Backglass Lighting

There are no bulbs behind the backglass.  A florescent lamp illuminates the backglass.  See image below.

Under the Playfield

Many of the bulbs are attached to the playfield with a rubber washer.

Some bulbs are mounted in these plastic holders. Notice the wires are not soldered.

Above shows the Vari-Target mechanism.  It can register 5 discrete positions.

Instructions for adjusting the Vari-Target are on the Vari-Target side not visible above.  They are shown below.

The image above shows the mechanism for the "Believe It or Not!" scoop.

Stern's main flipper mechanism.  They work very well.  I'm not sure why people complain about them.

This is the flipper mechanism for the upper right flipper.  Notice it does not have an EOS switch!

The Stern ball trough.  It uses gravity and optos and appears similar to the "new" Williams trough from 1993.

Here is the Shrunken Head magnet.

Above is an image of the Idol magnet.

It is hard to see, but the image above shows the Tic-Tac-Toe board.  Look behind the mess of wires. I hope these bulbs do not burn out soon!

Here is a nice picture of the pop bumper and its mechanism

Lamps

Ripley's Believe It or Not has 79 lamps on the playfield!  These are not general illumination, but rather can be independently controlled by the game.

1. Special (left)
2. Special (right)
3. Super Jackpot Value 2 million + lite extra
4. Super Jackpot Value 3 million
5. Super Jackpot Value 4 million
6. Super Jackpot Value 1 million + lite special
7. Super Jackpot Value 5 million
8. Super Jackpot Value 6 million
9. Shoot Again
10. Idols Collected 1
11. Idols Collected 2
12. Idols Collected 3
13. Idols Collected 4
14. Idols Collected 5
15. Tic-Tac-Toe a1
16. Tic-Tac-Toe a2
17. Tic-Tac-Toe a3
18. Tic-Tac-Toe b1
19. Tic-Tac-Toe b2
20. Tic-Tac-Toe b3
21. Tic-Tac-Toe c1
22. Tic-Tac-Toe c2
23. Tic-Tac-Toe c3
24. Tomb Stone 1
25. Tomb Stone 2
26. Tomb Stone 3
27. Tomb Stone 4
28. Tomb Stone 5
29. Scoop Arrow
30. Ripley's R
31. Ripley's I
32. Ripley's P
33. Ripley's L
34. Ripley's E
35. Ripley's Y
36. Ripley's S
37. Lower Left Popper
38. Lower Right Popper
39. Lower Bottom Popper
40. Skill
41. Million
42. Jackpot
43. Vari-Target Special
44. Vari-Target Extra Ball
45. Vari-Target ?
46. Vari-Target South America
47. Vari-Target North America
48. Vari-Target Europe
49. Vari-Target Australia
50. Vari-Target Asia
51. Vari-Target Antarctica
52. Vari-Target Africa
53. Penguin
54. Advance Tomb Stone
55. Right Spinner
56. Right Jackpot
57. Lock
58. Ripoff
59. Center Jackpot
60. Lite Head
61. Gate Open
62. Upper Left Popper
63. Upper Right Popper
64. Upper Bottom Popper
65. Left Spinner
66. Multiball
67. Light locks
68. Collect Bigfoot bonus
69. Super Jackpot
70. Odditorium
71. The Head Knows
72. Bozo
73. Bonus X Inlane Left
74. Bonus X Inlane Center
75. Bonus X Inlane Right
76. Rear Scramble Temple Code
77. Rear Wake Up Idol
78. Rear Amazing Event
79. Start

Note that diagnostics also shows a "Tournament" light, which I did not see.  Also, the Idol has a red light but this is generated by some other mechanism.

In addition to these lights, there are 9 flashers

Speech

Ripley Speech

Believe It or Not
Welcome back
It's time to visit North America
It's time to visit South America
It's time to visit Australia
It's time to visit Asia
It's time to visit Antarctica
It's time to visit Africa
It's time to visit Europe
Try a ramp shot
Collecting an idol would be good now
Another letter in my name. How nice.
Player 2
Player 3
Player 4
Player 1 is up
Player 2 is up
Player 3 is up
Player 4 is up
Shrunken heads!  I love collecting these
A fast way to gather more jewels
Roller-skating penguins.  How amazing!

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Shrunken Head

Keep goin' man
Rock on hairy guy
We jammin' now

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