I decided to bite on this one, the lowest price otherwise is about 99.00 so 71.00 is a decent savings. I could see this one going even lower in the future though, I was thinking about piecing together the seasons one-by-one but they’re 20-30 bucks a pop, so this is a decent deal.

I loved watching Taxi growing up in Mystic, CT where it came on the TV at around 5 o’clock… man the nostalgia just flows thinking about it. The sun would start going down at 5 in the fall, a new school year was underway and Sunrise Farms convenience store and the Arcade were alive and well in 80′s Mystic. Not to forget BeeBee Dairy too.

Part of why I build objects with a certain theme–for example video games–part of why I create them isn’t just to pay homage to the game itself.  There’s often a ton of nostalgia and memories behind them for  me too. The Punch-Out arcade machine I built was a fixture in the back of the Mystic arcade during the mid 80′s. The Metroid Mother Brain console I made hearkens back to the original NES Metroid. Besides just playing that game back then, I can remember some of the 80′s songs that arrived on the scene at the time. Transformers, GI Joe, fireworks at my grandmother’s house up at Long Pond. Blue Kool-Aid, Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka… and on and on. Growing up with video games, whenever I think of a video game I’ve played I can remember where I was and what was going on at the time. Mortal Kombat = High school football. NHL 95 = going cross country in a VW bus. Atari 5200 Jungle Hunt(1984) = having a huge crush on my friend’s mom… you get the picture.

Back to Taxi, it just doesn’t come on TV anymore–not where I’ve been anyways. I haven’t seen an episode of Taxi in some 20 years. The opening music with the cab driving through the bridge was a fixture in the Keeler household at 5 o’clock on weekdays during the eighties. A fixture just like the TV stand I ate dinner on while watching it (who sits at a dinner table to eat dinner anyways?) Taxi to me, was right up there with Cheers and later Seinfeld–although there were a couple seasons of Taxi that stunk–but the good outweighed the bad.