Hey all, I’ve got my sights set on a routed LOTR...it’s got about 3500 plays on it, kinda dirty, bit of shooter lane wear and the shire vuk guard is busted. Any thought on value? Does anyone make a replacement vuk guard? Thanks in advance for your help!

Thinking about picking up an LOTR. What’s a good price on a low play huo these days?

Really? For a stock one...no leds,no led ocd, no color dmd, no mods?

Just picked up a clean HUO LOTR that had been sitting Unplayed for a number of years. I just rebuilt both flippers as they both needed it and the right flip is still pretty weak compared to the left. Should I start by replacing the cabinet leaf switches? Or replacing the EOS? It’s a 2004 run on v.10. This is not a heating issue so I’m not popping in those overpowered pblife coils.

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Haha yeaaaah, It could use it I guesssss

Rumors with no truth unfortunately. I’d love to see this game updated with an LCD but with Sterns backlogs, New Line licensing issues and new games coming I don’t think it’ll ever happen. If they ever do get around to it’ll definitely be premium + / LE pricing. Stern has not produced a game this packed since...well...they released LOTR. Whitestar was their golden era if you ask me.

Just got myself an LOTR and on the second day the game just starts ejecting balls endlessly on power up. The prob started by occasionally launching an extra ball into play. I pulled the trough, cleaned optos and it seemed to help but now it’s way worse. Anyone have any thoughts? Or should I just order a new set of trough opto boards? Thanks for the help!

If the fuse was bad all the switches in trough would be out.

I did switch test, all switches seem fine. Was playing closest attention to the ball jam opto and that also seemed ok…although it did flash quickly every time a ball came through but did not stay open.

Thinking it could be a bad diode in the trough or a short on some other switch causing it to go haywire. Will do the bang test tomorrow

So…I’m getting endless multiball ONLY in Fellowship Multiball. Seems like the ball save is active for a very long time and then the trough just tries to kick out balls endlessly after ball save light goes out. I previously had trough issues and replaced the ball jam optos which corrected the problem. This almost feels like it’s a weird code issue to me as I have no other trough issues at any point in the gameplay. Any thoughts?

Sounds like you definitely roasted a transistor on the solenoid board