What I like about all this is, people think so highly of CGC that they are people’s “go to” re-manufacturer for all things grail shaped. Speaks volumes for CGC quality. Glad I bought an MBrLE. Now if it would just get here...

The shit CGC “has together” IS their quality imo and I think MBrLE delays due to quality is the only thing holding back peoples tongues on giving them shit for the delays. If my MBrLE shows up looking like recent NIB Sterns I have helped unbox and set up and play, my vote of glowing confidence in CGC would be shot to shit. I think Stern makes great machines for operators. CGC makes great remakes for collectors and operators. It sure does help knowing your title is well recieved before you even build the first one. This is not lost on the management at CGC or their competition. When CGC releases their first hit non-remake, that is when everybody else should start worrying and shaking in their boots. But have we heard one peep on a rumor of “WHO” is designing their first OG title? Lets just start throwing designer names on the wall and see which one sticks, like a dirty pair of underwear...

But by who? Stern, CGC, or JJP? Or Spooky, Homepin, DR, or Dark Horse Pinball?

Apologies to any and all that I missed, the list changes daily

No, and even I thought it was TL;DR, so that has to be saying something... I still read it though

If @drfrightner is ok with it I could let you barrow my Cliff Notes version of it.

Well here is what I will tell you. A friend in my pinball league has one and hopefully I will get to flip it at his next hosted tournament, then if a company builds more, I might think about buying one, and if it's CGC, hopefully I will have my Monster Bash by then to play while waiting on it.

I'll split one with you at TPF

And I was in for only a half a case of beer! Lets make it interesting and let me throw a bottle of Blanton’s Single Barrel at you but since I am sitting on 150 days plus on a MBrLE, can I get 240 days plus? By then I should be a quivering pile of axiety ridden protoplasm

I think any machine that has been developed, as in past tense, has some intrinsic value, wether the theme remains a viable license or not. That the IP is linked closely with the mechs, such as the Xenomorph, makes it more difficult to reuse the exisisting engineering, but even to wipe “Alien” off the playfield, the machine design has some worth still. If a company can secure the license, then why not reuse what works, ditch what doesn’t and keep on plugging. Seems like an easy call if the IP is cheep enough, and the license securable. I would not bet against another Alien machine in the future, but an exact replica of the existing table is probobly not going to happen, imo.

There is money in coin op/amusement royalties?!? I think I made enough money to buy some beer when they licensed and paid me royalties for my code in Global VR’s Ultrapin VP fiasco. I think they sold all of maybe 200 machines?!? I got a buck each minus taxes... enough for some Taco Bell, some beer, a condom, and a cheap date.

If I was coding for coin-op today it would be $ per line of delivered code, cash on delivery.

And to think I stepped into this thread willingly just to see what was going on, just to be hit in the face with an instant case of "been here, done this before"-itis

Good thing to know Pinside is so reliable...

Siri, give me a definition of "Brah"...

"Brah, or with the the inclusive prefix, 'Hey, brah', is a slang term derived as the more pretentious version of the shortened 'bro', which itself was a shortened version and has been cast as a negative cultural appropriation of 'brother', an African American term of camaraderie and endearment. When used in a casual manner by self inflated forum trolls, it has been known to cause the immediate deployment of the inner earlid, a soft fleshy membrane that is a recent genetic mutation, thought to be brought on as a purely biological defensive reaction to the term's ubiquitous over-use."

Thanks, Siri...