Pretty Cool Scarpie. The last time I was there I played a POTC and, shockingly, I played a kick butt game on it. The pin was in decent shpe and I really liked the overall feel of the pin. It's a shame so many pins in the wild are not kept in the best of shape.

There is an absolutely mint tron pro at The Polynesian too.

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I will never for the life of me understand the need to search out pinball machines in a place that offers so many other distractions.

A conversation overheard in Heaven :

God: "Welcome to Heaven my son."
Pinhead: "Thanks, but...uh...where are the pins at ?"

Some of us go to WDW so often that we're looking for something different.

Ya know - if I go to Disneyworld - I ain't going to spend my time looking/playing pinball machines.

Agree, didn't have the kidos with me when I was there for a conference. I hit up the arcade when we got back to the resort at night...Contemporary Resort Arcade.

Kids can barely make it on their feet to the room after a day at Disney. Daddy needs a drink and a pin he has not played cause he deserves a magical time too

I also do not have many locations around. Really looking foward for that Vegas trip
But it's good to know Disney have a few around and they respected their themes. Tron, Marvel, Pirates of the C. Big surprise to hear some pins have taken a beating. Everything is so imaculate there I'm in shock. Everyone smiles (hard to see these days from employees), no trash or papers on the floor. There is a flaw with that place afterall. To the uneducate eye pins are okay but not for a pinhead hehehe. Have fun.

If you have no more machines to try........... 2 words

PLEASURE ISLAND, downtown Disney

Must be Florida not California ?

Sorry watching hockey, as I see now u guys are talking about Florida....my bad.
Disneyland in California has ONE machine . That's it, between both parks , California Adventure and Disneyland. It's a Well used Indiana Jones across from the rides entrance in the gift shop. Pretty beat up in my opinion. It does have a great custom cabinet .

As of a few weeks ago The Contemporary has 3.... Tron and POTC (both looked like they were in great shape) and an Elvis that was turned off. Didn't play any though, only stopped by for lunch and decided to duck in the arcade just to see what they had. The Space Mountain arcade had four back in October (POTC, IJ, SWE1, Elvis) all of which were in pretty bad shape. I played IJ and kept getting replays which ticked me off since there are much better things to do out there...I can play pretty much all of these back home in Chicago!

A lofty goal perhaps, but this topic has been covered quite recently.

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/any-pinball-at-disney-world

Pleasure island has been closed for years . It's just restaurants and shops now . If you want the best pins they are generally in resorts . I used to work at Disney for 15 years but got tired of the bullshit . Good luck on your search

I just got back from Disney World myself, and while I can't say that I was seeking out pinball machines, I always enjoy walking through the arcades to see what is new and what people are playing. The resort (Art of Animation) also gave me "100 points" for free (AKA $2.00) for staying, so I figured I'd play some Tron pinball since it was at the resort.

Got the GC score and more than doubled the second score (around 85 mil). Some would whine that the left flipper was weak. I played on route for years and didn't mind at all, made it more of a challenge. Managed to get to Portal I think, wasn't paying a ton of attention.

I also saw the pins in the Contemporary when my son was going to the bathroom, and to entice him to actually go I told him I'd walk with him through the arcade. He's three. They had a Tron, POTC and Elvis, all clearly recently shopped. I was particularly surprised to see an LED in the recognizer in the TRON, a mod that someone did to the game themselves - looked good. For all the complaints that people have about these not being taken care of, I was pleasantly surprised that there were people almost constantly on the pins that I saw. (Contemporary had three people on their pins 100% of the time we were there every time I walked by, which was more than an hour of time). Try taking any one of your pins and running it with someone playing it non-stop for 4 hours a day, seven days a week... without opening it to tweak any issues that arise. I think you'd be surprised to find that they actually do an outstanding job there of keeping them up.

I was there a few months ago (free admission as well) and the Avengers played pretty nice. Ironically, it was the only game not being played by all the kiddies. I had a feeling that they don't really service them.

Distractions, read: 10% mediocre rides from the 80's, 90% useless shit to buy.

Three. There's a Tron LE and a Cyclone in the Starcade near the exit of Space Mountain.

Same here. Will be staying at the Beach Club in September for our yearly two weeks in Walt Disney World. 20th time which works out roughly as having spent 10 months on-site.

Always pinballs in the resorts, mainly Tron and Pirates.

And the Cyclone is actually pretty nice!

There are location pins to play in MD.

http://www.fspazone.org/ladb/ladb.pl

I recommend Volleyball House in Elkridge, and Town Hall in College Park.

They used to have a row of EM pitch and bats and a couple of woodrail bingo machines. The bingo pins just didn't do it for me, but I dropped a lot of dimes in the baseball games.

There are 3 machines in Disneyland in CA. Edit: missed the post above.

There is a tron le

OOOH! Beach Club rocks! That is our favorite hotel on earth.

Here's Cyclone and Tron LE in the Starcade at Disneyland last month!

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I was at Downtown Disney, Orlando 2 years ago and specifically went on the hunt for the pinball machines in Disney Quest.
They were right up on the 7th (?) floor and took some finding, even after asking for directions from staff. The rest of the place was busy with kids and adults alike.
I don't remember all of the machines but do remember POTC, SM, CSI and Tron and possibly 3 or 4 others. They were all in pretty rough shape and kids would walk up to them press start a dozen or so times until they realised the ball was waiting to be launched and then play one or 2 balls before walking away leaving the machine with balls to play, and go and play a video game which was easier to understand.
I ended up playing on one machine and launching the balls on the machine either side of me so they would be ready to play.
Photo is from The Magic Kingdom, not a single person came anywhere near any of the machines while I was there, and I played each machine at least once.

It seems that even when the machines are out on site (which is very uncommon in the UK) people, especially kids, aren't playing them.

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We visited WDW last year and stayed at Animal Kingdom Lodge. They had a IJ4 and Dale Jr at the time. At the end of the day, I would "volunteer" to go down to the lobby shop to get our free refills for our $20 mugs. As the arcade was on the same route, I would stop in for a few games to unwind from the tiring day at the parks.

Nothing wrong with taking some "me" time on vacation. The wife (shopping) and the kids (rides/toys/etc) aren't shy about getting something for themselves, so why not.

Just got back from Universal Orlando.
Both parks had one pin. Shrek.

Cool thanks for the info, we are there at Disneyland at least once a year.

2 weeks at the Beach Club?

that has to run you thousands!

Wow 2 weeks yearly. I was there two days and had my fill but I guess with kids it is more for them.

You guys should check out Cow Lick's in Daytona, they have SS, MB, SWEP1, Bally HD, and they recently added RFM. Games are in great working condition. Give them a spin and support the place, and don't forget to get food/ice cream!