If only my wife was hooked. I doubt she'll ever will. But kudos on the new pins and the newly converted wife.

Congrats! Always nice to have the wife want to go all-in on your hobby too!

Tron + LOTR = good start to the collection.

Extremely refreshing to read your thread. Congrats on having an ultra-cool wife and for jumping into pin ownership with Tron. Your family will love it. LOTR would be a great companion pin and good match to balance out playing times (thinking of whole family here). ACDC rocks (pun intended) and sitting side-by-side with Tron would be a speed freaks wet dream.

We're glad you have your priorities straight, like the rest of us.

Welcome, and all the best to you.

Brian

Vol, My recommendation on that one is if you go acdc go with the premium. I own the premium and played the pro a lot before buying. There is a difference in play and light show that in my opinion is worth the money. Either way, plan on upgrading the speakers as that makes a huge difference ( you can search on this site how to do it for about 80 dollars). The shaker is not as big a deal on this one yet, but may change with future software changes.

Your Tron sounds like a great buy. You can spend a small fortune on upgrades for this one. I like the shaker , LED's and sound system upgrades as a start ( if not already equipped).

Lastly, if the family liked LOTR, go for it before ACDC. I always am looking for pins the family will play. It is deep and well designed.Also one you can also sell if you want down the road. ACDC Premiums will be easier to find for a while. Good luck and I enjoyed reading your very positive post. It made me smile. Sully

You are blessed to have a wife on board with buying pins. My wife loves pinball so i never hear any complaints about buying a game. If my wife makes the comment she likes a certain game i try to get it. I would recommend pins that the wife and family enjoy as that will keep them involved .

That makes perfect sense to me

Congrats on your first pin!!!

LOTR is a great game with a ton of depth. It should have a ton of staying power and will provide great enjoyment when you and your family get to destroy the ring. Getting to Valinor will be a tremendous challenge.
Howie

If you going to get AC/DC I would get the premium.

But if you find a LOTR in good shape, and you enjoy it, you can't go wrong with it. I own them both, prefer LOTR, and think that it may be the best game out there period.

Either way, congrats! This is how it begins.....

Hey that's my lineup.....

You're in trouble now!

Great times. Congratulations !

LTG : )

I'd go with the LotR for now. It would be easy enough to sell off if you tire of it. I doubt that will happen - more like how to figure out what the next game should be. You did say the plan already is to accumulate at least 4 pins.

Mike O.

Yeah, I say go for LOTR as well, if only to reinforce your wife's quick appreciation. It's a great game but roll with it!

Those two pins should keep you busy/pin-lust-temporarily-sated and, in the meantime, I suggest you take your family somewhere else with other pins to play before making next purchases. 'Family Forum' vote would be very cool.

Great story.

Ac/dc changed and ignited the whole pinball addiction for me, my kids and my wife (not addicted but she will play ). Get the premium with shaker. 3 of 5 senses overloaded

Congrats on the wife going all-in. It is nice to have a spouse on board with your craziness.

Is the LOTR the one on the Chattanooga CL? If so, thank you for buying it. I've been debating it for a little bit, but don't have the money, and now the temptation will be gone. And if you ever get bored with it, let me know. (I doubt it will happen, but you never know.) I'm in Hixson and my sister is in Knoxville with her new baby, so we're up there a lot these days. Glad to see more pins showing up in Tennessee!

Nice mate you won't look back

Nice you'll like LOTR. I bought mine a few years ago and it's still one of my favorites.

Welcome to the hobby!!!! Great story.

Tron + LoTR are great together.
LoTR is the best pin out there IMO. I sold mine after 7 years of ownership which is saying a lot. I just wanted to mix up the collection. I'll own it again someday.

Piece of advice for LoTR newbs. Learn how to start fellowship of the ring, the two towers, and return of the king multiballs and learn that doing all 3 in one game gives you a shot to destroy the ring. That's what I did for my nephews - they loved trying to get to the DTR sequence. I thought it was so cool when they would trap the ball and ask, "uncle steve, can you make the pippen shot for me to start FoTR?" lol. The rest of the rules will come in time. Enjoy

Oh and if your kids ask you to play LoTR with them. Don't start a two player or vs game but throw it on 5ball and play co-op. play as a team. Don't switch off balls, but modes. Have them start and tell them to shoot the ring and then you'll do the mode, then switch spots again. Teaches them to trap balls, plus it gets them more involved because they're playing WITH dad, not against dad. Great bonding.

Yeah. You can change all kinds of settings in the menu, including balls/game. If you have the most updated code (version 10, I think), you can enable a thing called the cave troll sequence as well. I would recommend enabling it, it only happens during multiball with the ballsaver enabled. So it would probably offer up more fun with no risk of draining.

There are plenty of custom settings that people use at home that make the game more fun for families and home use. Im sure you will figure it out. But if you need help, just ask.