Can't tell if you're being serious? Tell me you are over sensitive w/o telling me you're over sensitive? Seems light and comical to me given this is a pinball forum. But that's where we are today... any little thing is offensive to someone, even if there's zero intent to be offensive.

And to say "bad karma"? What exactly do you mean by that??? Kind of seems like you need to lighten up a little...

Some people don't get it.. sometimes it's better to laugh than to cry, and it's not to be disrespectful of the dead. It's actually to honor them and their memory. Oversensitivity and being critical on how others handle things is one of the biggest problems right now.

The internet must be a very scary and offensive place to some! I'm glad I'm not one of them.

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Let's be real here, a pretty big percentage of LE buyers are looking for the FLIP and know that while it's not really justified over the Premium, people are paying over that on the secondary market all day long.

So the LE price IS worth it based on the market history on LE's. This is just knocking out some of the flippers and those that usually buy the LE's from the flippers can now get them from a dealer.

That being said, LE's ARE NOT FOR ME. I don't need to impress anyone with dress up items in this hobby anymore lol. Prices are just ridiculous and out of control in my humble opinion.

With talking about the game and not the LE and price hike, honestly the game doesn't have much for toys (how many times have we said this about Sterns) and I personally don't see how the Premium is worth it over the Pro to me in my collection. I think the Pro is the best bang for the buck and the $2600 worth of "upgrades" is kind of weak.

The thing is, people trying to resell other recent premiums are taking a "decent" hit in the wallet unless it's Godzilla. I've seen Mando Premiums sitting at $7800. A lot of making people (I speak for myself here) is knowing I'm not (most likely) going to throw $2K out the window just to be the first owner.

Define "packed" lol

Hey, it's been at least a decade since people started talking about the LOTR LE "Hairdick", we NEEDED something new like this

Just for humor. Which one is worse?

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Funny, because most of the super rich guys I know (relative, I know, but those with millions to spend) are THE CHEAPEST, most frugal guys I know. I know two very wealthy guys in the hobby and I know if I am trying to buy they will be over market and if I'm selling they will want to buy for under market. Nice guys overall in the pinball hobby, I just don't do business with them at all.

I know guys that are "average" that will drop the $15k quicker lol, it's just going to hurt more

Agree 100%

The odd thing to me is that just about every single long term collector I talk too feels the same exact way... and we can't figure these new guys out that are paying this w/o caring. I see us long term collectors swooping in for the $7800 used Premium

Ok the video got taken down... I want to see the flow of the game and don't need the updated code to get the feel... does anyone have a link to where I can still watch the video?

EDIT: Found it.

IRONIC that Stern used to ship games with almost zero code and didn't give a crap lol. I remember unboxing X-men and thinking "that's it"? And we played it anyways.

We're back to GZ timelines apparently, but now with 1 month wait times just for gameplay video. Then, pay the new price increase and (maybe) get your game in 9 or so months (This was my GZ timeline lol).

Seriously though, my interest in Bond has faded. I love this hobby, but I'm OK with playing my older games and my friends games (who mostly seem to feel like I do about these price increases). I acknowledge that this is my/our personal problem(s) and wish the best to the new Stern NIB buyers. I'm starting to feel more and more that pricing has left me somewhat on the peripheral of the hobby because I can't justify the prices even though I can afford them.