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<\/a>The flyer table at Pinball Expo, with seasonal Dutch candy, free sample Issues and Pinball Magazine cover posters.<\/p><\/div>\n
After picking up my registration stuff I put up some posters of Pinball Magazine No. 1 and 2 and distributed the first copies of the sample Issue that was made for this event. To my surprise I think about 300 copies were picked up during the first evening. I also introduced some seasonal Dutch candy which turned out to be be very popular too.<\/p>\n
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The evening itself was just great. Catching up with people I met last year, or see more regularly. Like Rob Berk said in Pinball magazine No. 2, \u201cPinball Expo is like a love in.\u201d\u00a0I had a great talk with Multimorphic\u2019s Gerry Stellenberg about their P3 platform and upcoming games. I think the platform is great and may even be the future of pinball. All it needs to take off is a great fun game.<\/p>\n
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Gerry and I went for a drink at Twin Peaks, a Hooters-like type of restaurant\/bar. To be honest it was a good thing I new what type of bar it was, else I might have thought it could have been a gay bar based on the number of male (and lack of female) visitors. For a moment I was also wondering why one of the waitresses had her boobs lifted into her armpits, but if that makes her happy\u2026<\/p>\n
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When I returned to the hotel I ran into ColorDMD\u2019s Randy Perlow. We had an interesting,\u00a0lengthy\u00a0discussion and I eventually was able to sleep for four hours before getting up in time for the Stern factory tour the next morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The First day of Pinball Expo usually is only an evening since nothing happens until the Bumper Blast Welcome Party. I aarived at 7:00 PM at the Westin, which at that time already had lots of Expo visitors being present. The nice thing about Expo is that you (I) see a lot of people that appreciate Pinball Magazine and come over to tell me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}