San Francisco, CA
Hercules?! gotta learn some tourney strategies!
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Quoted from genex:Hercules?! gotta learn some tourney strategies!
Hit the huge ball with the huge flippers!
rd
Just got my shipping arrival confirmation ...
I will have a new Thunderbirds pinball machine at my place on the Sunday for everyone to play.
Mike is sending one over for us. He will be there to discuss Thunderbirds, and his operation in China.
Come to Pincade and check it out!
F A B Virgil.
rd
Auckland
Saskatoon, SK
This is 'O' for Aweosme - cheers Dave.
Can't wait to see and play this - been following the story for a while.
Fantastic news!
Wicked, wicked, wicked!
Quoted from Timboslice:Wicked, wicked, wicked!
Pincade 2018 - the only event on the planet where you can play Total Nuclear Annihilation AND Thunderbirds AND P3 all in one weekend. 
TnA - Friday
P3 - Saturday
Thunderbirds - Sunday
rd
Finally bought my plane tickets today! Now how do i convince my boss that i'll be working remotely all 9 business days i'll be gone...?
Brisbane
Quoted from rotordave:Pincade 2018 - the only event on the planet where you can play Total Nuclear Annihilation AND Thunderbirds AND P3 all in one weekend.
TnA - Friday
P3 - Saturday
Thunderbirds - Sunday
rd
Cant wait for this ,was a Virgin last year to this Fantastic Event
I talked it up so much I have Ten of us coming over ,Cant wait to play some of those new machines & of Coarse my Favorite System 11s
See You Soon Dave & the gang
Lille
Quoted from Bul:So many good pins at pincade... I will be in Iceland from 4 to 11 to make me remember New Zealand country.....
Very cool hoodies and polo shirts, well done guys !
Hi Franck
I hope you're well. It's too bad that you won't be at Pincade as I think you've been for the last three years. We've always admired your commitment as you've always travelled the furthest. At least it will give the others a chance to win some trophies this year.
Just think of all that tender barbequed marinated lamb that you love so much, yummy! I'll bet your mouth is watering right now. Anyway, we hope to see you and your son at a future event in New Zealand.
To your good health!
Yee.
Quoted from Pinrookie:Wow! This is awesome.
Indeed.
Put this icing on the cake ... a fully functioning and working Hercules!
rd
Hope the road opens in time to get to Auckland.
Quoted from rotordave:Hmmm ... what do we have here ...?
rd
Out of interest, what was your preorder position number, RD?
Quoted from DDDwingmaster:Massive downpour in NZ with a lot of roads closed Hope the road opens in time to get to Auckland.
Just a little drizzle in wellington. It is underway!
Quoted from pinsanity:Out of interest, what was your preorder position number, RD?
None. It’s not mine.
rd
Quoted from clg:It is underway!
A massive 76 competitors at tonight’s Pincade opener at Moon Bar in Wellington.
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6 more showed up later!
The local crew shipped in 17 pins, we started at 6pm and we are still cranking it out at 1am.
Down to the last 4!
rd
1:40am and Pincade at Moon Bar in Wellington is all done!
1: Travis Bishop (AUS)
2: Simon Haxton (NZ)
3: Grant Quinn (AUS)
4: Danny Van Kan (NZ)
Half the games are packed in the truck and gone ...
Now time for some packed Tuna for dinner!
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Thanks for putting on the welly event guys. We had a great time and so nice to meet lots of you
Justin b
So, Friday night summary ...
67 people entered the Pincade Total Nuclear Annihilation launch party!
Two TNAs were set up in my lounge!
Well, no ... they didn’t arrive in time! Whaaaatya gonna dooo ....
So we had a Spooky-Off instead! One game on AMH, one game on RZ.
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Then top 32 went into playoffs on all the other pins.
Results:
1/ Jason Lambert (aus)
2/ Kim Dozier (nz)
3/ Aiden Kersley (nz)
4/ Chris Wade (aus)
Another 1.30 finish! And 3am bedtimes.
