Ok, I'm gonna chime in here, first of all I'll state my prejudice by saying I own a original. I'll ask this, how do you know something is good, I mean really good, they make a reproduction of it. It happens with everything from cars, jukeboxes, signs, arcades, so on and so on. I think the the reproductions are great in their own way. New, shiny, fancy, little maintenance. They are making really good reproduction's for people who couldn't get their hands on a original, or want to upgrade to a much better condition machine. The originals just got played so much. If that's what your looking for, to upgrade condition, or get your hands on one then do it. But far as owning an original and trading for a remake I would never do that.