The code has improved a lot since the early days and they did have playfield issues. So that might be why folk were moving them on..
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TNA 2?? I hope so
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I’ve asked Phil about the price as soon as he announced it on FB. I was sure that I will finally get a TNA now. But honestly, when I heard the price, I’ve instantly forgot about it. Same thing with R&M. Only last year, brand new it was 6.5-7k. This year 10k-11k. Pinball is in pure greed mode.
I have a BNIB Halloween CE for sale by the way. It’s 10k on PH and I want only 8.5k for it. And it will be delivered sealed in box. No greed here. Anyone interested?
I have a BNIB Halloween CE for sale by the way. It’s 10k on PH and I want only 8.5k for it. And it will be delivered sealed in box. No greed here. Anyone interested?
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Fubar
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So to get one here, one needs to pay $50 for the fang club thingy, then sort out all the shipping and import paperwork themselves??
Sounds like they aren't bothered about reaching their 250 target - according to pinside only a bit over 100 sold...
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Did you ever get a reply?
Turns out that me not owning any pins is a Bad Thing as the temptation is too strong
Anyway I contacted Spooky and they put me in touch with an air freight company (Musson freight). The costs door-to-door work out as follows:
At today's GBPUSD that works out to approx £10460. I get some of my pay in USD so the exchange rate isn't a factor luckily.
I genuinely wonder how many are going to make it into the UK...
$60 insurance it would inquire about that and make sure it covers the full value of the machine
Each to their own but there are better games available for the money. It's a good game but not £10.5k+ good.Did you ever get a reply?
Turns out that me not owning any pins is a Bad Thing as the temptation is too strong
Anyway I contacted Spooky and they put me in touch with an air freight company (Musson freight). The costs door-to-door work out as follows:
At today's GBPUSD that works out to approx £10460. I get some of my pay in USD so the exchange rate isn't a factor luckily.
I genuinely wonder how many are going to make it into the UK...
Fubar
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Agree it's low, although I think that may be in part due to air freight being lower risk. I did ask and was told:
Eh, you might be right although "better" is very subjective. As I said I'm not spending my GBP so the exchange rate doesn't matter to me. Even then, it's the price of a stern prem and I'd personally have TNA over some prems (STh, rush, etc.) any day. In a few years' time it'll all look cheap anyway. (right??)
I wish I was you right now
We estimated £10k when we did the calculation. But we tend to have bulk cash available in March, which is pretty-much useless for ordering a TNA 2.0 and we’ve got a pin leaving on Sunday… So, the timing wasn’t right.Did you ever get a reply?
Turns out that me not owning any pins is a Bad Thing as the temptation is too strong
Anyway I contacted Spooky and they put me in touch with an air freight company (Musson freight). The costs door-to-door work out as follows:
At today's GBPUSD that works out to approx £10460. I get some of my pay in USD so the exchange rate isn't a factor luckily.
I genuinely wonder how many are going to make it into the UK...
Also, once it’s necessary to import a pin, there’s a second-hand TNA available on Pinside for $8k so it didn’t seem worth it to financially stretch to FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) order a new TNA now when I could import a second-hand one at some future point.
Yes. TNA is in my Top 5 pins of all time (and I’ve played/rated about 90 pins now). There’s no question, in my mind, that it’s better than 90% of the Stern Prems in Funland, which are the same price.
Fubar
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You win some you lose some... Timing works out well for me this time.
That doesn't include putting it in a box on a pallet so you'd need to factor in extra shipping costs. Used machines on pinside have been going for $8-9k so pretty much same price considering condition.
Fubar
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Well, looks like we've got a pinfo group buy going on with 4 games coming into the UK! 
Just doing our service to the pinball community ensuring a good supply of TNAs in the country!!
Just doing our service to the pinball community ensuring a good supply of TNAs in the country!!
If I run into any piles of cash there will be a 5th, but until then…. very chuffed for you all.Well, looks like we've got a pinfo group buy going on with 4 games coming into the UK!
Just doing our service to the pinball community ensuring a good supply of TNAs in the country!!
Well, the reason we have the money is because the IVF clinic I was at botched my last IVF cycle leaving me with a 4cm and a 3.5cm diameter blood blister on my right ovary, and a 2.5cm cyst on my left ovary. One of the cysts bled internally and left me in A&E all night and with a hospital admission.
