How many pins have you pre-ordered with deposit or ordered and paid-in-full AND you are waiting for the game?

Buying a new pinball machine has become an exercise in patience. There’s no inventory at distributors so expect to wait from 1 up 18 months (EHOH premiums). The silver lining is having so many choices.

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Keep those votes coming in. With Stern backordered by 10k pins and other manufacturers hampered by parts supply, there has to be more than 34 people with a game outstanding.

Had to change my vote from 4 to none. Decided to wait and buy new pins AFTER they are made and so cancel/sold my deposits. That means I’ll end up buying HUO new titles from Early Adopters. I am fine with that, as I am not a nib, Fresh-Air Snob. Instead I’m a Non-Preorder Snob, which is superior

The above 170 votes account for 280 preordered games. We’ve heard Stern alone has a 10k game backlog, so many more votes are needed.

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GZPRE shipment officially coming in March, then next batch was set for Aug but moved to Dec 2022. Whichever version proves true, no more than two GZ premium runs for 2022. There will still be a large unmet demand so expect at least one run in 2023. If time expires, Stern needs to re-up the GZ license. IMO Stern should make GZ into perpetuity. Never Stop building pinball’s #1 ranked pin, Baby.

This is so true. The two best strategies are: 1) pre-order at msrp, which will probably be lower than huo and wait for game to be delivered. Sometimes parts are short and game is pushed out 3-9 months more. Or 2) buy existing game for more than msrp and get it now. The repurchased game may be opened and huo or still sitting on pallet as nib. But it offers immediate satisfaction. I choose option 2, in spite of it costing way more, when I don’t want to wait a year.

That is such good news. Almost everybody ordering: DP, Mando, JP and Rush pro’s and premiums will be receiving theirs this year. So happy for everybody that will be able to convert preorders into physical games.

Then don’t you have 5-6 pins preordered? or did you mean 4 will be made soon?

Folks, it is time to update your answers. Seven months have passed and many games were bought or sold since. Some didn’t participate in the poll the first go round and now’s your chance. Polls are still open and there’s no better time to recalibrate. Attached snapshot of where we stand today. Maybe we’ll see changes. I’ve gone from 0 to 1 preorder.

Previous results by all poll takers showed 1/3 people preordered 1 game, 1/3 people owned 2 or 3 games and the balance was split among people with either no games or more than 3 games. Just vote and we’ll see. Oh boy, someone’s making Bank Shot again?

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Changes were made to linked games to add TS4 and remove Wonka, SW & GOTG. Otherwise nothing new to adjust.

Spent a year in Anchorage on work. Two movie theaters had pins. One was a good place but it only had POTC. That game was maintained and you could report an issue and it would be fixed in a week. Anyways, the first six months passed and I was going crazy wanting to find a pinball to play and that’s when I discovered the above places. I put 1,500 games on POTC at 50 cents and became sick of playing it. Perhaps it is still there??

For reference one could buy a huo POTC for under $4k. The extended version went like this. On the day I returned from Alaska I was seeing mirages of pinball machines. I arranged that first day to visit my buddy Mike Chestnut and play his self-restored games, sporting his metallic hardware . All kinds of highway delays, construction and shitty drivers so I was speeding to make up time. In TN, I was pulled over and asked if I was in a hurry. I told him yeah, I gotta play some pinball. At that moment his car speaker crackled and there was a big problem at the bank. So he left me with a verbal warning and got in his car and left. That was the beginning of a great day.

Not much movement in votes. I’d have guessed people might have more on preorder now than previously on account of how many pins are delayed.