Quoted from smalltownguy2:

Not confusing at all. It's pretty hard to finish a product when your main ingredient (play field) is missing. No way JJP is going to release the CE until they know each and every play field used in them has perfect clear coat. I'm guessing that was NOT the case when they checked their inventory. I wonder how many of them were scrapped and sent back to the vendor. Probably quite a few.
-wonka owner #08742206, play field #105, clear coat case #5107

Quoted from fnosm:

You mean WOZ and POTC? I don't think TH or DI had em.

Quoted from PinMonk:

Yeah, it's a shame that cool, theme-integrated, interactive toppers (and no, I don't count color changes as interactivity) are becoming a rarity.
High water marks for toppers (no particular order):
AfmRLE - City with raging alien and saucers, fully interactive - FANTASTIC
jjPotC - ship in a bottle - Very cool
Game of Thrones - Castle with interactive dragon and lit, interactive house sigils - Excellent
And...that's about it. Runner-ups are mostly a sad lot: BM'66 doesn't DO much. Ghostbusters is wasted. Munsters is on theme, but too narrow in execution and essentially plastic standups with a clock. KISS - on-theme, but WHY? There's a lit KISS on the backglass IMMEDIATELY BELOW IT. Star Wars MAY be cool someday, but when it ever ships will anyone care? MBr - back to boring, static topper land - a big fall from AfMr.
And then you have the boring/crappy screen printed PETG which covers most of the rest of what is supposed to pass as a topper.

Quoted from TonyScoots:

Updated Pic of the current LE PF
(Photo is VividPsychosis Market photo of his LE)[quoted image]

Quoted from Yelobird:

Do you love it 3000 times more....? Lol. It does look nice but that Really is a sizable price bump.

Quoted from jeffro01:

It was part of the original package release... "3D Wonkatania lit topper"... From what rumors I had heard it was really cool... But... Nope...
JJP has had a really bad habit lately of over promising and under delivering...
Jeff

Quoted from iceman44:

But the light show and sculpts on our MBRLE are awesome
I like it better than Afm topper myself but CGC blows em all out of the water

Quoted from whitey:

Just curious? I have s pirates CE which just to look at is drop dead gorgeous
When did JJP announce another pirates ?

Quoted from LTG:

Could be lots of reasons.
To be sure they get one.
In case it takes awhile and they get notice it's ready to ship and then have to scramble to find money, no worry - they already paid for it.
I'm not saying you are right or wrong. Everybody does things for different reasons.
LTG : )

Quoted from benbethel:

It is nerve wracking...I wired $29K to a dealer about a month ago for a POTC CE and Wonka CE and it makes me very nervous to wire so much money. Still waiting on both. All I can say is that they should get POTC to me soon and Wonka by around Christmas because all they need to do is Google me and see that I have some people who really look out for me and hate to see me be taken advantage of... But I think they're legit.

Quoted from Gumby510:

Wonka ce review on the first night we got it.

Quoted from Shane75:How do all you CE owners feel about the new topper JJP released today for $300 dollars ?? I personally feel cheated ! I have a CE and this topper is way better!!! When the wonka CE was originally announced it said it was including an interactive wonkatania topper. Expo rolls around JJP reveals the CE and wonkatania topper has been dropped. Now today they release this for $300. I feel like they should give all the CE owners the option to trade in the current topper for this one. CE owners lets band together and email JJP if you feel the same way I do![quoted image]