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Event Title: The Pinball Station Federation Day Event Author: razorsedge Calendar: Community Calendar Event Date: 01/01/24 12:00 AM The Pinball Station Federation Day - Matchplay Tournament Monday 1st January 2024. Registration and warm-up starts in the morning at 11:00, event starts at 13.00. INFORMATION. 1. Tournament name: The Pinball Station Federation Day 2. Tournament director: Ray Gillett. 3. Email: raymondgillett@bigpond.com 4. Location: Cnr. South Terrace and Browne St., Caltowie, South Australia. : 5490 5. Registration and warm up 11:00. 6. Information and questions from players 13.00-13.10. 7. Tournament start: 13.00. 8. Format is Matchplay using matchplay events. 9. Entry fee: $21 (includes the $1 IFPA fee). 10. Each player will play 14 matches. 2 matches each round, with 7 rounds. 11. Arena draws will be balanced. 12. Play order for each match will be random. 13. Tiebreakers will be automatic. 14. Event: Main. 15. Estimated # of players: 16 16. Meaningful # of games played/tgp: 28 for 100% 17. Unlimited qualifying: No 18. Website link: 19. Private: No The Pinball Station Federation Day

Event Title: Brisbane Pinball Club Event Author: JoeSoap Calendar: Community Calendar Event Date: 19/09/23 04:00 PM to 19/09/23 08:30 PM Qualifying: *Qualifying opens from 4pm. *10 games will be selected at random. Each player plays 1 game on each machine. Top 8 players on points will advance to finals. *Ties for 8th place will result in a single game playoff, on a machine to be chosen by a random draw. Ties all other placings after qualifying will be broken according to the highest individual game point score. **Please note that no qualifying games may commence after 8.30pm.** Players in 9th-16th place will advance to a B Division final. Finals: *Top 8 players will be separated into 2 groups of 4 for a 3-game Group Matchplay. IFPA point scoring will be used. *Top 2 players on points in each group will advance to the Final 4, where another 3-game Group Matchplay will be contested. The winner will be the player with the most points at the end of the final round. B Division Finals: *The 8 players in B Division will be split into 2 groups of 4 for a single game of Group Matchplay each. Top 2 from each group will advance to the Final 4, where one final Group game will be played to determine the B Division runner-up and winner. Brisbane Pinball Club

Hello all Pinheads.... Yaboola's new clubroom is under construction and is looking at holding comps from either August 30th or September the 13th.... Currently works have been proceeding in both the rear tenancy (Gym Extension) and the new tenant in the front area (Services Australia) and Yaboola's fitout is now ready to proceed. The first return event will be round 4 of the delayed league event and is going to be a very tight finish. Currently Dicky is leading by just 1 point with James Drury, Paul, Joe, and myself all in the running for a top 3 finish. Regular club nights will be fortnightly until the end of the year and remain at $25 for non-members and $20 for members. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO 2023 - This is likely to be held over 3 days and is looking like starting on October FRIDAY THE 13TH... and the main events will be on the Saturday and Sunday. We have decided to avoid both the League and AFL finals and Bathurst the following weekend. This will also leave time between Nambour's Sternament and the Australian Open... More information to follow....

Hi all, picked up a Stellar wars pinball but it's missing the lock down bar and upper RH plastic. Hoping someone has one in the corner they don't need. Based in Brisbane. Please let me know if you want to sell them. Can cut and add some to a smaller bar but prefer the original if possible. Cheers Tony

Looking for a road kings. Plenty of games here to trade.

Thought I'd start a thread where we can talk about the tables and scoring for this season. I'll go over my notes again for Conquest 200 a bit later as @RusstyTis the current champ we might get a better insight from him. Just updated the score submission page to try and encourage everyone to submit using your mobile as screenshots aren't showing in a large enough format to be read. As each game has a calendar entry with a QR code which takes you directly to the right game, this is the preferred way of submitting so it's consistent between players.

