I'm probably not adding much value here, but who is, really?.. but, any pinball machine, with lots of interest, when produced by a solid company, and delivered swiftly into the hands of eager buyers, is just a good story all round. The only thing that really counts in getting pinball back on the map is MORE PEOPLE. Not the value of anything, not the few individuals who obsess over value. If production continues to hum along, and MORE PEOPLE engage with it and any reason at all pops up to keep the factories spinning then IT IS GOOD.

I own both Tron Pro and LE, and like MOST owners, could not give two shits about its current value.

And for some more hard numbers..there are 59 pinsiders contributing to this thread. 59. Picture 59 people standing around in a large warehouse and you start to see how significant this whole subject really is.

There is one angle, and don't beat me up too hard here, I think it has some merit. The pinball product may be getting close to mature. Like the pop song, it's perhaps all been done? Maybe old classics get rerun just like Mozart concertos get played over and over by new orchestras. Maybe in the future remakes make up a bigger proportion of new machines simply because they are really good and all the old ones are worn out. All products do mature eventually.

AND..hoping noone else will want it at the same time. Everyone hoping for something at a "reasonable" price (which, btw, they always arbitrarily set as some value below the current market price), seems to conveniently forget that a whole bunch of other people would also be a buyer at their fantasy price. It's a two-condition requirement..the low price, and either the speed to get to it first, or a way of keeping it secret (from both other buyers AND the seller, whom you would clearly be exploiting). Most people who behave like this actually have no intention of buying and are commonly termed "tyre kickers".