Bambulab is known to only give away their printers when reviews are positive, so unless they bought them .

Also reviews of printers that printed less than 1000 hours aren't very usable (to me).

Bambu essentially pays for reviews. I really don't see the point in 9 toolheads because the other guys had four and then eight...

***This review is based upon reaction to other reviews. I have NOT even been the physical presence of the machine and this review is worth what you paid for it.

Discounting the whole "Bambu evil" for a moment, it's not a printer I will buy or recommend to others.

After watching a couple of reviews, I will give Bambu their flowers yet again for designing some pretty good looking hardware. I am impressed that somebody FINALLY added a separate enclosed dryer so you can keep your PLA loaded while your drying that spool of PA6 to their AMS system. The tool change speed is impressive, it's faster than anything else currently on the market. And wastage of filament is even superb. Though that is to be expected from all tool changers. It does however, remain to be seen how well it will stand up to the general population of filthy savage users. More complexity in a tool as delicate as a 3D printer is generally not a good thing for them.

But cost is the perhaps the biggest drag here. $2500+ is a LOT of money to spend on a tool I only use maybe 50 hours a month at most. And the majority of consumers are also like that. Add in the fact that they introducing such a printer to a market with so much consumer stress and reluctance to buy frivolous hobby items at this point in time. Plus the sheer size of this thing makes it unsuitable for apartment dwellers and other with scant floor space and headroom. For example, while I'm 6'4", Grandma is a towering 5' 3 1/2". She would not be able to reach the AMS unit without a step ladder. And mount that printer to the 2 bases, (at extra cost), most people shorter than me are going to have a hard time reaching that AMS at some point.

Nor do the majority of users, print with much beyond PLA or PETG for filaments either. Those are cheap and readily available. Frankly, they are "Good Enough^tm^" and "Easy Enough^tm^" for users to master well. Expensive and hard to print engineering filaments aren't on their radar.

This is a printer that is aimed at print farms and engineering departments, NOT consumers. And Bambu is screwing the pooch in not aiming it solely at business and ignoring the unwashed savages with this machine.

2.85 for e.g. TPU is a serious upgrade. Can't wait for manufacturers who respect their customers to implement this cool new feature.

It's a neat idea, and I hope the Bondtech Indx keeps getting better so that Bambu Labs doesn't have this as a differentiator.