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Hotel is booked for Thurs-Sun, bought some VIP passes (it was the promised hug that won us over), and Pinball-is-great is going to bring
PavBall and I's Catacomb for the tourney; our third time bringing a game to this wonderful show.
This is our favorite pinball event throughout the year. Really looking forward to catching up with SunKing (we will see if he can re-earn the partyking mantel) and
way2wyrd and everyone.
Quoted from PinballManiac40:I look forward to playing this game for the first time. I had sent a PM about CPR Catacomb plastic sets now shipping. I hope the ones if your game are nice.
Oh yes! I did receive that, sorry, I have been slammed at work since late August... I still need to reach out to the other gentleman as well, hopefully I can meet him at the show this year.
Lots of great door prizes having been shown on Facebook. Heck, even Disney has sent some things. Whoever has been posting those on Facebook should consider posting them here.
So, what resturaunts are around the hotel? There was a Twin Peaks near the old one, is there a similar place (to watch sports games of course) near the new hotel?
Catacomb is loaded up and heading to Houston. Thanks to Pinball-is-great for picking it up for
PavBall and I.
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This hotel even has a haunted room for the Harp Twins and other performers over the weekend. We had nothing like this at the previous location. E40A0FDF-C97F-473E-BDB9-AB15A2ABE459 (resized).jpegB66F3A1E-6CE7-4A58-90D0-9187ED0C5444 (resized).jpeg730E5021-F2B8-448E-824A-2ED8488DAD60 (resized).jpeg710C95CE-6123-4BBC-8DB7-5F09C89FF6E6 (resized).jpeg
Quoted from Blitzburgh99:The location is WAYYYYYY better than recent years! Kudos to Keith finding this spot. Let the show begin
Man, hands down this new location is waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy better. Not even comparable. I was one of the doubters about moving locations (as we had the run of the place at the old location) but everything here is better and we have the run of the place here as well. Keith is the man!
Quoted from PinballManiac40:24 ColorDMD Pinball Displays at the 2018 Houston Arcade and Pinball Expo this weekend including the latest Ghostbusters release
Your BSD is incredible. Best light selection I’ve seen in a Drac. Thanks for bringing it.
Quoted from Zitt:The Tourney organizer kept the machines off and behind roped off areas... some of the best machines (TnA) were there.
Quoted from Zitt:When you are done with the tourney for the night; release those games to the game room. This is crucial if we are going to seen a heavily skewed game room in favor of Arcades.
Some people bring games for the tourney exclusively because they want tourney quality games to be able to play and because they know everyone who will be playing them. If they wanted their games on the floor then they wouldn’t have been put in the tourney...they would have put them on the floor. Tournament games are brought by the tourney community.
Quoted from Zitt:The music... OMG. This has to go or be separate from the game room. Having a live stage in the game room was worse than having a DJ in the game room. Please consider taking this elsewhere. I want to actually hear a machine I'm playing. The music was loud enough when pre-recorded... but was easily 20x-50x worse when "bands" were preforming. It was actually intolerable and I had to leave early because it was just too much. While the back of the hall was better... you couldn't even play any of the pins near the stage for two reasons. first being the shear pain of the music at that location. and second; the "mosh pit" which developed there. I do not want to get rich by selling HAAG earplugs next year.
The music is awesome. My favorite part of the show. This show is meant to be a party. You can’t have a party without music.
Quoted from Zitt:Please follow TPF's lead here.
To each their own. HAAG is the better show in my opinion. I’d be hugely disappointed if HAAG became more like TPF. No show is perfect but I think HAAG blew it away this year. I saw a lot of happy people having a blast all weekend.
I never noticed long lines of people waiting for machines. There were plenty of games available.
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