Dolly Parton Playfield

Name: Dolly Parton Playfield
SKU: PLAF-DOLLY
Price: 899.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$899.00 USD

Bally DOLLY PARTON
Short-Run Reproduction Playfields from CPR

First time available in the hobby EVER !! New release for June 2021. Another reproduction candidate from the old CPR ‘Boutique Zone’ finally makes it to production. After years of fuzzy reception in our polling, ongoing small-run production finally allows for titles like this to be seriously considered. As usual, this small batch will be available until they are gone. If the demand continues, we will always be technically able to make more someday, but it may take some time before we get back around to them, so…. Consider these “get them while they’re available!”

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SKU: PLAF-DOLLY Category: Playfields

Dolly Parton

Manufacturer:

Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally]

Project Date:

October 06, 1978

Date Of Manufacture:

November, 1979

Model Number:

1162-E

MPU:

Bally MPU AS-2518-35

Type:

Solid State Electronic (SS)

Production:

7,350 units (confirmed)

Theme:

Celebrities – Licensed – Music – Singing

Notable Features:

Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (7), Kick-out hole (1), Spinning target (1), 4-in-line drop targets. A ball rollover in middle right playfield scores 5,000 points and returns the ball to the shooter lane.

Actual measured weight: 224 lbs (includes legs).

Design by:

George Christian

Art by:

Dave Christensen

Notes:

We had understood from a Bally employee at a past Expo seminar that this game license had been a difficult one because singer Dolly Parton kept changing her mind about how she should be portrayed on the backglass, due to her crossover status at the time from country to pop. The Early Production cabinet side art in this listing depicts a bouffant-haired Dolly playing a guitar while the rest of the production run cabinets omit this image, making us wonder if this depiction had been rejected by the singer. Indeed, the flyer shows the singer standing next to the machine with a hairstyle more in line with her backglass portrayal than with the bouffant style that was removed from the cabinet. Believing it was Paul Faris who had spoken at that Expo, we asked him to comment for this listing. He replies:

With Dolly Parton, we did have to change the backglass artwork from a country theme to a more crossover mainstream look on the backglass art only. Since the playfield was completed, they (she) agreed to let it stay “Country” in her denim outfit. I honestly don’t remember the cabinet [with her image on it] but it is possible that was an early sample of a cabinet that was later used. The artwork sequence was usually: Backglass concept first (for approvals), then production art on the cabinet, playfield and plastics, and finally the finished backglass art. It is possible that the [cabinet with her image] was a cabinet done BEFORE the backglass art changed and the version [without her image] was another concession to her crossover look and used for production. Different sample color cabinets was not unusual before a final version was determined.

*Info Courtesy of IPDB

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