I wish it was 4:00 already, so someone would post some pics or news. I'm bored and work and counting the hours until I'm there tomorrow.

Yay! Pics! I just made an Excel list of all the machines showing on the Expo website in the free play area, with a place to check them off as I play them. I'm going to try to play everything, since I've never even seen most of the ones you've taken pics of.

Edit: Look how productive I'm being at work today...

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It's awfully quiet in this thread...
Husband is going to be able to make it too. We're pre-packing a few snacks and things tonight, and hitting the road early to pick up mom and hopefully be there by 9.

Question... What is the general temperature in the main rooms? Is there any airflow? I tend to melt, so just checking so I know how to dress tomorrow. Thanks.

Always good to see a storm trooper practicing his moves.

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When I made my list from from what they had posted online ahead of time, it was 82. I saw/played some not on the list and some were hidden in the tournament area, but I am going to guess about 90. 2 big rooms full, plus a few scattered around the halls between.

So who won the Space Shuttle? I never saw it, and was hoping to be able to play one. If you won't and don't want to keep it, let me know.

My husband put his initials in on SWE1, but not sure what place or score he had. I played Cactus Canyon the most, thought the Scared Stiff was gorgeous, and had fun on all the ones that I played.

Buddy/doughslingers was bringing the Ruby WOZ to show, but later said he had a big event at his drive-in scheduled for the same weekend and couldn't make it down.

The day Scott brought me my LAH, my JP blew up. Smoke billowing out of the power board down into the playfield surrounded the T Rex, and under different circumstances would have been an awesome effect. Luckily Rottendog had the part I needed at Expo and it is up and mostly running again. Yay for Expo pricing. Oh, thanks to Larry also for my new arcade shiney thing.

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Escalera guy is Larry is flipnout1.

Larry... I later realized that I knew that you sold your Flintstones because I hooked you up with the seller. lol I'll take my referral fee as my discounted table. I'm painting the second pinball room right now, but will post another pic when everything is all pretty and the table is where it's supposed to be.

Ddebuss, just start asking every female if they are blondetall. Lol. I was the 6' (in cowboy boots) one with longish blonde hair, my mom was the older version playing more pinball than I did.

Long shot, but wanted to ask here just in case. Last year at the Pin Swap, I got a repro translite for Haunted House and Star Trek as wall art. The person selling them had a whole stack of them, but I don't know who it was. Someone has PMed me asking about the Haunted House because they need a backglass, and wanted to know if I knew the source. I don't, but thought I'd ask here since the Pin Swap grew into the Expo, and maybe the person is on here. Or if anyone knows of a resource to get a Haunted House backglass, let me know and I'll pass along the info as well. Thanks!

We'll only be there on Sat again due to owning a zoo, but as of now it should be my mom, my husband, and me all back for another fun time. If anyone is taking/selling a Doctor Who, let me know. That is about the only thing on my wish list these days, and I might possibly be letting my LAH go if I find a DW to replace it.

Lol, I just got a PM about this too, so let me clarify.

Ha, sorry, no... not an actual zoo. It feels like it sometimes though. I used to run a private dog rescue and we kept all the ones with severe physical and mental issues, so I've got 6 dogs with special needs that virtually nobody else can handle but me. One just had his eye removed this Monday, one is scared to death of anyone but me and my husband and basically wild, most are on daily meds of some sort, etc. We have to hire a registered nurse friend of mine to housesit if we ever go anywhere more than 16 or so hours because of meds, and 3 of our 6 dogs cant be taken off the property without them going nuts. Plus we've got other little critters. This is actually the smallest our 'zoo' has been in a long time. When we moved in this house 3 years ago we had a total of 23 rescue animals.

So, since we cant go anywhere more than a day, we built an arcade and theater and just entertain ourselves at home. I'm not missing seeing a ton of pins just 2 hours away though if I can help it, we just cant do the full weekend like I wish we could.

I'm still hoping to be there for a little bit, but my entire family is fighting against me. I've got a husband with severe migraines, a dad with kidney stones, a mother-in-law just out of foot surgery and home alone, and a dog having seizures. I've forewarned everyone to be well on Saturday, because I need a pin-cation. So if you see a tired-looking tall blonde chick walking around, that may be me.

Either way, someone post lots of pictures if you can.

If my mom can sneak away, she's coming too. So there will be 2 tall blondes walking around. Last year she was trying to tell everyone she was my sister... I have a namebadge somewhere and will try to wear it. Hopefully I'll see you there!

Yay for pics!
As of now for tomorrow I'm loading up my husband early in the morning and meeting my mom to carpool down, and we should be there about 10:30ish. I'm debating if I want to carry my Whoa Nellie art board around to get it signed, just because of lack of room in the car. My mom is super excited to see the actual WNBJM machine that my "playfield that has the girl with the melon boobs" is on.

Oh, and just because I'm super proud of myself for managing to not screw it up, here's the bracelet I made for the show. I ordered up a PacMan bracelet a month ago, and it's still not here, so I got creative.
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Thanks to everyone for bringing machines! I never get to see a pin unless I own it, so it was great seeing so many in one location. I didn't play as much as I'd like because it was very crowded when I was there on Saturday and I started to get a bit claustrophobic, but my mom tried her best to play every machine possible.

Highlights:
1- Seeing Pinsiders I've seen before and meeting a few new ones. Glad some people found me, as I was definitely not the skinny cute blonde in short shorts that was also walking around.
2- Playing Lexy, BOP 2.0, Kiss, WWF, and someone's absolutely gorgeous DESW and Monster Bash. I'd never seen a MB in person, and that one looked and played like new.
3- Last year at Expo I got a power supply for my JP. This year at Expo I got a MPU for my JP. And last night... it finally ran properly for the first time in over a year. And today just happens to be exactly 3 years since I got it, my first pin. Such progress in 3 years of pin ownership.
4- Next year if we could not make it on Fathers Day weekend so that I can come on Sunday and possibly take a machine home with me, that would be great. Otherwise, that Doctor Who would have been mine.

I make resin jewelry on the side to help pay for my rescue dogs' meds and food, and already had everything I needed except something pinball related. After looking forever for mini supplies, I finally just printed off pop bumper images onto cardstock, dipped in resin to dome them, then recast them in more resin to make them big enough to link.

I'm going to make some more of those and the coin slot/token rings I had on and add to my Etsy shop, since there is literally no pinball jewelry out there. I can definitely make her one if you'd like, or give her more info on how to do it if she's got supplies. PM me if you want, and just in case anyone else may be interested, here's the shop link where I'll be posting the pinball/geek ones in a day or two. There's nothing over $30 at this point, and I'm trying to add in some cuff links and guy things soon. www.etsy.com/shop/pristone