Not necessarily - Crazy prices in USA
I would let my Tron LE #180 fully moded beautiful unmarked cab condition go for 7.5k GBP in UK.

You might get a US buyer willing to ship. BARGAIN!

So you're just a troll. Well done, I guess..

^^^^ I think most know its only a fun post matey.

I tell you though, this hobby is costing me a small fortune. I'm already looking at buying a bigger house to accommodate more pins.
The Mrs thinks its for a bigger kitchen. Silly her.......

Yeah well I’d say if you can get $20k for it, do it now while you can. As soon as we start emerging from Covid, consumer purchases are going to shift considerably from at home entertainment (including pinball machines) to vacations and entertainment outside of the home. I predict the pinball market shifting back to something close to what it was before Covid and prices adjusting accordingly.

You can argue that because it’s an LE, there is a subset of buyers who just have to have the LE and that the price is somehow now inelastic. I don’t think that is true except for possibly a very small number of people. Sure some will want an LE but we all know outside of one multi ball mode a recognizer that moves a little, a nicely modded pro with an Eli or TLS kit is basically the same game.

Clearly the LE is more valuable but are you really trying to say your LE is worth $25k now where a nice, HUO pro with basically the same mods is only worth $7-$8k? I would say if you think your LE will fetch 25k, go for it and get it while you can.

I'm not motivated enough to push it out the door. I recently just dragged it in the house, and it was a pain in the ass lol. This thread is here...if someone wants one and sees this, they know how to pry it from me. I'm cool just enjoying it. I'm more motivated to sell off my remaining retro video games...it's not pinball money, but the collectors in that scene have gone bonkers, too....I've got random Gameboy, Playstation, and Saturn games that are going for like $500 a pop now.

Greg, thanks to you making it your personal mission to trash X-Men and TFLE, we’re all the poorer for it. I often wonder whether you even like pinball.

Edit: Tron is a “cooler” game, but XMen is a better pin, and real ballers know it.

I love pinball. Thanks for creating a false identity & slanderous narrative of me because I critique a handful of games while also pretending I’m the only one who’s critiqued those games. Quite a disinformation campaign to juggle.

False narratives are a perfect description of your year’s long diatribes against perfectly good games that aren’t good enough for you. “Slanderous”? You’ve gone Hollywood bro.

I’m one person with one opinion. If those games are “perfectly good”, their resale price would reflect that. I don’t control other people’s opinions or what they’re willing to spend on a game.

List your X-Men for even $7k....you won’t get a bite, and that has ZERO to do with me. Making me an “enemy” of the games you like is illogical. Enjoy them. You can’t force others to.

Sega Saturn games are going for a lot now?

TONS. Especially complete U.S. games.

This is not a 'bubble - this is the simple reality of private sale vs retail. This delta you highlight here applies in every space when you compare private party sales vs retail.

Disc rot and all... i have a ton of retro gaming stuff i need to go through and sell off (at least the doubles)

Yeah, with things like MODE, you can replace the disc drive in Saturn/PS1/Dreamcast and just play games off an SD card. I've got one in my Saturn - it's great. Original discs can go to collectors who want to throw money at me. I already sold my SNES, Genesis, and N64 games and replaced them with Everdrives. Money in my pocket, no clutter on my shelves, can still play the same games on my old systems. Win win.

XMEN LE is a $20k game dude. Not a penny less. OP, GLWS!

I love the”pry it from me” line. Another ridiculous marketing tactic. As if people are lining up down the streets to buy a Tron LE.
That doesn’t exist. Not saying Tron isn’t a fun game because it is but this a fatal attempt to create increased artificial demand where from what I can tell the demand has not changed.
Nobody is prying anything from you or this would’ve sold.

What’s next.....it’s not worth 25k but it’s definitely worth 15k. Lol

Why is it that you are seeing the opposite or wrong thing about everything in this thread. Marketing tactic? I'm not marketing anything. You don't take me at my word that I love my Tron and want to just keep and play it? Alright....lol

Just be aware, since your toaster is an LE, it will never be made again.
Price it accordingly.

You have no interest yet you are over 42 posts deep into a for sale add? Makes sense....

Snaroff is my friend...I'm just having fun. Sorry if the concept of friendship and goofing around offends you.

Never. Plus thanks to this FS thread I have a new favorite summer drink! Thanks lol.

DEL TACO BOBA BROS 4 LIFE!!!!

There is no demand for Tron LE? Are you high? Like it or not, it's highly sought after by collectors. You literally have people in this thread stating they wouldn't let their Tron LE's go for cheap. That's what the OP is basically saying. He will only let is LE go if someone makes a huge offer. I feel the same about most of my games. Not for sale but if someone makes a ridiculous offer I would have a hard time saying no.

Yeah sorry man. That last comment was over the top.
Nobody called you a shyster. You did. Which I don’t think that at all. I actually think you were just having some fun and who knows maybe someone steps up to the plate and hands you 25 large.

