Did someone take a translight out of a Full Throttle machine? That would take some balls; to remove parts from a new, prototype machine. Or, any machine in a room with games at EXPO.

Hard to believe the Westin, a Hotel that is under ten years old, does not have security cameras. At least in all hallways that have doors that access the ballroom where these thefts took place.

Even the old Ramada, before it was remodeled and converted to a modern Holiday Inn Express, had security cameras that were used to identify someone going into the auction area the night before the actual auction with a few gassed out displays. The same guy came out with good displays swapped out in some machines for the auction. Search RGP for details.

The lamp shade is shown in the first post of this thread:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/help-would-you-actually-buy-a-seriously-cool-pinball-lamp#post-2784126

I'm happy to say I was the first cash paying customer at Expo to buy one as the vendor hall was opening at the show. I even bought an extra panel for $24.00 or $26.00, which is more than the price for each of the four with the shade which was $80-Mr. Personality gets a cut.

It's only a $79.99 lamp shade. But the State of Illinois is going to be pissed about losing out on over $5.00 worth of uncollected sales tax.

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