By the Winkie guard VUK

Ruby Red (75th Anniversary) model has the monkey, YBR model does not, so that answers that question.

My post makes absolute sense, although I understand what you are saying. The reason that the VERY small run of upcoming 75th games will be built with monkey mechs is because the 75th model has the monkey mech in its BOM and the new YBR version of WOZ does not have it. It's kind of like saying "why won't the 75th model soon to be built have the inside artwork blades or the sparkly playfield" when the answer is that only the YBR version comes with those items. Different models have different features is basically the answer, however unsatisfying that may be.

Personally? I don't know exactly. I mean, it's an upper management decision, I didn't make it so my personal feelings on it do not matter. I think that basically a company can do what it wants but then they are subject to customers or would-be customers ultimately deciding whether or not to buy the game. There are tons of WOZ games out there with monkey mech's on them so having them on future 75ths is nothing unusual and not a major concern. To look at it from my perspective (since you are asking me), I personally do not like mirror blades on my games, no offense to those who do, but I dislike them and the only reason they are installed on my Road Show is because I bought the game that way. Therefore the YBR artwork blades or whatever - yeah, not for me. Not a deal breaker but not to my liking. You can apply that to the monkey - if I was set on having a mechanical monkey I would try to get a model that has one. If the virtual lock and no longer opening single door doesn't concern me, I might be interested in the YBR model. Does that answer it better for you?

I’m following along as far as I care to; what puzzles me is why it has to be a big deal - why can’t it be “this game has this feature while that game doesn’t”? If there was any nonsense like “this mech may burn your house down” and they left it in - I could see that but this is feature versus feature model versus model not uncommon in modern pinball.