I'd definitely tell Jack I want a free replacement playfield right from the getgo at those prices.

After 12,500 plays, won't the playfield around the pops be worn all the way through?

Pay retail???? Furgetaboutit................

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Let the price climb to $10,000.

If no one buys it, the price will come down.

If people keep buying, then it's priced right.

I've been playing the KISS pro and it is not any cheaper feeling than any old B/W pin.

I was hoping they go back to numeric displays.

Crappy animations suck.

I would be hard to imagine a more stripped down DMD game than AFM, yet it is the funnest game of all time.

I don't look for how much crap is piled up on the playfield, I look for entertainment.

.....and they gave you WNBJM.

There is no pleasing you.

I lit mine with green LEDs

That's true.

That will take $20 off the price right there.

Just leftovers from BK2K, which probably had more total features (and a much better soundtrack) than AFM....lol

Exactly.

Without its great rules, it would be nothing but 6 shots.

Hey, those are alphanumeric.

Real men prefer numeric only.

For $9000, is any single game more fun than two pros like TRON and AC/DC?

Were they building the Hobbit?

It's not like "a lot" of anything expensive.

Inserts are $.03 each.

Coils are $4

Pop mechs are $1
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Even if you want to talk about finished parts, in quanties over 1000:

A finished, decaled cab is $400

A playfield is $200

A motherboard $50

A blockbuster movie license $20

You guys are putting the pussy on a pedestal again......

Same 1/2" thick playfield.

Same thin playfield clearcoat (some say worse).

Same 3/4" thick cab.

Same decals on cab.

Same painted lockdown bars and legs.

Same flippers, slingshots, and pops from 30 years ago.

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Where exactly is the BUILD quality of WOZ **far greater** than any other modern pin?

You were talking about BUILD QUALITY.

The LCDs are not old enough yet to judge how well they are built. Will they last 30 years like DMDs? We don't know.

Widebody is a size, not a example of BUILD QUALITY.

WOZ cabs have the same 3/4" plywood, with the same loc-joints and metal corner brace that all recent pins have.

Same braces than run across the bottom as a 70s Bally.

I have not seen the graphics show through, but I have seen the wood show through the graphics (around the tree pops).

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Agreed.

"Although when you only put out one game every 5 years, you have plenty of time to get the code right..." - - - - - Devil's Advocate

I can't see any woodgrain showing through on mine, but no doubt different batches were made.

I have seen where the white is really thin on some Champion Pubs, so no doubt it happens sometimes; depends who was manning the press that day.

You are right.

Completely different than any other pinball cabinet ever made.

No 3/4" plywood, no loc-joints in the corners, no decals, no glue holding them together.

No wonder they hold together completely when tossed from rooftops.

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I sometimes repair amps that have huge machined aluminum sinks along the sides, and no transistors or rectifiers on the inside sinking any heat into them. They do look pretty though....

That's how you know that Genie is the highest quality pinball machine ever built.

355 glorious pounds of quality.

I'm a big guy, but I take the playfield out and the head off when I move those fatherfnckers.

Everyone knows that new businesses run a 95% failure rate in the first 5 years.

Sure you could lose it all, but I'm sure no one here put their last $9,000 in Jack's hands.

Yous pays your money, and yous take your chance - Bruce Cockburn

That's what happens when you take a thin book and stretch it out 9 hours.

We watch that every Christmas, commercials and all.

The 61% on Rotten tomatoes would be more realistic.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_hobbit_the_battle_of_the_five_armies

Don't forget, a company can sell a product for whatever it wants to in any given market location.

Canon lenses are more money in Japan, than they are in the USA, even though they are made in Japan.

Martin Logan speakers were less money in Den Haag than anywhere in the USA (they are made in Kansas, USA).

Not that I've ever heard of.

But it all depends on the contract he signed.

But if someone already paid for their game; why would it mater what the current currency exchange rate is?

The transaction has already taken place, right???

Then all we can give you is our love.