They'd need the license, wouldn't they?

Nope. HUO LOTR 5k or LOTR VE with crap cool white LEDs everywhere...8k? NEWP.

I think they will, but not for many years.

Well SMVE is $7595 retail now. Great game, but they did not seem to sell many.

So how much would a small batch of LOTR VE be with a new LCD Screen? $9000 miniumum retail? The movie is getting older also. Is this a hot theme that Stern can market to everyone? More questions - How many folks already own it? How many have owned it and sold it over the years? How many folks will spend $3000-$4000 more for a VE one than a nice playing original?

$6500 sounds great for a LOTR VE, but Stern is making $15k pinball games now. Pros will be $5500.

LOTR will not happen.

If you like it pick one up for $5000ish from a collector and roll with it. When you see the price of a VE, if it happens, you will be glad you own your original.

This again ....

They already did 8 billion runs and a LE to cap it off. The game is common and reasonably priced. Anyone who wants one still can get one. Market demand has been filled.

supposedly the LE did not sell as well as was hoped

so I would say no

If Stern did a LOTR VE it would be $8K MSRP with ghosting inserts & a non registering Balrog lol

I'd sooner bet on an AC/DC

I wouldnt plan on anyone getting a middle earth license in the near future. The hiers to the estate aren't to happy with hollywood at this point.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2293844/Tolkien-family-Warner-Bros-prepare-legal-battle-Lord-Rings-fruit-machines.html

I don't think so unless it uses the new system. There barely marking small runs of white star boards to keep those systems running

no. same with tspp which had a million runs, tron aint happening either.
ac dc premium is though.
and i told y'all a million years ago so would batman, which turned into an updated version.

Don't you know?

We need like 25 threads that rehash the same topic. Over. And over. And over. And over. And..........

No way. They had trouble selling the le. There were lots of runs already. Price would have to be 8k so they wouldn't sell very many anyways. Game is readily available and most have owned one who wanted to,

AC/DC Premium eh? New colour display? So they sorted out licensing issues?

I'd like to see a LOTR VE similar to IM VE, don't change anything but the lamps to LEDs. Put a pro price on it and it will sell. I know, I'm dreaming, it will never happen. If it does it will be outrageously priced.

I had heard only 250 of the 500 slated were made (unconfirmed).
So if they paid the royalty for the 500 wouldn't they be able to finish the run?

licenses have a time limit
no idea how long, but the last LOTR was 7 or 8 years ago

But they won't, because they can sell a shit ton at 8500 delivered. People are stupid. \_(o_o)_/

I don't think it is likely and the demand vs supply has started to stable out. I could be wrong, I said they would never do an Iron Man re-run-wrong. I do wonder if they did do a vault edition of LOTR if Gomez would change the poor design of the Shire drop with ball cascading onto thin plastic and use a diverter into habitrail and alter code not to award extra souls? I would think if they did a 200+ production run with a color DMD and LED's they could fetch $5995 MSRP. It would be even better if they could keep the MSRP price point down below $5300.

Another game that might be a good choice for a vault edition this year is Pirates of the Caribbean. With the new movie coming out and some slight tweaks they could easily sell 200+ of them. Also another title that would be a slam dunk vault would be 200 AC/DC Premiums and 200 AC/DC Pro's, there is definitely a demand.

POTC vault won't happen as they would have to have the Disney license and they do not.

Not many titles that I would pay sterns super inflated prices for at this point but if they did LOTR vault I may have to consider it.

You can get an LOTR NOW at a non-inflated price. LOL.
Seriously, IM is really the only straight-up re-run Vault that made sense as there was HUGE demand and you literally could not find on on the used market. Anyone who wants an LOTR can have one tomorrow.

Doubt it... there are tons of them out there already. They shouldn't make games where there is already saturation...

I believe we will see yet another version of Metallica since it still sells. I could see another rerun of Ac/Dc happening as well. LOTR no way!
As for Tron Ve I can see it materializing.

There is more "market" than Pinside.

If you want a game you need to work it more than just waiting for a market ad to come up. Out of all my games I own and have owned I never bought one from a market ad including my LOTR.

Send Pinside PM's - "if you ever want to sell let me know", spread word of mouth, do a want ad. Part of the fun of the hunt for me.