Color-changing GI makes it look like a royal turd, and harder to play. Buy a vanilla remake or an original and thank CGC again, this time for saving both your wallet and your retinas.

At the end of the day, supply and demand rule all. I wish pinball companies would give them out pro bono, but they have to make money too. As long as people keeping buying, I'm sure they will keep making them. I would love to see a TZ or TAF come out though...

$2000+ upcharge for the privilege of color-bombing the beautiful aesthetics into oblivion and making the game harder to play? Sign me up!

Really, in games like MM (great art, color palette inherently optimized for incandescent lighting) this is analogous to illuminating a Monet painting with a string of X-mas lights!

The sweet spot for the remakes is a “classic” edition + color DMD upgrade, and for the money is a screaming good deal in NIB pinball (assuming you had not already played the games to death in the 90s).

HOWEVER, CGC is a good company consisting of good people that a buyer can feel good about supporting, and if selling these 5-figure “royal” editions is facilitating their ability to offer the “classic” games at the reasonable asking prices of AFMr and MBr then it’s hard to fault them.

They produced the remake so they can make money! So the question here should be "why not make more and make more money"! Maybe CGC had leftover parts and enough to do X number of machines. Maybe they did a small run as they had a break in their production schedule and making these filled that break. All people can do is speculate as the only one that truly knows is CGC and they're, more than likely, not going to advise!

I agree Classic plus color chip upgrade. However, the sound on the classic MMR is weak. The sweet spot to me would be classic edition plus color chip plus sound upgrade.

I am yet to play a remake that plays anywhere even remotely as good as an original.

If you want a bunch of .02 lights that make your game feel special, then that is your perogative and you are part of the bling collector market. That portion of the market is built on rarity and flashy lights to excess. That portion of the market also has a built in price upsell.

If you want the best playing version, then go find a nice original for less money and be thankful the remakes helped to distract those that want the bling from the real prize.

Oh Do I? hmmm, My Original pops just fine thank you. Don't need a big DMD. My game sounds better than a remake. The remake topper is cute, but $10k worth of cute? No thanks. I am just fine with my Laserific. I do appreciate CGC for the MMr! Had they not remade the game, I would not have been able to afford an original. I tip my hat you guys...

As long as there is a market and people think that they are getting something "special"... or "limited", why shouldn't be this way? From a business point of view its a no brainer... a little extra powder coat... some colored LEDs ... "upgraded" speakers, LCD display ... probably turns out to be like a 70% gross margin on the upgrade... BAM $$$. Granted there is some design investment to recover... but its done to make "gravy" bucks... plain and simple.

Yep there is money in reinventing the wheel and painting it a different color!

Something tells me they have a good idea of the demand.... keeping it conservative gives them opportunities to revisit production in the future without the risk of saturating the market and holding onto unwanted inventory. Pinball is a hobby and a luxury item... and the market has tanked before, everything is cyclic so keeping it lean is just them being responsible. Personally I'd love to see more variety and less models of the same type... but that's just me.

Main thing is CGC didn't leave the original MMR owners left out. Once the big display on AFMR and MBR. People wanted it for their MMR. Sooner or later they'd do it for MMR.

And the sooner is almost here. A couple hundred Royals to show it off.

LTG : )

And their next game release will be here later. But I wish it was sooner rather than later! Oh well. I guess I will just keep waiting because that is now! Not sooner or later.

Perfect! What a great movie. I needed that laugh.

Now that’s a pin someone should make! Space balls the pinball.

If anyone has an original MM they want to sell for $8000 I will buy it from you right this instant. Didn't think so...