Stern will run more Tron pro's eventually. No question about that in my view, Tron is one of the best three games Stern has ever made. Stern will not run more Tron LE's. No question about that in my view.

The question turns on whether Stern will run an improved version of Tron Pro (like they did with IM by LED'ing it and lighting the Monger toy) with the lit ramps: because, let's be serious, the lit ramps are the big attraction for a Tron LE . . . it isn't the Daft Punk multiball, drop targets, or chrome that doubled the price on the game.

When analyzing this one must take into account that Eli's ramp mod is awesome. Stern knows about Eli's ramp mod.

Will Stern allow this ramp mod to take the money off the table that they feel they should make? I do not know the answer to this and none of us should speculate. Stern does view us all as crack addicts in my opinion (I said I would never buy NIB from Stern again on a new game due to their code crap, but now I'm in on TWD LE...waiting on more code punishment, I'm obviously an idiot but what the hell...). I am uncertain Stern is concerned about alienating the collectors, they may not feel it is not possible to alienate us yet since they view us as crack addicts.

Regardless, Tron is amazing and the LE is a special special game. It will not be hurt in value if an improved pro version is eventually released even with the lit ramps. Eli's mod did nothing to hurt the value of the LE, if Stern releases an improved Pro the value of the LE will remain unmolested.

Haha! You always bring up this argument. I respect your opinion but I think we all must agree that Disney has ZERO problem with licensing old movies. I just bought my niece a lady and the tramp theme'd bouncy ball . . . 40 year old license.

Disney is an IP licensing machine . . . they will license the cartoons from 80 years ago if you want images from them to put on a back pack.

Who knows indeed.

The one facet of this I keep returning to is Stern lit the Monger's chest.

All the other improvements to the vault edition (high res cab decals, all LEDs, etc) can be explained away by the extremely vocal advocates like Rare Hero as merely being the current state of the art from stern. That does not apply to lighting the Monger's chest. That was Stern seeing a standard mod people were doing and implementing it on release as an upgrade.

While none of us know what stern will do or when I think it is a mistake to say they won't add factory installed mods for more buzz to improve vault edition games. They did it with the Monger's chest. While you can distinguish this by saying yea that was before the three tier release model or whatever...I'm not convinced that matters at all to stern or if it really matters.

Regardless of what happens. The value of Tron LEs will not be affected at all. If they would be affected then Eli's mod (which is superior in many ways) would have already affected it.

Mods are like a swimming pool for your house. May help you sell it but doesn't really add to value.