Pintastic NE 2026 Videos of the Day: Leo Reinhart & Maggie the Clown two Artists in Action at Pintastic NE

Posted: April 23, 2026 by datechguy in fun, special events, culture, entertainment, pinball
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I have maintained that Pinball is an art, there is the actual artwork on the machines. The physical design of the machines, the art of the programing, the art of the story.

Today’s videos are of two different artists. One new to Pintastic Leo Reinhart:

I think it’s very appropriate for a pinball convention having a piece of art with balls being moved via gravity causing things to react. If they were pinballs instead of marbles it would have been perfect.

Our 2nd artist is someone who we have featured before and has been with Pintastic NE since the very start, our old friend Maggie the Clown:

As Pintastic has gotten bigger the number of kids have increased so Maggie becomes an even more important part of the show on Saturdays. She still owns the camera every time I see her there.

Previously:

Pintastic NE 2026 Video of the Day: Cardona Pinball Designs Fish Tales Mod

Posted: April 22, 2026 by datechguy in fun, pinball, special events
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Yesterday we showed a video of a mod to an old EM Pinball machine. Today we see a significant mod to a much newer pinball machine, the excellent Fish Tales:

Cardona’s website is here.

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Pintastic NE 2026 Video of the Day: Dave Modifies an old Hee Haw Machine

Posted: April 21, 2026 by datechguy in fun, pinball, special events
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One of the things that is fairly new in the hobby of pinball is people building their own machines and / or modifying old ones. These are called “Homebrews”. We’ll be touching on this the next two days:

This is Dave who has modified an old Hee Haw machine:

These little things can really liven up the old eletromagnetic games.

100 Word Fan Fiction: Part 1 A Reunion interrupted

Posted: April 19, 2026 by datechguy in fan fiction, fun
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Newkirk grinned through his grey temples: “I tell ya mates there are days I look back & I can’t believe the things we did.”

Carter laughed: “Hey we still can’t believe that you brought in that Gestapo lady in through the tunnel.”

Kinch smiled: “Yeah we all dug for a month reconnecting everything”

Newkirk’s winced & all present laughed till they saw a pair of smartly dressed men coming into the room. Even 30 years removed from Stalag 13 they knew agents when they saw them.

“Col Hogan, we’d like a word with you and your men.”

Previously: Flash Forward: The Squeeze is off , The still faithful short one

(Pintastic NE Videos resume tomorrow)

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