Quoted from Richthofen:

Just a heads up my fully restored taxi cost me $4750 all in. That’s $500 for a beater game, then a CPR play field, new decals, new spin out, toppper, legs, lockdown bar, etc. that not counting labor. A boutique run of taxi would need to cost prolly 7-8K to make a reasonable profit.

Quoted from Richthofen:

I believe the BOM of taxi is likely higher than AFM. AFM remake uses an lcd which are miles cheaper than alpha displays. Taxi has huge injection molded parts like the spin out and topper which are expensive too. Coil count is practically the same. What on taxi is cheaper than what is on AFM?

Quoted from Richthofen:

The cost of a sys11 and AFM can’t be $1000 difference. Seriously, let’s review:
Both have almost the exact same parts from a factory assembly perspective. Wooden cabinet, backglass, transformer, electronic components, legs, bolts, hardware, Playfield, etc etc .
Mech count: even though mechs and playfield parts aren’t the significant cost of a game, let’s do a count.
Taxi:
2 flippers
2 slings
2 ramps
1 catapult
3 kick out coil mechs
3 pop bumpers
2 trough coils
1 diverter coil
1 bell coil
1 knocker coil
Plastic set
AFM:
2 flippers
2 slings
2 ramps
4 Martian coils
1 scoop kickout
1 vuk
1 drop target
2 diverters
1 knocker
Plastic set
If you are in the manufacturing game, $1000 on a $5000 game is a 20% margin. My guess is stern likely profits after everything 1-2k per game. So yeah I mean I am pretty sure taxi and AFM gotta be the same cost BOM. So why again should taxi be $4k?