Rob >> We will see you at TPF (assuming all goes as planned)

That sucks, we used to call those cars winter beaters that you drove to keep your real car in nice shape.
When they blew up you tossed the keys on the seat and walked away.

I've kept the title in the glove box in one beater I once owned. Sure as shit, an Inner CV joint (car was FWD) imploded when my sister-in-law was using it 50 miles away. In the left turn lane at a light. Car had 225,000 miles and everything in the engine compartment and on the chassis was rusted.

I went to look at it and actually made it OWD (One Wheel Drive) using a Rigid 32" aluminum pipe wrench on the CV joint shell. Drove it around a parking lot just fine. However, when I stopped relieving torque, the wrench fell off. I said F-it; pulled out the radio & amplifier, my stuff in the trunk, signed the title and put it back in the glove box, put the key in the ash tray and left. Next morning I called Volunteers of America and told them where to pick it up at.

Interesting seeing all the dog pics.

Never been a big fan of seeing pets dressed up, but my dog just got a great costume for Halloween and I just had to share...

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I think it's weird that we're talking about shows that are full of games for people to play, and there's even a discussion about how kids don't belong in that kind of environment.

I don't bring my kids, because they'd probably be bored. They'll flip my games sometimes, but don't really care much. Which is fine! But if they wanted to go and were excited about it? I'd take them for sure.

You Yanks and your rust belt cars. I bought a 1999 Honda with 40K miles one it. It looked perfect in every way... till I got it to my shop and realized EVEREYTHING underneath it was rusted to shit. The car came from Ohio. I never would have thought to look at eh suspension of a car that perfect. I will from now on.

IBTL with a SFW and relevant video...how I imagine Taro felt after Expo was over:

https://www.facebook.com/TheShadeRoom/videos/1836514276592962/

I had to show my 7 year old daughter Taro, she loved the picture of him with the goggles on.

How do you pronounce his name? We've been debating it.

I think that was less "Ohio" and more "'99 Honda" involved with that rustout.. some of those 80s and 90s Japanese cars would rust sitting in 50% humidity atmosphere. The American cars weren't very reliable but they didn't rust out nearly as bad...

I bet Taro likes Kids.

Taro probably likes black squirrels too... likes to RIP their heads off!
go taro go!!

Here's 310lbs of dog.

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Are those pics family friendly? LOL!

Family dog. Literally...LOL!!!

Red Rocket!

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Rob - come back to Allentown in '16!

Pintastic welcomes you! Give me a call!

Rob you are welcome at the Ann Arbor pinball show too (may 13-15, 2016).

Now that would be awesome!!!!

Plus he wouldn't have to bring all of his test equipment as the VFW shop has everything needed for board repair . Plus with at least one of every popular platform, a test bed would be available if crowds allow it. Rob would be able to sell his wares as many attendees ask to buy parts but the VFW parts are for the museum's games only.
Pinball Life sold a limited selection of parts last year.

Then there are the vendor benefits that can't be published here.....

Pintastic does have Alan Davidson with all his equipment for board repair so awsome! But it would be cool to have Rob their as well with all his parts and everything.

I look back at all the years of attending Pinball Expo (been to all since 1990) and wish I had brought games then!! What was I thinking. 2014 was the first year for me to bring a game there. I then took a game to PATZ 2015 and 2 games to Expo 2015 and the staff help out in set up. Absolute fun other that Judge Dredd acting up but I tried to stop by a few times a day to make sure she was working. I will make every effort to bring a game(s) to the nearby shows expo, mgc, and patz! next year!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices that. While there are lots of people who go out of their way to be friendly, there are also too many who think they are something "special". "Pinsnobs" are what they are.

Rob if you want to come to the VFW show you should probably try and do it this year. Normally pin a go go and the Ann Arbor show are the exact same weekend. For some reason this year that is not the case.

Kids: whether they get into pinball is arbitrary. I think you have to have it in you. I grew up with a pinball machine in the basement for 2-3 years. Had I not had that experience, I don't know if I would have bothered to try it later in life. I do remember starting to get into them because video games weren't about skill, it was about patterns and "just finishing the story".

My god-daughter seems to love retro video games and pinball machines and enjoys them when she comes over, she's 17 now.

Had a couple over this past friday, brought their 6 year old daughter and 8 year old son. They quickly jumped from game to game (I think they got bored quickly), and even asked about the 2 games not working because 7 working games wasn't enough apparently. The boy spent 10 minutes firing balls up my custom project that wasn't even on, because he could manually move the flippers with the glass off and put as many balls on the playfield as he wanted (I guess kids are looking for sandbox environments, not ones with rules). After probably 20-30 minutes they asked to watch a kids DVD because they were bored.

Same reason they have interactive displays in museums.

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Tom also doesn't have all the help and "volunteer's" that Clay has too, it makes a world of difference. Tom's is more of a one man showing off his collection type of thing. With Clay its a business/museum.

John P. Dayhuff
Battle Creek, Mi.
269-979-3836

Sad to read. I go out solo all the time and have fun. Oddly enough by the end of the night I have met tons of new friends. I bet if you focus on your own experience being fun you will find it becomes all inclusive.

What we need is a show in St. Louis. If anyone wants to compete with Chicago bring it to the STL. I did a trade show at Lumiere Hotel recently and they were awesome. A lowly transportation engineer convention made decent money. Of course it all went to student scholarships in the end.