RRPT - Pinball Douglas, Queensland, Australia
By MattCNS for Champs2Monkeys on 23-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3W7YY

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

GeoCrater
Geocaching.com Community Volunteer Reviewer

Good Day,

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

GeoCrater
Geocaching.com Community Volunteer Reviewer

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Found it but needs maintenance

Hey guys!

Just letting you know this Cache is broken!
I have the log and bison with me at home and will contact the owners about maintenance.

Thank you for helping me get my 50 finds before the end of 2017!

Happy New year!

Hi guys the spring system in this Cache snapped today, it looks like the wire has rusted through.

I couldn’t collect all the pieces as the local residents were getting suspicious of my loitering.

I have the bison at home if you’d like to contact me.

T4TC - The niece loved the interaction with this one.

A lovely first geocache find in Townsville! TFTC and a favourite point from me!

Out for a lovely group outing with 19pjr79, geo_possum, jezza_thegeokid, oftnexplor, Phoenix freaks, maunder84 and mr & mrs choppersrule. What a great novelty cache - TFTC

TFTC

Found with the Sobingtons crew, very kid friendly cache.

Found.

Somethings fell into place which meant a trip to town was on the cards so we got planning on what to do and which puzzles to try and solve.
An interesting field puzzle with a twist. We soon worked out what to do and completed the signing duties. TFTC. A favourite point from us.

The kids loved this one

I do enjoy a game of pinball, despite not being very good at it... So I made sure to find this cache on my trip to Townsville. Using all my skills, I quickly had the cache in hand and signed. TFTC!

Found easily, although phone said we were ten metres off. But we couldn't get it to fire! Is there more to it than pulling the cable? It didn't feel like we were triggering anything. Someone else fired it off yesterday, so perhaps we weren't doing it right.
Thanks anyway!

The odd thing about this one on arrival, was that I thought the cache itself would be a bit more concealed, so I headed down toward the path to seek out the container. You can imagine my surprise when after not finding it, I returned to the higher level and spotted it in plain sight... Hmm... How did I miss that on approach...

I moved in and did the obvious to extract the cache and access the log. Name quickly added, I dropped it back and shot through as I was feeling very exposed where I was.

Nicely constructed cache that offers something different. A favourite point from me for that.

Cheers Champs2Monkeys

Easy find and heaps of fun. Tension cable may need some TLC as fraying and caught geokids skin. CO might also need to check as first couple of attempts could hear the bison moving but was catching in the tube. A little tap on the sides and some gentle coaxing finally got it to 'fire'. Excellent cache

TFTC

Loved it! Thanks for the cache!

So much fun! Hubby shot that thing and it flew up into the trees and we just hoped that it would return to earth. Added a favourite point here!!

We have found a lot of the TSV caches, noticed this one has the most favourite points in town, So I decided today was the day to find out why this cache is so highly rated! Found GZ easily, as the tool required to obtain the cache was quickly noticed. Although our phone was saying we were still about 10 metres off GZ. Took us a couple of minutes to work out how to extract the cache (couple of small jumping spiders have taken up residence on the cache) but we quickly caught the cache and signed the log. We enjoyed the cache and we were not disappointed. This cache is worthy of it's favourite points. TFTC. Next stop another up and coming mystery cache; A box of red herrings. 01-02-2017 LC85

Thanks for the great hide. Once at the GZ i stood there for a moment trying to work the cache out when i felt something on my leg. I then looked down to see i was covered in big ants. After doing a dance to get rid of them i managed to retrieve the cache.

Cool cache!

TFTC

Me and my family found this cache on our holliday in Australia. We travelled from Denmark to Sydney and then by plane to Brisbane. In Brisbane we rented a motorhome, and the for 4 weeks we drowe trough Australian and ended in Cains. In this 4 weeks we found a lot of caches - Thanks to all COs who made these caches - and thanks to all those wunderful Australians we met - You truly live in a wunderful Country

Many greetings from Denmark

We will be back...............

Found together with HDanske on our holiday to Australia, where we were on a roadtrip starting from Brisbane to Port Douglas. This was one of the many places we went to.

Really great hide! Really liked this one. FP from me.

TYFTC and greetings from Denmark.

Had saved this highly rated cache for a special day, today there was a challenge from HQ that made me go.
Liked it a lot, amazing that it is still here.
Thanks for this hide, FP given
R

Simple but loved it. Been toying with a similar idea myself. Favourite from me.

Really fun one!

Pulled up here and 2 muggles were washing down the roof of the nearest house. Thought we might have to give this one a miss but we managed to provide enough cover with ourselves and the bikes to get it.
A hide type that we've come across many times before but with a real twist! Thanks, a favourite point from us.

Quick and easy find. Now to get the prize!!! The kids had a go but were not strong enough to get the cache. I had a go and the kids grabbed the cache we signed and replaced. Another great hide in a great location, thanks for the hide.

One of the best ones we have found yet

Day 3 Townsville today for a week, set up in the caravan park
Today was more of the RRPT, Lovie Dovie & a few extras that we passed.
Took us along a great walk along the river & some very scenic places.
I loved this very clever cache had seen something similar a couple of years ago, so knew how to get the cache.
Favourite point given
Thanks for placing this cache Champs2Monkeys

Back again to log this time.

