Quoted from pinball_keefer:Dude if you're not achieving ANYTHING after an hour of LOTR, you're Doing It Wrong!
Maybe he was in attract mode for the hour? 
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Quoted from pinball_keefer:Dude if you're not achieving ANYTHING after an hour of LOTR, you're Doing It Wrong!
TSPP can be done in < 30 minutes, I'd say the same about LOTR easily.
Show me the 30 minute video of you achieving Valinor (with the glass on!)......then I'll believe it.
Welcome to the club Fattrain!
It's probably the accomplishment that I'm most proud of in pinball. Even if I did it with the outlane posts all the way in. 
2 hours is crazy long though. Mine was about half that time.
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I'd say an hour. I've had 45 - 50 min games and only 85% through to the ending. probably could bust it out in an hour.
Still well done. I'm expected to get a little teary eyed when I finally do it. Been trying since 2009.
Quoted from pinball_keefer:Dude if you're not achieving ANYTHING after an hour of LOTR, you're Doing It Wrong!
TSPP can be done in < 30 minutes, I'd say the same about LOTR easily.
I don't know, TSPP you can stack and combine things possibly to get it done in 1/2 hour, but with LOTR the better you play the longer it gets. You'd basically have to play well enough to achieve all the goals yet poor enough in multiballs to not make it last too long. 
congrats fattrain!! It really is an acomplishment. I just dont ever see getting rid of this game. Even yesterday playing a game (after a 1000+)...i had something different happen (elves big points with warg mode going and a gollum scoring (?) and then into return of kings..advancing to level 4). Valinor...dont think i will be joining that club anytime soon.
Quoted from Chet:O.K., I gotta ask. Where is the Video? JUST KIDDIN!!
Here's mine. I quickly pulled out my iPhone, and I was shaking so bad from the adrenaline rush of getting to Valinor that you can see how much the camera is moving/shaking.
Best feeling I've ever had in pinball!
I'm curious what happens once you finish Valinor? Does the software just start over from the beginning again? It's highly unlikely I'll be able to find this out on my own.
Also, for those that have accomplished this great feat - did you set out to do it or did you just start having a great game, got on a streak and it happened? Sometimes my best games get going from a plan to just have a quick game for fun.
Anyway, congrats!
Quoted from Vyzer2:Your video was pretty cool Rob....I had not seen the scoring you get in valinor mb.....and you cut it off at the right time. It was a good teaser.
Thanks, but the reason for the cutoff wasn't really by choice. I was holding the phone/camera myself, and the autoplunge put the balls in play for the start of Valinor Multiball, which is why I quickly stopped recording.
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Quoted from Guinnesstime:Valinor! It's the G-spot of pinball! Except it actually EXISTS!
Never had difficultly locating the G-Spot, Valinor on the other hand, is a mythical place that I may never find. 
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