LED OCD is a must on LOTR, well worth changing over to LED's. Gets rid of all that built up bulb heat under the inserts now so no worries of inserts rising due to heat, plus the OCD is programmable to your liking but default is great as is for LOTR.

The GI Gizmo is pretty dam good too, if you can get both.

I looked at that...wasn't 100% clear on its benefits for GI. I'll look back into it. Thx!

Happy to join the club with a huo example.
Such an amazing pin.

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I would expect to pay about $7500

Yeah low end would be $6,500, $7,500 is super common.

Well to be fair, you didn't say any of that when you asked the question. "HUO" doesn't mean "bare bones stock". A bare bones stock HUO, I would expect to pay at $6500+ for anyone who knows what they are worth on not urgently looking to move it in 24 hours. The average HUO with a decent selection of mods gets you towards the $7500 mark.

Giving my LOTR some tweaks added plastic protectors ,they look good and will take the zip ties off the figures. The artwork on the paths of the dead seemed kind of bland so I came up with this

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Sweet. What did you do. Are you selling?

thanks, i may tweak it a little bit , pm me if you want one i may make a batch

I would look at the EOS first, after that fix maybe a Pinsound

My leaf switches have been flaky over the years. I'd at least rough up the contacts on the leaf blades to make sure there is a clean connection.

My flipper "rebuilds" always include EOS switches. They're too cheap not to just do it when you have it all apart and take away any chance of it being as issue.

Never buy those PBL coils, the APB medium strength coils are the way to go if you need them.

Agreed with above. I just took delivery of a huo example.
Installed all new flipper mechs with the APB medium strength coils.
These coils seem plenty strong enough.

So I upgraded to pinsound and I’m very happy with it. I’m thinking about upgrading the speakers. Any speaker recommendation for it? I have bought these two models for different pinball machines but I’m not sure which one is better or if I should get a different brand. I don’t want to spend $300 on pinwoofer since pinsound already has an amp in it. Thanks for the recommendations.

https://www.crutchfield.com/p_206DSC404/Kicker-43DSC404.html

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000230LBI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_VWD5K90C6HZW9MNX6WDB

I just installed the 4" Kicker speakers that are in your link on my LoTR and they sound absolutly great. A worthwhile upgrade over the Stern factory speakers.

Did you get that from Reg?
Need some mods in that baby! lol

Those 4" Kickers with a external Polk PSW10 Powered Sub, will be rocking the house with that pinsound board.

@hollywood: No, I didn’t buy Reg’s example. Unlocked a different huo from another local seller.
Had a beautiful pf with some nice enhancements including gold flake powder coated trim, color dmd, Palantir mod, lollipop rails, shaker, led backglass kit, nvram installed & some other additions.
Happy to be part of the club again.

Speaking of rocking the house, how do you make pinsound+ louder?

There are knobs on the board that have volume control

Lots of LOTRs on the marketplace. Is this just the cycle or is something else brewing?

Nothing is brewing... just the natural ebbs and flows of supply and demand.

Rumors of a vault edition are brewing

It's the 20 year anniversary of the movie debut...and some theaters ran re-releases. The anniversary is being marketed in various channels.

Doubt LotR will be remade. They can make an all new one, since Amazon is making a LotR TV series with a $465m budget.

‘The Lord Of the Rings’: Blockbuster Budget For Season 1 Is Revealed...

https://deadline.com/2021/04/the-lord-of-the-rings-season-1-budget-rebate-increased-new-zealand-1234736222/

I have the pinwoofer in mine that sounds amazing. What is the difference with pinsound?

Limitless customization's, callouts, sound effects, music and shaker routines if you get their shaker kit.

Custom soundtracks remastered from the movie tracks in full stereo high quality sound. Worth $400 all day long.

on a shooter plate kick

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Good morning everyone

My LOTR started to exhibit sudden reset in game, randomly (and inconstently)

Before I go out and check 5v level, watchdog threshold configuration pin (which was left floating on some manufacturing builds), power board tick, is there anything else you would recommend to check first, as the above would require me to set up a scope to trigger and capture signals when the game reset

Thanks

Hey all! I'm about to restore one nasty LOTR pro I just picked up.

Any recommendations...like must haves?

I read if going LED's I need the OCD board. Agreed?

I will do color dmd.

Any must have mods?

Anyone have any mods that they want to sell?

I don't think I will go the full brass treatment.

What about rubber? Clear titans?

Let me know what you think. I know the sky is the limit here but I'm not looking to go high end. Just very nice restored condition!

Thanks!

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Palintir mod is a must

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/lotr-projected-eye-palantir-mod

Super cool but hard to source! Sad thing is that I sold one when I bought Aaron's stash years ago as I had no need for it then

2Niro interactive mod is in my opinion way better:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/barad-dur-sauron-eye-and-palantir-interactive-orb-mods-lotr

LED OCD is a must-have if you want to use LEDs in the inserts. I just use standard white rubber on mine. ColorDMD is excellent for LOTR, probably my favorite out of Congo, POTC, MET and GOT.

Your playfield will probably clean up great, but I’ll be listing a really nice used playfield FS soon. I replaced mine with a hand-picked Ron Kruzman playfield that I couldn’t resist. But the original looks surprisingly good for an ‘04 game. It’s HUO except for a few months at a friend’s new arcade, and a couple of pinball shows.

Watched the video. It looks amazing!

Thanks for the info! I agree that mine should clean up ok. Yours must be purdy with that Kruzman installed!!!!!

I’ll post some pics when I’m 100% done, it does look sweet. I felt bad for paying $1500 for the playfield, but now that LOTR are selling for $7k+ I feel like it’s justified.

This title has been steadily hiking over the years, and with a slim to none chance of ever seeing a vault edition, they will always command a good dollar especially the HUO ones that were well maintained. Now send it over the top and install a Pinsound in there, it's a whole new animal after that

Hahaha "pro"... pinsound board, powered sub, color DMD, sillyoldelf side art, and the Niro mod 3 pack are the top must have mods for me. The rest are all less than from there.

For me, Pinstadiums.

I’m curious to know how many are using these on their LOTR? I played mine for a couple months before getting them and I can never go back.

I definitely agree with the LED-OCD, 110% needs it if you’re going led. Path of the Dead mod fills in a barren area if you can find one. I have translucent Titans and am very happy with them, get the clear plastic protectors for the sling plastics as well. It’s also possible to find a Gandalf on Shadowfax to swap out for the grey guy, my opinion. I’m also very pleased with my choice to go with mirror blades over art blades. Have a palantir on the way from @AUKraut, excited to eliminate the clear sphere.

One question, can someone shoot me a picture of the divider between the legolas ramp and Pippin loop, taken from the same angle as my picture. Looks like mine is a hacked repair, and there are damage to the metal part behind (apologies for the quality, picture was taken with glass on), and so I'd like to compare

Thanks

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Yeah that’s a hack. There’s just the metal divider there which does get beat to hell over time. Looks like someone riveted on a blue bumper pad because the divider was so beaten up. Only way to put it right would be to buy the new metal guide and install that.

Not true. Bought mine NIB and the blue pad is on the Pippin / Legolas guide. Mine is a bit dirty but still original parts.

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Well at least the blue bumper is protecting the ramp guide, whereas on mine it's probably useless.

Any pointer on where to find that ramp guide ? (ok I'm lazy, I suspect Marco specialities has it, just need to dig the PN).

Alternatively, I was thinking of adding a Z shape metal, that would add a protection on the ramp guide, and hold the original blue bumper in place