{"id":38843,"date":"2025-12-02T22:50:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/events\/pinball-expo-3\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T22:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:53:40","slug":"pinball-expo-3","status":"publish","type":"ajde_events","link":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/events\/pinball-expo-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinball Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For 2026 the longest-running pinball show celebrates 42 years of annual conventions. This year the show returns to running from Wednesday to Saturday, with the Bumper Blast welcome party taking place on Wednesday evening. Check our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/2025\/10\/15\/pinball-expo-2025\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pinball Expo 2025 coverage<\/a> for details of last year&#8217;s show.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/pinball-expo-2022\/204-pinball-expo-2022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/pinball-expo-2022\/204-pinball-expo-2022-1024x644.jpg\" alt=\"The show hall\" class=\"wp-image-26417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/pinball-expo-2022\/204-pinball-expo-2022-1024x644.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/pinball-expo-2022\/204-pinball-expo-2022-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/pinball-expo-2022\/204-pinball-expo-2022-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/pinball-expo-2022\/204-pinball-expo-2022-1536x966.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/pinball-expo-2022\/204-pinball-expo-2022-850x534.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/pinball-expo-2022\/204-pinball-expo-2022.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The show hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2021 the Pinball Expo has been staged at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, Illinois. The festivities usually include a tour of the Stern Pinball factory, a full schedule of speakers and seminars, pinball tournaments, a vendor hall to find anything and everything imaginable for the pinball curious, and a host of other activities that, once again, brought the best of what pinball means to so many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pinball Expo remains the world&#8217;s oldest and biggest pinball show.  Be aware that Expo rate rooms at the adjoining hotel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marriott.com\/en-us\/hotels\/chirs-renaissance-schaumburg-convention-center-hotel\/overview\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.marriott.com\/en-us\/hotels\/chirs-renaissance-schaumburg-convention-center-hotel\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Renaissance,<\/a> tend to sell out very quickly once they go on sale.  There are alternative hotels not too far away in case the Renaissance is full, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyndhamhotels.com\/wyndham-garden\/schaumburg-illinois\/wyndham-garden-schaumburg-chicago-northwest\/overview\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wyndhamhotels.com\/wyndham-garden\/schaumburg-illinois\/wyndham-garden-schaumburg-chicago-northwest\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wyndham Garden<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marriott.com\/en-us\/hotels\/chisg-springhill-suites-chicago-schaumburg-woodfield-mall\/overview\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.marriott.com\/en-us\/hotels\/chisg-springhill-suites-chicago-schaumburg-woodfield-mall\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SpringHill Suites<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More details and tickets available from: <a class=\"ai1ec-ticket-url-exported\" href=\"https:\/\/pinballexpo.com\/admission\/\">https:\/\/pinballexpo.com\/admission\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26138,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"event_type":[],"event_type_2":[],"class_list":["post-38843","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_location-renaissance-schaumburg-convention-center-hotel-1551-thoreau-dr-n-schaumburg-il-60173-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/38843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ajde_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38843"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=38843"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_2?post=38843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}