Note: This machine is a rare & collectible game. Tom Nieman, VP of Marketing for Bally Pinball’s name appears on the champagne bottle. The Playboy Pinball backglass depicts the iconic Hugh Hefner with 1976 Playmate Patti McGuire and 1977 Playmate Sondra Theodore. Once a 20,000 bonus score is achieved, 20,000 points are recalled and added with every ball. Unique kickback lane advances bonus up to 30,000 depending on the number of Keys lit. Key to 25,000 outlane score when all are down. Hit all 5 and win specials, bonus advances, extra balls, games. They open the door to specials, bonuses and giant Grotto scores. This game’s artwork was created by Paul Faris and the backglass features an illustration of Hugh Hefner with Playmates Patti McGuire and Sondra Theodore. The start-up and bonus score countdown music for the Playboy pinball machine is similar to the “Playboy’s Theme” from the 1969 “Playboy After Dark” television show. According to Pinside, this particular pinball has a production run of 18.250, making it the #4 most successful Flipper-Game of all time. released the first Playboy pinball machine. If I think of it, and I'm out in the workshop this weekend I'll see about getting some comparison photos to load up.Description Bally Playboy Pinball Machine It seems to add back some of the depth that is missing otherwise. It does look MUCH better in my opinion, when the game is on and it is lit up. I think there is also a large difference in how the glass presents itself with the lights off vs. The CPR version does look very nice, and would be an excellent replacement for a terrible condition original for sure.īut, if you have an nice original, you may question weather you want to switch it out or not. There is just so much more obvious detail in the original compared to that reproduction. Luckily my original is not in bad shape at all with only a couple small scratches. I noticed a major difference in the details and shading right away. As it does/used to note on their site, the original was made from a water color painting in some fashion and is extremely hard to reproduce. I'm really not sure if I want to change it out or not. I have one, and I still left my original in the machine. Has anyone gotten the new mirrored backglass from CPR to compare to the OE version? Postage should still only be a few dollars. I'm in the US at the moment but will be moving to Australia soon. Pinside has been such a wealth of information for me as I've been restoring my games and I'm very appreciative of all the great people here who help everyone out so if anyone is restoring a Playboy and would like some of these vinyls cut out for them just send me a PM and I'll send you a set.

They sit on black Sun blank caps ($3 ea from PBR). Spring - barrel compression shooter brass.

If new hot stamped ones are truly unavailable, I think this is a pretty reasonable replacement option. 28 piece purple Titan competition silicone ring kit for 1978 Bally PLAYBOY pinball machine. It seems like the pop bumper caps are nil stock global so when I was restoring my machine I ended up tracing the cap bunny and my wife printed them out on her vinyl cutter. I thought this would be a good place to post some assistance for pop bumper cap replacement. that isn't why I'm resurrecting this thread from almost a year ago. I thought it would be a temporary pin in the line but my wife really likes it too and it's an easy game for friends to play so it's planning to stay. I'm a member of this club and I like my Playboy machine.

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