My HUO LOTR is showing up tonight! Super excited.
Brass/Gold Tmolding on the backbox.
Brass legs, side rails, lockdown, back box hinges from Mike Chestnut
Full pinbits plastics protectors. Full pinbits character mount plastics.
Arwin plastic protector. POTD ball route plastic.
Shire protector plastic. Golem protector plastic.
POTD ball exit preventer plastic.
Full cliffy set. Full cliffy shooter lane protectors set (3).
Metal leg protectors. Plastic leg protectors.
Leg bolt nylone protectors. Pinball Toppers speaker lighting kit.
Pinball Toppers LOTR ring plastic dressup kit.
Jay's Palantir mod

Super clean...WOOT!

Here are some pics of the "before cliffy's etc.." and before I take delivery. I will snap more tonight when I get it in.

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And some more pics…

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Hmmm… That sounds pretty cool.

Thinking about mirror blades and the POTD mod. Perhaps the shooter rod and then I think I am DONE!

Oh also got an extra full set of plastics to go along with it.

Will,
Did you get rid of those mirror blades? If not I want em!

Here's the Shire cliffy and plastic protector installed!

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Giant Robot defeat the Lord of the Rings!

Maybe we grew up as long lost bros?

Here is the Palantir….

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Life. The boy has lots of baseball and the girl has lots of horse shows. Factor in BillE's schedule and it took a while to make the stars align.

BillE is the man. This machine really looks like it came out of the box. We are so happy!!!!

And we got to have a few drinks and talk Pins and Vids!

Luke,
The Pinsider I bought this from was BillE and he had Mike Chestnut do the work. He is well respected in the community. His work is unbelievable. I am in awe of this machine and the plating work.

Do a search on pinside and see what comes up
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/mike-chestnut-before-after
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/mike-chestnut-plating-turn-around-time

I believe this is his site.

http://horsepowerunlimited.net

Hope that helps. I'm sure others who know Mike could chime in.

This game is sick… and I mean that in such a good way.

Really fun.

I reset the scores once I got it and now my son is the Grand Champion. He almost destroyed the ring but fell short being defeated by Golem. I love all the DMD animations and the music is indeed epic.

Silverballer is spot on. Mix this pin with some speed and flow and you get a perfect balance.

I must say that this machine looks absolutely fantastic with the incandescents. Normally I am quick to swap out the inserts on my machines with LEDs and in the case of games like SST, just bling it out. But LOTR is really a different beast and looks perfect just the way it is. Even CFTBL benefited with some LED's in the inserts. It really made the machine pop. Not so with LOTR.
Maybe it's the honeymoon phase but I really love this machine. Turned on the Cave Troll mode yesterday and the kids love it.

Enjoy.
It's cool.

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/good-grief

Got that installed along with other plastic protectors and Cliffys.

I have not spent a ton of time dialing it in as it seems to flow really good as is. Not clunky at all.