I also don’t want you to suffer any adverse health events.......Whatever that means. Lol.

You sound very stressed. I hope you’re okay.

I wouldn’t sell my Tron either … then my wife heard me mention that I read on pinside that someone sold their Tron LE for $25k and my wife went … Really? It is her favourite game (only one besides IM that she plays). … And I panicked and am now contemplating cancelling my pinside membership. What if she makes me sell now … because she needs a long beach vacation after all these lockdowns. LOL

I used to joke with friends when they would joke with me about selling them my Tron and I would say, “sure, 25k and it’s yours!” Now I gotta be careful saying that or respond with 50k.

Everything, material wealth, is for sale if the price is right. It only takes two parties to agree upon what it is worth to each of them.

GLWTS.

I would not be so sure about that assumption. When air flight companies, restaurants and hotels all over the world will be back in the game and lineups get created to go on vacations. Prices will go up big time to make up for what they lost but also because a lot of countries have been printing money like crazy lately. A lot of people will realize the world will never be the same and are not as rich as they thought they were. So they'll stay in home hobbies.

No-one answered my questions

Imo, Tron in any form is the greatest pinball machine ever made, it never stales or is boring to play.

Sorry about that, I can take it! What people love about Tron is that it has an addictive quality to it. It generally beats you up quick, but makes you wanna keep hitting start until you have that amazing game. When it came out, it was during Stern's "lean" years...games like Tron, Iron Man, BBH, and Avatar had very similar styles of design/play. Simple, fast, quick. Easy to understand, hard to master. When they came out, most of the collectors & players were like "bleh"....but once people played them, Iron Man & Tron really clicked and people began to love them. Tron in particular really stood out due to how well it integrated with the theme. It's fast and flowy, and has some amazing combos if you can keep them going. The Daft Punk music was something new, exciting and refreshing in pinball...that coupled with the awesome sound FX just really engulf the player and make you feel great while playing. Like I said, the rules are easy to understand but hard to master, so it's really really satisfying if you can make it to Sea of Simulation or Portal. Even though the game doesn't have a ton of playfield features, the standout is how Borg used a spinning disc in a new way. The disc area acts like a batting cage, whipping the ball back at you in weird and crazy ways. As for the LE, it was the first game to have fiber optic ramps that are color coordinated and choreographed to the modes, it was the first game with LED inserts, and the disc changes from red to blue during Multiball, which was novel at the time and still looks really cool. The LE also has Daft Punk Multiball, which is missing in the Pro.

Cool, I really appreciate it and the time you took to explain. Now I just need to find one to play lol
So you think if they vault the machine, many people will end up buying one without LE features?

The Pro had like 4 or 5 reruns when the heat on the game picked up...people gobbled them up.

I have been saving for my next pin 'TRON'. It is what got me into this hobby about 7 years ago. I went looking to buy and at that time the TRON LE was about 13K - and they would pop up once in a while. I really liked WOZ, and found out that JJP was going to be doing a Hobbit pinball machine. I decided to save 5 thousand dollars and get a NIB JJP. My budget for a pin was 8K. I am very happy that I have Hobbit - and would love to add TRON for the Yin/Yang so to speak.

Now that TRON LEs are very hard to find, and they are north of 15K, I may not ever get the LE. I MAY go with a TRON PRO sometime once I get the money saved. Put it this way, if I WON a brand new Stern, I would see if I could sell that to someone, add some cash (like lots), and see if I could get a TRON LE. Guess that idea is shot to hell. LOL

TRON is my favorite Stern, with LOTR #2, and IM #3. Good pin, no wonder LE owners are hard pressed to sell it. So, before you say, man just get the PRO! - I get it, but the LE has things to PRO doesn't have. It is like today getting a PRO instead of a Premium model of your favorite pin. I am pretty confident you would want to get the full featured model/game play if you could. I know there are some exceptions, but not many.

Anyway, GLWS :/

Depending on what they do in the vault I may concede to losing the LE type features for possibly a new cab style/art, LCD, etc.

Ok who’s the wise guy

I never thought I would ever say this to another guy, lol, but I love you man!

I dunno about your comment about being a 'fun thread', reading a lot of toxic stuff here, btw.

Anyway, came here to see what the big issue was, but there's nothing to see. A guy is selling his Tron LE, he can do whatever he wants. Yeah, that pricing point is something we're not used to see in the Market section, but it's his property.

And unless there's a new pricing policy on Pinside that dictates what we can ask for a game, I simply wish him good luck and will move on.

I don’t think you need to worry. I doubt there is anyone else out there willing to pay 25k for a Tron LE

People always say that when something sells for bonkers money....it only takes one person looking for one game who wants it now.

Lol, almost 300, very diversed posts, I'll take your reply as being some form of sarcasm! GLWS!

How much could I get for my Cookie Butter Oreo LE?

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