I don’t remember that at all. In fact I think in Europe they sold out really quickly as it is the ultimate model and although expensive, was still sought after.

I had my eye on it in a couple of places, but I was being very good about not buying another analog monosynth. Towards the end, you could buy a new-in-the-box kit for $899 (and you could probably call and get an additional 15% off). By comparison, when it was announced, list price was $1600, street price was $1200.

Double-checking my memory, Reverb listings from 2017 are showing it selling secondhand for $700-$900.

More recently, the last one that sold on eBay went for $1500+, and the one that's on Reverb now is listed, quite absurdly, for about $2500.

I was in the middle of some really expensive construction at the time, and just didn't have any room for non-essential spending.

> The MS-20m kit's sales were slow enough that they had a blowout at the end of production

Really??? God how could I miss that :(