bord
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            @bord

            So cool. Congrats on making it to the finish line!

            #205124
            Thalamus
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              @thalamus

              I love to have a few of these old relics for VP, and I think you did a great job here Tom with team. Thank you all.

              #205132
              flstclasic
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                @flstclasic

                Awesome Tom. Great story!

                #205150
                freestlz
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                  @freestlz

                  Put some pictures on here of the one you own! I would like to see how it turned out.

                  #205160
                  makmak
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                    @makmak

                    Its all about the journey – who cares the goal… (“Der Weg ist das Ziel” good old germans or even older chinese would say ;-) nice story!

                    #205167
                    templarjh
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                      @templarjh

                      Very cool. Ipdb doesn’t have any pictures of this.

                      #205168
                      Tom
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                        @armyaviation

                        i submitted pics to ipdb 4 years ago??????????

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                        #205173
                        Warbler33
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                          @warbler33

                          Very cool!! I look forward to trying this out later :good:

                          #205174
                          Thalamus
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                            @thalamus

                            i submitted pics to ipdb 4 years ago??????????

                            57077665707__F647DB3C-2AB9-44E6-A690-C3355AB15E1D

                            Can’t help it. But, I’ve seen several cases where this community actually have supplied information to ipdb which hasn’t been taken under their wings. Makes you wonder if we could do a better job ourselves to be perfectly honest.

                            #205180
                            Tom
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                              @armyaviation

                              i know and it doesnt say who they are going to or who runs that site.  I will gladly submit them again if someone knows who is in charge there

                              #205235
                              JR
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                                @jfr1

                                “I will gladly submit them again if someone knows who is in charge there”      Skynet?

                                #205236
                                Tom
                                Participant
                                  @armyaviation

                                  i tried again, we will see

                                  #205388
                                  Auglaize99
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                                    @auglaize99

                                    Great job on this.

                                    What would I need to do to get B2S to display a simple backglass? I think I can make the BG file. Seems like some addition to the script could make it happen. Any advice?

                                    Or is there another way to get a backglass to display?

                                    #205392
                                    Thalamus
                                    Moderator
                                      @thalamus

                                      add this

                                      Set Controller = CreateObject("B2S.Server")
                                      Controller.Run

                                      before

                                      Dim EnableBallControl

                                       

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                                      #206449
                                      Lunatech Fringe
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                                        @lunatechfringe

                                        Thanks for this unique table.  Is there an easy way to change the button assignment to release the balls to something other than Coin 3 (such as “Add Credit”)?

                                        #206451
                                        JR
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                                          @jfr1

                                          I just sent an email to IPDB asking where the submitted pics are.  I suspect the site is barely maintained and managed by those that don’t have a lot of energy for it anymore.  I’m sure I’ll hear back from them promptly and I’ll suggest they let @randr take the site over.  He seems to have lots of time on his hands lately ;)

                                          #206455
                                          Tom
                                          Participant
                                            @armyaviation

                                            i got in touch with them.  gonna send them better pics

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