Attending!

Longshot, but anyone happen to have one of those 2" toy capsule vending machines (like from the entrance/exit of grocery stores) that they would part with relatively cheap? Been looking for one just to screw around with and fill with silly stuff for the basement. They pop up on the FB marketplace but are always a several hour drive.

Is Friday expected to be the day with the most games? The Thursday to Saturday schedule is a bit awkward. Thinking Thursday will be a bit thin because it’s a Thursday and people are working? Thinking about taking the day off Friday and just going all day. Assuming Saturday people will be loading out by mid afternoon since the show is only open until 6 I think?

Have a Bally Frontier I'm considering trading. About 35 minutes from the show:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/for-trade-frontier-2

Anyone thinking of parting with a WPT, BSD or Roadshow?

I used to wonder why people would bring games in bad shape to shows but after this year I have a much better perspective on it. I spent a good part of the day Friday hanging with my buddy who brought two pins. After plugging one in that was working fine before he had DMD issues right out of the gate. We eventually figured out there were too many games plugged in and he had to move his game down the floor to get better voltage. Later on somehow a connector came loose on the sound board and the sound was out until we realized it and plugged it back in.

His other pin was playing great before the show and after setting it up. We went to dinner and came back and it was off. He found out it just stopped booting for some reason but didnt know why and spend the next hour or so fixing it on the floor.

I saw first hand alot of people also have games break while they were playing...a ball gets stuck under a plastic, a diverter broke off NBA fastbreak, and a host of other issues. People just walk away and dont even attempt to look for anyone, contact anyone, or turn a game off. I also saw games getting abused all day and people trying to free stuck balls by picking games up and dropping them.

It's no surprise that people dont want to bring games to fill out shows after seeing what happens to them and how little people seem to care about them when they aren't their own games.

I'm not directing this at you because I assume most pinsiders respect and appreciate the games, and there were just some games playing like trash, but after seeing what I saw this weekend it gave me a perspective to see what people bringing the games have to deal with just to have them there for others to enjoy.