Yep, JJP who rates a POOR in every segment of their D&B report, and who has delivered exactly ONE pinball title ever in their 5 years of making pins, is certainly going to put STERN out of business!

Gary, close the new facility down - RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

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Other investors have sunk their money into JJP in past years, also with the same big fanfare and almost the exact same "press release".

I liked it.

I do also.

Stern setting up more production lines, hiring more people, and building games for other companies.

All signs of a stronger, growing market.

Stern has indeed been changing.

Hiring more talent, building a larger production facility, hiring more workers.

Stern is not only driving the market, but it solely kept it on life support through the economic disaster of the Bush years; where the entire global economy almost imploded.

Not bad for the last man standing in an industry many decades past it's prime.

My Predictions (write this down for reference):

1. Stern continues for a few more years like a freight train, then sales stagnate and finally decline as the wealthier collectors hit the limits of floor space.

2. JJP finally folds after 3 games and is dissolved by it's creditors.

3. A few other boutique pin manufacturers each put out a few games and then pack it up. It's fun to do a few games for the love of pinball, but if you aren't making a million dollars, investing years of your life into each one becomes fatiguing.

4. All of the major "grail pins" are reproduced by PPS, effectively killing the speculative pin market.

5. Stern puts out a "classic line" of lower priced reproductions from the 70-80s with moderate success.

6. The "re-printing" of playfields becomes common and even obscure titles are reprinted on demand.

7. New CPU and Sound boards become common allowing new rules and audio for all the classic pins.

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I'm not saying I want any of the above to happen, I'm just stating my predictions.

I truly hope you are right!

But I don't believe you are.......

No, I don't believe Bush even knows how to tie his own shoes.

He just happened to be the figurehead the years when the all those disasters took place, 9/11, Iraq war, lack of Katrina response, Abu Ghraib, 2008 economic crash/recession ..... thus The Bush Years.

Of course there will always be a few younger people who will find pinball interesting.

But the days of deploying 4 Gorgar machines side by side and having kids lined up 6 deep behind them for weeks, are never to be seen again.