Hi all, Up for sale is my Star Wars Pro - $10.5k. I feel it is a very fair cost considering NiB cost is now $11,950 and I’ve installed over $1k of mods. I’ve managed to sell another -machine which means I now no longer have to sell this pin to fund my new Pin arriving in April. But I will leave the ad up for a little while longer before posting on Facebook and Gumtree. I bought this beauty from Zax Amusements in Melbourne (previously routed by Zak himself for a couple of years in a relatively quiet cinema - 6686 paid credits) - the machine is in extremely good clean and perfect playing condition with no visible wear on playfield and shooter lane looks great also. Machine comes with fully functioning coin mech and a note reader. Since purchasing, I have added the following: -stern shooter rod (storm trooper) -Mezel mod shooter backing plate -Insider connected installed -Shaker motor installed -Mirror Blades installed -Brite buttons illuminated flipper buttons installed (white) -Pin Monk insert colours installed (change plain white inserts from character select, Force targets, and Lightsaber duel inserts from plain white to appropriate colour) -new rubbers -Mezel mods lockdown bar button surround - 2x Star destroyer figures installed on playfield - inlane switch protectors -wizard mod speaker panel magnetic cover -wizard mod flipper bat covers installed -Lenticular 3d apron cards - Stern tournament topper (I kid - but you are welcome to keep if you like!) Let me know if you are interested - happy for in-person inspection or via facetime or video call. Located in Thornhill Park Victoria 3335 - Bill or Shannon have been here before - I may be able to deliver if purchased by a local buyer but otherwise buyer to please organise transport. first to pay deposit will secure the machine - look forward to discussing. Thanks, Sean More photos More photos

On the lookout for 1 williams alphanumeric 7 digit display for A 1986 High Speed.

*SOLD* Aliens SV pinball machine. Purchased new in box from Mr. Pinball Less than a year old, under 150 plays. Machine plays extremely well, like a new machine should. Home use only and in immaculate condition This machine had a few problems when first purchased (like many SVs did), worked through these problems with Pinball Brothers and sorted them all out. Happy to share pinball brothers help log that I kept a record of. A lot of new Cat6a cables & new USB cables have been install. Has played perfect for a long time now. A great pinball for a great price! Happy to send more pictures or Videos if wanted. Can arrange shipping with Bill. Game is located in Ringwood, inspection most welcome. $10,500 Cheers, Nick

Update 3: SOLD Update 2: last Hail Mary price drop before removing from sale - $9750 Update: Price drop - $10,250 - will consider all reasonable offers Hi all, Up for sale is our restored Demolition in fantastic condition. The reason for the sale is this is my 16 year old daughter’s machine (a way for her to save her part time Job money for her first car) - I told her that she just has to pay for the machine itself and I would fund all the upgrades and work to make it play beautiful. Well we now have the opportunity to repurchase a Stranger Things machine (after I became enemy #1 in my house with my daughters when I sold ours mid last year) so unfortunately a couple of machines will need to go to fund this and my pre- existing purchase commitments that are due to arrive in the next couple of months. Priced at $10,750 ono - I am taking a hit on the upgrades I funded but need to prioritise a quick sale in order to complete the other purchases. I am advertising multiple machines so I do not need all of them to sell, so feel free to put in a genuine offer (maybe purchase multiple from me!) but I won’t respond to any offers that are insulting. Everything works (including all crane functions,) as it should with no errors. Playfield is in fantastic condition - as good as I have seen - shooter lane is fantastic, scoop hole, inlanes and out lanes have no wear. I can’t lay claim to having seen all Demo Man in Australia but you would be hard pressed to find a nicer playfield and everything feels incredibly snappy and smooth like it should. In addition: All decals in fantastic condition Art Blades installed XL HD colour Pin2Dmd installed with new panel (looks like recent CGC remake pins) New speakers with RGB lighting (fully adjustable) New sheet of Widebody Vampire Glass installed Full LED changeout with super bright from Pinball Haus Alternative Translite installed - much nicer (original also included in sale) Light up ice blue button mod installed on handles New titan rubbers installed (Light Blue throughout with red post rubbers) Latest Home software ROM installed Swear Roms for audio installed (can censor through settings if required) NVRam installed - no more batteries Full machine service in December 22, including flipper rebuilds Lenticular (3d) Apron cards (look great in person but hard to photograph) Given a bit more time, I was going to either powder coat or chrome the legs, lock down bar and side rails. To be clear, this does not have to be done (personal choice of course) but in my obsession with this machine I would have done it as the lock down bar has small blemish that can be seen at certain angles depending on lighting. Located in Thornhill Park, Victoria (about 35 minutes northwest of Melbourne CBD), I recommend inspection or FaceTime video calls - PM to arrange. Thanks for taking the time to read, Sean

Selling my Flintstones $8500 Williams 1994 Great title, not seen for sale very often Great overall condition New LEDs throughout New star posts Titan Rubbers Flippers rebuilt New custom painted apron/ ramp Legs, lockdown and side rails powder coated Black New leg levelers and silicon protectors New pin 2 DMD colour LEDs added to the houses, dino and dicta bird Good boards No faults Plays fast Very fun game with unique ramp/ apron feature and bowling alley. Great multi ball Inspections welcome located in Caulfield North, Melbourne VIC Video call if needed Any questions just ask.

