There’s clearly demand for more JJP Pirates. It’s really not rocket science to make a second run and not risk a loss.

Like others have said, open preorders of X units at Y price. Require a deposit which covers the BOM or close to it. Make deposit non-refundable once preorders cross a certain threshold. YBR WOZ seemed like a silly production gamble given the price hike/lack of monkey and unknown level of customer interest.

Time for them to change their rerun model. CPR follows a similar model: no playfield runs until there is sufficient interest with cash deposited.

Welcome to JJP. Ask any owner of the pre-2.0 lighting WOZ machines (the vast majority) how they feel about shelling out $800 plus 12+ hours of labor to fix a JJP design flaw.

Try stopping there next time. The elongated defense predicated on a presumption that they deserve a pass for being ambitious is ridiculous. Plenty of 7.5v boards fail and you really can’t get around the absurdity of daisy chaining all of the pre-2.0 boards like cheap Christmas tree lights. When a company screws up on basic electrical engineering that badly and then sticks their customers with a hefty bill, there’s really no defense.

Rant over - back to pirate speculation.