Stern needs to wake up, stop being so damn cheap and include service rails on pros as they are charging nearly $5k for a pinball machine of all things. This would be like Ford, Chrysler or GM no longer putting a bracket under the hood of new vehicles to support your hood while you or a mechanic is working on the engine. Cuts like this by Stern are ridiculous. The new service rail design on premiums / LE has them being much more lower profile making clearance for working under a machine even less. Maybe that saved them $1 or $2 a game...on a pin they are charging $6500-$8k for. Again, ridiculous.

I do like the pro lock down bar latch design. Honestly I think it's better then the typical lock down bar mech.

Don't give Stern any ideas! Might as well suggest getting rid of ramps next. Hey there were none of those in pins in the 30's. Hmmmm, what else can we get rid of?

Seriously though these are $5k luxury items that don't compare to the $3500 more feature loaded games (with service rails!) that Stern was making 10 years ago. This is cost cutting by Stern at its worst. At today's NIB prices Stern games should be just as loaded / feature packed if not more then the ones they were making 10 years ago...

Why does a nearly 10 year old POTC have far more in it then any Stern pro today yet it's original cost was at least $1k less?