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Time
again for the Pinball Wizards convention, but
this year with a twist! For starts the show
moved to the Allentown Fairgrounds, which was a mixed
blessing. The room was bigger, but the
uncarpeted floors and lack of conference rooms
made it very loud for all events. Second new
thing that happened was it rained.. All day.
That sort of washed out the flea market outside
:-(
As in past years the latest Stern was there to
play. This year the hot pin was the Sopranos,
but unlike previous years, I did get to play the
newest pin on the market! Yea!
I never got a full count of all the machine
there, but I can say I played at least 75% of
what was there. Every now and then you would
cross a video game there as well
As in previous years, the inside area had
competitions and seminars. As well as venders
selling mods, parts and other game room
accessories. Al Warner did his seminar as he
does every year, but this time he shared his
time with Shaggy from the TOP series of
restoration pinball tapes. Shaggy showed a new
technique of playfield restoration that involves
printing out decals to recover missing paint on
older playfields. The results were remarkable
although the whole presentation was plagued with
the noise of the room. Shaggy showed prerecorded
footage, so this is definitely upcoming on a new
TOP tape
I took WAY more pictures this year so there may
be a bit more to look through. But even with the
large amount of machine there were still some of
my favorites I was missing. I really wanted to
take another spin at Apollo 13 or Bonsai Run or
a Galaxy, but none to be had this year. Let's
hope for next years show
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