Honestly, I don't get it. Why is everyone so excited about this? I agree that it is cool to have the guitar heads and drumsticks in the game, that's a cool idea. But how in the hell is that worth $9K+? Or $12K+ for the full game? The base version is like $6500 without that interesting stuff. This has a orbits, a couple ramps, a side ramp, a scoop, (and an upper playfield for $3K more), so the shot layout isn't blowing anyone away. Other than theme, what makes anyone more excited for this than TMNT or Avengers? Especially when you have to pay thousands more for this. Nothing I've seen of the gameplay seems unique or interesting. Really, I was super underwhelmed by this, but the majority of you seem to love it. Why?

I guess that's where I don't get it, and maybe it's just that I tend to be a bit more frugal. But all this extra stuff doesn't come close to justifying the cost. Things like powder coating, signatures, and different side art add $0 worth of value to me. I agree some of the toys and lights are cool and probably do make it more fun when actually playing it, but not thousands of dollars worth. I'd rather use that extra money to buy another machine or two. But I guess if you have excessive expendable income, have at it.

There's always room for more machines in one way or another. I feel like if you can afford to drop $12K on a pin, you can afford to find a way to get more space. But there are priorities there.

I re-read my comment, and I didn’t mean it specifically towards you, more so I meant you as in some anecdotal person.

My point was that if this person’s income was such that $12k on a machine is no problem, it’s not hard to imagine that some combination of reorganization, remodel, shed construction, home addition, or even moving to a new house all together is probably possible.

But really it was more a comment on the pinball addiction itself and that most people I know with machines have found ways to have more machines than they imagined possible when they started. Right now I have “space” for 10 machines. But in one form or another there are 15 pins/arcade games in my house and garage.