If your DW or BSD are very nice, sell one (or both) to me, and I'll sell them back to you in 6 months, if you want.

I love LOTR, it or TSPP will be next for me. But LOTR is not for league play unless you want to be up all night. Keep BSD loose Flash and DW.

Sure it is, just have to remove the outlane posts and install the Extra Hard preset.

Sell Flash and DW. Get the precious.

I'm have the same dilemma as you but with MET instead of LOTR. Let me know what you do. If you buy... I will too.

You need 2 more choices in your poll
4) Don't Sell Anything and Get LOTR
5) I Don't Care

Greatest pinball machine of all time! You should own it at least once!

If you buy at a fair price you can sell it later on for about what you have in. So go get LOTR before it is gone!

As stated though, not a good league pin.

let your least favorites go and get LOTR. When I first played LOTR I didn't like it...now I would love to have one.

Or twice

LOTR has no peer. It is the best "quest" based pinball machine ever made. Playing it on location or at someone's house doesn't do it justice. The only way to really climb onboard is to own it and have many hours of play on it. It has multiple levels in it. Destroying the ring is abosolutely a thrill. Finishing Two Towers or Fellowship is amazing. And earning a gift from the elves has never gotten old for me. Great callouts, great rules. Sell whatever you need to so you can own it for a while.

Of course, some will say the exact opposite. Long games, blah blah blah. It's just like any game, a lot love it, and some don't. But once you learn it, well I can't imagine not loving it. Great stuff.

Get lotr, u won't look back!!!

Listen to Whisper. He bought mine. I realised shortly afterwards the gravity of my decision and bought another one. I won't do that again. It's on the the "do not sell" list.

Buy a "Raven" instead...

This.

Spot on and couldn't have described it better myself.

Of course you should buy it. If you don't then someone else will. Then they will be the ones bored out of their minds.

But don't get rid of Flash...

It's obligatory for any modern pin fan to own LOTR at least once!

Is playing it twice good enough?

I think so...playing LOTR twice is equal to playing IM 200 times.

Congrats. And before you put too many plays in it, order the POTD ball deflector from pinbits to save your Arwin plastic from cracking. There is another mod too I believe with a ramp, but it's ugly in my opinion and the deflector plastic is the least obtrusive visually. It will deflect 99+% of the balls on POTD over to the habitrail instead of bouncing down on top off Arwin's beautiful head. It's kind of dark over there in the pic, so forgive me if it's there already.

https://www.pinbits.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=464

You don't need any deflector. You just need to the sandwich protector pinbits sells. If you want to get to Valinor, you need the souls awarded in the Shire to have a better chance of getting the Return of the King multiball more often. It is the hardest multiball to win so you need all the souls you can get.

I have an extra mod that keeps the ball from flying off the left rail, if yours doesnt have it yet. I ordered one before I realized mine already had it!

To be ugly, technically it has to be visible..

Arwen and shire protection in one. And play the game as it was meant to be played.
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Heck, I wish there was a deflector to keep the ball OFF the habitrail. I bet mine ends up on it 90% of the time with no deflector installed.

Please forgive. I meant no disrespect to anyone with this mod or whomever created the ramp mod. I have only seen it in person on one machine and the one I saw may have been an early version or by another modder all together. It was crazed/scratched plastic and definitely visible. Detracted a lot from a visual point of view. So perhaps it was cleaned wrong or something.

Looks like I may have to look into pinbits sandwich protector in order to reach valinor.

The PinBits POTD plastic pinball deflector works 50% of the time. Pam also sold me an Arwen plastic protector this you really need . Just ask her to just sell you it to you and the plastic deflector . She did it for me.

Congrats best decision you have ever made!!!!!

Good choice. This game is simply amazing and I don't think mine will ever leave the house.

Have fun with your new addition!

mittens

I owned it twice and NEVER again.

I vote NO to LOTR unless you like excessively long and boring gameplay. I have found lots of people geek over LOTR when they are fresh in the hobby, but after owning it they sell it a year later. Sure, I suppose it is good in a smaller collection when you are first starting out, but man what a dog of a game. It becomes a chore to play it quickly.

I vote yes. Bought it new, and had it at home for 10 years. Put it on location a year ago, and can attest to its popularity there as well. I'm still not bored with it, personally, and have still not gotten to Valinor...

Boring gameplay?

Lol.

It certainly won't be hard to sell if you ever grow tired of it. I think LOTR is a very fun game.

I agreed with everything here (and upvoted because of it), but LOTR isn't a dog of a game. It's a wonderful game. But yeah...for me, pinball is a game that you can sneak in while your wife is getting ready for whatever. A quick five minutes here and there with the occasional epic 15-minute-plus game. But for me, every game was bordering on a half hour (or more) long, and when you can destroy the ring multiple times in one game, you quickly don't even care about getting to Valinor anymore. I YouTubed it to see what I was missing (nothing) and sold it.

yeah, "dog" may have been a bit harsh.

It is JAFL (Just Another Fan Layout) which I find it to be the most boring of all the fan layouts. It shoots great, have wonderful theming and immersion, but man is it just plain boring to play.

I also hate the way that it continually gets louder and louder as you make it further.

Like I said, owned it 2x now and never again. The first few times it is a quest. It quickly becomes like a repetitive dream where you are wasting 30min just to get to a start point where you left off.

Yes. Everyone should own a lotr. Just need to find one...