attack from mars LE is now available for order

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I would have missed it, but I got an email. Ordered mine it was out. Just thought I would give people here a heads up. 3 models available. LE limited to 1000
 
queue panic attacks from current owners and a 400 page thread on pinside!:D

pricing on pinball stuff is off the charts dumb. They keep biting the bait on pinside though so its not ever changing.

Now 6K is an awesome deal?
 
pricing on pinball stuff is off the charts dumb. They keep biting the bait on pinside though so its not ever changing.



Now 6K is an awesome deal?



It's nuts. The upside of high prices is new entrants into the market like Dutch and JJP. Not to mention the remakes.

Older pins are stagnant which is great. Sys 9 and 11 pins are selling below $2k. Many of them closer to $1k.

Until stern proves that it's committed to code no more NIB for me.
 
queue panic attacks from current owners and a 400 page thread on pinside!:D

Already there. :p

It's nuts. The upside of high prices is new entrants into the market like Dutch and JJP. Not to mention the remakes.

Older pins are stagnant which is great. Sys 9 and 11 pins are selling below $2k. Many of them closer to $1k.

Until stern proves that it's committed to code no more NIB for me.

Not sure how caught up you are, but pinball prices have been constantly inflating for years. Far from stagnant.

System 11 games are more towards $2,000-$2,500 now with regular old solid-state games (Xenon, Silverball Mania, etc.) fetching around $1,500 now in decent shape. Some of the Bally games are even more. Fathom (1980) got up to around 7 grand recently as it started being cliche, like the Journey arcade machine of pinball machines.
 
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Already there. :p



Not sure how caught up you are, but pinball prices have been constantly inflating for years. Far from stagnant.

System 11 games are more towards $2,000-$2,500 now with regular old solid-state games (Xenon, Silverball Mania, etc.) fetching around $1,500 now in decent shape. Some of the Bally games are even more. Fathom (1980) got up to around 7 grand recently as it started being cliche, like the Journey arcade machine of pinball machines.



I just picked up a very nice sys9 for $1k a nice fire! Champagne For $1300 and an almost mint T2 for $1800. Not a package deal either. 3 separate local sellers.

These aren't terribly different prices than when I started collecting a decade ago.

Agree though that there are some crazy bubbles that exist around certain pins. The Congo effect!!
 
I am so glad I got out when I did.

I had 15 or so A titles and sold them all at what I thought was top of the market a few years ago. I figured now way they could keep going up.. but they did.

I was around when an nice attack from mars was $3k so I did pretty well anyways.
 
I am so glad I got out when I did.



I had 15 or so A titles and sold them all at what I thought was top of the market a few years ago. I figured now way they could keep going up.. but they did.



I was around when an nice attack from mars was $3k so I did pretty well anyways.



I stopped chasing A titles a few years back. Had many of them circulate in and out of the game room over the years. Realizing I enjoy Dr Dude as much as I did my TaF was a great breakthrough!!
 
I'm tempted on this one. AFM is a great game,


the wide display looks interesting. I am going to sell off my original AFM and use it to cover most of the cost of the new one.

I just want to get a monster bash remake if they do it. Not too sure I want a cactus canyon. going to make an effort to play that one this year at cax. Other than that, maybe a tales of Arabian nights if they do it. zero interest in kingpin. only a maybe if they did a big bang bar.
 
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The remakes had a clear effect on the sale price of an original AFM at Texas Pinball Festival this weekend. Guy originally wanted $7800. Sold under $6000. Game was in nice shape as well.
The remakes looks nice and play well.
 
Already there. :p



Not sure how caught up you are, but pinball prices have been constantly inflating for years. Far from stagnant.

System 11 games are more towards $2,000-$2,500 now with regular old solid-state games (Xenon, Silverball Mania, etc.) fetching around $1,500 now in decent shape. Some of the Bally games are even more. Fathom (1980) got up to around 7 grand recently as it started being cliche, like the Journey arcade machine of pinball machines.

Pinball prices are through the roof. I just sold a non working Williams Blackout with playfield wear for $800. A couple years ago that was a $700 game if it was working and in nice shape! These classics are getting harder to find for sure.
 
why do these new high price pins from stern continue to have playfield issues. they get all diveted up.
Is that just considered ok in this modern era of new pin collecting?
 
I like that there are 3 options on this offering. On MMR it was LE for 8K or standard for 8K if you missed out on LE.
 
why do these new high price pins from stern continue to have playfield issues. they get all diveted up.
Is that just considered ok in this modern era of new pin collecting?

Yeah, pretty much. Conventional wisdom on the subject seems to be that all playfields get divots but over time, they get so many you literally cant see the individual ones. My HUO sterns get some divots in heavily traveled areas (sparky magnet area etc) but not enough to see unless you are realllllllyy looking.
 
different playfield production vendor?

I am likely wrong but believe stern is still assembling. I think chicago game makes the cabinets, planetary pinball makes/outsources the parts and stern assembles. probably not that far off from what stern does.

>>edit>>looks like I am wrong. I guess CGC is assembling them? whatever it is pretty much all the same to me. https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/2017-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-stern

I am definitely interested in AFM remake. Might need to pull the trigger.
 
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