Sega Saturn demo stand

Not a console but console related and could be pretty rare, so I thought I'd share info about it with you lot.

Dunno how rare these are in and outside Australia, but I've only seen them occasionally instores during the Saturn's era and the only time I've seen them since then is the one I own.

Won this one of a collector who lived near Sydney through eBay, cost me around $150AUD. The seller originally aquired it along with a Dreamcast demo stand from a store (nfi if it was a retail store or indy game store) to use in a retro game store he and a mate were going to start up, but never got around to doing so.

It's about 2.5m high, 1.1-2 wide and about the same going back at the base. It has 4 lights (1 bulb 3 fluro) which light up the logos and help highlight the console through the cage shield. It's anooying lighting this thing up as each light has it own power cord, requiring the need of a switch board.

Becasue the ends of the stands arms are designed to hold the controllers like a 2nd skin to prevent theft, only 1 of the 2 controller designs are compatible (no MD kind). It can also accept anything of up to a 68CM tellie, for 38-51 cam tellies there are 2 plastic shield with stick to the sides, to hide the gape betwwen the tellie and the stand walls.

Did I mention this thing is incredibly heavy? It has no weels to move around on, so it's backbreaking labour to move it around (easily weighs an odd 50kilos, IMO).

Thats all for now, this is the pic of it from the auction. I'll post some more later of it close up, and different angles, and when it's lit p in the dark.... As soon as I can borrow a mates digital cam.

 

I was offered one for 50e... guess i should've bought it :smt022

 

wow what a kickass stand!
Anti how could you turn that down :smt017

 

it was on marktplaats.nl, I figured it too much bother to get home and I have no room to put it :Hangman:

 

Wow, That brings back memories from my HMV days in the UK :smt040

Yakumo

 

Man i wish i could get my hand on any demo stand at all, especialy i want a GBA / gameboy classic / gameboy color demo stand , seeing as i have little room :smt019

 

could swear there was one ebay? maybe someone pointed it out here or maybe i came across one...

 

*drools*

Hmm, the GameBoy stand in the UK for original GB was actually quite bulky... V shaped with a GB either side, linked to play (usually) tetris.

mmm, saturn stand......

 

im after a dreamcast stand/pod aint seen one on ebay in a few weeks ..... they usally go for about £150

 

£150? Geez, they were £600 new as far as I remember! The monitor was a nice hi res sony or something