Over the past few years, I've found more places where Tony and I had similar interests. Strange connections that once I think about it make sense, but I would have never even imagined years ago. One of my favorite attractions of all time, Epcot's Horizons, that influenced me as a kid, and who I've been collecting small trinkets and props from over the years after its untimely demise in 1999 was also one of Tony's. Hell, he even had a very hard to find scan of the entire ride's mechanical and props as a PDF on his site years ago that sadly never got archived by archive.org. Stumbled on that while I was searching around the random-web looking for it, and someone on a forum dating back to like 2005 linked to his website! Small freaking web.
I still remember how damn nice he was the one time I did get to meet him. I was a dumb 20 year old with a broken DJ Boy board I'd bought off ebay. I brought it to the shop he worked at to see if he could do a repair for me. He just grabbed another DJ Boy from the back of his shop and said he'd fix mine when he got the time to do it. Who does that? It really stayed with me. It would be years before I would meet him again on here, and he was always such a solid dude. I wish I could have known him better. I have a feeling we had a ton more in common, and I'd have loved to pick his brain on some of the stuff he knew that never really got out there or shared. Guy had just tons of knowledge about the entertainment, amusement, and gaming world.
He is definitely missed...