Current AFM Craze

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Opinions on the Attack From Mars craze? One just SOLD on ebay for $8,100. There is another auction currently at $6,750 with 6 days left. Granted these looked like CQ, but how much higher do you think these will go?
 
Opinions on the Attack From Mars craze? One just SOLD on ebay for $8,100. There is another auction currently at $6,750 with 6 days left. Granted these looked like CQ, but how much higher do you think these will go?

Its gotten full on stupid lately. I love AFM, but $8100 on a toy? Lots of idiots out there with cash I guess. This particular AFM I could have bought 5 years ago for $3600. Couldn't justify 3600 then, sure can'tdo 8100 now. I guess I could have made a helluva profit.
 
It's not only AFM, other CQ games also fetch high prices.
There's just a class of collectors into pinball that want mint games and are willing to pay the price for them.
Can't compare them with players that buy routed games and fix them as good as they can..
 
The AFM lust has been festering for months, and a few are finally hitting the market. That $8100 had some less-than-perfect inserts, too. Incredible.

Also, less than a year ago there was a very nice MB on ebay about 3 hours from me. Sold for $5K and it would have pulled $8 easy now. Some people are cashing in on these A list titles. Tron LE, too. I bet you could find a few owners willing to part with theirs for $8K or so.
 
Yikes! That must mean my QC AFM is worth 10K now. Near perfect playfield, bill ung saucer kit, new ramps, plastic protectors, NOS aliens, new color DMD, perfect translite and 9.9 almost flawless unfaded cabinet.

Prices have been crazy for sure, Tron LE $8.5K, i got lucky on that one.

I wish i kept my Monster Bash and Cactus Canyon, they are through the roof too.

All A-List games it seems are climbing again.
 
Pin prices have gotten a bit crazy lately across the board. Oh well, what can you do, if you got a game to sell good, if not suck it up and pay the man or just deal with it.

I really want to get an AFM myself, but figured they would hang around the $4k range for awhile, not talking about QC quality games. Now though I don't know if I'll ever get one. Kind of like MM, when I first got into this a few years ago, routed ones were going for around $4.5k to $5k, now they're closer to $8k.

I could sell some stuff to help fund the purchase, but not sure how long I would keep either game, considering the money wrapped up in them. My life has changed a bit in the last few years, bought a house, got kids, etc. I can't just throw $8k to $10k at these things and not think about it anymore. Hell I've been contemplating downsizing at this point.
 
Had an AFM, sold it to a collecting friend for 4500 two years back. Oh well.

But heres the thing. I sold it to free up room for other games - and happy i did, because i found games that fit me better than AFM did. Is AFM great? Yes. But, its just not my layout - i like my IM, Tron, TZ better for the moment. Fortunately, no regret, except of course that i could have held on and doubled my money!!! (sure it makes me sad).

Prices in pins in general are amazing me, its scary. Even the entry level games, formerly 1500 or less, are now trading at 2500 or more. Lots of demand out there, and a dry up of good titles. Good times to be a collector.
 
I am really tempted to sell mine at these prices. I wonder if there is not a bubble in the hobby right now. Same thing happened with muscle cars about ten years ago, prices got crazy then fell off.

Love afm and hate to think of the hobby as investing but if I can clear 5k on a pin I'm gonna do it. I have a Bill Davis cleared playfield, color dmd, and most of the standard mods. Only prob is faded cab. These start hitting 9k and its gone.
 
When you see a Pinball GAME machine selling for more than used cars, you fucking sell esp at anything over $8,000. Let the retard who has that kind of expendable scratch give it to you and keep an eye and ear out and get an alternative replacement.

holy moley guacamole
 
I installed the ColoDMD in my AFM and it is the greatest. It really raises the experience to a new level in my opinion.

I do not feel AFM is a craze or pinball prices in general are in some inflated status currently. I have been buying and selling them for 30+ years and they seem to have consistently gone up in value no matter what the state of the hobby or economy. However this has not been the case with other amusement and coin operated machines and especially video games.

YMMV
 
I shouldn't read threads like this. It gives me that sinking feeling that I am on the wrong playground.

reminds me of the time I went to buy a used truck in a wealthy district in Chicago. drove by Lamborghini, Mercedes, Maserati car lots....all so i could by the cheapest vehicle on the Toyota lot.....

thinking about paying 8k for any toy turns my stomach. or it shows what social class I'm in and it's not the upper ones.....

on a positive note, AFM was fun at the 2011 MGC show. I'd download it when it comes out for the Pinball Arcade on xbox.... :)
 
When you see a Pinball GAME machine selling for more than used cars, you fucking sell esp at anything over $8,000. Let the retard who has that kind of expendable scratch give it to you and keep an eye and ear out and get an alternative replacement.

holy moley guacamole



that's kind of the same argument i've been having inside my head over what i'd do if someone offered me the crazy money to buy my TRON.

i love the pin...and the theme is near and dear to my heart...but with $8500 cash i could buy 3 or 4 badass $2000-2500 pins to take some of the sting away from losing a pin i really enjoy.
 
Opinions on the Attack From Mars craze? One just SOLD on ebay for $8,100. There is another auction currently at $6,750 with 6 days left. Granted these looked like CQ, but how much higher do you think these will go?

AFM (Attack From Mars) is just the next game going up in price following the same pattern as MM (Medieval Madness) and MB (Monster Bash).

What is driving these prices up is supply/demand, increase pricing on Stern pinball machines (especially games like Tron LE and AC/DC LE's), and every year there are less machines (floods, tornadoes, fires, etc).

In a few years we will be talking about the crazy prices of TOTAN (Tales of the Arabian Nights, IJ (Indy Jones, Williams), CV (Cirqus Voltaire, not Corvette), TZ (Twilight Zone), TAF (Addams Family), SC (Safecracker), TOM (Theatre of Magic), etc.

Also what helps are cool mods like color DMD and the availability of replacement parts (reproduction playfields, new sideart, plastic sets, etc).
 
I'm with ya, 1500. I definitely know that I'm not in the RWG (rich white guy) club that seems to be the norm here in Dallas.

That said, with some patience and a lot of luck, I've had some great deals and bought games no way I wouldve been able to afford.

Not to say that I will ever find a RFM at a reasonable price lol.
 
I think things like the ColorDMD help add to the fever. Also, this machine was way under-produced and people really like it. That's supposedly why the first P2K was Revenge.

-Al-
 
I'm with ya, 1500. I definitely know that I'm not in the RWG (rich white guy) club that seems to be the norm here in Dallas.

That said, with some patience and a lot of luck, I've had some great deals and bought games no way I wouldve been able to afford.

Not to say that I will ever find a RFM at a reasonable price lol.

RFM (Revenge From Mars) are reasonable priced right now. If you like it then buy it before it goes up in price. In the past what held the prices down on RFM and SWEP1 (Star Wars EP1) is the Pinball 2000 system and the lack of replacement parts. With Nucore the prism card scare is over.
 
I definitely know that I'm not in the RWG (rich white guy) club that seems to be the norm here in Dallas.

That said, with some patience and a lot of luck, I've had some great deals and bought games no way I wouldve been able to afford.

I actually own most of the crazy priced 'A' title games. When I got them I only paid what the average 'B' title game is currently selling for. Most of my 'A' titles games were under $2k. The key is to just buy them at the right time and be ready when they pop up.
 
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