Oh yeah, so one stray exchange from Michigan's Adventure on Sunday. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's dragon kigurumi had, as mentioned, gotten a lot of positive comments from other people at the park, attendees and staff. I got a couple nice comments too about the vintage-style Kings Island The Beast t-shirt, which I'd thought had a nice Halloween-ish vibe (the shackled paws of a mysterious but large creature) and hadn't worn yet.
So at one point getting on Mad Mouse a couple of teen(?) or young-adult women looked at us and said our look was great, calling us ``sigma''. We smiled and thanked them and then settled into debate about whether whether that was a good thing or a bad thing they were putting over on people they'd just assume were Boomers. Granting the true answer is that you should not, as an Old, attract the attention of any teen/young-adult person. But we think(?) maybe that it's more positive than negative?
Well, we accepted it as a compliment and if they were laughing at us for that, it doesn't hurt us any. And if they were debating whether we acted sincerely happy to be called sigma or saw through it and were humoring them? That'd be hilarious. That, at least, did not happen.
So, settling back in to quiet days here, let's look at more pictures from the Wizard's World arcade. The tournament ended without our advancing to finals, which, all right, but we still hung around and played games, bunnyhugger hoping to gain advantage for Saturday, me just trying to have fun.
And here we go! I had fun on this game of Memory Lane, putting up a killer score that's about half the highest recorded score. That'll cheer anyone up.
Oh yes, they had a FunHouse too. It was tough playing at first, but --- wait a minute. Computer, enhance.
Yes. Many of the pinball machines at Wizard's World have novelty plungers and those for FunHouse are two Rudy heads. (Road Show, in many ways a widebody FunHouse with two heads, has two plungers and theirs have heads of the two characters, Red and Ted.)
But look at that: the high score table was completely blank, and you could get the grand champion with a mere 15 million points, a thing that we could surely attain, right? We did not.
The night wearing on, and number of people dwindling. You get some idea how dark the place could be, like it's trying very hard to be a pinball arcade or just not have glare on the glass covers while people are playing.
Last picture for the night. I did a bunch of holding my camera up high as I could and shooting blind and now and then, it worked.
And that wraps up Friday night. So here's Saturday, the day of the tournament and all the action that I would not be allowed to get up and close on. But I could take pictures anyway and here's what it looked like.
bunnyhugger, like all the competitors, got a goodie bag full of Wizard's World-provided stuff; here she looks oer some of it.
Logo from a completely different Belles and Chimes group than she plays in! (The name is franchised.) Also a wristband in case she ever visits The Colbert Report again and wants to fit in.
And an establishing shot from outside of the main door in. I wonder what they do here.
And now for the lonely sight of guys at a pinball tournament where it's for women to play and nobody's even asking them for advice.
This is what you see as you go in the door. Note the James Bond 60th Anniversary pinball on the right, a limited-edition table with totalizer-wheel-style scoring. It's a fun table, designed to be retro style without being pinned down to a particular year and you can change the sound effects to be, like, 60s chimes or early-70s chimes or late-70s chimes or so on. And yeah, early-70s and late-70s chimes are totally different.
Guy out there probably thinking it shouldn't be this hard to get on the FunHouse high score table, what's going wrong here?
Trivia: After Robert Fulton's North River Boat reached Albany on its first paying expedition in August 1807, Fulton hung out a placard advertising the return trip at seven dollars, more than twice what sloops charged for the trip to New York City. Only two Frenchmen took passage on the steamboat. Source: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Edwin G Burrows and Mike Wallace.
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