And dangerous.

I kinda got dragged kicking and screaming into the import scene when I moved to Florida in the early 2000s since it was during the Fast and the Furious JDM craze. I owned a Supra and a FWD Toyota Celica that I did a 3S-GTE turbo engine swap on (Toyota MR2 engine). It was by far the most dangerous vehicle I have ever owned - not the fastest, but the most dangerous by a wide margin . When that 60-1 turbo hit, and trust me when I say it hit hard, one had zero control of what lane it was heading toward when the torque steer took over. It had to go.... I am back to my RWD, American V8s now and don't miss those JDM days in the least.

I hear you! Short wheelbase, RWD cars can be squirrelly too:

It’s coming.

GZ is a great game that I’ve spent a fortune on mods and will never leave. Same with GNR.

The “Uber rich” are dropping these games like a pack of dogs dropping deuces in the park!

Made way too many. Catch that falling knife.

Nobody would possibly believe this term could be used for buying pins these last few years. But now, it's 100% spot on.

Pins are starting to resemble custom hot rods - they can make their owners happy, but they rarely make their owners a profit.

As it should be and was in the before-times.

I agree.

Maybe the only people who benefitted from the weird price run-up were the owners of the Banning museum. They sold their business assets at just the right time, as it turned out.

Only auction pinball auction I watched, and live. It was nuts.

$500 increase from last release

EDIT: sorry it's only 100 up from scooby.
Halloween 1000, acooby 1400, TCM 1500

I struggle to understand how anyone can see the value in this. Yes, it feels and looks cool. But man oh man $1500 is a LOT of money for this. I had a used Halloween CE and a Toy Story CE with it and wouldn't have paid more than $100 for that feature.

Well, January 2024 is looking awfully different from January 2023. I look back and laugh when, in the spring, I mentioned how the market was soft and was snarkily asked "Is this your first spring in the pinball market?" (because everyone knows the spring is slow, you dummy!). And then I mentioned it was even softer in late fall, and was told "Oh, it's the holidays, the market is always soft around this time of year".

It's amazing when people can't recalibrate their thinking and accept that things DO change, that markets change, and what was happening yesterday won't necessarily be happening today or tomorrow. We're in a time that seemed almost unthinkable a couple year ago - there are a TON of games priced way below what we were clamoring to pay just a short while ago. And they're sitting there, unsold. Exciting...and changing...times indeed.

American is running a sale on most of their pins. Sweet! Another $500 off and I might be a customer for GTF.

https://www.knapparcade.org/post/american-pinball-announces-memorial-day-sale

The crash is here! Hide yo kids! Hide yo pins!

Can I get a Godzilla for 5k now?