Easy answer here.
You say your are making 500 more...what's the rush the rush to buy one? Result is Stern is sitting on inventory. Sitting on inventory does not generate money...sales do.

So you say your making only 100...and they all sell out fast. Keeping the production #'s low results in impulsive purchases (ie: I better buy one or I'll miss the boat, like last time).

That has been their whole concept with these LE's all along. Now your having to pay a premium for a full featured game, and paying big money to have a metal tag on your game that says what number yours is, along with the mentality...I better get one before they sell out. Look how limited Avatar LE and Transformers LE are.....I could still order one from my distributor and it would ship from Stern. Doesn't sound too limited to me?

I hear ya..but if they don't put a number to it..there is no rush. Sterns trend has been limited editions...get one or you won't to increase instant pre-sales. To put a low number like 100 being made, results in a mad rush that will sell out.

However in reality who's to say behind the table they are "really only making 100"???

These aren't numbered. I'm not saying this is the case...but it's possible and there is nothing wrong with it. Gary could very well send the same form letter to all of his distributors and say something to the extend of "Based off the popularity of the Stern Tron Pinball, we have decided to make a small run of 100 machines, we have allocated a small number of 10 per distributor at this special one time run. Please contact us as soon as possible to place your order." However the catch to this is that "if" they were to send this letter to 30 distributors. The reality is that they are really could potentially make 300+ more TRON's. It all matters on how many distributors they have world wide.

The end result it's all about hype and getting one while we do this last run. I think it all matters on the pre-orders. I mean if they are not running them until October and it's early September right now, Stern has plenty of time to know how many they need to make whether it be 100 or 1000, based off of their pre-sales here in September.

My thoughts on the hype.

Clean the disc with rubbing alcohol will keep it grippy.

Glad to see pics of my purdy Blue TRON LE (aka Encom Edition) I took to the Texas Pinball Festival 2012 made it in this thread. The blue DMD I was displaying at the Festival was a prototype for XPin I was showing before it was released. Some issues were addressed that I noticed in it while at the show, that have since been resolved.

I've since purchased an XPin Blue DMD for my TRON LE and it looks awesome in that game. TRON deserves a blue DMD. It's so fitting to that title.

B_R thanks for attaching those pics of my game from the festival. I haven't seen those before.

B_R I bought my blue DMD directly from XPin (Brett Davis). Send him an e-mail and ask when more will be available.

If you've got extra funds laying around. I highly recommend Kimball's Pinball's backbox LED insert board. It brings the backglass to life. I added it to mine, which could be seen at the TPF.

Here is a video of it (this was taken prior to me receiving the finished blue DMD, thus ol' faithful orange in there)

B_R, LED displays should be compatible from one game to the next.

Only thing to consider is that if it came factory with LED, it probably can't be fitted with a gas plasma display as they require High Voltage that to my understanding is not on games that come from the factory with LED's.

Agreed.

I added the Tron colored plastic protector set available from Curly "Little House of Pinball". His are just enough to add some color to the existing plastics, which shine well with colored LED's. While I think the pinbits are a bit much.

Pop Bumper "DEVO" Caps....WHIP IT...WHIP IT GOOD!
Nah I'll pass....I like to see GEM

Welcome to the tron club.

Don't even tell me you got rid of lotr? If so, I'm entitled to give you a rashin' of shit.

My TRON LE info (LE #289)
Serial # 230920