Quoted from dotEXE:Money definitely talks. And the only thing I've heard from Stern, Jack, and a ton of distributors is that these pins are getting orders like crazy. Batman SLE are sold out, I think the LEs are all accounted for, and Jack had 500 orders on Dialed In before he even got on stage to announce it. Then I know 3 operators who already have one of each ordered, and a distributor who did more Dialed Ins on announcement day than his entire orders for the first half of 2016.
Sorry guys, these machines are flying.
And I don't know why people are acting like these prices are new. Go to Jack's website. A NIB WoZLE in Ruby Red is $10,000 shipped. I know, I just bought one a month ago. You can go find HUO ones selling for the same price as a NIB, right now. These handmade machines, with dozens of hand-molded toys, that take 40+ hours to build a single unit, and $2Mil in R&D/licensure cannot come cheap by nature of the design.
If you want cheap machines, invent a way for manufacturers to cut costs. Automation isn't an option.
Welcome to Pinside. 
Quoted from dotEXE:I'm a person who loves pinball, and has an in-progress PhD in economics. Jack definitely knows what he's doing.
Quoted from dotEXE:$40 million profit on WoZ alone
That's a lot of moola! 
Are you sure you didn't miss a decimal point there? Or momentarily forget about the difference between revenue and profit? 
Olanta, PA
