Star Trek 4 movie is coming. It's a current and popular franchise. And literally all Stern has to do is create a batch of them to fill the bubbles in production. No overhead to design it. I think it makes sense to build more. Just don't call it "VE" and none of us would be annoyed since it implies some design improvements.

Personally I'm in the market for a NIB. Only thing that really has stopped me, is that for the same cost a 2018 pin with LCD is a little more desirable. But Star Trek is my dream theme.

Just bought a IMDN. And I have only 4 slots. So I could do a ST VE. Or wait for what else unfolds this year. Probably I'll just wait.

Yes. But this takes a ton of effort to design the new animations, update the code, update the whole machine. It's almost a tron reboot, besides using the same playfield.

Makes sense for ST "VE" they are just throwing together a "victory" batch of machines so they can sell direct and profit off the continued popularity of the machine.

Probably I will cave and buy one NIB this summer.

I’m not stern but -

Star Trek is a much larger grossing property in terms of the general public and success in the market. Tron is 1/1000 of that in the real world.

So while on Pinside we want Tron, the world loves Star Trek more. So Stern will sell way more Star Trek vs Tron to the general public. Locations. Etc.

Dollars talk. Pinsiders walk.

My 2C

A local LE came up for sale, and I arranged to go see it Sunday. It was bought in the day I waited for my daughters 10th birthday party.

The seller wrote one post and it’s snatched in 24 hours. I mean just wow.

Meanwhile a Star Wars Premium sat unsold for 45 days.

Oh well it was a fun one night considering the LE purchase.

Plus outside the pinball hardcore world, the Star Trek franchise is 1000x more popular than Tron.. isn’t that where the money is?