One of the great things about Pintastic NE is running into machines that you can’t see elsewhere. This Jaws Machine for example is a one of a kind device from some familiar folks.
There are a lot of machines you see here and almost nowhere else. Another popular machine in the vendor room was the Weird Al machine:
I mean is there a more perfect subject for a machine?
Some other familiar faces are here The Pinbox 3000 crowd was back
Like Steve Ritchie he really gets excited about his work
and of course Pintastic NE isn’t Pintastic NE without the folks from the ElectromagneticPinball Museum
Or the Silk City Hot Sauce display
Yeah my battery died right a the end
One familiar face is Todd Tuckey who brought an unfamilar face with him his daughter
My interview with Todd will go up as a separate post later today.
I did another walkthrough of the Vendor room where I found a handy product
And talked to a fellow who brought a dozen machines from his collection to sell
By the end of the day the Indiana Jones and three others were sold (Indiana traded for another machines and cash).
And while I do not generally interject non-pinball stuff in these posts let the record show that I found out about the Dobbs Decision just as I finished by 2nd Ball on a game of Areosmith in the Extra Ball lounge and with my son visited St. Anne’s Shrine down to the road to pray.
I did get a chance to play Toy Story 4 (Pretty Good) Rush (Ok but I think it won’t wear well on the ramp shots over time) but the majority of my time yesterday was spent on Doctor Who and the Tales of the Arabian Knights
I’m meeting a friend here for day three, very much looking forward to it.
I sat down for a long interview with Steve Ritchie Pinball designer extraordinaire at Pintastic NE 2022 day 1 in Sturbridge ma at the Sturbridge Host Hotel
Today is the feast day of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas Moore who choose to die rather than betray the faith for gain in the world.
Given what we’re seen from the church lately with Bishops and priests (with some notable exceptions) unwilling to stand for the faith and Public servants either not enforcing the laws or enforcing them selectively based on political allegiance they seem to be saints critical for our time.
I’m shocked they haven’t been dropped from the calendar.
My wife is a blueberry person and would regularly buy muffins at Hannaford market. However a bit ago she cut open her muffin and there were no blueberries inside. This is despite the fact that the price for the Muffins has gone up considerably.
It led to some drama when we cut open the 2nd Muffin of the two pack:
This is actually the “broken windows” theory of enforcement where if you take care of small things you cut down on large one.
Under the left this has become passé and we’re paying for it.
There have been a lot of excuses for the failure of Lightyear by the defenders of Disney, none on them involved the decision to push homosexuality in a film for kids.
Alas for the woke crowd unlike schools they can not compel attendance in theatres so if parents don’t want to push this junk on their kids they don’t have to.
The real fun is going to come with the new movie Minions: The Rise of Gru. You see if all the Disney apologists are right then this movie should do just as badly as Lightyear because all of the same issues they claim are holding back Lightyear’s take will still be in play when it comes out.
Of course if Minions The Rise of Gru is as big of a hit as it seems likely to be it will just be another proof of the media as the lying propagandists that they are.
Not that they care anymore, they’ve given up on worrying about the pretense of being objective.
Speaking of schools here is another bit from that stuff I hinted at earlier that they are teaching elementary school kids in the Lawrence school system.
More of that Critical Race Theory that doesn’t exist
Funny for something that the left/media claimed was just a right wing fantasy there sure seems to be a lot of prepared items ready to be disseminated to public school kids in lieu of teaching thing useless things like reading, writing and arithmetic, particularly in schools were the parents don’t have a lot of other options.
I had planned to write something more extensive today about but I had forgotten about Juneteenth being a national holiday so the school crowd I tried to contact for comment might not have been in so I figured it would be fair to give them another day just out of fairness.
Of course I suspect I’ll be a tad busy the next few days…
…as PintasticNE begins tomorrow night and I plan on enjoying myself to the fullest.
As a teaser I have an interview with the owner of Cape Cod and Beyond a company that rents out machines who came down the house to pick up the Batman 66 machine that my sons and wife rented me for my birthday.
I suspect that you’ll see a lot more of these rental companies and the price of Pinball machines and the potential for investment continues to grow, but I think the real driver is the problem of where do you store these things if you don’t have to room for it.
The nice thing about a rental is there is always a fresh machines in your hands.
For the next four days I’ll be knee deep in pinball and I’ll forget about Biden, the Gas prices, Bad Government, and the lot.
Da Techguy's (no longer backup) Blog 