Lord of the Rings
Stern, 2003
Lord of the Rings Limited Edition
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Quoted from BigBlockFever:Just picked up my LOTR ,1st game blew me away. What a marathon of pinball bliss! Found a HUO with 300 plays unmolested,ready to start the mods.I may pull the trigger on the colorDMD first.Is the conversion doable for an average beer drinker with lots of tools?
Its easy to install a Color DMD.
Quoted from BigBlockFever:Does the colorDMD kit come with the USB drive for the download?
No, you download the file from their website onto your own USB
Quoted from BigBlockFever:Just picked up my LOTR ,1st game blew me away. What a marathon of pinball bliss! Found a HUO with 300 plays unmolested,ready to start the mods.I may pull the trigger on the colorDMD first.Is the conversion doable for an average beer drinker with lots of tools?
The Color DMD on this game is one of the best. Absolute must have mod in my opinion.
Quoted from scottslash:GC score at 1.1B ?!? Love the topper btw.
Thanks, the score was a guy over for a tournament last year.
Quoted from pacman11:Man that color DMD looks awesome! I just can't stomach the $400 price tag that they want for these DMD's..
Just close your eyes and hit the 'buy' button. 
Quoted from TimeBandit:And here I was saying I wasn't into action figures. What have I become?!
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I said that once and then got into pinball and got a LOTR. 
Quoted from BigBlockFever:Picked my LOTR a couple weeks ago and it only came with one key that works the coin box. It fits the backbox lock but wont open it.Are there two different keys or just the one that works both locks?
There is a key to the coin door, I am assuming that is the key you have. The key to the back box
is usually on a hook on the inside of the coin door.
Quoted from mortenera:OK, shoot! ... my brother says the same thing. I just bit the bullet and ordered everything! Shaker it is! (wife is on vacation, she'll *probably* be happy I got something "special" instead of getting to go on vacation with the rest of the family).
That makes the major mods: Jay's Palantir, FF Speakers, and the Shaker! I also just ordered parts to fix that audio hum/hiss. < $20, I'll let you know if it works for me!
Thanks for pushing me over the edge someoneelse!
There you go, now you can really blame someoneelse when your wife finds out. 
Quoted from Propaganda:So far, from the limited number of ball time / game time submissions submitted, LOTRs average ball times are not that much longer than most games. Average ball times are are 1-2 minutes as stated by the games audits. Obviously, better players have longer games than average sometimes. And obviously again it depends how it is set up.
Under 5 minutes, is hardly a long game, taken by itself.
On the other hand....
If a tournament director wants to maximize coin drops and payouts for prize money, obviously they want as many ultra short ball time games as possible.
As usual, money is the whole motivation for everything. Forget about how good the game plays. Get those 4 players off that machine so more coins can be inserted!
If not, why not just have a tournament with FEWER longer ball time games? I suppose that is out of the question because money is the whole motive.
Have you ever run a tournament? I doubt it very much.
I run the tournaments in New Zealand and am the tournament director in Auckland.
There are a few machines I don't like to have in tournament and they are the ones that are always holding up the tournament waiting for players to finish and the top of that list is LOTR. On the few occasions that we have had to use it (when we have over 80 players in the comp) it is set up so brutal that everyone complains. That doesn't mean we don't like the game, as I said, I love it but it is definitely not a competition pin.
And for the record, all our meets are in private homes with machines on free play so there is no coin drop. We also do not charge to enter our comps so money is not even a factor. The overriding factor is time. No one wants to be still playing the comp at 1am.
Quoted from Propaganda:People who did not help or worked against the LOTR ball time and game time study:
Pauloz
Flynnibus
How old are you?...5
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