That makes WAY more sense. Calling it a vault edition is weird.

I had no idea that there was any demand for this title that couldn't be satisfied by current NIB stock or the used market.

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You can say the same damn thing about every single thread in the history of Pinside that discusses a new title or a VE.

Apparently people can only post positive opinions about any new title or VE or rerun. No "complaining" allowed!

Anyone who made a post questioning this move by Stern, or who otherwise are "complaining" about it should just go back and delete their posts (and they should probably be ejected from the thread too)!

I guess I missed the posts that complained about this title "hogging resources from another product" or that it takes "effort for Stern to make" it.

Most of the posts that I've read on the subject are questioning why this would be released as a "vault edition" and whether there is actually enough demand to do so. Is that really "complaining" in your mind? To me it is called pinball related discussion, which is what I thought this site was for.

Because what you just said is not an accurate statement.

TWD is gone, and TNA is incoming, so it was time for a new avatar. I kind of miss it too though.

Complete nonsense.

So if Stern stops production on a pin for a couple of months a moves it to the archive page on their website and they do another run it magically becomes a "vault" edition? Really?

Does the term "vault" have any meaning to you?

To me IM was a true vault edition release because it had been out of production for years, not months. AC/DC as well, but to a lesser degree. Like others have said, just call it another run and this thread would be half as long as it is.