Took a little to locate with Rituamunro after over complicating things. Cool idea. Tftc.

What a super duper cache. Pinball Wizard doesn't miss a trick and neither did we. Found with choppersrule. TFTC

this is an awesome cache had log in hand well i misted it so i had to pick it up from the ground but it is way cool well done champs2monkeys. fiund with justafan1107. T.F.T.C

This morning we walked along the river to do the RRPT series but drove here to complete the series. A clever idea and a great cache. It took a lot of tries to 'open' and we thought we were going to have to leave disappointed but perseverance paid off. Maybe it just needed waking up! A favourite point for sure. Good fun. TFTC

Out caching along the Ross River today. Easily found. Very cool cache. SL. TFTC Champs2Monkeys. Fav Point awarded.

The cache was stuck at first but when unlogged it worked very well...a fun cache...TFTC

[Blue]# 12538[/Blue] Found on our 2015 Winter escape trip to Qld.
Another perfect winter day for a drive around while at Townsville again.
I had expected a good one here and was not dissapointed. Well done.
Cheers from Wagga Wagga in the Riverina, NSW.
Thanks for the cache Champs2Monkeys,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

We're no 'pinball wizards' so it took a few goes to get the technique right and the log container was projected from the hide and signed. It may be the ring on the bison gets caught occasionally. Thanks for and interesting cache MattCNS and Champs, we stopped at this cache on one of our repeat Townsville road trips for the favourite souvenir.

Love it! Took about 2 minutes to find once at the spot and about 1 minute to work it out (had that 'ohhh, of coooourse' moment lol). TFTC C2M!

It was time to get on the pushbikes and see how many caches we could find along the bike trail. A nice warm sunny winter's day made for a very pleasant few hours riding along the riverside path. A very ingenious cache well worthy of a favourite point.

Thanks Champs2Monkeys.

TFTC used a different name at time of find QuestAdventurer.

tftc..Log cache as tricky but have changed name

Best cache I have ever seen well played

Today's caching mission on day 3 of our annual Townsville visit with the in- laws was to clean some of the 20 or so solved (but not found) puzzles as well any interesting, higher difficulty caches along the way.

One of my targets today was to get to know the C2M family by doing the sheriff cache. I am about halfway through this adventure, when this puzzle pops up. Interesting! So I diverted off the trail for a game of pinball. I recklessly flitted away many a lunch hour at university with a cold beer and a wicked pinball machine. So I felt well qualified for this cache. Took two goes before the bison rained down on me from above.

Great concept and a well executed container.

Thanks for the cache, C2M

Pete

#2,046

Slipped scoring this one in whilst on a maintenance run with hubby. VERY COOL! I had a few tries but in the end hubby did the successful one. Signed the log and put it back. TFTC!!!

Maintenance by MattCNS

Maintenance by MattCNS

MattCNS has offered to maintain this cache on behalf of C+2M.

Not sure what kind on mainenance this one needs

Cheers

Champs

Love ya work!
TFTC

Definitely don't look down the barrel. Mrs Wazza&Kara wasn't a believer and almost put a silver bison tube into orbit. All eyes were tracking were it returned to Earth. Loved this cache. A favourite point from us too.

First GC of the day! Great design! TFTC!

There were a couple of caches along this route that I was unable to get to on my last visit. I was doing the nearby whereto, and at night that dog nearby just would not shut up!. Today I was back and had time to give it a go again.
It took a while to find the field puzzle as the coords were about 10 meters out by my GPSr (a problem a few others have noted in their logs), but eventually I saw something that didn't belong. A very apt name for the is puzzle, and a novel approach to caching indeed. A fave Pt for me.
Well played.

I didn't get hit in the eye but I did get to do this awesome cache and I LOVED IT keep it up

Fun fun fun! Great find.

01/09/2014 5:45:00 PM
This was a fun hide, although my indicated GZ was off by at least 10 meters my cache sense had me at the cache very quickly and the log was in hand a moment later.
Thanks

Awesome cache loved the idea..kids had fun..

Got it so good spent five mins looking for log after launch. All ok TFTC

Champs2Monkeys are heading south, and as such can not maintain this cache.

^dventurers has kindly offered to maintain this cache on our behalf. C+2M are very appreciative for her help and will maintain a supply of replacement caches and stores.

Those that have contacted us to also offer help, I thank you for the offer, but ^dventurers beat you to it. I passed your names to ^dventurers and she will reach out to you if she needs assistance in maintaining this cache.

To all the Townsville Cachers, thank you for the hunt, and if you’re in the ACT, look us up.

Cheers

Champs

Very clever tftf!

TFTF, loved the idea, had several goes

Met up with JackyLegs44 for a spot of caching this morning. It was nice to put another few faces to names/logs.Met up with JackyLegs44 for a spot of caching this morning. It was nice to put another few faces to names/logs.

The idea behind this cache container is fantastic. I did it a few times, just coz I liked it. GeoKids loved this too but couldn't reveal the prize. Definately worth a favorite spot.


