Quoted from Tranquilize:I'm super excited for the cross-ramp, but the rest doesn't do it for me enought to order one. I wish Stern would go a little further with innovation. Elwin will hopefully do something epic for his next pin. For me, this will be a great location game. Can't wait to play it.
As for Stern and the market, they are doing great, but I wonder about saturation. I'm noticing on a local level, there are at least double the pins that are usually for sale, and, unfortunately, they are slow to sell. This tells me that collector saturation has hit my area. I also see big growth in pinbars etc., but I wonder about saturation in the routing market. Pinball is clearly growing, but to me it seems that the production, in general, is set to outperform demand in the near-ish future, say in the next 3-5 years. I hope we can gain pinheads to keep up, but I'm not seeing it. We are in a golden age of purchasing. I see 2020+ as another decade like the early 2000s where pins were being sold for chicken feed. I just might have to buy more property so I can make room!
I agree with you. We are out on this one, Stern are cranking them out faster than ever and we cannot keep up. If this game turns out to be a cracker, we will get one a few years down the track, same decision we made for IMDN this year and MET and ACDC when they came out. I do love the artwork on Deadpool, wow all three games are just stunning.
I think the same thing will happen in Australia. The early 2000s was definitely not a nice time for pinball. I believe it has started happening right now. 10 year cycles!
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