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Collector Con 2024

3/11/2024

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​​We're back! Five years after the inaugural Collector Con Toy & Hobby Fair in Campbelltown in 2019, the show is back in town. Collector Con has grown considerably in the last few years but unfortunately there has not been a Campbelltown show since 2019. This year, that changed, and when we heard that Amy was bringing the show back to Campbelltown, we put our hands up to bring some pinball machines along for the public to play again.

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Oz Comic Con 2024

8/10/2024

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Boy, we sure are suckers for punishment. Exactly a week after Pinfest, Fiona and I are on the road again to Oz Comic Con 2024, one of the biggest pop culture shows in Australia. This year it is being held at Sydney Showground, and we're bringing three pinball machines (and a couple of retro gaming consoles!) to the Retro Gaming area for con patrons to enjoy. I haven't participated in such a large show before, and it's certainly a huge effort to keep carting games around so soon after Pinfest 2024. So, why do we do this? It's my hope that by bringing pinball machines to large events such as this, more and more people will discover, or rediscover, the joy of the silver ball and become involved in pinball as a hobby. My role as a "pinball evangelist" is to keep the pinball dream alive, and giving the general public more opportunities to play pinball is the best way to do this. 

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Pinfest 2024

29/9/2024

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​My favourite time of the year! Pinfest! This year was extra special for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I had been on long service leave for a month prior to Pinfest. This gave me plenty of time to get games ready and plan for the trip. It's always nice to have some time to prep a game for the beating it takes at Pinfest because, invariably, there are issues that crop up at the last minute. Secondly, I had tried and tested my van as a pinball moving vehicle for the Newcastle Pinball Pop-Up a couple of months ago, so I had decided to bring not one, not two, but three games to Pinfest this time around!

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Pinball Pop-Up 2024 (and a new Pinball Moving Vehicle!)

23/6/2024

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This is starting to turn into a travel blog. I've posted more pinball travel and event recounts this year than I ever have before! What's going on? I don't even like travelling! Well it turns out, I actually do like to travel, as long as there is pinball at the destination! Last weekend Fiona and I headed to the Pinball Pop-Up event held at Edgeworth Sports & Rec Club. This is the first time this event has been run by the Newcastle Pinball Association, the purpose of which was to raise funds for Kressy (Kress Electrix) to bring one of his fantastic homebrew pinball machines to a pinball show in the US. Plus, it was a chance for the public to get their pinball fix before the main event later in the year; Pinfest! All pinball is good pinball, so we were happy to donate two machines to the event.​

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Comic Book Day 2024

4/5/2024

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Yesterday (4 May 2024) was a holy day for nerds worldwide. It was Star Wars day. This was also the day that Campbelltown City Council decided to host Comic Book Day at the HJ Daley Library, a celebration of comic books, gaming, and pop culture. Cool! I'm always up for nerdy stuff. Pinball is the perfect companion to nerdy stuff, partly because so many pinball themes are based on nerdy stuff! So, I contacted the library and asked if they would be interested in hosting a couple of pinball machines for the day for guests to enjoy. The library was hosting all kinds of other cool stuff on the day including comic book giveaways, cosplay competitions, Star Wars trivia, and more. They were really keen on the pinball machine idea, so I committed to bringing a couple of games to spread the magic of pinball. I had two perfect games for this kind of event: Judge Dredd (Bally, 1993) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Data East, 1991). Both are based on comic book themes, and both would appeal to the kids that would be attending this kind of event. Unfortunately, however, TMNT is not in service yet as it's still undergoing restoration. So I decided instead to bring Super Mario Bros (Gottlieb, 1992). Into the van they went, and off we went to the library for the day. 
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