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episode 17. solo on a dark and stormy night
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Spencer talks about lots of great shows and events coming up in 2019 while Bud the dog barks at the wind.
Highlights
- It Never Drains (Indisc) is held January 11-13 at Banning, California facility with ~500 pinball machines and numerous arcade/video games
- Texas Pinball Festival in March is becoming one of the go-to shows rivaling Pinball Expo in Chicago
- Pinball Expo is held October 16-20 in Willng, Illinois at the Westin Hotel and is the original/granddaddy of pinball shows
- Pinburg, the largest pinball tournament on planet, is now held at ReplayFX in Pittsburgh (August 1-4) instead of Papa facility
- Golden State Pinball Festival artwork for 2019 was revealed and created by Donny Gillies (Dirty Donny), who did Metallica and Aerosmith game artwork
- Alex Lambert won the 2018 CCPL Interleague Year End Championships
- Project Pinball raffles new machines and donates proceeds to place pinball machines in children's hospitals
- Stern is expected to unveil a new game called 'The Munsters (Pro)' at CES tomorrow (January 2019)
Notable quotes
“It was a dark and stormy night. Welcome to the The Spinner is Lit Pinball Podcast.”
“Pinball Expo, the big daddy of them all, October 16th through 20th. You guys know where it is. It's in Willing, Illinois.”
“You know, if I was a sick kid in the hospital for hours and days at a time and I had nothing to do, I'd sure love to have a pinball machine to bang on”
“Just keep passing the torch along. Pay it forward. Make 2019 the best year for pinball ever.”
“Pinball Map. You know, I was checking out, my family and I have been discussing possibly moving from the great state of California in the not too distant future.”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- Arcade Expo 5.0· event
- California Extreme· event
- Golden State Pinball Festival· event
- It Never Drains· event
- Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show· event
- Pinball Expo· event
- Pinburg· event
- Pinnagogo· event
- ReplayFX· event
- Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown· event
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- CCPL· organization
- Pinball Map· organization
- Project Pinball· organization
- Alex Lambert· person
- Donny Gillies (Dirty Donny)· person
- Paul PJ Hawkins· person
- Seth· person
- Spencer Klingon· person
- Grinker's Grand Palace· venue
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