Quoted from yancy:I'll pay whatever Stern is asking for a Spike LOTR with dual-wound flipper coils. Not interested in an original so long as even a tiny VE possibility exists.
if they do a VE I would not be surprised if they do use Spike...
LOTR was a whitestar machine, I seriously doubt stern wants to re-run old PCBs (especially since whitestar boards are HUGE)
LOTR LE used a whitestar CPU board with a SAM power/driver board...
but the Spike system is much more powerful and could probably easily run whitestar in emulation