You are welcome to stop by at ArkLaTx Pinball Club booth area. Most or all of the pinheads that are in this club are also Pinsiders. There will be a few pins set up that can be played also. We will also be roaming around playing pinball, and won't always be in our booth area.

I think I will just be arriving around 6pm; so I am probably out. You guys have fun though! BTW, the shirt looks great. I'll get one when I get there.

I don't suppose I can get a ride if I choose to join. I'm arriving in Dallas by bus at like 2pm. Gonna take a nap at my hotel till the event starts.

Mike
Not sure if we can make it yet tomorrow night
But you might check this out instead for tex mex he's k
Locally vey famous and menu looks pretty good
http://www.mrmesero.com

Or one of these for unique BBQ
http://www.pecanlodge.com/
http://www.smokerestaurant.com/

They are all within a 10 minute drive
Steven

Got my new electronic girlfriend Asteroid Annie loaded up in the truck (inside on the backseat). Had fun cleaning her up and getting her working again. I'm pretty sure she's led a sheltered life since the early 80's, so TPF 2013 could get her very excited. We're heading out early Fri morning and hope to arrive mid afternoon for set-up. See you all there in Dallas.
Mike

Yep, didn't make it in till 11. Will buy a shirt tomorrow. Looks great.

I'll be at some of the speaker presentations, and in & out at the ArkLaTex Pinball Club booth area. Hope to meet some more of you guys & gals today & tonight.

Mike

How is the show Mike? Some of us stuck at home have to hear second hand....

Good meeting all of you guys I hadn't had the chance to meet before and good hanging out with those of you I already knew. Dinner at Dicks was fun last night. Best weekend of pinball I have ever seen.

I will be doing a lot of machine ranking adjustments over the next week.

Just saw this thread I didn't see it before, but I am in Little Rock, AR and a newbie to pinball ownership, I would love to get together with some other pinheads in the area, couldn't make it to the tpf but already planning for next year.

Plannin to do some hiking and sightseeing in Arkansas at the end of March.
Mostly west of Little Rock.
Thur 28th and Mon Apr 1st will probably mostly be the driving days.
Fri/Sat/Sun should be action packed. May camp out 1 or 2 nights if the weather cooperates.
I've drivin through Arkansas a few times, but have only done a couple days of vacationing and sightseeing.

Seems like this forum is pretty much Ark and La. Perhaps we should modify the title to remove Mississippi? Seems like we have a good golden boot group here for our sub forum.

I assume PinballHelp will want to leave this sub-forum as is.
He's in New Orleans, which is quite close to southern Mississippi.
I think we just need to get some more people in MS interested in pinball.
Much of Mississippi is a pinball desert.
Hunting/fishing/highschool & college sports all seem to be very popular in MS.

I don't think we have had anyone from Mississippi appear in this thread at all. Just Louisiana and Arkansas peeps.

Action76 and Wizzardz may have something to say about that. ^^^^^^

I met Action76 at Tx Pinball Festival last weekend.

I didn't get to meet anyone that posted in this thread besides nevus and I already knew michael... I do want to give a thank you to the guy with the asteroid Annie for keeping an eye on Suspense for me since I was so pre-ocuppied with the tournament.

The entire game was supposed to be there early Friday and be set on free play, but neither happened. My Simon Says game had 844 games on the counter, but I can't verify that it really got that many plays so I will say it was a hit either way.

Pinball-is-great was the Asteroid Annie dude. I'm still bummed he didn't get a ribbon; he should have.

A few pics taken during TPF-2013 at the ArkLaTex Pinball Club booth.
Annie got to hang out with heavyweights Tron LE, Medieval Madness, & NBA.

First time I had ever seen or played a Suspense pinball machine.

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I agree that AA should have gotten a ribbon, but maybe next time. Really a blast of a game to play!

You said it! Other than Wizzardz, me and one other guy that dabbles a bit, I don't personally know anyone in MS into pinball like us. I think there are a couple others, but they aren't active on here. I was glad to meet Pinball-is-great and Nevus on Sunday but sad I didn't get to meet several others. Everyone, including myself, was pretty busy one way or another and I didn't have an opportunity to get around to meet people like I wanted. That's one reason I am excited about the N.O. club. It will be a much better place to get acquainted and talk with some fellow pinheads.

Also, Pinballhelp, I was going to purchase a shirt but never did catch you in the booth. I will still get one if you can take paypal or something and mail it out.

Hope to meet all you guys at some point, hopefully sooner than later.

Mike,
I think we're going to be in NO while you're in AR..
We're in NO around French Quarter Fest April 11-15 if you're still there

I stand corrected on the couple Mississippi guys here. Just missed ya'll. In my defense, I'm not the first:

"On August 26th, 2012, major news media outlets in the United States began reporting on the impending arrival of Tropical Storm Issac on the Gulf Coast. During the live coverage of the storm’s predicted trajectory path, the Weather Channel erroneously referred to the state of Mississippi as “the land mass” between New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama.

