Where do you live again? Will be out with the kids tonight.. LOL...

I would totally do this if I had a way to get them up into my garage.

I always set one game up in the decorated garage just to gain their confidence, then direct them down....to the basement.

We do, unless you live in Edmonton.

I'll have my Phantom of the Opera, Tales from the Crypt and maybe Starship Troopers going in my Garage. Wife has fog machine in the back and blacklights/spiders around the edge so should be fun. We live next to the elementary school and they have a Halloween carnival so usually get a few hundred trick or treaters. Hopefully will have some of them have interest in pinball.

Story of my life. I make one friend and my legal assistant (well, he is also my bro in law) help me lug pins up and down my stairs. They love me but hate me. Course, they get to play for free as much as they want.

But they seriously wish I would quit buying, selling and trading so much...or get a home with the game room on the main floor.

Two word solution:

Walkout Basement

my basement has a walkout, but then i have to go around the side of the house up a hill over lawn to get to the garage -- that is not a trivial journey with a widebody Williams!

Not sure if other people feel the same way. But I rather not let strangers or even neighbors know I own pins or any valuables. Window blinds are always shut and my pistols and AR15's are at my bedside. I was robbed, ziptied and bagged at gunpoint in my own home before, won't happen again. lol

yes this was discussed.

Ahh, I see now. I did not read all the posts. It would be great if we could trust strangers. Especially to introduce people to the hobby. But too many demons, goblins and trolls lurking in the dark that can not be trusted lol.

..and they are never seen again.

I admire your courage Live Long and Prosper!

For that matter, don't assume theft is the only end result. They may break in and trash your shi* or find your wife home all alone. Though I don't think hauling a not so expensive pin out to the driveway and running an extension would be a bad idea (weather permitting).

(edit: nevermind)

BRIGHT LIGHTS HYPE CROWD

Very cool!!

Yeah, I'm going to need you to come be my neighbor.

We've had 10 total kids in almost 3 hours now.

Handled
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I only had it outside for about ten minutes when we got a light rain...

HOWEVER WE DID IT! AND HAD A GREAT TIME!

sorry the picture was sideways...

Cool, set the cones out & guide them in.

I might do this but my driveway is 1200 feet long into the woods...lol.....I haunt seen trick or treater in 10 years!

Future pinballers!

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That's just awesome, looks like you gave your neighborhood a lot of fun. Good for you!

I understand the knee-jerk reaction to not make it known to potential thieves that you have valuable things in your home, but look at the experience you gave your neighbors and friends.

And imagine the look on a kids face when he first see's the unexpected glow of a free pinball arcade at the next house...

Again, good work.

Only a few..
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Most of my neighbors are retirees. I never have any trick or treaters.

I was planning on participating in this cool event but I got the New Star Trek on location today and ended up playing for 7 hours. Next year for sure!

Had my daughters friends over , 15 thirteen year olds and ten friends with there kids and only one machine had issues.... South Park flipper seems touchy and not working correctly, am guessing at least 20 rookies...

Very nice Jared! It's guys like you that help us all remember why pinball is so great

Only a few pictures?

this is awesome! would be fun to find a way to pull it off next year.

Best neighbor ever

Ok, that's just awesome!

If I missed it and this is a repeat question I apologize but what is your flooring and where did you get it? Thanx in advance,

was wondering if it rained out your way...I thought about you with your Royal Rumble out on the driveway when it started raining here

What you talkin bout Willis?

Hrm, that ginger pirate looks kind of familiar..

Still can't believe that little turd had a better score than I did. We've GOT to find you the right autoplunger for that Turtles...you've had it way too long for it to not be fixed yet.

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Once the rain started we had it just inside the door...still a hit!

Hopefully their future husbands will thank you some day

Had the Big Game in the garage for all to play. I think I have 5 parents that asked me how they could buy a pinball! I told them the best thing to do is set a budget on what they can spend and I could help them find a great pinball to fit their budget.

-oh yeah, had my first blown 7AMP fuse due to the switch finding its way past the flipper stop pin!!

Would love to do this myself at some point, but a lot of the kids that go trick or treating in my neighborhood are "bussed in", as we call it. Parents from the rougher, poorer parts of town drive their kids into the nicer areas to go trick or treating. I'm fine with the kids, it's the parents I don't trust. Got some great kids that live across the street and one next door. I've let them come in and play my TAF, they loved it. Sadly, last month we got broken into and while I've never really believed in "advertising" what I've got inside, it will surely not happen until I move into my own house and have a different setup. The nice thing is, my TZ is upstairs, so I know it AIN'T goin' nowhere! My problem is the house backs up to a very busy, very easily accessible street that'd make for a quick getaway(as our attempted robbers did), so we're an easy target. And I DO live in the "good" part of town. Some people in my neighborhood don't even lock their doors at night. Well, until two weeks ago when a guy walked into one of my neighbors homes, held him at gunpoint while he forced him to open the safe, then dragged him to his car and drove him across town to withdraw money from his ATM, then drove him to another part of town and dropped him off in an alley, stealing his car in the process. Gamechanger.

Honestly, I wouldn't really care if they stole one or both of my pinball machines. They are both quite easily replaceable and the insurance money would be fun to go "shopping" with! Nevermind the fact that even IF they tried, it'd take them at least half an hour to get them both out, all while the alarm is blaring and the cops being called to the house within 2 minutes(there's a substation one block away). Of my 13 guitars, only two of them would be hard to replace. The others, including a few of my higher end acoustics, I'd love to get new versions of since the pickups in them are light years better nowadays(I have four pre-ES Taylors and none of my others are "vintage"). It's the custom built guitars I have that are one-of-a-kind that'd suck to lose. I also wouldn't want my guns to be stolen since I'd know they'd be used to commit crimes or just simply sold for dope money. Other than that, I ain't got squat that most two-bit thieves would want.

You sure that was Halloween.....where are the costumes?

This was really cool what you all did - psyched to see little kids playing in costume too. I made a friend play last night at the local bar - she was dressed as Carrie and I wore my stormtrooper outfit genex2013_0728f.jpggenex2013_0729f.jpg