Yeah, I'm a bit burned out. Buying new is like buying a first year car model change. You get to pay full price, work the bugs out, and take a hit when you want to sell a year later.

I fired up my Pinball Pimp restored TZ last night and remembered why I am not buying new pins. I have the same $ in my TZ as a new Stern LE and the TZ will always be worth what I paid and truly has just as much, if not more, features than anything that has been produced since then. I no longer like to house and maintain 10 machines and have found that older video games are fun to collect also at roughly 25% of the cost.

I guess it just matters how much you like a theme and how bad you want to be the first one to play that machine. I definitely am not paying $12k for any pin. When the Batman 66 expensive edition came out I could not believe they actually sold them. I see JJ is now seeing CE editions for big money also. More power to them if they can get it - it is a great economy now. We might have to revisit these thoughts in a few years if the economy changes.