It supports "all day long" because the demand outstrips the supply. One you increase the supply, prices will fall all around.

All the people saying "it's not a real one, it's a reproduction!" HA! 90% of the MM out there have been modded, polished and clearcoated to a state that is no where near being original.

It'll be pretty amazing to see Stern stuck with whatever their chintzy machine their trying to push for $7000 while people are lined up to buy a 15 year old design that Stern has never came close to matching.

Precisely.

If these remakes happen, the price is going to plummet on the existing examples.

Completely off target.

The value of a pinball is in being able to enjoy playing the game itself, not the rarity. Comic book and baseball card values are based on condition and rarity. There are very few MM 's that haven't been modified to conditions well beyond how they were born. How much would a TMNT #1 be worth if you colored in all the artwork?

The reason they are worth as much as they are is because they were underproduced due to the market conditions of the time. Only around 4000 were produced. The market could easily absorb double that number if not more. People for the most part buy pins because they are fun to PLAY(the whole reason for their existence) not to just look at and brag about their "originality". Fact is, hardly any of these machines are "original" anymore and nobody cares. It's about the PLAY.

If MM's get reproduced, the value of the existing machines will plummet. The 100% original condition machines will hold their value more but they will still drop.

When someone re-decals a MM, is it now worth less? When someone clearcoats a MM playfield, is it now worth less? When someone chrome plates it to within an inch of it's life, is it worth less?

No x 3.

Yeah, but Stern's only had about 15 years to make something better and more timeless than those titles. Give them some more time.