Pinballapalooza
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Just got back. WOW! Starburst really came through. That is one of the best PR pinball things ever. Tons of women and children playing, there was a group of
special needs people there, just a great sight to see for all us pinball lovers. General public hasn't be exposed to pinball like this in forever.
Lots of TOPL faces representing!
Well done to all those involved.
Chris
special needs people there, just a great sight to see for all us pinball lovers. General public hasn't be exposed to pinball like this in forever.
Lots of TOPL faces representing!
Well done to all those involved.
Chris
Don't any of you TOPL people work?
Jeez, I went down to look around and it was like Monday night down there. Way too many familiar faces!
: )
Glad to see a few people I've met from TOPL and that it was such a great turn-out.
I agree with Frolic -Starburst really came through with a great selection of machines!
Not sure if they''ll see much of a return on their time and effort, but it's awesome.
Coming back in to work tomorrow to see an empty lobby where pins used to be is gonna be sad...
Jeez, I went down to look around and it was like Monday night down there. Way too many familiar faces!
: )
Glad to see a few people I've met from TOPL and that it was such a great turn-out.
I agree with Frolic -Starburst really came through with a great selection of machines!
Not sure if they''ll see much of a return on their time and effort, but it's awesome.
Coming back in to work tomorrow to see an empty lobby where pins used to be is gonna be sad...
Vengeance
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FYI guys Playdium got paid for this, it's not volunteer work or a way to drum up sales, the festival is paying them for the rental of the games.
Yeah, there was no way they'd do something like this pro-bono regardless of the return. The cost to pull this off logistically would be $$.
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Some pics of actual people here. It was not a ghost town at all:
http://torontoist.com/2013/05/scene-fre ... ian-place/
http://torontoist.com/2013/05/scene-fre ... ian-place/
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frolic said:
Agreed.
I think the comments that surrounded this issue was the fact the people organizing this originally reached out to collectors and were asking them to do this for nothing.
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Menace said:
Collectors couldn't easily do what playdium could, organize the trucks durind mid week and supply the techs etc ... Realistically this was the best solution .. I can understand the production company trying to find the cheapest way (although offerign nothing was A. Stupid and B. Total BS on their part) and I fully understand the collector community not being willing to agree to those terms .. in the end the smartest solution was the one they used and it appears they hit a home run in terms of attendance .. whether that is reflected in ticket sales is one question but Tommy will definitely get alot of press over the next couple of days.
Now when does PAPA state their goal of smashing the guiness record that was just set (a joke of a record in my eyes)
Vengeance
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SquidVicious said:
Guinness records cost money, you have to pay a judge to come out and officiate.
PAPA has no intention as far as I know to waste the money to pay a judge to come out to participate in a record breaking attempt.
Attempting to put an event like this on collectors was naive, and good thing it didn't work out. In the end they ended up with the best partner and probably only partner that could make it happen. At least the collectors put them in touch with SB and it all worked out.
Vengeance said:
Smart on their part ... I could still see someone maybe the Texas fest or EXPO wanting the title but that PAPA seemingly has no interest is a good thing
Bowen Kerins tweeted :
@bowenkerins "Toronto: set world record with 100 #pinball players at once! Pittsburgh: O RLY? Pinburgh 2013: http://papa.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pinburgh2013-lofi.jpg http://pinballsoul.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/PAPA-Kickstarter.jpg"
@bowenkerins "Toronto: set world record with 100 #pinball players at once! Pittsburgh: O RLY? Pinburgh 2013: http://papa.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pinburgh2013-lofi.jpg http://pinballsoul.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/PAPA-Kickstarter.jpg"
Well we all know PAPA has had more than 100 people playing at once but as Adam mentioned will they drop money on getting a judge out to verify it.
REVOLUTION said:so these are ALL starburst games? It would've been smart to put price tags on all these games.
Actually there was zero mention of sales that I saw (I was looking but there weren't any price lists or playdium cards in the open ..
frolic said:
Sure and you are right it was 100% about PR .. I don't know that it could have been done any better