Go back to, eh?

The pindev slack channel is the place to be for the networking.

Then don't go this year.

No PROC booth. Not sure if FAST is doing a booth or not.

On topic: I can't figure out anything from Dan's clues.

Gah! Why? With the hands?

No hotel, though. What about the stumbling drunks?

The union teamsters at replayfx always seem to be useful and reasonable. I don't run the show though, so there's likely info I don't have.

Looks like the domes. Mitchell Park Domes 2018, confirmed.

I did last year.

On a more serious note I think I figured out what the actual clue from the shirt image is.

But I actually do know. So I ain't sayin' shit.

Well; shit.

Did you actually go there and look? heh

SOMEONE GET JACK BAUER ON THE LINE

Those were already announced on FB. April 13, 14 and 15 in 2018

Oh. Well you didn't say that. I'm guessing for the short term Dan is just going to be crazy busy getting things lined up for next year since he's working with less lead time than usual.

Wow.

Two for the tournament!?

Is that accurate? There's no standard on site after party in the hall? Just the off site options?

Wait, did you get the YouTube guy who has a rock a fire explosion to agree to bring it? Heh.

Mallard -> Metallica -> Dirty Donny. It's pretty straight forward.

I hope that helps.

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I grabbed the videos with some web tool and threw them up in a folder.

Dan, you can grab them from there and upload to youtube if you want.

Anybody other than Dan, you should be able to click on them and they'll play in your browser.

If Dan puts them on the youtube page, I'll edit this to link to that instead.

http://phantasy.com/mgc_vids

Worked out the same kind of deal ColorDMD makes for Texas attendees for MGC -- I'll be the point of contact for getting the displays at the show:

ColorDMD Pinball Displays is making a special offer for #MGC2018 game bringers: $50 off and free delivery on a new ColorDMD display picked up at the show and exhibited in your game OR $50 toward a new display purchase for any game you bring to the show that already has a ColorDMD in it! Email INFO at COLORDMD.COM before April 5 to enroll your game and order a discounted display!

Oh the antici...

WAT? Who is your source?

Also: hot damn if true!

Yes, the offer is fine for LED - just email [email protected] with which display type you want and what game you'll be putting it in to get in on the deal.

Only about a week left to get in on the ColorDMD offer for MGC if you want to do that.

If you're bringing a game with a display already in it and want to take advantage of the $50 off a new display offer BE SURE TO EMAIL info AT colordmd.com before the 5th to let them know so they send along enough signs for all the games in the hall! (Gotta have a ColorDMD sign on your game to get the $50 deal).

Here's the original post again:

ColorDMD Pinball Displays is making a special offer for #MGC2018 game bringers: $50 off and free delivery on a brand new ColorDMD display to be picked up at the show and exhibited in your game (with a sign on top of the head) -- OR -- $50 toward a new display purchase for any game you bring to the show that already has a ColorDMD in it, and you let us put a sign on top! Email INFO at COLORDMD.COM before April 5 to enroll your game and order a discounted display!

That's Lightning Rod from Dollywood. The first drop is 165 feet. 165 Iron Maidens *CONFIRMED*

That's rogarou at cedar point. It has a track length of 3900 feet. 3900 IRON MAIDENS * C O N F I R M E D *

That's the new tesla roadster. It has a base price of $200,000. TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND IRON MAIDENS * CONFIRMED *

Is that Superman "Escape from Krypton"? Are you saying I'm 'super' at figuring out clues?

Woo. That one is really rough. Maybe Superman Ultimate Flight?

Edit: nah, colors aren't right

I'm not sure what the trend is. Especially since you threw in the Roadster.

Hercules has a maximum display value of 999,990 ... NEARLY ONE MILLION IRON MAIDENS * C-C-C-CON-FIRMED *

I can’t figure out a way to make that image into more than a million. I guess I’ve hit a wall on this gag.

Ahhh, dammit, I knew that. I just screwed up.

So, tallest and fastest Marco booth ever, confirmed?

My bad. Didn't realize it wasn't public info.

Serious question - what's the problem with having a new player step in for one that can't make it for Chaos? I can't wrap my head around why that's an issue.

PBL is not a vendor this year.

Wide awake at 4 AM. Thanks, brain.

MGC HYPE!

Load out today should be a good time.

