Do you have a direct link to these? I cant seem to find them on the site.

If your wallet allows, I say pay for it and take delivery, and then sell it as a NIB on the back end. You will likely get most or all of your money back. Especially once the production run is over and the game settles into collections a bit. Demand will increase and prices will go up. It is a bit of an investment doing it this way that you wont be able to recoup immediately, but if you can afford it (and have room to store it), that would be how I would do it.

I purchased both Halloween and Ultraman because I was not sure which I would want to keep more. It ends up that Halloween will be the one I will be keeping long term. I really like Ultraman too, but Halloween just grabs me more. I don't have room for more than 4 pins in my house at the moment, so I have my UM on loan to a buddy at his house where he can play it and so can I when I visit. Eventually when Spooky announces Evil Dead/Army of Darkness (do it Spooky!!), the time will come that I sell UM to make room for AoD and then my buddy will get one of my other pins on loan... lol

Someday when my daughter moves out and takes her piano with her, I will have room for 2 more pins... Someday... lol

No, extreme wishful thinking and I plant the seed (or water it) every chance I can in hopes that Spooky delivers my (and many other's) dream theme. Bruce Campbell one-liners were written to be in a pinball machine!

If you look in the Halloween thread, some have replaced the stock deflector with a more traditional one readily available from Marcos (part number is in the Halloween thread) and everyone reports back successful results. I personally have not done it because mine works well enough. I suppose the new part would be an improvement, so maybe someday. But I'm fine with how mine plays.

EDIT:

Here is one of the posts in the thread with the new scoop deflector and photo: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/halloween-owners-threadhes-coming-home/page/92#post-6855730

And here is a link to the part which currently shows out of stock: https://www.marcospecialties.com/control/keywordsearch?SEARCH_STRING=01-8806

Its been out of stock off an on, so I'm sure they will get more.

And another option that some have bought and said works as well: https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/535-8250-04

And lastly, a DIY option using the 2nd deflector listed directly above: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/halloween-owners-threadhes-coming-home/page/94#post-6863535