I think you’re crossing up demand with what you’d personally like to see remade (“more deserving games”). If CGC we’re doing remakes “for the good of pinball” they’d certainly focus on remaking rare games that most players have never even seen. But they want to maximize profits, so better known games that were in wide circulation and therefore have strong nostalgia value are a safe bet. TAF fits the bill, it was arguably the most popular pinball of all time and if people will regularly pay $5-$6k for a used one, I have no trouble believing they’d pay $6-$7k for a new one. I’m not interested myself, but it would seem like a reasonable business decision for CGC if they want to sell a bunch of machines.

Totally. But it's still safe to assume there are hundreds or thousands more TAFs out there than of the other A-list B/W titles. And the fact that they can still fetch $6k shows very high demand for this game despite the fact that they're relatively plentiful. This is why the entire argument that "there are thousands of them and they're readily available, therefore a remake should never happen" never made sense to me. There's no risk that TAF's high prices are driven by rarity and demand might evaporate once they're freely available (I'd be a little worried about this if I were remaking BBB or CC). TAF, TZ, and IJ would all be no-brainers for CGC if the licensing can be worked out.

No one disagrees with anything you are saying. The point is that rarity alone has little to do with how well a remake will sell. All that matters is whether there will be sufficient demand at the remake price point. For reasons repeated ad nausem in this thread (popularity, nostalgia, high price despite relatively large supply) it seems likely there’d be strong demand for a $6k TAF remake.

A TAF remake would presumably drive down prices on project machines at least a bit, so there's hope!