I totally agree 1000% that the topper is way too expensive. But what's the difference of spending $2000 bucks on a topper and spending $2000 difference of what the premium and LE versions of pins were last year? Even the pros are getting out of hand.

Dude, you have 76 pinball machines. You left me speechless.

Well how do you feel about color dmd, or any other type of color display? I mean, if you’re just playing the playfield, then let’s do away with those silly things as well since we don’t look at them anyway! Same can be said on powder coating, under-cab lighting, etc. It’s simple fellas, so don’t put too much thought in it. If a pinhead LOVES their pin, he or she is going to MACK it out to make it the best they want it to be with the extra mods they want (insert car argument here).

I agree with you 1000% DPO. I put color dmds in all of my games because it looks nicer and really "modernizes" the pin so much. Plus, it really helps in regards to resale value. I was just being sarcastic in response to an earlier post about who looks at toppers while you're playing.

Sometimes I just like walking downstairs to my mancave and look at the pins, lit up or not, and marvel at them. Now how can you put a price on that? I can't imagine looking at pins like The Munsters, Black Knight or EHOH without those toppers. To me it completes the look, but I get the price tag is high. Oh well, I can always bury the topper with me when it's time for me to take a dirt nap.

I took it as this guy works hard for his money and he can spend it on whatever he wants to spend his money on.

Here's another scenario.

Stern Pros jack up in price, selling for $12,000 bucks. LE's and Premiums are now only sold to rich basketball players. In order to even think about getting one you hope to get drafted in the top 3 picks. JJP follows notice and their machines are now double that price, with you having to play like Bo Jackson and do (2) sports in order to put a deposit down on a machine.

People get tired of spending wads of money on basically toys and quits buying pinball machine and it's useless "additions" to it.

Stern's sales go down, the market crashes and Stern has to lay off people and close their business. The other companies follow suit and now we have no more pinball machines to buy.

Pinsiders get tired of playing the same games over and over, causing some to turn over the tables and look back on the old threads of pinside deciding to get a gang together to put flaming bags of feces on their front porch of other pinsiders, ringing the doorbell and screaming as they're running away "that's what you get for over-paying for things I told you not to buy".

The world spirals out of control. Dogs and chickens begin to live with each other and reproduce. The rooster now wakes me up every morning at 4:00 am barking like a dog.

I lay awake at night thinking about this, wondering what time that damn rooster is going to wake me up. I now spend my hard earned money on the robotic hawk that shoots lasers out of his eye to kill that damn rooster and for my therapist (she doesn't know I'm on here, so please don't say nothing)

I had that GI Joe headquarters and loved it. Thanks for the memories!

Topper does look like a let down. Hopefully Dwight will put more code on it and add more features to it. I agree the static images are the lazy way out. Needs more bling.

As a diabetic, you guys are killing me with this candy bar debate!

You have to admit, Zach getting angry with R2D2 and his funny quips is worth watching this video. LOL Good one Zach!