<begin I'm going to sound mean, but...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, until people STOP putting money down for non-refundable deposits on games sight unseen, the LEs are going to continue to sell out and nothing will ever change. (why would it?

as far as the value of LEs going down in the secondary market, stern couldn't give a rat's @ss about this (they already got their cheddar from the initial sale. they don't see a dime of secondary sales

to the people that bought into the hype that was the BM66 SLE, I feel both sorry and not sorry for them at the same time. stern's been doing this for a while and to plunking down $15K to purchase a game sight unseen is just crazy and you've got no one to blame but yourselves. a sign on the wall should have been the fact that they doubled the number of these supposed super limited editions to take more money in. do I blame them? not one bit. they are a business and if you were a shareholder, you'd be tickled pink

but hey! look on the bright side, it's only been 2 years and they're still pumping out code updates. maybe before year 3, you'll see that v1.00 code

end stark raving mad post>

really??

tell that to the 88 people that paid $15K sight unseen for the batman 66 SLE and the 200 people that lined up and purchased ALL of the re-themed spider-man home editions [supreme] for $10.5K (and up) in less than 10 mins

those may be small numbers, but all 500 of the iron maiden LEs sold out fast too and those were north of $9K

LEs used to have a [real] screened glass backglass, not a translite taped to the backside of a glass plate

last time I checked, and don't quote me on this because I didn't stay @ a holiday inn express last night, but basketballs, sneakers and fleshy players don't create/apply the same amount of force to the playfield as a steel pinball does when making contact

edit: lol. I just re-read the quoted post and for some reason I thought that he was comparing a pinball playfield to an actual NBA (basketball) playfield