With Ghostbusters LE about to be announced (presumably this week), and Hobbit shipping out concurrently, I'm interested in what peoples' takes are how many machines a limited edition run should really allow for.

I think most can agree that JJP overdoes it with 1000 or 1500, and GOT LE recently got criticized for allowing 700 to be made.

So what does Pinside think? Vote now and discuss...

My personal opinion is that no more than 500 should be made, and perhaps even that's too many. But if there's money to be made, the LE numbers will continue to go up, I'm sure.

EDIT: I'm sure ForceFlow will tell me if this has been done before, but if it has, I can't find it (and I don't think there was ever a poll done).

The Beelzeboob LE would be the same, and for the same reason.

That's exactly what happened with me and Bill Cosby, from what I remember.

Too...many...70s...references...

Head...about...to...explode...

That's what JJP did with the Smaug edition. But distributors just bought a shit-ton of machines so they could sell them even after they were "sold out." I'm not really sure the distros weren't able to still order them after the cutoff date, either.

Oh, it happens. When I got into this hobby because of WOZ, Automated was the only game in town to buy a WOZ ECLE from, and they were charging 9k, which was a thousand more than the list price at the time. Two weeks after I bought it, the price went up to 10k.