I don't think it's going to happen. The game is too complex, mechanically speaking. The Stern of today likes to keep the mechanisms simple and the BOM low.

The most you can probably hope for is a brand new design for the license.

No vaults are coming. I think the community forgot the intent of vaults. It's to keep the line running. I just paid my invoice for GDZ premium from November 29th does that sound like they need help to keep the line running?

It would probably be too much extra work to redo all the code, sounds, and graphics from scratch for another platform.

They might as well make a whole new game while they are at it.

Correct. Vaults were designed to fill in gap, and make a quick run of profitable games.

Vaults were NEVER designed to fulfil the dreams and fantasies of pinsiders.

The good news is, just like LOTR (another oft clamored for vault), tons of these games are available HUO for around the same price point a new vault would go for.

So go get one!

(Ps- there is no such thing as “an overstock of parts.” Stern orders the parts they need to make games.)

I just grabbed a TSPP Thursday. Damn thing looks like it just came out of the box! I kid you not.
No need for a vault, and if they did a vault it would be EXPENSIVE

I also believe that vaults ....at this moment...... have zero place in sterns business model. They probably have 3 to 4 new titles they can drop whenever they want, not counting current games in production that need to be re run, plus your paying teams of ppl to design art, mechs , codes and layouts, why would you not want to get that ROI. The assembly line is full and will remain full for years to come....no point to go backwards to make 500 games.......keep moving forward

I’m really curious about this. It DOES make sense for Stern to do a Spike II emulation of Spike I. LOTR is Whitestar right? Might be even less CPU overhead.

Is that why they used the WWE "non existent overstock of LE parts" side rails on Guardians LE, lol?

Clearly it happens sometimes, to say there's no such thing is not entirely correct.

Oh and there will be vaults coming, with all the stuff with the economy going in the crapper and the bad euro exchange rate, sales are going to slow down here just like everything else. That's when you'll see all of these come out like Tron and LOTR, anything that's priced high where Stern could make a buck. There's always a never:

they'll never remake MM
they'll never remake AFM
they'll never remake Iron Man
they'll never remake Luci AC/DC's
etc

Chances are, if there's a 'never' in front of it, it will happen because there's money to be made.

The economy has already slowed down and it's only going to get worse. JJP already painted themselves into a corner with TS4 at $12,000 and you're already seeing the value plummet in the secondary market. The Stern market will follow.

In 2024, we could get the 35th anniversary pin like Batman 66. I’m in.

I mean anything is possible and never say never and all that but the problem with the last part of your statement is Stern is making some of the greatest games ever and JJP is making TS4.

I would love an updated new simpsons pin with actual show assets! Maybe a treehouse of horror pin?

A new Simpsons pin someday is a great probability it's just that would be a new game. The idea that Stern is going to take DMD games and put that into LCD and call that a vault is ridiculous. I hear that with LOTR and GB I'm comfortable saying never! A vault is changing the backbox to metal and things like changing a sandman or whiplash figure to 1 piece instead of 2 not spending truckloads of money in development for a 300 piece run before the next game release just forget it.