Just a random picture drop. Great show, really enjoyed meeting some internet friends in person
-Nash

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Bobby with Lord of the Game Room. His set up was awesome

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Same guys, lord of the game room. Bobby.
I’d be happy to get you his info if you need.

I’m honestly surprised at this comparison. I’ve only been to two pinball shows. Expo 2021 and TPF ‘22 and expo didn’t come close in my opinion.
The “free play” area at expo was kind of garbage. There’s a reason nearly no one was over there once the vendor area opened up.
The only thing better about Expo was the Stern booth. They had a great variety and at TPF it was really just Mando, Zilla and Rush.
The biggest complaint I heard was the lack of most modern Sterns.
All the local games brought it were significantly better. More rare games, more spooky (compared to none) pinball bros/cointaker was great at TPF, better MM P3 presence, etc.
Food at expo was rough too. I would have preferred some food trucks.
The only improvements to TPF would be more square footage as it was a little crammed and a more diverse Stern set up.

I thought Weird Al and Heist were both awesome! So much so that I ordered both from my hotel room. The platform is only getting better.

I will say as far as etiquette is concerned, I saw zero people staying in a game when people were waiting.

The worst I saw was a guy starting a two play game and then friends came by and they changed to a 4 player game. I can’t even fault that, it just kind of stunk because it was on EHOH and those ball times were long, as was the line.

There were a lot of folks playing 2-3 player games by themselves at Expo last year which honestly impressed me that anyone thought that was okay with a line waiting.

I'm going to feel tempted to bring some of the newer sterns next year but I'm concerned as most of my games have 100-400 plays on them as I can only play one at a time. I'm not sure I feel great throwing a $15k STh or Deadpool LE on the floor but maybe I should just get over that as I'm 45 minutes away and if I had a hand and a trailer I could do it.
At Expo it seemed liked every spike 2 stern was there, brought by Stern so I expected the same at TPF and heard a lot of people talking about not getting to play them. I couldnt stay till 2:30pm Sunday anyway so it's a moot point for this last TPF but I'll likely plan better and try to do my part next year.