It is drama like this that seems to permiate the industry and hobby... I think the larger than life personality is just part of pinball, has been for a while, and will be in the future. The tendencies for clashes in this industry seem to be something you could almost surely bet on, from JPop, Heighway, Pasak v.s. Burke, Dutch Pinball, TNT Book deal, and a boatload of other minor and major feuds in this hobby/industry which have been the status quo since the days of Sam Stern and Harry Williams.

My question is, would we want it any other way?

And then traded the uptown girl for two others since?

@vid1900, Would you put up with a bitchy one if she said “Buy me a MBrLE...” and then handed you the purse strings? Because that is what my wife said and did to me... she can bitch all she wants for another 30 years... I am game.

Didn’t have to. Any bitching my wife does at me is well aimed and well deserved usually. And 30 years of happy marriage has taught me one thing for certain- I am not going to blow $8300 on a pinball machine without first consulting my wife, because that would be pure sex life suicide. Ymmv