WOW.

I am utterly speechless.

That was REALLY bad! No wonder TV producers do not come to the midwest to try and find scandal in pinball.
On the positive side I continue to be very thankful for the local pinheads in the region!

oddly enough I once was going to buy a MB local to me in Madison and the nice lady was way under priced. I informed he of what was fair and offered to pay it (can't remember the exact price but it was at FMV for the condition). Low and behold some guy from TX sniped it and offered more over me.

Best part was I knew he was a just a flipper and got the price even higher so she could make more money off him. He ended up over paying for the condition of the game, esp with added shipping costs. Sometimes it pays to be nice and offer FMV and sometimes it is nice to help the old lady get more for her game to some schmuch flipper

I always wondered whom got that machine and if I woudl ever here the other side. Anyone in TX ever hear of a guy shipping in a MB fomr Madison?

I will say that you are the one posting the smut reel with people demeaning the guy selling his TMNT (isn't that you?) and the old guy with the cane. Not very friendly and way more offensive than many other things posted on here.

ruining the hobby may be a bit overbaord for me, but in short part of whom I identify with being is a pinballer.

Hence my distaste would be with possibly changing the general publics perception of what a pinhead is by such tripe as what that sizzle showed.

Currently when someone finds out I am a "pinhead" the questions are rarely about cost and almost always about the game they used to play, that was in their friends parent's basement, that they love the art, that is is so cool and a unique hobby. I like that identitiy that goes along with it. I take pride in restoring games, intorducing others to something I love and enjoy, putting games on route and keeping them playing well, setting up large charity events, and the general dorkiness that comes along with whom I am and that perception by the public.

A show like this in the common public world is not good for that generalize identity of what a pinhead is, IMO (at least not the ones I hang out with and dominate our regional pinhead gatherings). I can only imagine like fantasy goat is getting at, the common public percpetion will shift to a pinhead = some self absorbed money obsessed DBs that do very little positive for anything in life. That we are not ambassadors of the hobby but just guys looking for a quick buck and fighting each other for the flip. Those are the sort of guys that are a blemish on the hobby already and more of that is not good.

In short, I like that being a pinhead typically means, smart dorky technically able somewhat obsessive in a niche world where we admire the beaty of physics and art and skill and analytical thinking and the general beauty of somthing very different from the normal day to day of most people. I do not care for the growth of the community if it means more DBs will be attracted to it.

sounds WAY better than the OP pitch!

That would be a fun competition to see!

Show would be much better featuring some of the norther IL and WI crew as previous noted.

BangerJay olympics, Awesome Scott D, Flanker, Neo, Sharpe Bros, JJP north campus, Expo, Pinball life Terry and crew, Stern, tons of modders, Wally MM, Logans and Barron the barcade master tech, the list just goes on and on of why the chicagoland area is the place and cast for this sort of thing IMO.

Yes, but I was suggesting the IL/WI area is better if you actually want to show the positive light of pinball instead of what that sizzle featured.

Lots of people out there like things besides dumb TV.

Filming anywhere besides the radiant of all pinball and you are assured to never get past a single season.

what does that even mean?

the reality is that MOST would NEVER get involved with a project like this from the start