I love having the Hobbit movies. Now I understand the whole backstory in Lord Of The Rings.

Will Allentown have one to play?

Jack brought on an outside investor. Liquidity shouldn't be a problem.

They probably won't be profitable till the 3rd game.

Ball got stuck and I tilted.

I spoke to Jack for a few minutes, he said that he will be doing his summer open house again and will order more pizzas this time. He also said that Silverball should be getting their Hobbit next month.

That underside makes ST:TNG look like a walk in the park.

If I ever get a Hobbit, at least I know that I live close enough to JJP if I can't fix something.

Will there be any Hobbits to play on Saturday?

And people wonder why I love being single!! lol

I got to really play the Hobbit today.

This game has the potential to be epic.

I think the longest I waited to play Hobbit was 15 minutes.

I was disappointed that Automated didn't bring Iron Man or Wrestlemania down.

I think people are failing to realize that Jack's show yesterday was more of a get together than an actual pinball show. IMO, it wouldn't make any sense to reveal any big news. It wasn't the right setting. This is coming from someone who was there for 5 hours...as I said before, the Hobbit has the potential to be epic.

Just for clarification, when people are hoping Stern puts an LCD into the game, do you mean an LCD the size of JJP's or an LCD roughly the same size as a DMD?

Couldn't agree more.

I don't see location pinball driving sales of JJP games. $5,000 vs $8,000...If I'm an operator, I'm going for the $5,000 machine every time.

The market for high end pins can't be that big of a market. The same people can't keep buying $8,000 pins every few months.

Just seems like a pretty big expense for people who are new to the hobby.

When people ask me how much my pins cost (I cringe telling them), I always get a "they cost how much?!?!?!?!?!" Then I reply that it is something I love and I work hard, so I like to treat myself.

I hope no one misunderstands me, I want Stern and JJP to sell 10's of thousands of games a year. Two healthy, competing companies, is a huge plus for all of us.

I was at the open house as well. I didn't see one thing either that would make me think the Hobbit is ready to ramp up production.

I did hear "Maybe we'll add a second line." Not to be a downer, but this late in the game, maybe is the wrong word to be using. Either a plan is in place to produce the Hobbit or a plan is not in place to produce the Hobbit.

This reminds me so much of John DeLorean (minus the drugs & extravagant lifestyle).

For full disclosure: I like the Hobbit machine a lot and do plan on buying it, not for another year or 2, waiting for all the kinks to get worked out.

Jack is on record saying that WOZ is still selling and that they will make them through 2017. Jack is also on record saying they will make 2,500 Hobbits, with 1,500 already being pre-sold. Having all this info and no set plan is a terrible way to run a production line.

I can't imagine anyone who has pre-ordered is expecting their machine in 2015.

I hope they get it all figured out. I want a Hobbit machine.

http://www.pinballnews.com/news/jerseyjack8.html

If money weren't an issue, these investors wouldn't exist.

No business owner willfully gives up their profits to someone else.

Here's something interesting: http://www.pinballnews.com/news/jjp-investors.html

January 14, 2014, an investor was brought in.

Thats 2 different investment groups within a 20 month period.

2 investment groups in a 20 month period....

Don't forget, the pre-order model was suppose to fund all of this.

I want Jack to succeed, because 2 healthy pinball companies benefits all of us. Don't get mad at me for stating facts. Economics and finance aren't based in feeling, they are based on cold hard truths.

I'm sure if you were to call JJP on Tuesday and request an SE, they would gladly add it to the run.

It made sense to make the cutoff 12/31/14, if it were about to go into production. 10 months later? They'd be crazy not to accept the order.