Ask anyone who played both versions (or even the cockpit only) and they will explain why you should get the cockpit. It's simply 500% more the real SW experience.
The cockpits are actually less rare than the upright on mainland Europe. I've seen a couple of cockpits found here (Speleo, Luc, myself) and ALL the uprights I've seen so far are either imported from the US or were in the UK. Granted, the one's that Luc and Speleo found were empty shells.......I think I'm still the only guy around who found one completely in tact on mainland Europe.(well under active forum members that is, there's also people who collect who either only read forums or are not active on the internet at all.....)
The only advantage that the upright has is that it needs less space.
Didn't Paul have an upright in his container ? Or was that one reserved already ?