Quoted from shavenyak:Why is there an 18 month window? Is that as long as the license allows them to manufacture them? If so, sounds like a bad deal. Why wouldn't you want to sell more if the demand is there? If you are always running out of supply, that's not good business. Maybe I'm missing something. Any idea what the turnaround time is for the different models?
Because they don't want to be making Halloween/Ultraman for beyond that time period, any pinball manufacturer would want to be on to the next game, after that long. And Spooky is a small company, they can't just flex up to 50 games a week, like Stern. It takes 18 months to build that many machines.