I'll be there. Gonna bring my newly-restored PF Twilight Zone, and have it sporting the blue powerball. Good luck, ya'll. Muhaha.

It still has a few peculiarities that have me stumped, I hope to have them cleared up before the show.

I'd there isn't one yet (official or un-), I can start I've easily..

Here - https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/sample-tz-resto
It's just a PF restore. Very little work was done on cabinet. The PF was in horrid condition - almost unplayable - so maybe in the next few years, I'll have a new cabinet done up.

Stupid questions for those bringing games -
(1) Do you reset high scores before delivery, or leave your super-awesome high-scores on there and wish people 'good luck!'?
(2) If something happens - i.e. A ball gets stuck. Coil loses a wire - does someone at the show try to contact you to let you know?

...Wait, then why did you post here?

Thank. You. I agree.
On top of that, I **like** having people play my games. I like seeing how they enjoy it and react to the game's personality.

Interesting idea. If I had a larger truck, I'd bring my Jukebox, and would gladly put it in the flea market. (You know, playing *real* music off of vinyl! )

As someone who works in the railroad industry..

Those rail fans are friggin' insane.

Model railroaders. Real railroaders call these guys "FRN"s (F*uckin' rail nuts) or "Foamers"..

Would probably depend on the size. Widebodies may be more desired than standards, etc.

I'll take one, need one for Meteor. But, seeing as how you live close by, I don't think you need to take it to York.

Since you never like comin' over and playing my games , I can stop by and pick it up whenever.

I'm at the office today, but will be back in the area around 7pm. Lemme know if that's okay, I'll stop by before going home. (And, I dunno.. your WCS with the dog missing scares me. )

You CAN take them right away, but there's a fee for removing it early. (You know, plus unless there's a good excuse, it's just a dick move. )

Yeah, the fee's only charged if you pull the game out before the end of the show.
If you DO pull it out, the person physically lifting the machine past the doors will have to pay the fee. Where that money comes from, the show doesn't care.

I won't be bringing my game, unfortunately. Due to the weather, and the fact I have no covered transport, I can't risk bringing my game in. I'll be at the show, and if anyone leaves the show via way of Harper's Ferry and wants to play it, drop me a note..

I'm excited to go as well. Still dad I won't have my TZ on show, but looking forward to playing a lot of games.

I had fun at the show yesterday. I wasn't able to go today because of a sever underestimating the amount of rain we had the last few days, and the weight of my truck. (I'm fine. The truck will be, as soon as I get it out of the hole.)

The show was great. My biggest issue wasn't with the other people there, despite one of my bullet points below - but specifically the games that are brought and displayed. In no way do my reflections reflect against show organizers, because I've been told this is common with shows like this. And while I haven't been to other pin shows, the event organizers get a +1 for me for actually calling out, over the intercom, owner's names that need to go back and fix an issue with their game(s).

My biggest gripe - or issue with owners that bring games - is the lack of detail to their game.
There were a few games there that were EXCELLENT restorations. Holy shit, you can see your reflection in the playfield still! But were completely *unplayable*, due to random, easily fixable issues.
Example - there was a gorgeous [name redacted] that had an awesome playfield, and spotless cabinet. But HORRIBLE flipper alignment, making it nearly impossible to get the ball back up to the upper playfield. The same game was leaning horribly to the right. Jeesus.
Another example - a new game, [name also redacted], on display from a vendor no less - looked spotless. It was new, after all! - but a kicker was very weak, and could only eject the ball successfully 1 / 5th of the time.

Now, I know that things can happen during shipment, take-down and set-up, but usually that's loose wire (like what happened with the restored TAF there) - something like *adjusting the slope and level* can be fixed on the fly. Flippers do not get out of alignment by simply moving a game.

If they were my games, I'd be embarrassed to have my name on them.

Now, while I'm focusing on restored games, there was plenty of un-restored, player's games that had little, SIMPLE and "make a good first-impression" things that coulda been fixed. Like, oh, I dunno - REPLACING burnt out bulbs.

To put it as simple as I can - I've OPERATED, owned, and worked on games both in arcades and locations. And I wouldn't feel right leaving a game with some of these easily-fixed issues.

And I still, to this day, can't understand the fascination with Super-Bands. (Or however you spell it..) They should all be shot into the sun. Whew.

On the plus side, there were a LOT of games there, and very few duplicates, as far as I can remember. Over 50% EMs, which I've never been able to play a lot of, and a few (like the one mentioned above, 'Blue Chip') I *really* enjoyed. I also played some of my first 'Bingo' games at this show. I still don't know what I'm doing when I play one, but they were fun trying to figure out. There was one there priced at $250, and I was extremely tempted to take it home with me.

Vendors were nice - I didn't get to say hi to Joe @ PinballSTAR, but I did play their Hobbits - the better software form over a year ago has really changed the game around. I was impressed. I got to play Ghostbusters for the first time as well (I don't know which vendor that was - all the techs were wearing 'Stern' shirts..), and I can see it in my collection, once used games enter the market. A LOT of crap going on in that game, though. And apologies to HP - I watched someone play TBL, and.. I couldn't get into it, or even get my curiosity up watching, so I didn't play it. (I know, I'm a freak. Sue me.) However, I will say the artowkr on the game was VERY nice, and I dunno how, but I *love* the screen and animation look. A perfect mix of old-fashioned DMD with full color videos.

Was disappointed at the size of the fleamarket. From previous comments, I wasa expecting more, but likely the weather had something to do with that.

All in all, I'll go next year, for sure. If nothing else, it's a fantastic excuse to take a day off of work and play.