Lord of the Rings
Stern, 20032005 run
Probably the closest to NIB you can get
very very low plays
No leds, no mods, 100% original
Has everything that came with it new. manual still stapled to inside of cabinet
open to trades up/down $5200 shipping ok, slightly negotiable with local cash
I will not be able to meet anyone at the Canadian border
Quoted from ShaunoftheDead:oooh, whats the ramp on the floor, last picture?
taf clear ramp why ?
Quoted from Gwaxt72:I will not be able to meet anyone at the Canadian border
Damnit!!!!
Just wanna say that this game looks like it has a VERY nice playfield. LOTR playfield colors and registration are all over the map….this looks like one of the best I've seen. The fleshtones, rosy cheeks and blue eyes on Frodo are an indicator of a nice playfield!
Quoted from Rarehero:Just wanna say that this game looks like it has a VERY nice playfield. LOTR playfield colors and registration are all over the map….this looks like one of the best I've seen. The fleshtones, rosy cheeks and blue eyes on Frodo are an indicator of a nice playfield!
So it's rare that the hero's face looks that good?
Quoted from Rarehero:Just wanna say that this game looks like it has a VERY nice playfield. LOTR playfield colors and registration are all over the map….this looks like one of the best I've seen. The fleshtones, rosy cheeks and blue eyes on Frodo are an indicator of a nice playfield!
cool thanks, with that I will lower the price to 5K
Quoted from littlecammi:So it's rare that the hero's face looks that good?
Yeah, I've seen ones where the people look less vibrant…sometimes even greenish in tone - like the printer was running out of red. Mine has good color, but the registration is slightly off - so Frodo's eyes are a bit reddish and it looks like he's stoned. 
Quoted from Gwaxt72:cool thanks, with that I will lower the price to 5K
Nah, you should raise it lol 
If I didn't already have a HUO I'd jump all over this. Here is a great chance for someone to upgrade their players condition routed machine.
Quoted from Rarehero:Yeah, I've seen ones where the people look less vibrant…sometimes even greenish in tone - like the printer was running out of red. Mine has good color, but the registration is slightly off - so Frodo's eyes are a bit reddish and it looks like he's stoned.
Nah, you should raise it lol
The LOTR I had had good color but sketchy registration too. Everything was blurry. You can usually look at the borders around the movie inserts to tell too. I complained to Stern and got a hand selected playfield shipped to me (sheet they had on hand) and it STILL had registration issues! This one looks nice.
Quoted from Pimp77:The LOTR I had had good color but sketchy registration too. Everything was blurry. You can usually look at the borders around the movie inserts to tell too. I complained to Stern and got a hand selected playfield shipped to me (sheet they had on hand) and it STILL had registration issues! This one looks nice.
Yup. Mine has good color but registration is a bit off. I have a spare CC'd playfield that has perfect registration but the color isn't as vibrant. Ya win some ya lose some! 
Quoted from robbo105:I'm not familiar with the term. What is registration?
If you look close on a playfield & you can see errant red and blue lines, it has poor registration. For instance on my LOTR, Frodo's eyes look blood shot because the red pass that should have been registered with his pupil ended up a tad low…so his eyes are a bit red. If you look really closely at the character names, you can see the red and blue is a bit off. It's subtle, but it can give one game a "blurry" look and others a "crisper" look. I had a Spidey with really bad registration…I didn't really notice it until I saw a friend's Spider-Man and the playfield looked "HD" compared to mine…then I looked close and saw the blue and red effect everywhere - like an old 3D comic book.
I'll try to take some pics later so you can see what I'm talking about.
Quoted from MikeS:Here's a picture of my old LOTR. Playfield registration is perfect! A lot of others that I saw were either green or misaligned.
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That game looks familiar... 
Quoted from Rarehero:If you look close on a playfield & you can see errant red and blue lines, it has poor registration. For instance on my LOTR, Frodo's eyes look blood shot because the red pass that should have been registered with his pupil ended up a tad low…so his eyes are a bit red. If you look really closely at the character names, you can see the red and blue is a bit off. It's subtle, but it can give one game a "blurry" look and others a "crisper" look. I had a Spidey with really bad registration…I didn't really notice it until I saw a friend's Spider-Man and the playfield looked "HD" compared to mine…then I looked close and saw the blue and red effect everywhere - like an old 3D comic book.
I'll try to take some pics later so you can see what I'm talking about.
Ok, so it's silkscreen printed in multiple passes, one for each color, and the starting reference point is off for one or more colors, causing a shift in the location for the color, causing a fuzzy/blurry look, correct?
Quoted from lordloss:That game looks familiar...
And I feel kinda dumb for selling it... Still probably my all time favorite game!
Quoted from MikeS:And I feel kinda dumb for selling it... Still probably my all time favorite game!
Its not for sale, but if you ever did seriously want it back I'd talk about the idea. I figure if I was in the same boat I'd like the idea of having that option.
Quoted from robbo105:Ok, so it's silkscreen printed in multiple passes, one for each color, and the starting reference point is off for one or more colors, causing a shift in the location for the color, causing a fuzzy/blurry look, correct?
Yup. Four passes, CMYK, and the registration is key to keeping it all sharp.
Quoted from Gwaxt72:game is back on the market. My fault for not taking a deposit....
Not your fault you did exactly what most would do a gentlemen's agreement.
Shame on them for not keeping their end of the agreement. Unless of course a sudden emergency situation arose which would take precedence by all means in which I hope they at least notified you as such.
Quoted from DeathHimself:Not your fault you did exactly what most would do a gentlemen's agreement.
Shame on them for not keeping their end of the agreement. Unless of course a sudden emergency situation arose which would take precedence by all means in which I hope they at least notified you as such.
somewhere in the middle of that but once again the game is sold
Was just looking at this thread for reference as I'm trying to sell my LOTR. https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/lord-of-the-rings2003lotr-sf-bay-area-fs
Just had to turn down an offer for $4k. They were going to have it shipped so it would have cost them $4.5 total, but that's NMP. I'm not off in refusing that for this machine, right?
Was getting fed a lot of other whooha about wholesale versus retail and whatnot. I don't know what that's about, these are all used and private owners/collectors items, there is no retail. It's whatever the market bears. Then he mentioned something about a LORT VE coming out at the end of the year. First I heard about that. I know there's The Hobbit, but was that some grade A BS right there?
I would say your game is somewhere in the middle of 4k and 5k. The one in this thread is truly HUO. Yours I am thinking not and I don't believe you are advertising it to be. The side rails and the touch ups in the gold around the coindoor would indicate a routed game. Although routed it looks very nice.
Quoted from yzfguy:now THAT is a sexy shooter lane pic
Maybe if you saw a photo of the whole shooter lane.
Ok, thanks for the feedback! I'm willing to be flexible for sure. It was just a lot lower than I was willing to let it go for and I'd be taking a pretty big loss on it. LOTR is far too good a game to let that happen.
For the record(and probably not in my best interest) I was willing to let it go for $4500, but it didn't work out. I thought that was very fair for this machine and lower than I wanted to go. Since I made that offer, I will stand by that if anyone wants to take me up on it and mentions this post.
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