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10 am -Marriott Westchase-

Doors Open!

Doors open for people to purchase tickets and enter the show if you have per-purchased your tickets.

Doors Open!

10:30 am Speaker - The Austin Pinball Collective

Community Through Pinball

Flipping the Script: Building a Community Through Pinball

The Austin Pinball Collective

11:30 am - - Seminar Room- Barry Evans

The history of Sonic with the biggest sonic collector on the planet!

It all began as fun playing a new game from Sega in the fall of 1991,  Sonic The Hedgehog!  The love of the game set off a collecting passion that over the decades has become so big that it now holds a Guinness World Record!

Barry Evans aka Sonic 1992

8 am - 12:00 pm Free Swap Meet -Front Hotel Parking Lot-

Free Swap Meet

FREE! Parking Lot Game Swap meet!

Bring your Arcade, Pinball, Console Stuff to swap and sell!
Saturday the 11th @ 8am, you can bring as much as you want for free!* First come First Serve!

9am to Noon: Barrels of Fun Factory Tour! Hotel Entrance

Barrels of Fun Factory Tour!

JOIN US FOR THE 2025 BARRELS OF FUN FACTORY TOUR
SATURDAY, NOV. 15TH
Back by popular demand, we are opening our doors to the public for tours of our facility here in Houston, TX during the 2025 Houston Arcade Expo! EXCLUSIVE TO GUESTS OF THE HOUSTON ARCADE EXPO, we will be offering tours on Saturday, November 15th giving folks a peek behind the curtain at how our pinball machines are made from start to finish.
New to the 2025 tours, guests will have an opportunity to see our cabinet and metal fabrication shop, a 10,000 sq. ft. addition to our factory since our previous public tours in 2024.
NEW MERCH & SWAG BAGS FEATURING OUR 2025 FACTORY TOUR DUNE ART!
Tour guests will each receive an exclusive swag bag and have the opportunity to purchase factory-exclusive t-shirts, playfield seconds, game banners, merch, and more!
GET YOUR TICKETS BEFORE THEY SELL OUT!
Tours will be $25.00 per person and include charter bus transportation to the Barrels of Fun factory from the Houston Marriott Westchase, as well as an exclusive swag bag.
TOUR TIMESLOTS
Saturday, November 15, 2025
9:00 AM Tour (Bus Departure to the Factory)
10:30 AM Tour (Bus Departure to the Factory)
12:00 PM Tour (Bus Departure to the Factory)
PURCHASE TOUR TICKETS HERE:

Barrels of Fun

10 am - Doors open to the Public - Marriott Westchase-

Doors Open!

Doors open for people to purchase tickets and enter the show if you have per-purchased your tickets.

Noon - Doors open to the Public - Marriott Westchase-

Welcome!!!

Doors open for people to purchase tickets and enter the show if you have per-purchased your tickets.

4pm Pre-war pinball -Seminar Room-

pre-war pinball seminar and question and answer.

Historic pre-war pinball seminar and question and answer.

History of Pinball

5 pm -Seminar Room- Q & A with Anna Bella of BOW WOW WOW

Q & A with Anna Bella Moderated by Blake Dumesnil

Come by the speaker room and have a 20-minute Q & A seminar with the lead singer of Bow wow wow Anna Bella it will be Moderated by Blake Dumesnil. This is not a meet and greet.

BOW WOW WOW

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