Those games don't have a licensed theme.

Boobs

THIS! BIG BOOBS= BIG MONEY, always has.

$4550 for this?? Yowza..

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Probably more Dolly collectors spending that money than pinball people.

https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/sexy-girl-deluxe

Because people love Dolly Parton. She's had a resurgence in popularity the last several years. It's a good licensed theme. Same reason why the Kiss game has always been valuable. Dolly used to be absurdly undervalued but it's catching up to what it should be.

When I roll a Dolly Parton onto location, I can hear non-pinball-playing-people get hyped over it. (Helps being in Tennessee)

It's an ok-ish game. But the theme does all the heavy lifting and appeals to people who aren't always catered to with pinball themes.

It always seems like pins with in-line drop targets go for more money…. They are fun to hit….

Nitro has great art but a dog and Flash was sold by the bushel and has terrible art.

Pinside still shows $1500 on the high side. I think you are just seeing some people overpay or some high selling prices. It happens, and it will settle again.

Because of the cross-sell, it probably does have some slightly higher valuation than the titles you indicated, however, Nitro ground shaker can definitely go for some $ as well, since it has cross-sell as well.

Wow.. surprised you say that, I always thought Nitro had a pretty good rule mechanic and playing was a fun challenge... although the last one I played was dialed in and fully restored so that was a real treat

Its like Kings of Steel, instead of the right target all day its shoot the saucer all day. The game would do better with a rewrite of the rules.

The art is superb, I picked up a used playfield to restore but have no plans on playing it unless someone revises the rule set.

I played Dolly at a show and thought it was no great shakes but try not to have negative opinions based on show examples. KISS at the same show was far more entertaining.

On Dolly the theme does all the heavy lifting I think, just like on Data East Back to the Future. People pay stupid money for BTTF and it is one of DE weakest pins, hell it doesn't even have Michael J. Fox in the game.

Because as other people have pointed out , she is a very popular person and seems to be a beautiful human being that has exceptional plastic surgeons.

I've got one in worse condition, that'd I'd sell for more than that

Also have one in close to that condition, I'd sell for that same price.

(Yes, for some reason I have two of them)

The prototype backglass was better but Dolly and her publicist wanted "Vegas Dolly"

The early cabinet was better art to.

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It's time for a new Dolly pin! Stern? Jersey Jack?

I've been meaning to repaint my Dolly cabinet. I forget who, but someone on the site sent me a lovely pdf template of the proto version of the cabinet art. The cabinet always seemed a bit off without that part.

Scott Danesi already did a couple years ago; it's called "Total Nuclear Annihilation", and it's spectacular. Maybe you've heard of it?

I feel like those are outliers, and you can find outliers on just about any themed machine. Stupid people with stupid money will pay for stupid things. But in general, I've seen Dolly go for about the same prices as those others.

I own a Dolly now, I've had a Flash in the past and I like them both, though they are very different games. I picked up Dolly because I wanted a cheap game with a spinner and inline drops. Mission accomplished for me.

Prices are rising on them to do a Three Stooges conversion.

Wow.. yeah, can't go wrong with MataHari.. one of those pure pinball titles, that's just so much fun to play again and again.. Hopefully the condition is good.. typically NGS should outvalue Mata.. but who knows... guess it all depends who is buying what and when.. lol

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I’ve got a buddy/customer looking for one, even an over priced one.

Any leads, please let me know.

I'll be selling one soon, just have a couple issues to sort out first.

Must be a very recent thing or an ebay thing. I know of several collectors that paid normal $1500 prices for Dolly and some who have scored cheap deals in the last couple years. Dolly is an average fun Bally spinner game. I own and love Harlem more and with limited space, can't see putting Dolly in the lineup.

Dolly kind of stinks to play compared to the others...the inline drops are a death shot, and the bonus doesnt seem to be as valuable in this game as your average Bally. So it kinda just becomes a shoot one inline drop, then shoot the spinner fest.

That being said, it's a gorgeous game, I love the Vinyl LPs all over the playfield, and it's a very rare female-themed game.

I really do think it's time for them to resurrect this license for a "dinosaur rock" game. Everybody loves Dolly and this would be the ultimate "ask the wife" game to buy, and would help broaden the appeal for NIB games.

Yes that is quite needed right now.

hahaha touche!

I do have to say I love how for the longest time everybody was into the whole "we gotta get more people into pinball!" and now it's like "How do we get all of these jackasses out of pinball?!"

OMG, so true. Enough with you newbies. Get off my lawn!! LMAO

"Promote the hobby!" became "F U Stern! Everything sucks!"

Dolly is a beautiful game and I love this era but I always passed on them with limited space. However a game like Future Spa checks all the boxes for me. You get more game from the same designer and generally a better deal right now over Dolly.

But obviously, the theme is the main attraction.

It’s a game where you don’t want to juice the spinner too much or it trivializes the bonus building, which can get pretty high.

I also recommend having the drops spot PARTON letters. There’s a nice risk reward when you have PARTON finished but need a DOLLY letter or two. Go for the drops to multiply bonus but not spot PARTON, or be greedy and finish DOLLY before going back to the drops for bonus X and spot PARTON letters.

She has 2 of them too. What a pair !

Just wanted to let you know, with this post tonight you have won the internet.

$4200 Dolly.

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I sold my Centaur with a CPR PF in 2018 for that amount.