Later that same day, an independent Facebook page titled “The Land Mass Between NOLA and Mobile” was launched as a place for Mississippian Facebook users to cope with their state being neglected by the news media. By Monday afternoon, the Facebook page had reportedly gained more than 34,000 likes and accumulated nearly 200 user-generated images poking fun at the awkward phrase."

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Funny stuff.

The fodder that "Land Mass" phrase gave us LSU fans during football season last year was awesome. All of our game day shirts for both Ole Miss and Miss St. referenced it. I think Les Miles even used it in recruiting . . . sadly it backfired and we didn't get the recruit from the Land Mass that we were targeting. Kind of like Les referring to Arkansas as Ar-Kansas . . . which I also find funny.

Not sure why, but I'm up late and thought I'd post some more images from the Land Mass's facebook page for everyone's entertainment.

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We had some fun in Lake Charles today. Five pinheads playing pinball at my office.

Congrats to Jodster for completing 2 Davros multi ball waives and hitting the GC score on my DW. Another player also got to carve his initials into the DW, so we had some competitive games on that machines tonight (only one more default score to knock off the board since we fixed the battery acid damage). Lots of fun.

Where did you find that game Pinball-is-Great? I'm sure there has to be a pretty neat story behind your acquisition of that game.

I want to work in YOUR office!

Thanks guys for the comments on Annie. I enjoyed taking her apart, cleaning & polishing, and putting her back together w/ new rubber rings and bulbs. I'll probably start a Pinside Forum thread about my Annie story someday. Bought her as partly working from a cool dude (original owner) in the Houston, TX area last year. I may bring Annie to the Houston Arcade and Pinball Expo in November if things work out. Steve said it "felt good, like a new machine", and pointed out a couple other things. He really is a "pinball guy" who knows his stuff.

Alas, I'm heading the other way to Houston with some of my buddies you met at the TPF to hit up Joystix. Had I known you were doing this earlier in the week we would have changed directions. Good luck to you. Man, I can't wait to go check out this space. I'll be wearing the Krew of the Silver Orb shirt tonight at Joystix.

Had a blast last night at Mike's place. It's coming along great and will be awesome when it's done!

Can't wait to see this sucker. Glad ya'll had a good time. Joystix was a blast too. We had a group of four people make the journey. Stayed till it closed (and for a good while after). Good weekend of pinball thus far.

I think Mike has it going in the right direction for what he wants to do and like I said we had a blast even without all the machine their, some not working, and some needing shop jobs and some tlc. I think it's just awesome to BS with people while playing games in a relaxed atmospher. When I go to a show I'm going for the tournament so I never really spend time just hanging out and enjoying myself.

Looks good so far Mike.

I Look fwd to playing your Big Shot and other classic e-m's you have. I still remember playing Hot Shot in the mid 70's at a laundromat in West Lafayette, Indiana as a teenager w/ friends.

Hope to be able to help volunteer some time in 2013 to help w/ cleaning up some of your pinball machines and making minor repairs. Some possibles for me are: around the Fri nite to Sun evening of May 10-12 weekend (but not Sat morning & afternoon), and the two weekends in May following.

I have a idea, Why don't we rent a hall in Little Rock and have a Saturday night get together. Not a Show with vendors just bring some games in and have a pizza night. It could be fun and I would be willing to fund the venue but I would want to know how many would be interested? Should there be a charge to Catering food? Something like 6pm to 2am and it's over. Any thoughts?

I would bring:

Hulk LE
BBH
WOF
SPM
Rolling Stones LE
Tron

Just a thought to get some ideas...

My wife has an old pal in LR. If the weekend was right, I could come up.

Gotta say I am really impressed. Can't wait to see this place in person.

Hey Tiger, sounds like another great road trip bro. I will have the white Ferrari gassed up and ready to roll. Fits two adults and two pins - comfortably

And where will I sit?

LOL, when he says the white Ferrari, he means his white 1999 Chevy Suburban. You'll fit in there too! We need to have another pin gathering in LC soon. I want to drink some more of your good beer and play LOTRs before it is gone.

Pinball party in LR sounds good... would have done it months ago but house is a mess from a remodel going on.. PM sent..

Someday I hope to own a White Water pinball machine.
One of my favorite themes in all of pinball.

I was just in Arkansas for a few days hiking/site-seeing/camping.
Lots of cool mountain streams/rivers with white water action,
and some great mountain views from up on top looking out over river valleys.
We checked out Petit Jean State Park, Mount Nebo State Park, and Mount Magazine State Park.

Hmmm, ...looks like Rommy is the only guy in Arkansas that has a White Water pin.
What's up w/ that? I see PinballChris in nearby Memphis has one also.

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