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Kirk and I are at INDISC next week - finals are on twitch!
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Looking forward to it 
Been dying to visit Museum of Pinball In Banning for years
Been dying to visit Museum of Pinball In Banning for years
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The bank for the main!
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Forget any other pinball place!!
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Wow.
Buy their Magneto!
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Ok played all 500 games and this is the worst - after that Munsters but couldn’t play full throttle as it broke in the first hour.
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What an event - games are super super challenging and the card format makes it even harder (5 games!). After Pinburgh probably the hardest games I’ve ever played but it’s so satisfying when you have a half decent
The quality of the tournament is just staggering, we can only dream of having such an event in the UK - it’s a bit depressing really! Europe and especially the UK is so far behind.
INDISC will be an annual event for me now though.
and The pinball museum -they even have more games that PAPA - an incredibly impressive collection - photos soon.
The quality of the tournament is just staggering, we can only dream of having such an event in the UK - it’s a bit depressing really! Europe and especially the UK is so far behind.
INDISC will be an annual event for me now though.
and The pinball museum -they even have more games that PAPA - an incredibly impressive collection - photos soon.
Forget any other pinball place!!
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Looks amazing. Was this particularly early/late, or was so many pins with nobody playing them the norm, unlike the big events in the UK?
Looks awesome.
I think the norm for these places should be to pick up your headset on arrival and connect to the pin.
To enjoy the full experience of the games.
That’s if they have the jack installed of course
I think the norm for these places should be to pick up your headset on arrival and connect to the pin.
To enjoy the full experience of the games.
That’s if they have the jack installed of course
It really doesn't help when similar formats, are introduced into the UK there's an uproar with pages of complaints on here that its 'pay to win' and people slag it off without ever having played - and even those familiar with the format slag it off for reasons best known to themselves.
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Nobody except maybe a few people are here because it’s pay to win. There are prizes for about a handful of folks and there are over 300 people here. The vast majority know they won’t win anything. Yet they have paid to come here, paid to enter and paid for entries - nobody is complaining (apart from how hard it is!).
The UK (and to an extent the EU) is stuck in the dark ages of competitive pinball.
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LOL - No - There was about 350 people, but the pins out number the punters almost two to one unlike the “big” events in the UK. Then if I add the video games its about 4-1.
Just to give an idea - the collection has every single Stern LE - every single WPC game... every CE JJP over a hundred EMs over a hundred SS. There is nothing like it anywhere.
The tournament is in another section with about 60 games.
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Seeing as @Neil McRae is doing all the talking... I'll add my 5p
Location - Banning, seems like a truckers town... Basically a singular long road that runs along the I-10... Wish we had booked to stay in Palm Springs
Museum of Pinball - Wow of wow this place is seriously insane in scale and for one mans collection its mind blowing! Even if your not into playing the tournaments, you should consider coming along to play all the machines on freeplay... Over 500
Really loved playing lots of the EM's and SS... Ballys Blackwater 100 which I've never even heard of, is a brilliant machine
Competition is great... But really really hard... The machines are setup extremely hard... Posts removed, Gates removed, Rubbers removed... Polished... Jacked up....
And you really need a ticket with 5 great games or your toast
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Location - Banning, seems like a truckers town... Basically a singular long road that runs along the I-10... Wish we had booked to stay in Palm Springs
Museum of Pinball - Wow of wow this place is seriously insane in scale and for one mans collection its mind blowing! Even if your not into playing the tournaments, you should consider coming along to play all the machines on freeplay... Over 500
Really loved playing lots of the EM's and SS... Ballys Blackwater 100 which I've never even heard of, is a brilliant machine
Competition is great... But really really hard... The machines are setup extremely hard... Posts removed, Gates removed, Rubbers removed... Polished... Jacked up....
And you really need a ticket with 5 great games or your toast
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It’s only open 4 times a year though!
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Seeing as @Neil McRae is doing all the talking... I'll add my 5p
Location - Banning, seems like a truckers town... Basically a singular long road that runs along the I-10... Wish we had booked to stay in Palm Springs
Museum of Pinball - Wow of wow this place is seriously insane in scale and for one mans collection its mind blowing! Even if your not into playing the tournaments, you should consider coming along to play all the machines on freeplay... Over 500
Really loved playing lots of the EM's and SS... Ballys Blackwater 100 which I've never even heard of, is a brilliant machine
Competition is great... But really really hard... The machines are setup extremely hard... Posts removed, Gates removed, Rubbers removed... Polished... Jacked up....
And you really need a ticket with 5 great games or your toast
posts gates and rubbers removed. that’s harsh and arguably incorrect. machines should be setup as intended.
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Maybe there just aren't enough people that into competitive play in the UK ?? We have a different scene here, the whole 'barcade' thing is wildly different etc etc ....many reason I'm sure
Different people enjoy the hobby in different ways ....and I know I'm not alone in loving pinball yet caring little for competitions.
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Totally agree Sarge but I think even in that regard the cards aren’t stacked in our favour
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Well that rules out a lot of machines from competition as they would go on forever - this way slight changes make games good for competition - but take the Dialed in there is nothing really changed in it - it just plays super fast with very sensitive slings and no kickback enabled by default.
They have an epic theatre of magic here that is modified to be super hard - I can put 3B on mine (which isn’t set up too easy) but best score I got was 250M on it.
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yep i guess it’s to keep time down but then that really doesn’t do the whole ideas of pinball comps any favours. it’s like the no extra ball rule in comps. ok for comps but it spoils home or fun play not having any extra balls
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Last BW100 l saw was one in... Birmingham. Went to view on behalf of a buyer . Game duly went to New Zealand
If more people would donate machines, I’d look for a bigger venue.
My problem is that due to space issues, I've sold all my non NIBs or HUOs.....