And guess what? If there's a remake it's gonna be just as much money. I mean, that's just reality.

I personally doubt they're ever gonna vault it. I think the demand is some Pinside people sad they don't have one, and that's about it. Who knows. But this has been a rumor/fantasy for literally years, at a certain point get over it and buy a used one if you really want it.

But let's pretend they do. What are you really expecting? You know why the used ones are pricey? Because they're modded with the cool shit that are 'must haves'. Like fiber optic ramp lights, and the little working OLED arcade cab.

A vault either doesn't have that stuff, or, in this fantasy land where they add it all, it's expensive. I think it's pure fantasy, they're not gonna do LE features on a vault just to sell a few hundred games and risk making LEs look like they're not actually limited. But if they did, they'd sure as shit charge you for it.

So no matter what if you want a Tron with the stuff you're gonna pay. There's no scenario where Stern makes you a cheaper game. Pros are approaching $6k already. A fantasy Tron where they port it to Spike 2 from SAM and add an LCD and new graphics and fiber optic ramp lights? They're charging you a premium price, so open your wallet.

I'm not irritated at all, but it is kinda tiresome to keep talking about it for years and years. The chances of them doing are going down, not up. Any DMD game getting a vault in this new LCD age seems somewhat iffy now.

I have a Tron, I'm clearly not the target market here, "I've got mine". But I got it by waiting until one came up, and then paying the asking price for it. Like almost every other pin on the market. Everything doesn't have to appear new in box on your doorstep in this hobby.

People will say "just redo it for LCD", and that probably means moving the game over to Spike 2, and doing a whole new high rez asset package. Maybe it's worth it, I dunno, I have zero insight into what that would cost. I can tell you roughly what the LCD work would be, not insurmountable, but not bang out in a week either. Porting to Spike 2 I have no idea.

But if I was Stern I'd probably rather put all that time and effort into a new game, and not something that already has a certain level of collector saturation. Something like Iron Man where it's just upgrade some decals made sense. But that's low effort next to redoing an LCD.

I can't see any vault game happening with a DMD anymore. Just doesn't make sense now.