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Just got back from Milwaukee after going to the Tom Taylor pre-event for the Midwest Gaming Classic. Tom owns hundreds of pinball machines including every wedge head ever made and once a year he opens his collection up to the first 100 folks who sign up for this event. The proceeds are donated to the Milwaukee Rescue Mission.
Once again I met up with Bord and his buddies and my brother (Whirlwind) came as well. We had a great time and played everything from Humpty Dumpty to The Munsters. We also spent some time studying and shooting photos of tables that we would like to author this next year. The really nice thing about this event is that it had limited numbers of tickets so you can pretty much walk up to any game and play right away. I highly recommend it to everyone on the forum.
Of course we also had beer and lunch before the event and beer and a fish fry after. Here’s a photo of Scottacus, Whirlwind and Bord after playing the new Munsters table over beers at the Cleveland Pub and Grill.
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Gosh I wish I could have got time to go…with the snow storm and work was just no time. Any pics of the pins lineup?
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Yeah. Show us some more pictures please.
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That’s all I’ve got from this year but Bord might have more from this year’s event. Here is an old video, since this was shot Tom added more tables and some facial hair but the layout is the same.
BTW Bord and I both set a goal of visiting Randr in the Twin Cities so you might be seeing us on your doorstep some day. Did you notice the VPinball.com long sleeve tee in the photo?
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He would have to drag me out of there, at closing time
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Somehow this is my only photo from the event:
It was a great event. I had fun and learned a lot about EMs. It’s a great way to discover games you would otherwise never get to see and play. Scottacus and Whirlwind are terrific guys to know. Here’s hoping we can do it again next year!
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It really makes you appreciate just how many tables have not been made in VP yet. It also give you the chance to play tables that you’ve played many times in VP so you know where the sweet shots are and how to rack up points.
I was surprised at how much fun some of the old wood rails are. They may play much slower than a modern game but if you look at them in terms of game play, some stand up pretty well after all of these years. I noticed that many of the woodrails had these chrome brackets on the side rails just above the flippers. I asked Tom what these were and he said that they were cigarette holders. Different era…
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Wow. Cigarette holders. That was surprising. I remember many pins having yellow glass stains and ash near the lockdown bar. Didn’t expect smokers where welcomed like that, even if it was a long time ago.
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Wow. Cigarette holders. That was surprising. I remember many pins having yellow glass stains and ash near the lockdown bar. Didn’t expect smokers where welcomed like that, even if it was a long time ago.
Even as few as twenty years ago, it was really hard to find certain classes of venue that you didn’t come away smelling like an ashtray, and the Venn diagram overlap with “venues with pins in” was pretty heavy, if not a perfect overlap. And operators didn’t care as long as the machine paid for itself within a couple of years – a pinball machine wasn’t expected to live past 5-10 years depending on the abuse level on location, and astonishingly few operators would have been interested in after-market value (read: private home use, which to an operator always meant one less location player, regardless of the reality).
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Very cool! I did see shirt :)
i always think about the number of circuits needed to run all those table at one time :)
great collection that’s for sure
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Yeah I would have liked to see how fast his electric meter was spinning during the event with all of those cabs sucking large numbers of watts.
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That’s all I’ve got from this year but Bord might have more from this year’s event. Here is an old video, since this was shot Tom added more tables and some facial hair but the layout is the same.
BTW Bord and I both set a goal of visiting Randr in the Twin Cities so you might be seeing us on your doorstep some day. Did you notice the VPinball.com long sleeve tee in the photo?
Anyone is welcome ANYIME to visit :)
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Next year I’m going and I’m dragging @randr kicking and screaming with me.
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