Dipped GeoKrety Key Coin.



TNLN

TFTC SL (#232 @GC, #49 @GCA)

Loved it! Log book was full so chucked in a new one. Thanks for a fun cache!!

This entry was edited by jaw_fnq on Tuesday, 05 August 2014 at 10:37:50 UTC.

Found it but could not eject the log book. Obviously others have but dog barking in nearby house was arousing suspicion of the house holder so left. Clever idea. TFTC

The third in the series for us. Mr M was useless. Ms M stepped up to the plate and bingo, cache in hand.
TFTC

Found it, but did not extract cache. We tried hard - not sure if it is there still. We will check to see if the next geocacher extracts it. Great idea though - so clever.

We loved this cache. What a great idea. Good to come across something a bit different. Didn't have pen with us so couldn't sign log but did have a photo with cache. TFTC.

We were walking around the Whereigo cache, when we realised that there were a lot of other caches on the way round. This was the first one and we came over for a look - it took quite some effort to get to the log sheet!

Working our way around the nearby Wherigo, so stopped by here on the way. Took a while to get it to operate correctly and nearly gave up. A different sort of mystery cache.

rain finally stopped
time for a stroll along the river.
found the hide ... played with the container
then had to look again for the cache [:o)]
nice one

The number of little red spanners on our caches is growing.

Work has been crazy busy, but I guess we really need to go out and mend/check a few of these.

after looking around for a little while we had it discovered, just had to wait for a good time to sneak up into the bush as so many muggles about! Geohusband loved the idea and could have played with it all day long Absolutely marvellous idea! TFTC!

Great spot. Quite a few mozzies around so bring the aerogard.

My first geocache, easy to find. Such great fun.

Lots of mozzies!! :/ but easily found, clever cache!

Log is full. A micro log left but will need to be replaced with a log that will be easier to retrieve and replace.

In company of "Dazzpete" we found this cache with the help of a flashlight. A favorite point from us. SL

We'd left today's cache very late in the day, we arrived in the company of 2N's and it took a while for us to discover the cache.

Once found the previous log became clearer and we soon had the ball in our hands. THe logg book is full but 2N's opted to add a new one to the container.

Nice Hide!

TNLN SL TFTC

Found on a geo-trip weekend to Townsville, TFTC SW015

How awesome is this cache! I was never a pinball player so had a couple of attempts to get it out but when I did....it landed straight into my hand, awesome catch..LOL

This entry was edited by ^dventurers on Friday, 20 September 2013 at 07:47:00 UTC.

Wow, that thing packs quite a punch. Being the operator, Mr TiedyeSmileys didn't see a thing but could hear the pinball crash banging its way through the foliage. Luckily Mrs TiedyeSmileys kept track of its journey.

TFTC

This cache has been on my 'Must Complete' list for far too long. So today I decided it was time to come out and find this one. Located the cache quickly once I reached the GZ. Remembering my misspent youth playing Pinball machines, I found the cache mechanism easy to operate. But nothing seemed to happen! I tried a few more times, but again, nothing. I thought I'd move onto the next cache to give me some time to think about what I must be doing wrong. So I turned around and there laying on the ground was the shiny contents belonging to the cache. It had worked first time, I just didn't hear it land. I quickly signed the log and returned the contents ready for the next Pinballer. TFTC C2M. Another Favourite Point awarded for this cache. SL {#302}.

This entry was edited by RobS72 on Tuesday, 13 August 2013 at 05:46:20 UTC.

Found at 4:46 PM in the company of The Drovers GAFF1. Now that is just a cracker of a cache - not only a good location, but the mechanism worked and no previous cacher could ever possibly stuff it up - oh wait - there always is that possibility isn't there
Never seen it done before - favourite!
Thanks Champs2Monkeys.

Our second day out caching with pprass.
Real novel idea, took us 3 shots to get it out.
Thanks for the cache, Champs2Monkeys.

TFTC gr8 cache

Great idea, love your work. Easy find with geohound on morning off.

Awesome idea. Very creative. Stealth is required because it's a bit close to some houses.

Awesome cache, fav point from me!

All good

BOOM CHUKKA WOW WOW CHUKKA WOW WOW....Givin' this cache some lovin'

After the last two finds tonight, I guessed this one was going to look much the same, although wasn't quite sure what to expect. Clever Idea. Gets a favourite point from me. TFTC

TFTC

After finding and enjoying Marco Polo and leaving Townsville in the morning, we had to attempt a couple more of Champs' puzzle Caches. A novel concept that we have snot seen before. We were unsure how hard to fire the pinball, in the end we launched it and then had to search the ground to find the "Ball". Great Cache. Cheers.

Another great concept cache that I havn't seen before.
It makes such a nice change from the standard cache under tree.
It took me a couple of goes to get the power right but when I did..........

Cheers and happy caching.

Clever hide this one. Thanks.

A great cache. I did feel very exposed while collecting it though. TFTC.

Cache replaced. Make sure no one is watching you.

Found cache and worked out what needed to do but I could see (using mirror) a possible rock jammed down it. Alas couldn't get get actual cache.