After reading through a lot of these reviews, I went ahead and emailed hamilton beach out the issues described here.. Below are the responses I received:Dear Jeryn,Thank you for contacting us.We will be happy to assist you. We have not had any issues in 2012 of the bowls cracking on the ice cream makers.I sent an email back stating that these reviews stated otherwise.. Below is the email followup:Dear Jeryn,Our engineers revise these units every two to three years.Unfortunately, we do not have any control over how long Amazon keeps our units in stock.Thank you again for contacting Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. Please let us know if we can further assist you.I talked to amazon to see if they knew what time they reveiced their current stock of this product, however, they were not able to help me. I then went to the Hamilton Beach website to check their "newer" products and matched up Product IDs (I'm assuming the newer models will have different IDs). I found that the blue bowel here did not match the blue product ID on their website, however the rest did which could mean the blue one might be an older model, but the other colors are the new models as they have matching IDs on Hamilton Beaches website.I went ahead and gave it a show and ordered the corded green model.. I will update this post one I get it in and try it out a few times at which time I will change my rating. Just thought this might or might not help other people looking to buy this product.Thanks,Jeryn