They are all either pre-sold, or getting moved on to another show. I know of at least one person who wants to flip theirs in favor of a premium, but with you not being here that might not be an option.

I have no idea what I did the whole time. I think I was busy. I’m not really sure. I tried to help out the core game hall crew, but they’ve all been doing it so long that they run like a machine and I was just trying to keep up. I know I went and found the golf tournament sign for Neo at some point.

Anyway, had a great time. Mostly love the new space. I think next year will be even better building on what was learned this year.

Kudos and thanks to all the people who put in effort to make the show what it is.

I think during the after party there was one security guy tasked with protecting the merch booth and watching the door, which weren’t eactly next to each other

TODOs for next year's arcade hall:

- Rubber cups for the front legs on the pins
- pool noodles from the dollar store with a slot cut for PF glass
- Research alternate escape route via freight elevator out to wells on the ground floor for people with only 1 or 2 games to load.

The one suggestion I'd have for the overall show: BIG free standing signs in the area near the ticketing/hall entrances that says something about the stuff on the second floor, and then bigger directional signs once you're on the second floor. The "Community Zone" little blue signs on the wall with arrows didn't really stand out.

If it's designed to be a loading area, I would hope there's some haggle room to get us access to that. Jay & Doug ended up taking games down the freight elevator and out the front door of the place, Neo and I went out a side door to Wisconsin Ave - both of which have GOT to be less preferable than using an actual loading door. The 5th and Wells access seems perfect. Out of the elements and a lane to pull over into for loading. Even if we have to post a volunteer down there to kind of control it, it would be very beneficial to have more than one route out. The vendor hall people with whole trucks of stuff to load, and the people who bring large numbers of games (Thanks Troy!) wouldn't have all the 1 shot people in the way.

I think a big reason for the congestion at the dock was that the facility staff wouldn't let MGC people control it. If we could have had show people directing traffic and organizing it would have gone more efficiently, but I don't know that the facility would (or could) give the show that kind of control.

What's to stop somebody like Troy from getting all his after party passes and then selling them off to the highest bidder? He'd probably make more money than claiming show cash on all of them. There's still only 1 in the hall games wise, but Troy gets more out of it.

Similar question about this -- the 2 wristbands is a higher value output than the $20, isn't it? Someone brings 2 games, they could get their own pass and sell the set of other 3 bands to someone else (likely for quite a bit more than $20)

I don't see any problem at all with game brought = after party band period. The access to the show OR $20 show cash being your option on each one.

If you're talking about people like Paul and Dave - they got bands from someone who brought enough games to have extra.

I'm not sure what the facility would say about moving stuff around while the show is running -- though if people were leaving early maybe it's not an issue. But this is a nice idea. Really hard to work on a game in a show row.

With how heavy/wet that snow was and the strong wind, I expect it would have been quite the catastrophe. Thank all heck that never happened when you DID have the tent.

Nah, this would just lead to abuse. People fake 'selling' a game to the person they came with to leave early. Game leaves; owner pays fine. Period.

You must have been seeing some kind of glare, like off the LED edge of the custom arcade control panel edge across from them — the Displays were fine.

Maybe your retinas were burning out from being across from the LED displays for that long! Heh. Not sure if Dmod would have any thoughts on what might have been going on, but I’ve never seen that sort of thing. Every time I was by the row things looked normal (Except for the TFTC and DW having the RGB/RBG setting backwards - the owner prefers it that way)

Non pinhead perspective from the FB reviews for MGC. There was a decent amount of "aw shucks, why doesn't the pinball get more room?" while we were setting up the hall Thursday. In our little tunnel visioned community it's easy to forget that the roots of MGC don't have anything to do with pinball and there's a bunch of people that attend with no interest in pinball at all.

Random bits:

"I feel it would be better if pinball had its own show. I like pinball and it’s an important part of gaming history, but I really believe it can stand better on its own. You’ll likely attract more corporate vendors by making that shows only focus pinball. "

"We had a great time. More video games and fewer pinball games would be cool (holy Iron Maiden). The folks who were running the retro gaming area near the front of the main show area (the guys who brought the machines) were awesome."

And then there's this guy:

"I was a little disappointed with the pinball selection but hopefully it will be better next year."

Probably won't be any official announcement until contracts are hammered out. I'd guess there are some points to work on with the facility now that the show has had the experience, so it might be a while before they lock things down.