Does anyone know if there will be custom callouts for Gollum, Bilbo, and / or Smaug as well? I thought I read somewhere that JJP got another voice actor to do those in addition to the guy that did the Gandalf callouts.

B9 is that spring on the shooter rod that weak??? Few times the ball came out and made it to the center of the pf and that was it!

B9 I think you have now enough games on this game, also it still in an early code state, how do you like it so far?

Thanks B9,
Was waiting for some more videos

Last video is set to private.

Yes as others have noted, this is already there at least in one mode. In one mode, the pop-up is blocking the shot you need to make and won't go down. You need to hit a different shot to lower the pop-up for a very brief period so that you can make the shot.

I put about an hour's worth of gameplay up here:

The last game starting at the 46:30 mark is the best, the rest is typical play from me

Great video. Can't believe you saved the ball when the gollum save was like 1 pixel wide. On the last ball it happened again and it was back to being really big. Is the length of the 'save area' dependent on how long your ball time has been perhaps? Doesn't seem to follow TOTO rules.

You got though a nice amount of modes there! You got 2 x Spider modes in a row and he wouldn't pop up!

I am using what came with my game out of the box. The playfield is at 7 degrees.

What is interesting to me is my game shows that the coils were changed from the factory and are not the defaults.

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Anybody from Canada hear when Starburst gets their first shipment?

Have any of you noticed that the knocker for final score "Match" is crazy loud? I almost wet my pants the first time I got a match!

I couldn't find an adjustment for this in the menu. Any ideas about where it is? Thanks.

i just emailed Jenn at JJP. When we last talked (February 19) she said " I would say that they should have all their machines by late May/early June"
They were rationing out games to all dealers to be fair, so some would come much earlier.
I will report back on any update.

Isn't that how it's supposed to be?
I almost wet my pants when I hear the knocker of modern Stern machines, but not because of it's loudness.....

Also when you think back to the complaints levelled at WOZ's knocker. Now it sounds like nobody can complain

My other question is what is the function of the red target in the right out lane?

thanks!

I was wondering the same thing but I like surprises so I just thought I would wait until I get my game.

I suspect that in certain situations it may award an add a ball. There have been a few times when I got another ball in play but don't know why. The red target may be the culprit or I could be full of shit.

Sammy,
Jen said " Cineplex has already gotten a few games from us and they are scheduled to get 9 more either the last week of April or first week of May."
Mine is in with the 9.

Hope yours is as well!

Thanks for sharing video! Is it me or is the sound messed up?

Notes on the video explain the audio issues. It's a feed from the headphone jack

cool; i always forget how to read after work

Nice! Thanks for posting. Game looks awesome. I got back in on The Hobbit this past week. I'm going to have to wait sometime for my game but the wait will be well worth it from everything I'm seeing / reading.

A couple things I noticed in the video. The music and sound effects are not only awesome but there is also a ton of variety with them including across the games various modes. I've never heard this level of quality of music before in a pinball machine. If there was a "Best Sound Editing" and "Best Soundtrack" award for pinball The Hobbit would easily win.

Second, you can see that some really cool and unique things are being programmed into the game. I knocked the pop up peg for the windlance in the past but the way it's being utilized is very cool. When you combine it with the ability to control how much power goes to the kickback you can see how multiple shots can be then be hit. One of those shots will be to the third flipper and I'm sure we will see some "one time" shots that must be made from the upper right flipper from the kickback. Now that will finally shut the "the 3rd flipper is useless" people up, lol

If the game is already playing this good with 1.0x code I can't imagine how good it will be once it reaches WOZ's level of polish.

Also, does it seem like the pop ups have the ability to pop up differently in terms of motion? Sometimes I see the pop ups going immediately up and other times its more of a rapid back and forth motion at mid height.

I just ordered a new shielded cable that will hopefully clean up that noise. If not I will place my mic next to the top of the head for better sound. The sound on this game is nothing short of amazing. The quality is so crisp and clear.

The mechs use a flipper coil to bring them up and keep them up so there can be a lot of control over how they move, all dependent on how Keith codes the game. I suspect what you are seeing though is the switch for the beast head is gapped too tightly and it thinks it was hit and goes right back down. You have to be careful how much of a gap there is, if the gap is too close it will get a false trigger and if the gap is too wide you won't get that cool hit from the rear (the back stab).

The red target on the right outlane is lit as the 3rd or 4th mystery award, and awards the 'meter' minigame to get your ball back, no?

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Just got the call. My TH SE is out for delivery today!

...and you just recently ordered it? How did you manage that?

I dunno. I just ordered it on the 1st and they said it would ship the next week, and it did.

Mind if I ask which distributor you ordered through? Just curious.

Question for home owners and/or hobbit players who are quite intimate with the code, more specifically the modes. And this may be a question for the JJP owners group, and forgive me if this is already in place with the latest update, but...

Do you think they will or there is a way to tie the modes altogether so you can have them running concurrently? For example, have the ability to start a Gandalf mode then a dwarf mode then an elf mode and have some stacking abilities? Or are they intended to be played in a linear fashion?

New money > Old money

Keith has stated the modes cannot be stacked on top of each other.

Dang, so 30+ modes of linear progression? That's worse than Star Trek. Not complaining, STLE is one of my favorites, but Hopefully it all meshes together well.

False. He didn't order directly from JJP as he said. A distrib who likely had one in inventory he wanted to sell.

Stop spreading B.S.

Correct. I did not order directly from JJP. I bought through a stern distributor who contacted a local JJP distributor they work with. Before I ordered I was told it was ready to ship. So I'm sure it was one in inventory as stated.