Hi Hobbit owners,

I'm thinking of getting a pin so I've been going on location and playing a bunch and to my surprise I find myself very impressed by the Hobbit. The theme integration is incredible and as I'm not a good player (neither are the wife and son) I find it kind of appealing that it's not known as super difficult. Also, the pin would look and sound awesome in the house (okay, sort of shallow) My issues with it are mainly resale value if I buy it new (seems like a hard pin to sell as it's quite polarizing) and if it would be a good idea in a one pin home with it being such a long player.

I guess I'm wondering if anyone has this in a very small collection and do you think it would hold up for a couple of years with relatively light play or should I look for something like BM66 which also has deep code but might be easier to sell if we do get bored with it after a while? My only pinball experience is that I owned an Addam's Family for two years which got a ton of play year one and then not so much after that. I had sort of planned on rotating pins every year because of this, but with the Hobbit I'm worried that the loss I would take might be a touch too much for owning it short term, which makes lastability more important.

Thanks for all bored enough to respond Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this type of question.

Yeah, I totally agree. I just like to break out the cost per month based on potential resale -- it makes me feel better about spending so much on them. If I lose 1000 but have fun with it for a year and a half or so it doesn't seem like such a bad cost to enjoyment ratio (or something like that).

Thanks for all the responses. It seems like I should try to hunt down a used one somewhere (I just missed one up for sale a bit ago).

That's appealing . . . but with my mechanical skills I'd put aside at least 15 minutes for the job and then wonder how I broke whatever I managed to break this time.