Quoted from Miguel351:

Let's be real, though. If Rick wasn't getting the rights to produce parts and/or whole remakes for Kingpin, BBB, TAF, and all the other licenses Gene held, what the hell good would it be to buy his company? Cat-piss and raccoon turd pinball machines don't sell well.

Quoted from Rarehero:

t the moment...but once it hits the streets and standards are readily available in gameroom stores, online, etc - regular joes looking for a pinball machine will discover it.

Quoted from luvthatapex2:

You will never see a remake for under 6k. You can check this in 1 year and see if I'm wrong.

Quoted from jayhawkai:

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Quoted from lordloss:

I must be the only one here with a steel colon. Taco ball all day every day, living the life no problem

Quoted from Whysnow:

You do realize you are the only one that can easily and quickly put an end to it...

Quoted from RobT:

So is BBBr and/or King Pin coming or not??

Quoted from chessiv:

Rick owes no one anything about the BBB subject. You guys created it, not him. You guys are spinning it around, not him. Tekee is denying everything
Stir up a shitstorm and demand an answer when the only person who can give the answer said nothing about the subject? :facepalm:

Quoted from Aurich:

I like Kingpin. It's a great theme, good dots, the crossover ramps are fun to shoot, and there are some interesting gimmicks. Would I pay $8k for one? Nope. But there isn't a remake out there than I would. Bring it down to reasonable levels and I'm interested though.

Quoted from jalpert:

Nobody thinks these things are more overpriced than myself, I can't believe you actually have me defending high prices.

Quoted from jalpert:

Nothing says I don't have the ability to disagree with you more than a personal attack

Quoted from jalpert:

So, are you going to tell us all again how people are buying $8K games because of pshychology? LOL It can't be that they just want them and can afford them.
Tell me again, how me, someone you don't know, is duped by psychology. Is "psychology" responsible for other things you don't understand as well?

Quoted from mechslave:

Completely incorrect!
I have purchased machines before, unsure of exactly how fun it'd be or how long it would be before I grew tired of it, either because it's a new machine, or a used machine which I'm not overly familiar with, and the deciding factor before taking the plunge was: "Can I get my money back out of it?" If I think I can sell it for what I bought it for, then I don't care so much about the price.
The actual cost of the machines is not the problem so much as the loss of value with the flooded used market. There's only room for so many $8k toy sales to a relatively small and tight-knit collector community. When the used market becomes flooded, then the new machines sales will stall out as well. We are seeing the beginnings of that now, I believe...

Quoted from jalpert:

And that is exactly what I was referring to. It's a lot of people with a lot of money, it's not some trick, and there is no manipulation or psychology to it. It's just people buying toys. Try and keep up.
The market supports $8K pins, so that's what they cost. In fact, they might have left some money on table, but probably not much.

Quoted from mechslave:

So much nonsense, so many misquotes and incorrect generalizations that I don't know where to start...

Quoted from goatdan:

Say that I bought Iron Man a while ago now (I did). Say that I could sell it with all the extras that I have right now for $7k, which I think I could considering I have an extra playfield and plastic set.

Quoted from PinballHelp:

I agree with you, but IMO, this is only because we have yet to see a truly ground-breaking pinball design. Everybody is so fixated on resurrecting all the old games and the old designers that they think there's nothing new that can be invented in the world of pinball, and that's a shame. In the 60s and 70s, during the peak of pinball's success, every few months there were major paradigm shifts in terms of what people expected a machine to do. It is possible to have a "rebirth" of pinball, but if that's to happen, new people have to be brought in, not old fans being pandered to like it is now. And that's going to require new technologies.

Quoted from Aurich:

I can only speak for myself, but I don't want pinball to innovate that much. I like it how it is. I don't mind the WOZ LCD, if that's the future that's fine, but I don't even need it. The game needs to be physical and not digital. I've got a PS4 and an iPad and a whole host of other electronic toys and machines, I don't need a rebirth.
I'm 36, not exactly greybeard status, I don't buy pinball for nostalgic reasons either, I didn't play it growing up. I buy and play because it's fun. Make it fun and I'm still interested.

Quoted from pezpunk:

Doesn't mean it wouldn't be fun to play against a friend without having to leave the wife and kids for the night.