I was sitting here eating my muffin this morning when I had what Alcoholics like to call a moment of clarity...

I finally figured out what is missing from Pinball Collecting, and it occured to me there is one major reason Cars continue to be a “thing” to collect and display and admire. The are inherently mobile... a pinball machine, not so much.

Then I figured that the reason cars tend to get so much love is they get seen way more than anything else you could collect. You actually go out in public while sitting in your nice, fine, restored, mint, 100 point car. People see you in it, you are considered a “great” person- look at his/her shiny and beautifully restored 57 Chevy...

So I guess the next big thing in Pinball will be nice tricked out “Travel Cases” for pinball machines, along with custom trailers and lifts and dollys to move your testosterone soaked joy toy from the trailer to the show floor.

So when are we going to see people bringing their machines to shows, putting up velvet ropes around their mint all original Big Bang Bars and TBL’s and actually charge people to play them, while sitting next to them in their folding lawn chairs drinking Mai Tais and displaying all the awards their machine has won at the last 13 concours d’elagance?

Sometimes I think we go way overboard on something and Pinball machine collecting seems to be going the same way... I was just stoked when I got my first one that I didnt need to feed it quarters anymore.