I suppose someone at Stern reads these forums, and I know there are number crunchers at Stern to see how much they can charge for a $2000 box of wires and artwork and sounds whatnot.

I would bet, the powers that be at Stern would like to sell more games (hence 799 LE) and that they'd rather not be sitting on 499 LEs or have them in storage somewhere a year from now, although its not the end of the world to have product to sell over time; if they could sell 500 ACDC premium a year for the next 5 years what the heck, good for them, good for the end buyers etc..

But talking about the LE it's more likely a good thing to mostly sell out stock soon rather than having them trickle out over years and years like would be TF LE etc.. Otherwise the incentive to buy or the pressure to buy is less if more LEs are unsold such as TF LE and Blue Avengers, then the whole LE mania is shown to be a farce.

We have seen some pics of ST LE and know that it's fairly stripped out game, I mean low BOM rather than a game like Woz, i'm not saying a low BOM pin is bad, look at IM or Tron and see they are heck of nice games.

But lets pretend Stern would rather sell 799 games at $6600 than to sell 199 games at $7900.

I picked $6600 because that's what XM LE was give or take.

I would much much more likely be on ST LE if it were $6600 delivered.

If ST LE was priced like a normal pin, not like a premature grand slam, remember they are not selling a Tron LE even tho people know what proven code Tron LE has, and even tho they appear to have the same BOM between Tron LE and ST LE. You can't charge top dollar for a total shot in the dark (remember XM had no code whatsoever for about 9 months).

I was a XM LE buyer at $6600 and a Tron Pro buyer at $4600 and I know Tron is a top 20 game or you can buy ACDC premium for $6600 and its a top 20 also. Why would you expect to pay more for an incomplete game that is not selling well at its high asking price?.

But if they priced it at a reasonable level like I said $6600 I am sure there would be quite a lot more buyers.

Well said, should be a discount to buy a pig in a poke, I lost that gamble on XM LE, but here there is a premium ST so it it turns out to be the bees knees well I could buy a Premium. But with XM LE I was more worried as with Tron that you didn't have a premium.

I am sure Stern is worried, I hope they don't think they are immune from outside forces, remember a company called Research in Motion, later Blackberry? In a few years they could be gone. Stern was great and made great games, but as I said before when I saw what they wanted for ST LE it's said in the Bible "pride goeth before the fall" Stern said: "here's a same old box of wires, now thank me for it".

But I'm more like: "first you have to give me a kiss because I like to be kissed when someone is f^cking me"

That's a whole other pile of fish, in my world it should go like this:

Pro $4400
Premium $6000
LE $6600

Ps any dealers PM me if you can sell for my price. I'll put my money where my mouth is.

At these prices? Yes, this is the most expensive mass produced pin yet, more expensive than Woz or The Hobbit. Yet it as the same basic wires and boards and flippers etc.. as a pin such as Tron Pro. It does have more LEDs but other than that nothing stands out as it being more costly to produce.

How many 'The Pin' did Stern sell? That also was notoriously expensive for what you got.