Hi all, Thought it would be great to showcase our spectacular pinball selection here at Oh Wow Funhouse. Our shining stars are our refurbished and signed Dennis Lillee pinball and a limited edition signed Wizard of Oz. If anyone would like to come down to Preston's hidden gem and have a go at these brillant machines you can find us at 26 Swanston Street, Preston, VIC https://www.ohwowfunhouse.com.au https://www.instagram.com/ohwowfunhouse/ Cheers and hope to see you there sometime 🙂

On the hunt for some, pop caps for my HS they are red with a black heat stamped W, if and knows where I could get some for a reasonable price it would like to know Please and Thankyou

Howdy all, our next Pinball Competition is Match Play from 6:40 pm and is on at Wynnum tomorrow night for only $20 which includes all machines on Free Play 4 meets completed and $800.00 in prizemoney given out already..... Come to Wynnum tomorrow night and win your share.... Memberships available at the venue...

I thought I better put a placeholder in for my restore and for feedback, suggestions and help: https://www.aussiearcade.com/showthread.php/91459-My-first-and-new-pinball-in-da-house This is an interesting machine: One of only three 4-player Williams games to have the 2nd player located in the lower left corner of the backglass and the 3rd player in the upper right. Design by: Norm Clark Art by: Jerry Kelley Notes: 'A-Go-Go' was the first machine to use a captive ball spinner, invented by Norm Clark. During the production run, the coin door was changed from the large single-slot to a smaller multiple slot and the drop-down cabinet was eliminated. We do not know how many games were produced in each cabinet style. Reportedly, the January 1967 issue of the German trade magazine Münzautomat stated that the standard cabinet games were Later Production games and were manufactured due to a high demand in Germany. I have the earlier version with the single coin slot and the drop down cabinet. To put it bluntly, the paintwork is completely rat shit. But the timber itself is in fantastic condition so a repaint is on the way. I'll trace the existing and mask/paint which I'm not too bad at. See my minipin as an example: https://www.aussiearcade.com/showthread.php/42304-Minipin?highlight=minipin My big question is how do I match the colours when they're so faded? Of course there is no key for the 2 locks on it so I cannot currently open it up. I'm assuming I'll have to drill these out then replace? Can you get original replacements for them? Backglass is also very faded and in the centre a fair bit has come away. I'll have to replace this at some stage. Can I treat with anything to stop it degrading anymore in the meantime? Playfield, is to my untrained eye surprisingly good although one of the roll-overs? looks like it's lifted. Again not surprising for a 52 year old game thats been sitting idle for many years. I can take a closer look once I can get the glass off. The glass is filthy. Unfortunately some clown cut the harness to the back-box, easily repaired but I'm not going near any of the electrics until way further down the restore path. I've already sourced schematics for it so that's a start. Coin door is rusty in places. Do I replace or restore. I'd prefer to restore if feasible. Legs are in shocking condition, so I think they'll need to be replaced =( There's also a ball in the bottom shute Cheers, Brad

Hi Sydney Pinheads The first two comps for 2022 will be on @Tattersalls Hotel on Tues 25th Jan & Tues 22nd Feb We will meet from 6.30pm, however the comp will kick off at 7pm to give ppl time to get there & have a few warm up games (or grab a feed) Tournament will be Group Matchplay Qualifying - 5 Rounds (4 rds if more than 16 players) First round pairing: Players will be randomly paired against each other in the first round. General pairing: Players will be paired against players with the same/similar win-loss record. Scoring system: IFPA (7/5/3/1) for 4player grps (7/4/1) for 3 player grps. Arena draws: Attempts will be made to assign an arena that has been played the fewest times by all opponents. Five rounds (or 4 depending on numbers), one game per round. Tiebreaker: Ties will be broken by the number of first place finishes, then by the number of second place finishes and finally, if necessary, a single game play-off. Ties will only be broken for first, second and third places in the semi final & final. The finals will consist of the top 8 (or top 4 field if less than 16players). Semi Final - players will be seeded into two groups with the top two players from each group going through to the final. Ea group will play 1 elimination final with placings awarded 7/5/3/1 with the top 2 players from ea group going through to the final Final - The top four players will play 4 games concurrently in chaos style format to maximise IFPA points ENTRY FEE: $6 ($5 into the prize pool, the $1 IFPA\Aus Champ fee) Newer Games are $2 & Older Games are $1 ea (this is public venue) expect to play 9 games if you make to the final 4 Prizes 1st, 2nd, 3rd will receive cash (& Im hoping we can work with the Tatts to start contributing vouchers again) VENUE: Tattersalls Hotel Station St & Union Ln, Penrith NSW 2750 GAMES: Led Zep Prem Aengers Infinity Quest Prem TNA Alien Poker Embryon Big shout out to Austrojoy Pty Ltd 1300 668 889 We expect to be finished just after 10pm. All normal tournament rules apply. This event will be played for IFPA WPPRs

