# Pintastic New England Show Finds a New Home

**Source:** Knapp Arcade  
**Type:** article  
**Published:** 2022-09-10  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.knapparcade.org/pintastic-new-england-show-finds-a-new-home

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## Analysis

Pintastic, a major annual pinball show in New England, has announced it is relocating from its longtime venue at a dated hotel in Sturbridge, Massachusetts to a new location for the 2023 event. The move addresses a key community complaint about the previous venue.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] Pintastic has grown to become one of the premiere pinball events in the industry — _Knapp Arcade article describing Pintastic's status_
- [HIGH] The previous Sturbridge hotel venue was dated and a common complaint from attendees — _Article explicitly states 'the one complaint that people have had about the event was the dated hotel'_
- [HIGH] Pintastic completed an exhaustive search for a new venue — _Article states 'after an exhaustive search they found a new location'_

### Notable Quotes

> "Well, that's not going to be a problem any more."
> — **Knapp Arcade (article author)**
> _Confirms the dated venue issue has been resolved with the relocation announcement_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Pintastic | event | Annual pinball show held in New England, previously in Sturbridge, MA; now relocating for 2023 |
| Sturbridge, Massachusetts | location | Previous venue location for Pintastic pinball show |
| Knapp Arcade | organization | Source of this announcement/article |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Pintastic venue relocation
- **Secondary:** Pinball event venues and infrastructure, Community feedback on pinball events

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.75) — Positive tone regarding resolution of a long-standing community complaint; forward-looking announcement about venue improvement

### Signals

- **[sentiment_shift]** Community consensus that previous Sturbridge venue was outdated and detracted from event experience (confidence: high) — 'The one complaint that people have had about the event was the dated hotel in Sturbridge'
- **[event_signal]** Pintastic announces major venue relocation for 2023, addressing key infrastructure complaint from community (confidence: high) — Article explicitly announces venue move and notes it resolves attendee dissatisfaction with previous dated hotel

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## Transcript

The folks who run the annual Pintastic New Robert Englunds pinball show have grown it to become one of the premiere events in the industry. The one complaint that people have had about the event was the dated hotel in Sturbridge, Massachusetts that it was held at. Well, that’s not going to be a problem any more. Pintastic announced earlier today that after an exhaustive search they found a new location for the 2023 show. More details to come…

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*Exported from Journalist Tool on 2026-04-13 | Item ID: 013f9546-0797-425c-9e33-c068f5a615ca*