Quoted from Pinball-Pat:I can’t see any other reason to have that game on the floor...
Take into consideration that they just moved to a new location. For all we know that Hobbit machine is one they plan to use in a showroom to show off with other JJP games. There's only one in the picture and maybe there's a WoZ, DI and Pirates out of camera view.
The title of this thread is very misleading as there's NO "news" .... just specualtion.