Which is Keith Elwin's best pin - Maiden or JP3? With Maiden just ahead of JP3 on the Pinside100, this is going to be a close call. Feel like I am in the minority based on people I talk to about it, but I prefer Maiden by a hair.

Not a lot of voting yet so here is to hoping the 2nd shift plus international markets to weigh in and vote.

even if you don’t like either, one is probably less bad or better.

If Keith is 40 and works at Stern until 65 and can design one game per year, we can expect 25 more pins. If the design duration is 1.5 years, that would be 17 games. Either way Keith will be designing a bunch more pins. It will be difficult to better Maiden or JP3 but I hope he finds a way. When a baseball player in the majors hits a homerun on his first 2 game at bats, fans start to get used to that being the norm.

Darn. Now he’ll have to work twice as hard.

to be fair, we could say he's 50 and will work until 60, so 10 more games. Is the design cycle of 1 year, prior to when game goes into production sound right?

Played both again for last three days. Layout on Maiden is a masterpiece. Very close call but still Maiden for me.