I'll be there on Friday from 12-3. (Why can't it start earlier? I'll be getting my 80s groove on later in the day. I have meet & greet passes for Spandau Ballet in Red Bank and gotta split early. Let the ball busting begin...)

I'll go Saturday if I'm feeling it, but probably not. It's overcrowded and a bunch of machines are gone already.

Who else is going?

Wait...a festival will be at the festival??? *Mind Blown*

You won't get picked. Just tell them you hate everybody.

Oh, I'll show you something...

Why would we ball bust you? That IS how you wear it!

I was thinking the same thing...but I've decided that Allentown probably isn't the place to do Pinside badges. I'd feel like too much of a douchebag (and I don't need help with that). Since they do wristbands there, you just slap one on, wander the grounds incognito, and hope nobody you insulted online recognizes you. (Although I've had fellow Pinsiders give me up in the past...)

I'll tell you why. If there isn't already an existing badge hanging there, it's like you're walking around saying, "Hey! I'm on Pinside!" like that's some badge of honor or something. It's a freakin' forum. I just think it's kind of douchey, but to each their own. I won't do it. I really do think it'll make me look like the dork pictured above. I'll proudly wear it at ReplayFX when I have a badge on a lanyard already. Not so bad then.

And I wouldn't take you into the bathroom and beat you up because you'd probably kick my fat ass around the joint, then shove my head in the toilet and give me a swirly.

WHICH bald bastard???

Around 11:30 on Friday a brown CRV will pull into the parking lot. The windows will be rolled down and the stereo will be blaring Billy Joel's "Allentown." People in line, annoyed, will turn from their pre-show anticipatory conversations and point, saying, "Who's THAT dick?"

That'll be me.

Can't, buddy. Spandau Ballet beckons.

Well in that case I'll be cranking it up just a little more this year.

You being there on Saturday may be enough to get me back out there the second day. You being there with another LED OCD board on hand for my Funhouse would make my visit guaranteed.

Yes.

This thread is starting to get REALLY funny...

I'll probably wear a t-shirt with a picture of my rude dog on it...anyone who knows my avatar will know it's me, but I'll avoid being douchey by not wearing a Pinside badge at a show that doesn't use badges. That t-shirt should smell pretty awesome by Saturday...

Bring your PAPA trophy. It'll be like the Stanley Cup tour. I can take a picture with it.

Longest day of my life: The last day I have to work before any pinball show...and I'm not done until 8:30 tonight.

We'd get along great. I wear Hawaiian shirts nearly every day. I'm a teacher, and when I take a day off from wearing them, the kids get depressed. It's part of who I am at this point.

Having said that, I'll be taking a day off from them tomorrow and Saturday. But I can wear one if it'll help you find me.

A lot of rude people there.

That said, I met SO many Pinsiders that I wanted to say hello to. (Looked for you, Trekkie, and didn't see your Jets hoodie or Batman machine!) Missed seeing a lot of people I would have liked to meet, but it was difficult to even find people I knew inside that mess of people and machines.

Great show, and I'm looking forward to it next year.

Until then...I'm looking forward to Pintastic New England!