Just throwing this out there. Since the site is much easier to navigate now do we really need a Pinball and a New Pinball section or can I merge them into 1? I'm going to be trimming the fat a bit and merging some sections to make the site less busy looking.

Update: Sold 5/12/21 Hi all, Up for sale is my Stern Batman - The Dark Knight pinball machine - designed by George Gomez (Deadpool, Lord of the airings). Based on the Christopher Nolan movies and featuring Heath Ledger’s Joker, scarecrow with moving crane mech (used again in recent Batman 66), unique moving bridge ramp and ‘upper playfield’ (like Lord of the Rings) - Playfield is in good condition with minimal wear, cabinet is in good condition with some minor knicks and missing ‘tournament’ button, one broken plastic to left of joker drop target - see picture (not really visible from playing position) - new non-ghosting LEDs have been installed - Translite, ramps, mechs, etc are all in good condition - Machine has been just cleaned and serviced (including flipper rebuild and new OEM board transistors installed) - New Mirror blades, speaker and coin decals installed -Updated custom firmware installed - now includes the iconic movies soundtrack! Located in Thornhill Park Victoria, can organise transport for additional fee both local and interstate (not sure about WA but Eastern states are fine) through Bill. Price is $9250 ono - Please, only genuine buyers make contact - I can organise pictures, videos, FaceTime, and in person inspection to genuine buyer. Thanks

Update 18/11/21 - Sold Update 15/11/21 - posted elsewhere and sold pending final payment. Hi everyone, I thought I would post here to give the community a chance before Facebook and Gumtree. I’m on the list for JJP Guns N Roses Limited Edition and have paid my deposit of $1500 with Pinball Sales (Paul) in Melbourne. Contacting him a week ago he has confirmed that delivery is on track before Christmas this year. While waiting I had the opportunity to take the place of someone else’s order (that person had purchased one 2nd hand while waiting) so I jumped on and received my machine last week. Not wanting to cancel the order, I thought someone else might like to buy my place in the queue at cost price. To be clear, $1500 to me now, the residual ($15350) to Paul at Pinball Sales closer to delivery. Thanks, I will leave this ad up for a couple of days before posting on other sites. Thanks, sean

Hi all, I’m after either a Hobbit pinball machine (any trim level considered) or a Stranger Things machine (again, will consider a Pro, Prem, or LE). Located in Melbourne so Victorian sellers preferred but can work will Bill for transport if interstate. Looking at paying a reasonable price for machine (dependant on trim level) so not interested in any offers trying to sell thousands over what they should be valued at (apologies for jaded comment, just had some crazy offers recently). Genuine buyer with cash ready. Thanks!

Hi all, introducing a new tournament series in Brisbane Here are the details, hope to see you there! Pinball Haus Matchplay Location Pinball Haus 36 Baxter St, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006 Format 10 rounds of Matchplay (4P) Seeding “Slaughter”, “Balanced” pairing onwards Machines selection “Balanced” Scoring Aussie 7 4 2 0 Ties broken by Matchplay Finals Top 4 finals Matchplay (4P) Best of 3 games (*) Scoring Aussie 7 4 2 0 Ties broken by Matchplay Setup Machines on tournament mode or install, No extra balls No ball saves Dates 17 OCT 2021 31 OCT 2021 14 NOV 2021 28 NOV 2021 12 DEC 2021 Every Fortnights on Sunday Morning Start time 9:30 AM sharp Expected TGP 100% Entry $20 Tournament directors Nicolas Noben Michi Henning IFPA endorsement sought. [*] Finals’ machines pre-chosen by the tournament director.

Im feeling somewhat nostalgic and searching for pics and vids from back in the 80's Sydney in particular Anyone got some good leads ? Vid about 90's was interesting