If your flying in Bloomington by the airport is fine. There’s a Marriott on Opus PKWY in Minnetonka that would be ideal/ closest if driving is an issue. I’m sure there will be plenty of rides available.

Just stay out of Robbinsdale and Minneapolis in my opinion. Eden prairie slightly better than maple grove. I think there’s a convention center in Saint Louis park that might have some hotels close by too.

If you do ~10oz mugs I’ll take at least two. Paint is starting to come off some of my others. Course they are decades old and see the dishwasher….a lot.

I can’t math very well but I think 15

How late is the festivities planned? I have had two people book me that day one in the morning and the other mid day. Hopefully I’d at least have time to stop in and say hi real quick. pinballplusMN wants to make it there and I know DavidLee has this on his calendar.

I was thinking about that too but now I’m starting to worry about parking spots. I know there’s a lot there but you never know. I have no idea what time and if I would arrive today.

If you try leaving too early Hopkins PD pulls you over

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Talk later….celebrating to do

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DavidLee above

pinballplusMN arriving in 15 minutes

Great to see a lot of new faces and old faces I haven’t seen since 2019.

My first game on Dr. Who

Part of the video I just uploaded on Pinball Outpost doing a quick walkthrough when I got there at 2:30 forgot to change my camera from 720 to 1080 but you get the idea.

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Nice writeup:

https://www.pinballnews.com/site/2022/09/26/golden-goose/

Took me awhile to figure out how to find the old site but here it is:

https://www.pinballnews.com/learn/index.html

(had to figure it out last month in the middle of a debate on which tournament game was at expo 2000. So glad he kept the old site archived it's neat to look at the turbulence in the expo reports around the turn of the millennium)