Thanks, Ripstick! BTW, are you the same ripstick on eBay that sells bot parts? lol
Yep... on occasion. Over the years I've been able to offer first generation resin castings of the barrel (from my original), first generation resin castings of the soapdish (from my original), and real Empire bowling pins whether they be an "e" pin", and early crown pin with the injection hole in the neck, or later crown version with the injection hole in the bottom.
Unfortunately when I was first getting castings from people (who shall remain nameless) back in 1999, they were horrible. I mean, sure... they vaguely resembled what they were supposed to -- but the details were so soft and distorted that they were basically useless to me.
It's nice to know that some of those castings have gotten better over the years.
Someone unknowingly found the engine in 2005 but took out the engine and threw out the car that it came with, so we still don't know where that engine came from. We do know it's a pink race car that's around 2 feet long and has a yellow exposed engine on top.
From what I've been told, my engine is either a 2nd or 3rd generation cast from the same engine that kid found in '05. Guy named Gary Glover made some casts from the real engine and sold about a dozen of them to other bot builders. I'm pretty sure my engine is 2nd generation.
Amazing. That's the first I've heard that story. I've done several searches over the years and have found some with close engine designs, but never a match, and usually not the right scale.
MST3KGuy (the same guy I got all my bot parts from) has an original Wallace Lamp that he got through a trade. He sells casts of it for around $50. I need to get a pair really soon actually.
Yep... I am very familiar with the photos of his original Wallace Lamp.

If his castings are directly from molds pulled from his lamp then I would definitely hit him up for a pair if he's still offering them.
I've pretty much got everything I need for Servo... except for a NICE clean engine block casting. I even own two different versions of the original Halloween "Boo Bowl" as some call it. I also happen to own this "Happy Easter" version of the bowl.