Quoted from Richthofen:I have heard the number $50,000 bandied about as the cost of the licensing for previous stern games. Is it possible the Batman 66 license was just way more expensive than that? Like 100k or 250k? So they have to bust out this crazy price structure because otherwise the games couldn't get made?
Even if Batman was double or whatever, if they could sell 1000 pins (70 sle, 500 le, xxx pro) $100,000 license fee would only be $100 per pin, instead of $50.
It's greed. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the difference between the Dialed In Collector Edition at $12,500 and the LE Edition at $9k. They look like the same machine minus a few autographs.