Quoted from Vengeance

Did any of you guys bother to go to Mike Hanely's pimp your zizzle seminar?   

I missed it, but I believe he had his Deathlok Zizzle out on the floor to check out after.

Quoted from ALJO

Seemed like a great trip! When I here you talk about those early Stern pins, you are so passoinate about them that you make me want to own a couple of them.

Too bad that this had to happened, I always ask how much a guy wants before making an offer, this way you never pay more than what the guy had planned.

Just my 2 cents. Claude.

I asked him what he wanted and he said "What do you want to pay?". I know that he usually sells his NOS backglasses for $250. This isn't a NOS glass, so I made him an offer that I could live with and was in line with what I figured he'd accept. It didn't really matter what the price was -- I was leaving with that glass and that's all there was to it. I probably could have been a private and lowballed him, but I paid a fair price and I'm happy with that. I also didn't have to worry about shipping and the costs associated with that, so it all works out in the end.

Some cool deals at EXPO,TZ used translight $40  NGG heads for free.

Here is a pic of the CV poster CAMERON SILVER signed.
Had a great time,came home with cool stuff!

HEY!  Those gopher heads look like they've been hand painted by some old dude?!

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Your not wrong,GENE said just wipe off his paint job and repaint them.The brown is the colour of the rubber.
  

OK, the show was over a week ago, but for some unknown (well, actually known) reason, I couldn't remember my password thus I couldn't post.

I was able to 'stop by Chicago' for approx. 24 hours to go to the Expo (Friday afternoon 'till Saturday afternoon), then head down to Florida for a conference.

A very special thanks and kudos to the GTA-London-Peterborough krew for letting me join with them for oodles of fun....the beer was great and I'm glad that you enjoyed Giordano's "pies"...I also enjoyed playing Cheetah, which is a game I had never played, although owning one...for 48 hours...

I must admit I love these old Sterns...  

As an 'Expo Veteran' (6th time), I can add additional info for those MAACA guys (medvet hasn't done the trip...yet!) who have done 'Expo' before.

For anyone who has never done the trip: GO!!! It's a must!

For the Veterans: you didn't miss much...

First of all, the parts selection was AWFUL...Mayfair wasn't there, so you had the overpriced guy from KC....and that's about it!!! James Loflin was there with his very nice ramps, and a few other guys with 'game-specific' parts, but other than that, it was very poor on the parts side of things. Pinball Life did an open house, but I didn't make it, to my chagrin.

The hall size was GREAT...very big, lot's of room, but with the missing dealers (like CPR...heard the whole story at the show...), many tables were empty.

The 'free play area' was smaller again this year, with approx. 90 machines on Friday night, 80 machines on Saturday Noon, 65-70% working...

Brian Bannon didn't bring anything this year (nor that I saw him either)...and machine selection was poor, other than someone was brave enough to bring his BBB. Not a lot of new Sterns either...no WOF, IJ, LOTR, Spiderman, Shrek on Free Play. Batman whitewood was playable though... Also almost no EMs...

I enjoyed playing the early SSs like WARLOK (MY FAVORITE THIS YEAR!), Jungle Lord, Space Invaders, Orbitor 1, a few Zacc's, Sharpshooter, etc.

I can't talk about the seminars, expo brawl, banquet and Stern visit as I didn't participate in them.

Bish convinced me of checking out the autograph session as Python was there!!! I already met most of the 'other guys/gals' in previous expos, so I was happy to meet Python in person...he was giving autographed flyers of either Jokers, Bad Cats or Popeye. Only 1 per person! (he was strict on the 'one per person') When I saw that, I went to the Pacak booth to get a Flipper Football flyer to get it signed, as he had hundreds of them...then when I asked for a price, he wanted $10 each (!!!), so I stuck with a Popeye flyer and then quickly went to my free shuttle, which left as soon as I got in.

It was nice to see the auction back...prices for vids were ULTRA CHEAP, pins, on the other hand, were average to high...don't let the numbers on the web fool you...when you add 30% extra hammer, nail, screwdriver, credit card, state, federal, municipal and looking fees, the prices were higher than I expected in these hard economic times. If I had wheels, I would have picked up the fully working site-down Turbo for...FIVE BUCKS!!! The Skateboard game fully working with big (burn-in) screen went for...TEN DOLLARS!!! The German 4MBC was in decent shape, so was the Zaccaria game.

The new venue is nice, although it's a pricey $30US cab ride from the airport (if you take 'regular cabs', it's over $60)...a few nice eating places around, but no 'choke 'n puke'-style places unless you walk for 20-30 minutes each way.

You can see that PACAK is really pi**ing people off...less people at the show, the 'real pinbrawl now gone, less dealers, less games...

It'll be interesting to see the turnout next year for their 'anniversary show'...but I think that within' the next 3 years, unless Pacak/Berk starts kissing butt and stop gauging the collectors' money with their insane pricing for the seminars, Stern Visit, lower-than-par free play and dealer areas, the show will be no-more.

Mes deux cennes,

Frosken