The UK Pinball Party is back for a 3^rd year!!!

After 2 hugely successful years, Europe’s biggest pinball festival and the UK’s showcase pinball event returns with more than 110 pinball machines from the past, present and even the future.

2012 will see the biggest pinball show the UK, and maybe even Europe, has ever seen. There will be brand new pinball machines on display, special guests from the pinball world and at least one world pinball exclusive!!

The UK Pinball Party is a unique pinball event with everything under the one roof – the show’s venue, the accommodation, the dinner evening, the food, the drink, the bar and most importantly the people that make shows like this a huge success.

There will be pinball machines for sale, new and used pinball parts to buy, raffles, arcade video games to play and buy, jukeboxes and much much more. Come back to the site regularly for all the latest news, sign up for the show’s newsletter by clicking the link above and follow UKPinballParty on Twitter and Facebook!

Over the years, the UK’s showcase event grew from being a show with mainly national appeal to one that now has people travelling from all corners of the globe to attend. It has now become one of the top events on the global pinball calendar.

But don’t let that fool you into thinking that the show has lost its personal touch. The UK’s pinball community is famous for its passion for pinball, its technical expertise and most importantly, its friendliness. Visitors from overseas and new to the hobby have commented on the quality and variety of machines on offer, and just how friendly and welcoming our community is. It may be a cliché, but our community really does have a family feel to it.

This year’s event will again be held at the luxurious Barcelo Daventry Hotel, on 17th-19th August 2012.

There is something for all lovers of the silver ball: more than 110 pinball machines set on freeplay, including, early electromechanicals, early solid state, solid state from the boom years of the 90s and the latest modern machines from the last decade. Members from the UK Pinball Group (click the name for more information) kindly bring along pinball machines from their own collections so everyone can play games they would never otherwise get to play.

Are you a budding pinball wizard? Then enter one of the many tournaments on offer over the 3-day event. There’s the hugely popular UK Pinball Open, organised by Pinball News – with prizes, trophies and World Pinball Player Ranking (WPPR) points on offer. There’s also the Classic Tournament, the Team Tournament, the Kids Tournament and the finals of the UK Pinball League! Make sure you sign up for our newsletter for news of when registrations for the UK Pinball Open will open, and then be sure to register early as the tournament is always over-subscribed!

If you are fascinated by how these amazing games are created, then why not come along to the luxurious 3-course dinner evening on Saturday 18th August 2012 where we will have special guest speakers from the world of pinball discussing all of the latest news from the world of pinball, as well as talking to us all about their experiences in the pinball industry.

Every year we have at least one special guest for the weekend. In the first year it was legendary pinball designer Dennis Nordman. Last year it was new pinball manufacturer Jersey Jack Pinball’s CEO & founder Jersey Jack himself, talking about his company’s first game, The Wizard of Oz. This year’s special guest will be announced shortly so be sure to keep checking back to the site for updates and to sign up for the UK Pinball Party’s newsletter.

The UK Pinball Party is extremely proud to bring its 2012 visitors a World Pinball Exclusive!! News of this exciting exclusive will be announced in July so make sure you sign up to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter to hear all of the news first!!

So, put a note in your diary, book your tickets now and support the UK’s world-class pinball event. We’ll see you at the Daventry Hotel in August for another fantastic weekend of pinballing!!

Andrew Heighway
UK Pinball Party Organiser

"UK Pinball Party organiser Andrew Heighway with special guest "Jersey Jack" Guarnieri at the 2011 UK Pinball Party"