Good morning all you Santa’s and Santaees, we are at 14 days till Christmas and 3 days, you heard it 3 days before all packages need to be shipped out!!

Let’s get shipping and posting pictures. Cheers

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The package from my Secret Santa arrived yesterday! Would have posted earlier, but yesterday turned in to a very long day and stretched far into the evening. Going to attempt to resist opening it until Christmas, but wanted to acknowledge that it had arrived! Very excited to see what mysteries that it may hold!
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Ooooh the anticipation.

Heading out tomorrow. Any guesses on where it's going?

Received, Opened, and Installed!! Thank you Secret Santa

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No clue but your santee is pretty much going to know who it’s from now

That looks delicious!

i never knew you could use Duct tape for shipping.

Damn I didn't think about that. Picture removed.

I missed the picture but I will say Colorado?

Tomorrow the last gift will be delivered, and all will go out. So if you haven't received your SS gifts yet, and you live north of Tennessee, East of Nebraska, and West of Pennsylvania, they will be there by the end of the week.

Les, congrats on your machine, couldn't be more deserved. It put a smile on my face after a crappy week. Wife and i both got covid. First time for me, 3rd time for the wife. I received a package from my SS yesterday, i will be waiting until christmas to open. I will post pictures then. I will be able to rejoin society tomorrow, so i can finish my SS shopping and get sent out probably Tuesday.

Thanks again Secret Santa! My Sunday was put to good use! I also used the glasses

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LesManley Congrats on the machine, that is amazing! That's why I decided to build my own pinball machine, the prices of the new are out of reach for me as well. Super awesome for you!

I agree , that shooter does look yummy That bond set is sweet !!

Lol. Gotta love UHF!!

To my secret Santa out there. If you are still needing ideas I picked up a bone stock Avengers today. Eeeewwwww total stock!

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I've always found it funny that up here in Canada, what you call Smarties are Rockets and Smarties are a candy coated chocolate like M&Ms

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And for the record, I just ate both packages typing the last post

It’s a strange, delicious world.

that's NOT a parts organizer, it's a smarties organizer. that's why he sent them together!

ps
it could also be used a chinchilla food organizer, allowing you to dole out a specified amount of found for the entire month!

To my secret Santa, your package arrived safe and sound! Sitting right under the Christmas tree.

So I got my SS gifts and said let's open them.
Every year I've gotten such thoughtful gifts and this is about the coolest thing ever.

Life has changed here recently for me in a big way. My ex wife was not a big pinball fan.
Went through a divorce over the past year and pinball was there to help me when I was dealing with all that entails.

I've reconnected with a friend I used to work with and we have been dating for a month and she has been a real eye opener about enjoying life and what it has to offer together.

The best part...She's into freaking pinball!!

She helped me with these pics and it was awesome to open these and share this with her.

She couldn't believe dudes could be so thoughtful. Haha.

So here are the pics.

My SS wrote a Christmas spoiler poem describing all the presents.
It was too cool.

Joker tumbler...yesss
Cherry smash candy.. bingo
Led lights...great
Gottlieb t-shirt...hell yeah!

Custom framed poster of the backglasses of my games.....PRICELESS!!

Thank you to my Secret Santa for these great gifts.

Knocked it out of the Park.

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the wall art is very cool!

That's is very cool! Such a thoughtful creative idea!

The artwork is awesome!

LesManley

Congratulations on the new pin! So well deserved!!!

Congratulations to the SS who provided it as well. Your gift to Les makes us all feel good. All the best to you in 2023!

Good morning pinheads. Only two more days left to ship but even more scary 13 days till Christmas. Let’s get sipping, shipping and taking pics!

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Just amazing.

Who ever the SS was PM me, got to get me a Gottlieb shirt.

My wife just sent me a message that a special package arrived for me today. Can't wait to open it but I'm thinking I'll wait until Christmas if i can hold off that long. Thanks again LesManley for making this happen and all the Secret Santa's for 2022.

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Packages were sent on their way this weekend.

