There are still tickets available for Friday and Sunday. Sunday is starting to pick up, i could see that selling out too. So if you want to come to the event, please get your ticket ahead.

The Ann Arbor Pinball Show is coming May 16-18.
Remember this is a limited ticket event. This keeps game-to-people ratio very nice without over crowding.

http://www.vfwpinball.com
two hundred machines on free place. Show is friday, saturday, sunday, May 16-18.
thanks!

Yes can bring a game to sell, that's no problem.

Not to sound too dooms day and all, but sunday is pushing towards a sell out too.

There will be a bunch of other games for sale too from plug-and-play units to projects in the garage/flee market area.

We met with the Fire Marshal a few months ago and went through the whole building and calculated free square footage and exit doors. Based on that he gave us occupancy numbers. This was instrumental in determining how many tickets would be available for any of the days. Because I've been to some shows where if there was a fire, chaos would ensue... you just couldn't get people out fast enough. I informed him that all Williams sys3-11 games (pre sys11b) have been modified with added fuses to the bridge rectifiers, so the chance of fire is non-existant! (Williams, gotta love them.)

Ticket sales for sunday are moving well. It would really suck if someone drove to the show without a ticket, and was turned away at the door. For this reason if you are coming it's really advisable that you get a ticket ahead at the web site. http://www.vfwpinball.com

On a side note the outside flee market and food pavilion do not require a wristband. But you can't get inside the building where the 200+ games resides without a wristband.

For people that bought tickets friday night, they will get a free pinball poster upon entry. Saturday attendees can enter into the raffle for the plug and play EM pinball we're giving away (Bally Odds and Evens.)

I know we're only 1/3 done with the show, but i really have to thank the VFW crew. The presence of "orange shirts" was outstanding. And damn they all had smiles on their faces, everyone was having fun.

Though today (Saturday) is going to be the real test, last night (Friday) was amazing. I've been to a lot of pinball shows and frankly, even I (whom supposed to be doing 'real work') was having a blast. Usually working shows is a bit of a drag, but everyone was having a good time. Heck i even got Terry at pinball life to smile a couple times!

Below is a picture of the outside flee market vendors.
that's jeff m. there.

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Here's a picture of the inside of the garage with the games for sale in the flee market area. There is Matt (forget his last name) from Bay City, he won the Bally Odd & Evens we gave away at 6pm saturday. He was pretty happy as he's an EM guy.

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