As someone who just bought a bk2k last week (having paid top dollar too).... Uhg, I don't know. I don't know how I feel about this. Somebody tell me how I should feel about this.

My first thought was about how Stern will do the upper playfield. This is going to be very different from anything they've made recently. I can't think of anything they've made with an upper playfield like both black knights have had. I'm sure they CAN do it, but that's going to be a lot of custom hardware they can't pull from somewhere else. (Thinking how the playfield mounts, ext..). So my thought would then be, will it be very expensive one-off (aka Whoa Nellie). Or designed totally differently?

That makes me feel less bad. Mine was $4800 + $450 shipping. Don't actually have it yet but its suppose to be in pretty near perfect. Fingers crossed. I know we're not supposed to care what Pinside tells us the pins are worth, but it's hard to not notice Pinside values this title at half that. I obviously did value it more and do think it was still a good value. Just know I won't ever be making anything on this one.

Yeah, that's logical. Renewed interest in the theme is a good thing.

Thanks, I do love bk2k. Been searching for one for about a year. And if the 3000 looks cool, yeah maybe I'd be a buyer have have both? Maybe.

Black Knight 3000 would need to be something unique and well made for me to be a buyer. But Maybe. Thinking of the Whoa Nellie example, I think it would need to be a one-off platform to do the theme justice. Double playfeilds, custom mounting to service access. Mirrored backglass (probably too much to ask for). But arguably this theme would be for home buyers, right? I can't imagine it being a big draw for people not already fans of the first two pins. The theme isn't based on anything otherwise. I'd think this would be something Chicago gaming would take on with their Williams remakes rather than Stern doing a whole new game. Is the theme valuable outside of pinside / home collectors?