No. My very own opinion is that that wanted to get it sold unseen and paid unplayed. If they wanted to they could have gotten it ready to be played. My suspicion is that it plays roughly the same as the original, and the original is not famous for its great gameplay.

That is also why I cancelled out of my order. It seems like they just want to push this machine down our throaths.

I live in Europe and here the LE which I had on order was sold out in about 6 hours. My distributor only gets 4 of them and it was a question of deciding immediately or not have the chance to buy it. Furthermore the price was announced two weeks later at 12500 Euro, about 14000 dollar. Even that was not the problem because I was sure that BM66 would be something special, but the fact that I had to decide immediately after expo to send the pre-order money was.

No gameplay whatsoever was shown at Expo, just a normal Stern which has a lot of the same artwork on all sides and even the same on the playfield. The ONLY thing that would make BM66LE worth the 14000 dollar would be the fact that it was limited and the best you could get, except there also is the SLE of course so that makes that point somewhat moot.

You can argue with my points, but I am a long time LE buyer and for me this way of doing business is just not right. Show me what I get for my money and I can evaluate and decide like you suggested. In this case I had to decide without anything to go on and the sale would be final, no refund. That is why it indeed felt like being forced to do something based on hype alone.