A playfield rewaxing kit (cleaner and wax). Light bulbs, rubbers, plastics, how to DVD's. A thread here on the forums named after user or a stickied thread just for the winner. Thats off the top of my head.

The idea of a contest sounds great and the suggested items are good. I'd like to get involved in some aspect. Let me know. Btw - nice new avatar Brokedad. I switched to my new one the other day.

If a member has refurbished their own machine have it featured on the front page so even guest of the website/forum will see it 1st off. Thats all ways a fun prize, I know this from Spudfiles contest. Members just love to have their stuff featured! Thats a easy prize to give.

There's got to be tons more easy fun prizes to give, I'm drawing a blank now.

Sounds like a good plan! I could make a new subforum called contests. Then Brokedad can start a new topic for each contest. I could feature each current contest on the Pinside home page to draw more attention to it.

One thing would be rather mandatory for this to work: the forum software would need to support a user to insert images into their post. I will look into this.

As to the question who can act as a judge, I think we just need a couple of people (e.g. 4). I would be happy to be a judge. I could also ask my girlfriend. She would probably judge total different aspects of an entry. Maybe Brokedad could judge as well. We just need a fourth person then.

But I totally support the idea!

Trivia would be very nice. I have always had many questions for such a quiz. For the 1990-now games mostly

As for your question... Gottlieb's 1960 game "Flipper"?

Trivia questions would only work on an hounor system of course, then have a different one for coolest mods, most intense restoration, highest scores (certain games, I guess) or based on factory replay scores with a variance percentage figured out, maybe even go as far as most sickest game room, or most machines. First one to have a picture of themselves playing pinball in a different city or country. How about writing a fictional pinball type story?!?!??! Those are some of my ideas. I know for prizes, anything pinball related would be cool. Maybe some old pinball mesh hat from the 80's or a pinball pez dispenser or something. I found a pinball/gumball game at the dollar store that was, guess what, 1 dollar! I bought it cuz it was cool. Handheld pinball games and toys I find all the time at yard sales for 50 cents. I could dig up a few 'unique' things to donate for prizes.

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I'm wide open to the contest's idea: the pictured's one and the machine quizz.

Go ahead junkies

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"My biggest fear lately has been that as a relative newcomer folks would take offense that robin gave me a low level moderator status."

My guess is that the advise you give proves technical experience beyond most new comers like myself. No offence taken, nor should there be. Your advise is worth it's weight in gold, be proud of that and thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Brokedad have you ever thought of putting together some video clips on fixing pinball machines, techniques that you use??? That would be a awesome prize! "Brokedads Repair Tips and Tricks DVD"

There are some sort of contests where everybody can take part in that don't rely on any sort of honor system or access to specific machines. One thing we could do is contests where we all submit a photo of a pinball machine, part of a machine, or of something pinball related. We could even theme them and change the theme week to week. For example, one week we'd all submit "best toy" photo and another time it could be "ramp shots". You could think of ways to be creative.

Just an idea...

I am new here, but enjoying the banter. I want to have a contest called " most hilarious fictional pin". In 300 words or less (or whatever) describe what would be the funniest pin ever. I think my husband would win with an idea he had the other night. Wish I could type it here- you would roll. Anyway, I hope you come up with a contest even us poorer folks can be in!! Don't think I'd have a shot at most machines...