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Title: Michigan Pinball Expo
Post by: Bootay on April 06, 2011, 05:18:16 pm

Wasn't sure where to post this but I just wanted to let all of the Michigan users know about this:
http://www.mipinball.com/ (http://www.mipinball.com/)

It starts next Thurs. and ends next Sunday. Who is going?

Title: Re: Michigan Pinball Expo
Post by: Bootay on April 15, 2011, 11:13:46 am

Well....no one ever responded to this, but whatever. I went yesterday. It was pretty cool. I was able to try out a bunch of stuff I never tried but always wanted to. Here are a few of the experiences.

1) I played on my first digital pinball table. There were 3 of them there. It was alright but it didn't feel right. I would still build one just to play on tables I would never own I suppose, but obviously it was not the same as playing the real thing at all.
2) Some might think it sacrilege but I finally played Funhouse again after 20 or so years.....didn't really care for it much compared to a lot of others.
3) I finally played a multicab with vertical LCD and as expected, graphically it didn't look right to me. Way too blocky. So I will still stick to an arcade monitor if I ever get around to building one.
4) My son was a fan of Haunted House and Indiana Jones and surprisingly he really enjoyed the non-digital ones as well.

We were there from 5pm-11pm. I played on pretty much everything there. There were quite a few tables that I wanted to try that were either broke down or absent, but all in all it was worth the $12 admission.

Did anyone else go yet or plan on going ?

Title: Re: Michigan Pinball Expo
Post by: shameem2008 on April 23, 2011, 03:44:00 pm

Thank you for the update. I will visit next time

Title: Re: Michigan Pinball Expo
Post by: theredlineboss on May 17, 2011, 06:02:19 pm

I know this topic is getting a bit old, but since I did attend the MI Pinball Expo, I figured someone might enjoy the pix I took:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/theredlineboss/Arcade%20and%20Pinball%20Pix/PinballExpo09.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/theredlineboss/Arcade%20and%20Pinball%20Pix/PinballExpo05.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/theredlineboss/Arcade%20and%20Pinball%20Pix/PinballExpo07.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/theredlineboss/Arcade%20and%20Pinball%20Pix/PinballExpo06.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/theredlineboss/Arcade%20and%20Pinball%20Pix/StarTrekMachine.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/theredlineboss/Arcade%20and%20Pinball%20Pix/JackBotMachine.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/theredlineboss/Arcade%20and%20Pinball%20Pix/NowMachine.jpg)

Sorry about the quality about the pix- the camera doesn't always want to cooperate.

-Rob

Title: Re: Michigan Pinball Expo
Post by: Bootay on May 18, 2011, 10:05:30 am

Not a problem. I had a lot of fun there. Thanks for the pics.