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Wow! That went fast! So much work… so much fun… Now that we’ve had a few days to recover, we wanted to send out one final message for the 2012 Texas Pinball Festival. First, we owe a LOT of “Thank … Continue reading →

They’re here! We have 2 incredible AC/DC Back in Black and 2 awesome AC/DC Let There be Rock Limited Edition pinball machines (numbers 2 and 3 of each edition!) sitting on the ballroom floor right now! And this is your chance … Continue reading →

The 2012 Texas Pinball Festival starts tomorrow at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center located in beautiful Grapevine, Texas. The show officially begins at 5 pm on Friday, but the tournament area will open at 10 am so you may … Continue reading →

Pre-registration is now closed. Thank you to everyone that Pre-registered. Your registration packets will be waiting for you at the show entrance. Packets can be picked up at the registration table as early as 10am on Friday morning when tournament … Continue reading →

For the first time (and at the request of many), we will have a very limited quantity of custom embroidered Texas Pinball Festival ball caps available for purchase at the show. It’s a nice black 6-panel, unstructured cotton twill cap … Continue reading →

Welcome to Texas y’all! The first 50 kids to come through the door at the opening of the show on Saturday will receive a rootin’ tootin’ cowboy hat! Limit one (1) cowboy hat per child (12 and under), while supplies … Continue reading →

FarSight Studios will be coming to Texas and setting up a hands-on world premier demo of the home console version of their latest game called the Pinball Arcade. They plan to show off their four launch tables: Tales of the … Continue reading →

Time is flying! Make sure your pre-registration and merchandise order is in because we’re shutting it down on Sunday, March 4th, 2012 at midnight. We have to get everything printed, pulled and shipped. And then we have to get ready … Continue reading →

Our Tournament Director Ken Kemp has been working overtime to revamp this year’s tournaments. He’s added a new tournament called the Texas Shoot Out. And, to encourage new and more players to participate, he’s added a C Division to 4 … Continue reading →

Come play HERCULES, the world’s largest pinball machine! Marc Oradat of Elevation Games will have an Atari Hercules on display for everyone to play and marvel at. Standing at seven feet high and eight feet long, Hercules is popularly considered … Continue reading →

Back for 2012, the Texas Pinball Festival will have an encore presentation of Special When Lit Saturday evening following Pinball 101. Special When Lit rediscovers the lure of a lost pop icon – pinball. This American invention made more money than … Continue reading →

You may have seen the color display on Attack from Mars, but for the first time, you can see and play Medieval Madness with a color dot matrix display! ColorDMD and Elevation Games are working together to bring it to the … Continue reading →

We’ll be showing Pinball 101 at the 2012 Texas Pinball Festival! Learn to play pinball from one of the top players in the world, Keith Elwin. Or… watch Pinball 101 to improve your own game. Featuring more than 50 pinball … Continue reading →

Attend Alan Lewis’ seminar and learn how to reproduce playfield plastics from beginning to end. Scanning the image, editing to fix, printing on decal paper, and making the clear plastic shape… it’s all covered in this seminar.  Whether you are … Continue reading →

We will have four AC/DC Limited Edition pins and one Premium pin in the tournament area. Don’t miss out! A big Thank you to everyone that purchased an AC/DC so we could have them at the show! Check out the Game Line-up … Continue reading →

Jack Guarnieri is returning to the Texas Pinball Festival to talk about the progress on his upcoming pinball machine “Wizard of Oz”. Jack is also graciously providing pizza for everyone that attends his seminar (time TBD). Thank you Jack!

That’s right, the “King of Flow” is coming to hang out with us for the weekend. He will be available to sign autographs. This is your chance to get that Spider-Man or other favorite translite signed, and I’m sure there … Continue reading →

PinballControllers.com is coming to Texas to show off their P-ROC and PDB driver boards. Anybody interested in custom machine development, including custom software, re-themes, or complete custom machine creations, should come by! Gerry Stellenberg will be presenting a seminar on Custom Pinball Machine … Continue reading →

And it will be…. …a 2011 Stern Transformers Pro Pinball Machine! We’re purchasing a brand new machine for use in the 2012 TPF Tournament line-up. At the conclusion of the tournament, this awesome game will be raffled off to benefit the American … Continue reading →

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We are pleased to announce famed pinball designer, George Gomez (Monster Bash, Corvette, Revenge from Mars, Lord of the Rings, Stern: Batman, Transformers, and many others) will be the Special Guest Speaker at the 2012 Texas Pinball Festival. He will … Continue reading →

New for 2012, we’re introducing Texas Pinball Festival hoodies for sale! These are available in sizes Adult Medium through XXX-Large by pre-order only. Orders placed by December 5th will be available for Christmas delivery. Orders placed after that date won’t … Continue reading →

After a lot of work, on-line pre-registration is now open for Exhibitors and for Guests. This year, we’ve automated the process in an attempt to ensure accuracy and speed things up at the Registration Desk at the show. So… if you … Continue reading →

Take a look at the 2012 t-shirt design. Every year we sell out of our t-shirts and these are looking great! We’ll be sending them off to the printer soon. Check them out here!

Welcome to our new home on the web! This is where all the newest information about the 2012 Texas Pinball Festival will be announced.   Look around and make yourself at home. We’re still adding a lot of new features, information, … Continue reading →