1st Annual Pinball Festival - 2012 - Newcastle area

[Caveoftreasures]

Is there a Aussie Pinball sign advertising our forum anywhere at the venue. I noticed a Aussie Arcade one hanging up.

I thought originally it was decided/it was going to be a non forum style meet. 

Swinksy, are there any AP members on the Newcastle Pinball Assosciation committe.??    Will it be easy for anyone next year to get involved if they arent a member of AA and only a member of AP etc or is this now predominantly only a AA run affair ?

ps - the photos look great

[Strangeways]

Is there a Aussie Pinball sign advertising our forum anywhere at the venue. I noticed a Aussie Arcade one hanging up.

I thought originally it was decided/it was going to be a non forum style meet.  

Swinksy, are there any AP members on the Newcastle Pinball Assosciation committe.??    Will it be easy for anyone next year to get involved if they arent a member of AA and only a member of AP etc or is this now predominantly only a AA run affair ?

ps - the photos look great

The photos look AWESOME - Well done to all involved.

Wotto created an Aussie Pinball Banner and Gav printed it up and donated it to our site to use for the 2008 Expo. I've had it hanging in my garage ready for any other Expo / event in the future that we are invited to.

I chose not to ask the organizers if we could use our banner for Pinfest, as it was made very clear to me (as AP Co-Owner and an APR Sponsor) that the Pinfest Event was not forum centric. I thought it would be unprofessional and would be against the spirit of the event. I'm sure the organizers "forgot" to ask if we were interested in sending up our banner.. Interesting..

 

[ajlaird]

Looking good, keep the photos coming!

[mickthepin]

Man I wish I was there. I should have got my shit together and got there. My Friday night was so bad I would have been better off at any rate.

[pinnies4me]

I thought originally it was decided/it was going to be a non forum style meet. 

This is rather surprising - APR is a paid sponsor of the event and AP was asked to and provided a layout for the booklet - I did think
this was going to be a non-partisan event - well at least that's what we were told - which we were all in favour of as good for the hobby. We could easily have supplied a banner as Nino mentioned.....

[ktm450]

Great pics nice line up 

[swinks]

sorry guys no photos today as spent the day in hospital as my 3yr old decided to have a fall in Kmart 39min before pingfest kickoff and split her cheek open and needed to go under for a operation - hopefully going tonight and tomorrow.

[swinks]

Is there a Aussie Pinball sign advertising our forum anywhere at the venue. I noticed a Aussie Arcade one hanging up.

I thought originally it was decided/it was going to be a non forum style meet.  

Swinksy, are there any AP members on the Newcastle Pinball Assosciation committe.??    Will it be easy for anyone next year to get involved if they arent a member of AA and only a member of AP etc or is this now predominantly only a AA run affair ?

ps - the photos look great

I saw the pre photos and thought that myself, Extra Ball here and myself were the main AP members and my understanding that the advertising was going to be equal in the handout booklet and no mention of banners otherwise would have got one off Nino and Nick to install last night. Sorry guys if I knew I would have jumped at it.

It is predominantly 9 guys in the committee and I am the main rep for AP with the other 8 being mainly AA with Blue 95 and Extra Ball visiting AP.

[GORGAR 1]

Looks good shame AP didn't get a banner there but is it ran by AA?

Peter

[Strangeways]

sorry guys no photos today as spent the day in hospital as my 3yr old decided to have a fall in Kmart 39min before pingfest kickoff and split her cheek open and needed to go under for a operation - hopefully going tonight and tomorrow.

That's horrible news. I hope she is ok Jady.

[Strangeways]

Looks good shame AP didn't get a banner there but is it ran by AA?

Peter

That's not what we were told.

The important thing is that everyone enjoys the weekend - Pinballs and Hobbyists 

[swinks]

Hopefully this has and will be a great show and that we can learn from some mistakes made in this one as we did have only 9 weeks to pull it together.

[pinnies4me]

Hopefully this has and will be a great show and that we can learn from some mistakes made in this one as we did have only 9 weeks to pull it together.

I'm sure the next one will be better. However, it's naive to lump the forum banner issue into the "mistake" category.

[Pinballesquire]

Anyone know what the opening times are?

[swinks]

tonight is a comp and free play cost is $10

tomorrow is 10am to 4pm cost is $10 per person.

hope to see you there.