Good times!
rd
Quoted from rotordave:None. It’s not mine.
rd
Good in a way. That means no risk of pecuniary interest bias when it comes to a public review.
Swinks from Pinfest 2016 gave the last objective review so it has been a long time between drinks.
Say Gday to FD Dan for me and tell him my pinball machine sales and restoration business are going really well selling to 95%+ first time buyers and ultimately expanding the hobby userbase here. Apparently he has taken a sudden keen public interest in what I am up to beyond the cliques of the Aussie pinball community so thought I would give him a shout out here and you can pass it on since he won't contribute to pinside at all. Small fish in a big pond syndrome perhaps?
Quoted from sleazius:Troll somewhere else,
Thar she blows, LOL.
Quoted from sleazius:this is the pincade thread last I checked.
Which currently has in its possession the only final iteration of a Thunderbirds pinball machine in the world yet we haven't heard a single piece of feedback regarding "improved" gameplay on it to date.
Go figure on that one, Moby.
Hi Genex and Rotordave
Thank you for sharing these awesome photos. 
Man! The TNAs didn't arrive in Auckland on time but I guess it is OK Rotordave. You have enough pinball machines to keep everyone happy. People in this pincade are amazing.
Lol! That Monopoly looks Great! The owner must be very happy. 
Quoted from rotordave:And 3am bedtimes.
Whaaaaat?
No late night/early morning throwdown on classic Ballys?!?
For shame 2018 Pincade!
Pincade 2018 is finished!
89 competitors in today’s System 11 World Champs and Pincade Classics at my house.
Sys11 Winner: Rob McCauley (aus)
Classics Winner: Danielle Peck (nz)
Woman’s Winner: Danielle Peck (nz)
Pinball errrr Danni was the winner on the day! Not bad from someone who wasn’t even going to compete because she has exams tomorrow 8am. (Thanks dad...)
The event was so big the Red Bull girls showed up to hand out free Red Bulls!
rd
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Wow so much fun - gonna post more thoughts later but a few more pix!
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Quoted from rocky2:Hi Franck
I hope you're well. It's too bad that you won't be at Pincade as I think you've been for the last three years. We've always admired your commitment as you've always travelled the furthest. At least it will give the others a chance to win some trophies this year.
Just think of all that tender barbequed marinated lamb that you love so much, yummy! I'll bet your mouth is watering right now. Anyway, we hope to see you and your son at a future event in New Zealand.
To your good health!
Yee.
Yes Yee, I had a different holidays and one week instead of 2.
Yes the marinated lamb, bbq' s, the so friendly atmosphere missed me a lot and I had a lot of pleasure to see what happened this year.
I did not had the chance to defend my titles but i am ok with that.
I do not say that I will never come back but my company/buisness is first on the list before nice holidays.
I really love pincade so don' t be surprised to see me come back next year or so...
Keep that real good job for pinball !
Is Willy moved his pinballs from his cellar to another place ??? Seems that the place is not the same ?
Quoted from retrocat:This looks like a real blast, just missed it! Happening next year same date?
Maaaaaaybeeeee...
Stay tuned!
rd
1 week later
genex GREAT FLIX! Looks like an amazing time.
Quoted from genex:Wow so much fun - gonna post more thoughts later but a few more pix!
1 week later
Hi everyone
Kiwi Pincade is well and truly over. It was attended by over 160 people in two cities (7 venues) in Wellington and Auckland. There were mostly New Zealanders there but we had over 35 people from Australia, 4 from the USA and one from Norway. I've been busy with work but finally got the time to get the following pictures off my phone:
Quoted from Grayman_EM:I thing I caught a small part of one EM pin. One only?
NZ scene is dominated by DMD pins.
I do my bit to break up the monotony with about 30-40 77-85 SS pins.
I have 8 EM pins - another guy an hour from me has around 20. We do our best!
Pincade classics this year, you had to qualify on 4x EM and 4x SS. This exposes more people to the EM pins and they are slowly getting fans.
rd
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