I waited and waited since about March when I got back into pinball after a 11 year absence. I was going to buy my first NIB Stern. All I have head in the past 7-8 months is bitching, moaning and whining about code. I have played all these machines in the past 7-8 months and the only one that even remotely impressed me was AC/DC. The code on the rest of them sucks maple syrup through a coffee straw. There is no way I am shelling out 4500-8k for a new pinball machine that is crap out of the box. I wanted a Stern Star Trek LE so bad until I played the new Star Trek Pro and was like WTF is this POS?!?!? SDTM loop-de-loop warp ramp "gimmick", crappy match box car looking spaceship toy,craptastic code. Lets face it...Stern has only had maybe 3 bonafide hits in the past 4 years.(IMHO) Spiderman, Tron and AC/DC come to mind...maybe Ironman. I really hope Jersey Jack and some boutique tables push them into rethinking WTF they are doing.