I'm enjoying watching the Crypto crash and the profits being wiped out from some people. I had a few people who were flush with crypto paper profit buy WAY overpriced games from me. Watching for those games to be listed for sale soon.

I see overpriced games sitting unsold for months as sellers test the limits of pricing.

But that's not really the same as prices falling.

Having a game you like is not unpopular, just glad you're having fun with it. We have a Hulk LE that's quite underrated, but we can play it without doing much thinking. And it's just fun to see Hulk smash!

Depends on the games. Find me a decently priced Stranger Things Prem on the Canadian market, it ain't gonna happen!

Stern's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the most underrated machine of the Spike 2 lineup.

Like Stranger Things, early code turned some people off, and Covid really thwarted its momentum. Also, the combination of Borg & Dwight can be a bit frustrating for location play, because it's a table the requires instinctual reflexes and time investment into the code - not ideal for location play, and the theme is just slightly too young-skewing for most home-owners, so the old farts will not understand its appeal.

TMNT 2020 is probably the best deal new machine you can buy. I've seen LEs for less than 10K here. Guaranteed that will change in a few years once the current ~ 35-40 year olds have some cash to buy their dream theme, which is absolutely is for many kids of the 80s.

Oh yeah, and The Mandalorian is one of the best layouts in modern pinball. It got overshadowed by Godzilla, but I've been jamming on this thing at a local arcade, and the premium is just a brilliantly original layout by Brian Eddy. Again, people focused too much on the plastics of the pro, and the non-animated Grogu (absolute blunder by Stern), but the geometry of this table is far more unique that pictures or video can do justice.

When the U.S. is headed for a (severe?) recession, the first thing to be impacted are luxury items (i.e. pins). I'm in the mindset now of starting to put money away and appreciate what I got. If nothing comes of it, great, it's extra money, but if worse case scenario hits, I'll be ok for a while.

Great price!

People posting “I’m in on a CE!” of a game that hasn’t even been announced yet (let alone seen by anyone) is one of the douchiest parts of this hobby.

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All the Rush mods are really ugly.

So is the idea of a Rush pin. Or any other band as a pin. Unpopular opinion thread, right? heh

I still think Stern LE's are joke - same exact game as the Prem. with some lipstick and without a topper
At least JJP added something mechanical to the CE

Not sure if this is an opinion or just a random question..but is buttcheeks one word or should they be spread apart?

Depends on the occasion.. I tend NOT to spread them apart..!

Gun control is hitting your target.

Unfortunately not in your country

Definitely not, many gun owners here in the states have no clue how to properly handle a weapon, like that crazy-ass woman who was all over social media for carrying a gun to her high-school graduation(Kaitlyn something or other)I looked at photos of her violating every rule of gun safety imaginable and just face-palmed. As someone whose dad is a responsible gun owner it's truly irritating to watch these right-wing nutjobs carrying guns everywhere into public places for no reason and acting like entitled manchildren, embarrassing.

As for my unpopular opinion,

I believe Amber Heard and all the whiny and pathetic Depp fanboys can kiss my ass.

That's the problem with guns, virtually anyone with a pulse can buy something designed solely to kill with absolutely no training at all.

Our founding fathers would shit if they knew what "the right to bear arms" would do to their new born republic, and ashamed how so many hide behind it. Never in their wildest dreams could they have imagined the shooting gallery this country has become.

On a first date the girl wanted to know if i was an Axe murderer. I told her I never have murdered an axe.

Fake News

Wish they would add a theme that doesn’t suck. And maybe add playfields that don’t suck.

I like most of the System 1 Gottliebs, and I like keeping them original when possible. If the spider chips are good, the game can be fixed and bulletproofed with ground mods, connectors, power supply rebuild, and the diodes installed on the driver board. I like that the little four-bit cash register brain has to blink all of the displays every time the score changes.

hard agree that the callouts are mostly bad... except Krang and Shredder, but especially Krang. Krang kills it. Better than the OG cartoon, and it was done by a Stern employee.

But the music? Okay, unpopular opinion time. The music in TMNT 2020 is better suited to pinball than the music in Led Zeppelin and G&R. TMNT's soundtrack is honestly one of the best in all pinball IMHO. Shit is a bop, as kids say these days

Can’t blame manufacturers selling 12-15k games when they watch people stuff games with dolls, plastic trees, pinstadium and ask the same price.

DVD is a better format than Blu-ray

I don't like Godzilla as a theme and cannot understand why everyone is into it

Your missing out. I was on the fence and thought the theme was corny until I played one. Now I own one, this game will be desirable down the road and easy to sell if needed. Godzilla is one of the best!

Toppers are usually tacky and a waste of money.

I'd rather have a nice EM game that a ticky tacky topper

I was born in '64 so grew up with it.

I hear it's a good game, too........

That's kind of the idea. It's an equalizer and a power. A petite elderly lady would have no chance protecting herself against a large male home intruder without one. I believe the problems are with people abusing powers and a lack of respect for authority and law, not guns.

Happy to be a man, but 9 times out of 10, I’m embarrassed by the corny non-pinball shit y’all say in this thread. Especially the luddites who think blatant sexism is still cool.

I didnt care for the theme at all,Played the game loved it bought it.Now i am ok with the theme.
Similar thing with Iron Maiden didnt much care for the Band now I love every song on that game.

I felt the same way about AC-DC. I was never much of a fan. I kept hearing about how great the game was and bought one of the last first run premiums available way back in 2012. Now I enjoy listening to AC-DC. AC-DC pinball is one of my favourites.

I thought the same about Godzilla: not exactly my theme. After all of the positive talk about this game I put my name on a preorder list. Sometime in 2023: maybe, if I am lucky.

How to stop drunk drivers from killing sober drivers? Ban sober drivers from driving. That's exactly how gun control works.