Makes sense

Probably new code. It's still missing the Wizard mode right?

Making more would be a cash cow for sure tho!

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Just code nothing more.

CHA CHING!

Unfortunately JJP is done with the nightmare they created with all the mechanical issues in POTC. Not making it again because they don’t want the constant headache this machine has created for them. It sat on the shelf for nearly 2 years and no one wanted it, till it was cutoff at 1k machines and now a few want it because of rarity. Although it is easily JJP’s best playing game (if you like MB after MB), even though the ball meanders all over the place and gets lost much of the time, since it is a wide body.

How many times are we going to have this conversation? They are not making new POTC, they aren't setup to do wide bodies at their new factory. This is all about the new code that's coming...

Jeff

Don't think it will be run again ..
However would love to see them do it so all the people that paid stupid money get super pissed .
Wasn't this the game that started the retarded prices for pins ?

No, that would be Tron LE.

I think MM and BBB were the first, then CC.

TronLE was actually a bargain up until 2020.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they did a POtC run, nothing JJP (or Stern for that matter) surprises me anymore.

I’ll bet they are getting close to catching up on orders for GnR, so the timing makes sense.

Soon as they figure out how to remove all the problematic units and still sell a ton of them its on!

To bad it’s not Harry Potter. I figure that would sell pretty good. The age range for those that where a kid when that all blew up are of buying age now.

If you dig hard enough I remember seeing silly prices for “restored” AFMs in 2014 for 8k, which was absurd back then

Another tease on FB today??....

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About time!

Let the crazed panic selling begin!

Probably the code update.

Probably. I’ve always felt they had zero desire to get back into the morass that is trying to produce functioning POTC games.

That being said…I mean…it has to be tempting!

Yeah as a company one would think they like to make money lol. They could probably sell 500 Pirates Black Pearl Editions or whatever at $12k - $15k and there's a good chance every game would sell. That's $6 million - $7.5 million in sales. I don't understand how JJP turns that away. One theory is that the owners, who are incredibly wealthy, could care less about generating more profit from another Pirates run and instead want JJP to focus on new games.

“Licensing issues” are a thing too. You don’t even know if it’s even possible
For them to rerun this thing.

This is regards to getting Scorbit on POTC. The very top of the original post was about Scorbit now being available on WOZ, so the commenter asked for it on POTC.

A couple of months ago I asked Jack himself about making new runs of popular machines…specifically asking about POTC…and he said no way, he feels the company should always keeping looking forward to the next title, not reliving the past. I suggested another, completely separate assembly line just to make more runs in parallel, same answer. Too bad. I would like to have a POTC but I’m not paying $20k for it. Especially a used one.

I hear you but it seems Jack talks out of both sides of his mouth on the subject. They also did just re-run Wonka, as for looking back at past games I’m not reading too much into it but this was from the same thread posted an hour or two ago by JJP on WOZ... So basically anything is possible I guess.

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Yes anything is possible. You just never know.

That being said if you want a POTC today you gotta pay the piper!

Lol@ the suggestion to jack to “build another line for POTC.”

You don’t just whip up “another line” in your free tite an expensive, time consuming endeavor!

Yeah, I believe Jack once said Stern almost went out of business because they weren’t paying attention to what customers want. Then Jack came along and ‘made people notice pinball again’ and shown people what it can be.

He needs to not make the same mistake, listen to the consumer. There are many paying a ton of money for used POTCs, there many more willing to pay $9-11k.

I didn’t say ‘build another line’ as of its something that can be done easily or overnight. I meant it as part of their business plan. One line that just makes re-runs of titles that continue being in demand. It’ll be profitable.

They need to get to 2 games per year for production. This should be priority number 1 for the business plan now that they have the facility to do it.

The Will of Pinside -- keep repeating it. Just may come true.

It makes sense if GnR sales took a nosedive and the new game is not ready yet .If so ,your not touching anything for under 12k that’s for sure

Your offhand suggestion is a million dollar project. My guess is it’s crossed their mind.

Please do it, so I can laugh at the idiots who paid $40k for one.

*IF* they remade it (and that’s a big if) - I would expect it to be $15k. I fear that might be the TSCE price too - but I hope I’m wrong.

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