anything with a ticket machine had a person attached to it.

And that's why I say keep the dispenser as gaudy and prominent as possible (at least for onsite machines that are geared up as dedicated redemption locations).

From a 10 year old kids viewpoint, you put a discreet dispenser in the coin door and it stops being a redemption machine and turns back into a "plain old" pinball machine.



It is all moot anyway, since the machines they build have to be geared to appeal to that market and Stern cannot (or more likely will not) risk alienating or losing their ACDC demographic.

I am talking about getting machines back on site (non traditional sites) and making money again, not having a micro run of 200-300 machines go into homes and getting swapped/traded/sold between collectors every 12 months.

From a strictly business manufacturing standpoint, there is all the potential for growth in the former and simply no long term future for the latter.

WOZ's broad, multi-generational appeal is probably the closest we will get.