you can get a NIB AVLE blue from JJ at game exchange in Colorado (Gexchange) for a good price due to $1000 credit towards another NIB down the road

For TAV I'd recommend a HUO where someone has already done the work tweaking it.

Most of us that have spent the time to get this game to play properly are not going to let it go, my Hulk isn't going anywhere.
I couldn't buy a game to replace it with 5K and it is a favorite of everyone who plays it.
I know it doesn't get a lot of love but it is the full package of light sound and gameplay.
Mine plays like a smooth criminal now, it was a PIA to get it here but I no longer have to remove the glass.
I was offered an AC/DC for it, no way I will eventually get one but not at the cost of giving up my Hulk.

Agreed! Super fun, great music and light FX!

The only "negative" is that you have to have really long games on it....you can set the game up harder to kick your ass more, but the way the content in the game is set up - it's just a long-style game...you can't get around it. Even if you set it up so it takes lets shots to start/assemble Avengers - you get to a point where every mode you start is a Vs. Multiball ...which gets you into even longer ball times.

Now that being said, the game offers really fun challenges within that lengthy play. I really enjoy trying to complete the Vs. modes...I really enjoy getting to Attack on the Helicarrier....love the Multiballs & the Jackpot rules. The tough thing about long-play games - will it stay exciting or get monotonous. The high bar is TSPP & LOTR - always something new to uncover. The low bar (IMO) is TF & BDK....long games, but get boring due to the same things happening over and over. Avengers is somewhere in the middle - it does not have the naunce/mystery/adventure of TSPP/LOTR - but it's more compelling than TF or BDK.

Eric Bundy has an AV LE blue for sale. Documented HUO fully tuned. He is in CT

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/fs-huo-avengers-limited-edition-blue-5000

Hope you are able to track one down. I love my Hulk LE. It is the game that gets the most play when people come over. Make sure you get the Tesseract mod. A definite must have.

Hulk is one of the best "bash" toys in pinball.

I wouldn't really call it a "reasonable offer", but more like offering the lowest listed/selling price for this title vs. all of the others that have sold higher.

I don't believe there are many AV LE blues that are owners hands that will let go of it at that price, unless they are desperate to free up cash/space. Who knows though, in todays market, ya never know…

I'd love to think that all of the WOZ LE's are $7K, TFLE's are $4K, etc, in my area because one sold like that somewhere.

A lot of people follow the herd once a game is declared a turd.
I have had a few people play my game that don't understand why it gets slammed, I think this is one of those titles that will go up as more people play one that is tuned up.
Personally I don't care what the market does on this one I have mine and it isn't going anywhere.
Hulk smash puny Metallica into puppet paste.

No disrespect taken, and I hope you understand my post that none was directed at you.

One machine up in CT is listed at $5K, but I haven't seen any others listed at that. Just like the $7K WOZ LE, I'd snag one up in a new york minute if one was close. But it may not be the norm. Perhaps it may be soon? Who knows. I don't know of any other WOZ LE owner that's willing to let theirs go for even close to that though.

Good luck with your search, it's a fun game, and if you can find one at that price it's definitely worth it!!

I had a buddy PM me, and he looked at that pin… maybe HUO, but not mint if you look at the saucer hole.. which is the reason he passed on buying it.

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Actually, that saucer is ok. That's moleskin on the inside of the front edge. A few owners were using that to prevent the ball from popping out on a drop from the ramp above before Stern came out with their plastic fix. The moleskin was also probably also serving to protect the front of the hole from wear, kind of like a cliffy

That does not look like a chewed up saucer hole. That looks like he has applied mole skin to try to decrease the number of bounce outs from the dropped ball. Easily removed, but probably makes play much better.

That looks like the moleskin mod to reduce bounce outs to me.

No way that's huo. Mine has 725 plays on it and it still looks like new. Bounce outs are prevented by an adapter to the drop down that stern supplies. It's shrinks the drop down hole just enough to slow it down so it drops more slowly into the saucer. Works perfectly, one of the "tweaks" required on this game.

I pulled it up in Photoshop. Its definitely mole skin. He also has a piece of dead drop foam on the plastic above for the same reason. Bounce outs from the saucer are a major complaint.

I have an HUO Blue with a good amount of play time and my saucer looks nothing like that one in picture. I would almost second guess that it is HUO or the guy let it bounce back and forth to hell without putting plastic spacer fix from Stern?

hey that's mole skin ... not wear!!

I don't see the plastic Stern sent to control the ball in that photo, so that machine may be eligible to have it sent that care package from Stern (drop plastic, protector for the ball so that hulk doesn't smash it through the cabinet).

but obviously a previous owner has tweaked out the game, which was my point. I'm a Hulk LE owner as well, so it was not a diss against the game.

Hmm, may be useful for him to list that! When I looked at the pic, I also thought it was wear!!

Nice catch!