Hey Mick the Pin here
Have been signed up to this site for a wile but haven't got around to posting. I live in Brisbane and am starting my pin collection i have one and am getting another, if i had a bunch of money i could think of ten right now that i would buy. Anyway it seems to me that Brisbane is a bit of a Twilight Zone when it comes to pinball. It seems to have lots of distributers that turn over machines quickly, but very few pins in the wild. A great place to own pins but apparently not a great place to play them. The amount of pins and pinheads there must be stretched down from sunny to gold coast must be perhaps the highest concentration in Australia, yet there is virtually no community to speak of. I heard one of the best PAPA players has moved to Australia. We should have PAPA Australia Have "PAPA AUS 1" in Brisbane or the Gold coast or if not SYD or MELB you could have it rotate from year to year. Perhaps its just wishful thinking but i think we are on the cusp of another pinball boom. Its about due if you look at it. You only have to look at the kids over the last few years to see that the 80's has been retro. The 90's will be the new retro thing very soon and you know what that means... primo pins. In my opinion the early 90's was the best time pinball has ever seen. If any of you have the cash to do it and the market research to say it can be profitable open a retro 90's pinnie parlour. Play some Nirvana, put a few old couches around the place, stick a bunch of crazy crap on the walls and watch the coin roll in. I am rambling now so i will wrap it up. Bring on the new age of pinball, "jersey jack" is a start even if there first pin has a stupid theme. If anyone hears of comps or meets in the Brisbane area post it up.
