Michigan Pinball Expo!

[scott]

Looks like there is a huge pinball show going on this week in Michigan. Starts on Thursday and runs til Sunday. All the games will be free to play too. I think I'm gonna go.

Check it out: www.mipinball.com

[jcalder8]

If I was close enough to go I would. Looks like a great time!

[soera]

Damn, that would be pretty fun to go to. Why the hell doesnt anything like that come to the shithole of Oklahoma? We get rodeos and silly country shit.

[matt]

I'm about 75% sure that I'll be making the trip.

[darko]

Damn, that would be pretty fun to go to. Why the hell doesnt anything like that come to the shithole of Oklahoma? We get rodeos and silly country shit.

Actually a lot of stuff goes on here. You just have to dig since they don't usually advertise very well.

You could always move to North Dakota

[scott]

If you start driving now, you could make it by Saturday easy. 

[soera]

hahah turn about is fair play!

[scott]

Unlike last year with the CCAG show. I'll make sure to get some pictures of this place while we are there.

[scott]

I promised pics and here we go! I apologize for the blurriness of a few of them, I turned off my flash so I wasn't distracting people while they were playing. Matt and his girlfriend took some more pictures too and he should be posting them soonish. It was super fun and I think I'll be going annually.

Banner announcing the new AC/DC and Transformers machines by Stern Pinball


Matt playing Rescue 911


Matt playing Striker Extreme (Super fun soccer themed game)


Some pics of various machines

[jcalder8]

Looks like it was a great time. How many machines did they have?

[scott]

They said they had 125+ machines there, but a bunch were set up for tournament play. They also had some vendors set up with parts and pieces. One vendor was even showing off a custom made machine that was playable, but I forgot to take a picture of it.

[jobocan]

Oh, I see a Space Shuttle! Love that machine Almost bought one myself until I realized that, at the time, I didn't have the money for it.

Must have been a great time. There's pretty much nowhere around here where I can go and play pinball (there's an Addams Family machine at one of the cinemas, but that's it), so this must have been awesome.

[ianomatic]

Were any of the machines for sale? or was this an exhibition kind of thing?

[scott]

Some of them were for sale. The lowest I saw was one marked for $400, but it wasn't a very fun game. The rest were marked $1500+, with one being marked for over 12k. Apparently that one, called Miss World, has only 4 machines left in existence. Plus there were vendors and such there selling any pinball part imaginable.

[ianomatic]

Cool. Im looking to buy a pinball machine soon, so i'll have to check out that expo next year. Thats if i havent already pulled the trigger on something else by then