Last weekend was the last Retro Show of the pre-summer season with a relatively closeby trip to Oberhausen.  Jens and the RetroBoerse crew have found a location that can be called beyond epic with the Zentrum Altenberg – an old zinc-factory now turned industrial museum site.

After having set up the shop while going for the “before we open” bathroom break I had a peek outside and what the hell. A line waiting all across the street for as far as you could see.

During the show a lot of MVS carts found a new home and a lot of explanation was done on how to build your own arcade cabinet.

We’ll be back at Oberhausen next year – I hope all the nice people will too.  If you cannot wait that long, on saturday november 10th there is a RetroBoerse in Bochum, not so far away from Oberhausen.

For the rest of the year we’ve got shows in Oberhausen, Antwerpen, Eindhoven, Pouilly-en-Auxois, Gent, Sainte-Ménéhould and Bochum.

And that’s without the events we are supporting such as AtParty, Rewired and Assembly.

Some boards from the eBay batch have already been picked up, here’s some of the rest ready to be shipped out tomorrow morning.

Have left the building so far : Green Beret, Rygar, Pengo, Wonder Boy and Wonder Boy in Monster Land.  Awaiting payment on a few others, they’ll be shipped out soon.

Last wednesday of the month is “Pinball In A Bar” evening.  This time with an Iron Man, 24 and this nifty AC/DC Premium.  All lit up with leds ‘n shit !

The small playfield underneath the regular one does make up for one thing : you don’t have to see that ugly face in the middle.  Otherwise that swinging bell is a very nice addition.  And seems that this game is sold quite a lot to the fans, so lets hope it’s a good money maker for Stern.

Coming home after the Belgian Pinball Championship we ended up at Joachim’s place where this nice Addams Family is set up with some Gold Edition Roms.  Fucked up 2 multiballs but got nice Mamushka’s, Hit Cousin It and Seance sessions.  And “tour the mansion”.  400 mil ? Not too bad, I’d say…

So for handing over a crate of beer to mister “flow” himself.

I got this signed transparent beacon light dome from an F14-Tomcat.  Now to mount this little thingy on the backbox of my game – this one is part of a replacement set I got once.

Looking for a Black Knight 2000 ? There are currently 6 of them set up at the South Coast Slam.  Hopefully I get to play at least one of them, else I have to go and bug Kuroto again.

The horizontal banner has a length of 6 meters and that’s too long for most of the shows where I take the so-called ‘4 meter edition’.  So for these we needed a smaller version, something that is higher than wider.

Design of this new puppy by Steve at Alfa-Plus, printing and assembling by Oliver at Grossformatdruck Oliver Grünewald.

The pinball machines at Revision are ready to roll.  This year we’ve got a Congo, Nitro Ground Shaker and Demolition Man.  Sweet.

All set up at the Heizel (Brussels) for Made In Asia together with the folks of The Sentinel.  Come and say hello at the back of the main hall.  Look for the big Pikachu (don’t ask…)