I was quoted less than $5K for one delivered also when they were in production. I am hoping for similar price for a SMVE if it is true. I will only get one if it uses comic book art though.

Stern has been doing it the last 20 years. SM, TSPP, LOTR, and Tron have already had VE runs without the VE moniker. So it already has worked. Putting into production something that had been out of production is old hat for them.

You're saying in the past the reruns sold because the properties were still popular because they were in the public conscience. Spider-man is supposed to be in the next big Marvel movie Civil War and is going to continue solo movies. Plus the comics are still popular. With all of that it still is going to be a re-theme, different art, dots, and call outs, not just a straight port.

I really don't know about saturation as runs in the past were usually pretty small. So small that I would consider the runs a niche or blip on the market. I would be surprised if the SMVE equals a 1/10 of all SM made. I'm sure it will sell out of a small run. They ran a test market of the pin and Costco TDK, and it didn't seem to effect them even if those were failures. So it would not be too much of a risk to see if this market exists.