If they release to coincide with the ride at Disney it wouldn't make sense to do throw back art. Neither would using the sounds/music from Legacy which is one of my favorite parts of the game.

Can't wait for Waterworld VE. I'll wait till next year to start a thread.

They exist. My LE is bone stock with the exception of cliffys. Has less then 100 plays and still has the original code since it's spent most of its life in storage. I have mods for it but haven't installed them yet so technically it's unmoded (for now).

When I remodeled my gameroom I couldn't have them in there with all the work being done. It took a while to finish the room and I've been slowly putting them back but it ends up I had more games then space which is why I recently sold a few. Luckily I got places like PinballPA and Helicon close by to enjoy games at while I'm still finishing up otherwise it would have taken a lot of discipline. I'm in the middle of a TZ teardown so when I do get some free time it's usually spent working on that so I can get it finished and back in the lineup.

The daft punk music in Tron is one of my favorite parts and that really does not fit with the original tron movie. If they make one based on the original Tron I would imagine it's like Spiderman VE where they basically change everything (art, music, callouts, animations, etc). While I know the nostalgia is there from the original movie I would need to see the complete package before considering it better then the original.

I've owned a lot of Sterns and the playfield on my Tron LE had one the nicest clearcoats for a Stern. It was thicker then the Pro so it was nice and smooth and you didn't see the wood grain showing through like most Stern's from that time period. However it wasn't too think like some of the recent Sterns that pool and chip. So it will be interesting to see how the PF compares to the original if it ever happens.

It's not just "lit ramps" that makes them great on the LE it's also how they are coordinated with the code. The aftermarket lighted ramp mods are nice and they do a very good job but never seemed integrated as cleanly as the Stern ones since they were not built into the code.

Depends. If they go the Spider-Man vault route it could have a lot of changes and if they go the AC/DC vault route then not many changes at all. Since they never technically made a premium they have a lot of options (I say technically because I know the box on the LE was stamped premium). I think an overhaul like SM would be the way to go because if it's just more of what already exists then people won't be as excited. The only thing I can guarantee is IF it does happen it will be expensive as fu*k considering the price of the most recent IMVE.

And yet SM vault is preferred many and killed the price of originals and the BSM. I'm all about originals and haven't purchased a NIB in a long time due to their recent quality issues. Personally I hated the SMVE but I am clearly in the minority because if the masses preferred orginal the prices would not have dropped so drastically.

Look at Ironman. While I prefer originals if everyone else did as well then they would demand more money then the VE. People like NIB and having something new to unbox. Slap new art work on it and these NIB Newbies will be tripping over themselves to get one.

It will happen and Stern will not leave money on the table when the BOM is so cheap for this game. The question is will it be a vault like Iron man with minor changes or will it be an overhaul like Spider-man.

I think an overhaul would sell more since current owners might want to sell their old tron get one. I would not base it on the original movie because then you cannot use the soundtrack from Tron Legacy with daft punk which is one of the best parts of the game. New hand drawn PF art, a LCD display, foil cabinet decals, and some aspects from the LE like the lighted ramps will sell a shit ton as a Tron Premium Vault.

I never said it would be cheap and considering they charge $600 for a JP topper who knows what they would price it at. It obviously depends what they add and Spiderman VE wasn't crazy expensive considering it had all new artwork and callouts. Even the recent run of IMVE was in the mid 5k range and comparable to the pro's. I just can't imagine this being a hard license to get again and the only toys are a spinning disk and motorized bank of targets.