I'm new to the forums and was just curious what the best place in AZ is to play ?? Just recently rediscovered my love for pinball and want to get down on some machines !! I read on here that castles and coasters was decent but the thread was from quite a while ago so I wanted to see if anyone had some up to date info. Also curious if there are any events or anything coming to Phoenix, I would love to bring my kids to play pins like I did when I was young, and see what the event scene is like. Thanks !!

Definitely have plans, but not the funds I'm a tattoo artist out here and with summer months it gets kinda slow. Not to mention I recently sold my tattoo shop about 3 months ago so I'm still on the recovery from that. Have an add on craigslist to trade tattoo work for one but I'm not really holding my breath, just gotta start saving up some cash.

Can't wait to get one though, my old lady is already planning my death when I get it

Glad too see theres so many out here, I'm in north Phoenix around 19th and Union Hills. I would love to hit the meet up tomorrow but I have my oldest sons birthday to attend at jump street, I will definitely have to keep my eyes open for the next meet up. Sounds shitty about castles n coasters, that was the one place I was thinking might have some decent pins, but I guess when you have a bunch of 16 year olds taking care of an arcade, that stuff will happen. And Pinlawyer not too hard to hide tattoos, I have to hide them for people every day

Eh, I wont have to hide it, I'm just a night owl so she's worried I'll be up playing it all night Which she's probably right, gonna have to turn the sound off or something ... I'm already stuck on my damn playstation playing that Pinball Arcade game for hours a day, I can only imagine what happens when I get a machine in here...

Yea I'm in north Phoenix, My buddy mentioned that they used to have a Pirates of the Caribbean pin at Toso's bar around 23rd Ave and Union Hills but I'm not sure if it still there. I'm definitely gonna have to go check Other than that I know I'm gonna be surfing through bars all over the place now to try and find one. That could definitely be a bad combo, beer and pins haha !! I'm pretty sure I'd be closing the bar or going broke !! HAHA !! @Spitfiren8, believe me I can wait for my first, fifth, tenth, who knows I think I might need a bigger house with all the plans I have flying through my head..

Oh and does anyone have any experience with building a machine from scratch, I know its probably something that would take quite a bit of work time and money, but has anyone done it and would it be possible to make a decent pin ??

HAHA !! I always plan big, gives me something to shoot for, probably wont happen for a long time if at all. I'll have to look into that site, once I get one I'll be able to look more into what it takes to re-theme one and what not, I have a buddy who is an amazing electrical engineer so we would probably take it on together. I just want to design it, getting it to work electronically is a completely different story.. I think it would be a nice long term project that might never get finished but I like to tinker with stuff in my free time.. I'm constantly rebuilding and designing tattoo machines, and that would give me something else to do. First things first though, gotta get a pin

Probably wont be a while, but if I ever do it, it will be posted everywhere !! HAHA !!

Sweet man !! Thanks for all the info, I'm gonna have to check those sites out !!!