Dang.............I only live 5 minutes from there. We could of had a Pinside Bromance.

I was there Sat night. It's always a lot of fun. They have reorganized the machines so that are all in the game room now. Its nice because it feels like one big arcade. I think with the recent move they had to take out a few machines. I was there a few months ago and there are some machines missing.

Who dunnit, getaway, fish tales and dr who to name a few.
Still a fantastic collection.

I was hoping to see a x-men but nothing. According to the stern page Mort's will end up with the X-men and the launch party.

Food is standard bar food.

At night after 8 I think they run happy hour Apps. I didn't think the burger was all that but the big pile of Tots we had were really good.

Give yourself a few hours when you go. It's well worth the time and the trip.

Chris

I believe these were all owned by Erik and I heard he moved the Who Dunnit out of there, must have grabbed the rest of his as well! That's sad, because I really wanted to try out who dunnit!

Definitely a great place to hang out. Donny (the owner) calls it a "destination location" and it truly is.

Since you are coming from the south, you should stop in and check out LLoyd's SS Billiards! Not as many pins, but a wonderful owner and a great selection of machines to play! Lots of new sterns and if the time is right, he may even have a Big Bang Bar, MM, or AFM out for you to try, now how many places can boast that?

SS BILLIARDS
732 11th Avenue South, Hopkins, MN
(952) 938-9259 ‎ · ssbilliards.com

Next time you are in the neighborhood, post a message on here, I'm usually up for some beer/pins!

Never heard of it, go to ss regularly, but where is blainbrook bowl?

I was there for the tournament last night. Eric did pull all his games out. He has a ton of good ones there; STTNG, Getaway, Doctor Who, Family Guy, Spiderman, Who Dunnit, Fish Tales, Jackbot, World Poker Tour...and I think there are a couple more too. Said to see all those games gone. Fantastic place, with a great selection, but without those games, almost all the mid-90's Bally/WMS DMDs are gone now.

Blainbrook Bowl is north of the Twin Cities in Blaine.

That is truly sad! Wonder why he did that? Maybe he just wanted them all at his house to play! Can't really blame him with that lineup...

IIRC, he sold that Spidey. From the pics, it looks like Donny still has a WoF there

Blainbrook Bowl
12000 Central Avenue Northeast
Minneapolis, MN 55434
(763) 755-8686

Bar + food (good restaurant/bar food), Bowling, and boat loads of pins and some Ticket Redemption machines as well as a few sit down arcades.

The above is correct. Most were sold long before they left.

WOF is still there. That was one of the qualifying games in the tourney last night. Looks really nice with the LEDs in there.

Grats on the sale(s)!

I miss my old Who Dunnit.

Stay tuned Got NOS Tony's Palace plastic for it too!

Heck, if you are looking to trade for it, let me know if anything I have interests you...

Put your DD on hold and snag one of these two. Distract the wife with a game she likes!

Feel free to PM me next time you head up. I'd be happy to host you and the wife at my place for a beer or two and a few games. I'm no more than 10 minutes off of I-35 on your way up to Blaine.

I can vouch for Tony's niceness. Heck of a guy.

I am 5 minutes................if that..............from Blainbrook and would love to have some "challengers" over to my place. Hoping to add a 4th game this fall/winter. Usually 4 home brews on tap and on some weekends I have the outdoor smoker going (ribs, sausage, brisket, etc).

Les,
You know you are welcome to the Dungeon anytime to play my beautiful WhoDunnit!! In fact, thinking of doing a get together Saturday night with some of the locals. Let me know if interested. Same goes for you Tony!
Brian

I'd come over but I am having some people over too.

DUELING GET TOGETHERS!!!! FIGHT!

Hey @DuckBrian, did I meet you @ Tony's on Sat? I'm Josh, weird dude with the beard-like thing.

What's a beard like thing?

In the sake of get togethers, I'm inviting everyone over on Saturday as well. Let the battles begin.... kidding!

Actually, I think Tony invited me to tag-a-long to your place Pinhead (of course only if you're ok with that).

Yes and yes. Yes yes.

Yes he doesn't sell many that I know of. I want his Tron.

Hi Seitz

Hey Duckbrian...................finishing up your ACDC hopefully tomorrow. It looks good! You have to post a pic. I don't think Pinsiders wanna keep seeing them on my LOTR.

Yes, weird dude, that was DuckBrian.

Thanks Kelly, you beat me to it. I will be sending an email out to the group Bry, but would love it if you and your much-better half can swing over on Saturday. I will get something out by tomorrow night for sure. Great to see you at Tony's Saturday. Wanted to make it down to the Ghetto that night but by the time family time was over, I was wiped out and headed straight into a head cold. Didn't think that it was *($*$*ing possible in the Summer; but I did it! No problem if Tony and co. can't make it Saturday as I don't want to infringe on puckguy's gathering...even if he does live in North Toolyville! Us Southsiders will do it up!
Brian

Eric, it sounds like funchaser (chris) should be able to make it on saturday.

Brian, if you could include me on the email list, I'd really appreciate 'getting in the fold' with the guys down here. This weekend probably won't work for me, but hopefully I'll be able to join sometime soon. tony (dot) middendorf (at) gmail

I've bought a few machines off him. He's a nice guy, who's straight forward and honest when it comes to selling machines. He's a busy man, but I think the best way to get a hold of him is @ blainbrook. I've only got him via the blainbrook phone a handful of times, but its worth a shot. From what I've seen, he doesn't actively sell many machines, but I've seen him list a couple on CL from time to time.

Thanks Old Man! You're always so nice to me.

Blainbrook Bowl is a nice place. I was there about a month ago. When I was there they were just opening up for the day. I switched on the pins that I wanted to play. Felt like a kid in a candy store. A few had startup errors, but that is to be expected with fifty pins in the wild. Too many pins. Not enough time to play. My favorite of all I that I played was HS2.

My wife and two sons enjoyed the visit as well. With darts and other games in the arcade everyone had fun. Food was good and reasonably priced. We wanted to bowl, but ran out of time. Planning to head back there this weekend.

Some of us are probably hanging out at Eric's (pinheadpuckguy) place on Saturday. He lives minutes from Blainbrook. Feel free to PM me if you want to meet up at all.

Hmmmm probably? I was gonna have some "eats" for ya guys as well. I thought afternoon early evening at my place. I wish I had some more pins. Blainbrook later. Cool?

Perfect plan. funchaser (Chris) said he's tied up until 4pm on Saturday.

Now I just need to mentally prepare myself to spend an extended amount of time with Northvibe haha

Are you coming earlier? Or are you guys riding together? Jonogo are you coming. I was thinking 2-ish. And yes PDeez will get squirly.

I can come over anytime. I mean, my average ball time on LOTR is about 40 minutes, so I should probably get there early.

We'll probably come separate.

What's your avg time on Shadow? That's the question.

Haha, never played TS actually.

My ball time is nowhere near 40 min on LOTR either. (I'm full of crap) Only ever played it on route. Some with AFM.

I'm very excited to try out TS.

I miss Minnesota! I was just getting into pinball as we moved west. Visited SS and Blainbrook a few times. That drive to Blaine was no fun from Bloomington, but it was worth it.

My LOTR kicks my butt actually. I am pretty decent on TS. I have decent games on AFM.

I was thinking Jerk Pulled Pork sammys and some kind of slaw or something. I have a honey weizen, orange witbier, black lager, and a american brown ale on tap too.