Got my pinside Santa Gift today Thanks So Much Love it all Spooky Pinball Gear Always is Good Special thanks to Charlie at spooky for signed shirt

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ATTN SS gift recipients

remember to take the time to make a post (at the very least) if you've received your item(s), even if you're going to hold off opening them on xmas eve/xmas day.

this way your SS will know that your item(s) have safely reached their destination and some porch pirate hasn't made off with the goods (or your new pet chinchilla)!

SS package showed up today. Thanks Santa

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SS package showed up today. I am planning on installing a bunch of mods over Christmas break so excited to get this one on Godzilla. Thanks Santa!

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Secret Santa gift arrived today . What a great surprise to come home too . A box full of awesomeness . I love it all!! The whalom park magnet.... nice touch.. nice touch .. Closed down now with condos in place. But used to be about a mile from my house. Frickin awesome stickers , schedules and pinball swag from places far from me , .love it . LOVE IT. It’s like you know me thank you so much

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And check out this cool pin dudes and dudettes

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Recieved a package today!!! I'm gonna try to wait, but the anticipation is already driving me nuts.

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OK, just open it you know you are not going to make it to Christmas

To my SS, I will be gone tmrw till next Wednesday, but have a friend picking up mail every day and any packages. If there is any perishables, please post here, as I check this thread every couple of hours to see all the cool, thoughtful gifts recieved so far.

Package came in mail today I went and opened it because I order shit non-stop all the time, well I’m convinced it’s from my SS!. I went through my Amazon & aliexpresss orders and I didn’t order one even though I remember looking at one similar recently even.
It’s a bitchin’ Godzilla shirt! Thx so much

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Seasons Greetings Everyone-

While on lunch break, something happened that I am genuinely not sure how to write about. One of you, through FlipNOut pinball, decided I deserved a pinball machine for Christmas… Genuinely, I do not know what to say. Thank you seems obvious, but I really wish i could personally and humbly thank the individual or family that made this happen. I love pinball-I enjoy sharing what i have, its not a large collection, but pinball to me is social.

When i arrived at my home during lunch today, not knowing what was arriving I still-as of right now can’t believe it. A NIB Rush Pro!!! This is absolutely incredible. I hope i may give personal thanks someday, we hope to go to TPF this year for the first time-but what i can promise is many pictures of the social experiences will follow over the next several days-i want people to play this machine-and they will…. Thank you to the team at FlipNOut for keeping it a secret and Merry Christmas to all here and of course the incredibly generous Secret Santa-

Tim

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I got a bit of a mystery package today. I think this may be my gift but I'm unsure. The box had a normal name and address on it and inside was only this disco ball, no extra notes or anything. It looks like it might be a newer version from the standard deadpool mod as I famously had some trouble with. I know I didn't order this, so secret santa gift is my only explanation, either that or LERMods was feeling extra generous. Lol maybe it's both!? I will say it looks much nicer than the one I have so I am excited to try it out! Thank you santa, very cool! Assuming it works with the old control board, I will post some pics and video when I get it installed! I'm excited to see how it works! Awesome!

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Totally awesome! I played a Rush for the first time last month and it was a fun game. Congrats to you and hats off to your SS!!!!

Woooo! Flipnout and secret santas really coming through this year! 2 games!! We really have some amazing folks around here! So cool!

So cool! Congrats to a fellow North Dakotan, and their SS for giving someone a gift they will never forget! Also, this is my first year doing SS, but so cool to see all the gifts people are receiving (myself included)!

Holy crap, Tim! That is freaking awesome! What a generous and amazing gift! You said you wanted more time on Rush! What an awesome Santa! Enjoy, my friend!

Letting my Secret Santa know I have received a package today! I will ask my girlfriend to peek inside to know if it's safe to open! Full disclosure, I haven't had time to do the Christmas tree, that's next on my list. But this will be the very first gift underneath! Thanks so much, this is so much fun! Pictures to follow when opened - hopefully we can resist!

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You only had 3 games and there is snow on the ground. You definitely needed another machine. Good Job SS and congratulations for making the nice list.