The cysts aren't moving after six weeks. I can't try naturally for children because the cysts are suppressing my natural cycle. I can't do IVF because the cysts are producing oestrogen. And I can't drain the cysts because they'd refill again with blood immediately. I'm just going to have to wait to see if they leave on their own, and I don't know how long that will take - possibly months.
I'm 42 years old and the botched surgery has probably cost me my last chance of having a third child.
Needless to say, I'd rather have a third child than TNA... But you take the consolation prizes you get
So sorry to hear this.Well, the reason we have the money is because the IVF clinic I was at botched my last IVF cycle leaving me with a 4cm and a 3.5cm diameter blood blister on my right ovary, and a 2.5cm cyst on my left ovary. One of the cysts bled internally and left me in A&E all night and with a hospital admission.
The cysts aren't moving after six weeks. I can't try naturally for children because the cysts are suppressing my natural cycle. I can't do IVF because the cysts are producing oestrogen. And I can't drain the cysts because they'd refill again with blood immediately. I'm just going to have to wait to see if they leave on their own, and I don't know how long that will take - possibly months.
I'm 42 years old and the botched surgery has probably cost me my last chance of having a third child.
Needless to say, I'd rather have a third child than TNA... But you take the consolation prizes you get
Family before pinball, always.
Who’s in this group buy ?
I’ll own up to being part of it.
There may be some shyness about TNA 2.0 because a lot of people, understandably, think it’s not worth £10.5k.
They don’t seem to come up that often. They appear to be £6.5k second-hand in the US at current exchange rates (and you’d need to import it from there). Also, £10k is around the old price of a Stern Prem and, having played a LOT of the Premium Sterns in the Electrocoin showroom in Russell Square AND in Pinball Republic, there is only Godzilla (which we own already) that I would rather have than TNA.
It’s a very niche pin. It’s obviously not for everyone. I think a lot of people don’t understand the appeal of it. If you like Classics, especially, but aren’t into 80s pins purely for the nostalgia, it’s a pretty catnip machine. It’s very much in the vein of either retro arcade games or addictive mobile phone games, such as endless runners - very simple rules and the appeal is all about fast reaction times, thumping music, and banging your head against the wall getting to the next stage. The vogue seems to be very complex rulesets for home use, but our most-played pin at home is probably Fish Tales - and we’ve had that for a year, playing it 100s of times without getting bored.
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same for us, which is why I feel TNA would fit in well 'round these parts, but I'm also in that camp of not thinking it's worth over 1 million British pence (750,000p maybe), which makes this even more frustrating!
My mates all gravitate towards Metallica though, which is fair - it rocks, but I think TNA would be similarly popular... No thinky, more flippy.
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You’ve got good taste. Metallica is my favourite music pin
Sadly, I don’t actually like Metallica’s music (!), but I can’t hear the one in Pinball Republic as it’s close to the full-volume ‘Disco Maiden’ - so I just enjoy the gameplay! 
I’m in as well. Might as well own up #105
You’re in before me. Someone on Pinside said they were 107 two days ago. So, I won’t be lower than that.
I ordered within the first hour of launch!
Spooky said the numbers are in order of sale. Was just wondering where they are at. Sales slowed way down after the first hour!
I think they’ll go back up on 15th because, apparently, they’ll open up to people who don’t belong the Fang Club which means, in practice, people who want a $95 discount on the pin and not to have to throw the vile-looking Pilsner glass in their recycling.
This thread is like an AA meeting with everyone ashamedly admitting their TNA addiction 
@VeeMonroe . . . . very sorry to hear the IVF was so badly botched with such horrible consequences x
@VeeMonroe . . . . very sorry to hear the IVF was so badly botched with such horrible consequences x
I had to join the fang club before my order. Hoping they might add something extra for members.
I added the TNA to my basket. It said I needed to belong the Fang Club to complete my order. So… I added a Fang Club membership to my basket.
I now have the excitement of receiving a membership card, a key ring and the fugliest pint glass in recorded history.
I think members will get something extra. They hinted at a few more surprises other than the signed Scott Danesi topper.
I’m hoping the members get butter cabinets ;-)
