Hoping someone out here has some experience with Party Zone. It is my kid's favourite game, so I am hoping to fix soon.

The Captain's head is supposed to follow the direction of the ball during game play. As of yesterday, from startup he turns his head all the way to the right and that's where it stays. His jaw keeps talkin', but his head aint a swlvellin' to follow the ball.  The head test fails. If I manually turn the head to the left, it goes right back to the right on startup.

I have several ideas, but before I go into super sleuth mode, which consumes precious time, I was wondering if anyone else here has experienced this and could enlighten me as to where I might look first before I really rack my noggin.

Thanks

If I remember correctly there is a motor control board and a couple of TIP's on the driver board that control head movement. Could be a fused tip or a problem with the motor control board. Check Q32 Head Direction TIP and Q34 Head ON/OFF TIP first. I suspect if it isn't the gear box binding or slipping it's probably one of the TIP's. Could also be dirty or bad opto's on the motor board or switch issues.

optos are used for right and left if I remember.

inspect it firast, clean 'em and replace that opto if needed. I even think it's the same opto as tz's clock..yeah yeah that's it! I've changed it b4