Refurbished Pinball

Taxi

The first games in production were made with a blonde 'Marilyn' taxi passenger, a likeness of Marilyn Monroe. This was changed during production to be a darker-haired 'Lola', ostensibly a likeness of no one famous.

The changes needed to introduce 'Lola' include backglass art, playfield art, game software, and instruction card.

According to Mark Ritchie, as explained in the book The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present, at least 200 sample games were in the process of being shipped with 'Marilyn' before the change had to be made. He also explained the name 'Lola' was taken from a 1970s song about a transvestite, chosen to befit her muscular arms as depicted on the backglass.

Marilyn's face appears twice on the playfield: directly below the center drop target bank and also as an illuminating insert further down. We have seen one instance of the Lola playfield where she was still blonde near the drop targets but was a brunette in the insert. We don't know how many playfields were made this way.

• Dimensions: (H) 192cm x (W) 69cm x (L) 140cm
• Manufacturer: Williams
• Year: 1988
• Animated prison with bashable zombie head with magnet to capture ball.
• Well Walker bash toy that rocks backwards when hit exposing "guts" with magnet to capture ball.
• 7300 units produced

Players 4

Flippers 2

Ramps 2

Multiball 2

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Taxi Pinball