Essex, ON
Hi all....
I have an opportunity to pick up a game. I know they don't really compare, but is there a preference among players? Collectors?
If I get bored, do they have a relatively high re-sale market?
Thanks
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LOTR all the way.
I love SS from my days of playing it in the arcades. The art, the sounds, the entire package. Due to my sentimental attachment to SS, I had to have one.
If I did not have the sentimental attachment to SS, I'd go with LOTR.
Someday I plan on buying a LOTR and having both. If you have that option, that's a great thing.
Two completely different games in ever way. Do you want eye candy, humor, quick satisfying games? Then go SS. If you want dark, deep, long games times and epic go LOTR.
I just realized my description for LOTR sounds a little sick. Beat you all to the punch there.
I own both and if I had to part with one right now, it would be LOTR but, I've owned it 2 years vs 6 months SS. So take it for what its worth.
Quoted from bigdaddy07:Two completely different games in ever way. Do you want eye candy, humor, quick satisfying games? Then go SS. If you want dark, deep, long games times and epic go LOTR.
This sounds spot-on to me. Both are great pins, with the different feel and different type of gameplay.
SS cuz Elvira is super sexy with tons of callouts! Hobbits are cute and fuzzy but you don't won't to bang them 
ss is funny, always makes me laugh, not super deep, but loads of fun to play. lotr i personally dont like... neet game, played it alot, dont want it in my lineup. both games are an easy resell for sure
They are both great games but completely different. LOTR is a deep game and should last a long time in a collection. SS is just a blast to play but too shallow as an only game. I would probably get SS since it is harder to obtain and an easy resell, possibly even at a profit as they are getting more difficult to find. When you are tired of SS, sell it and get the LOTR.
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LOTR was fun when I played it....but after you get the ball in that hole magnet thingy a few dozen times, it gets old (at least for me). With Scared Stiff you have The Crate (multiball), The Stiff in the Coffin Shot (multiball), Flying Frogs, Lane Light Changer Flippers, Bony Beast Ramp, The Stiff-O-Meter...and, of course, The Spinning Spider Backglass Situation. Great call-outs and awesome light show. Honch....did I forget anything? 
Quoted from spfxted:The Stiff-O-Meter.
The Stiffy meter is the best!
You have to play Lotr a few hundred time to appreciate the depth and even then it gets better and better!
Quoted from pinballman100:When you have friends over that are not in to pinball (And most are not) they will enjoy SS much more.
Completely disagree with that.
Quoted from spfxted:LOTR was fun when I played it....but after you get the ball in that hole magnet thingy a few dozen times, it gets old (at least for me). With Scared Stiff you have The Crate (multiball), The Stiff in the Coffin Shot (multiball), Flying Frogs, Lane Light Changer Flippers, Bony Beast Ramp, The Stiff-O-Meter...and, of course, The Spinning Spider Backglass Situation. Great call-outs and awesome light show. Honch....did I forget anything?
You're doing it wrong.
LOTR has just as many shots as SS.
And the Ring/magnet shot is much more interesting/satisfying that banging against the crate.
I feel if the price and condition are comprable, LOTR is a much better home buy, and in my opinion a more valuable pin. have seen SS range from $2200-$3500 and LOTR $3500-$4500 so that is something to consider, and with Hobbit coming sometime (probably 2016 or so...) it will really bring some attention onto the LOTR game. Plus for me being under 40 elvira doesn't hold the huge sex appeal.
Quoted from oropuro:with Hobbit coming sometime (probably 2016 or so...)
Apparently when filming the lotr movies they made all three at the same time and the second hobbit is coming out this year and next year is the third so it will be late 2014
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