I imagine most people here are familiar with the two different versions of the Captain Fantastic back glass.

Here is a link if you are not familiar.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/of-women-on-captain-fantastic-backglass-art-stars-no-stars

And here is a Strikes N Spares plastic and you know no one is looking at the bowling ball the girl is holding. The focus of this plastic is those red shorts and that subtle bikini line.

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Many years ago, I read a book about subliminal stimulation. It talks a lot about all the hidden items artists would include in advertising media that they had been commissioned to produce.

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Anyway, once I read this book, I was now in the camp of once you see it --- you cannot unsee it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coca-cola-poster-recall/

Snopes talks about an artist getting busted and being fired for planting some risqué artwork on a Coca-Cola ad. This artwork, blown up and placed on the side of a truck made it possible ( for all but the blind ) to see the BJ that is about to take place inside that ice cube.

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As noted, once you see this kind of stuff, you cannot unsee it. Maybe it is just my imagination running wild, but I see this kind of stuff.

Enter Gottlieb's Lariat. A rare pinball I stumbled onto in a youtube video. Only 125 Lariats were made. Only one pinsider owns one.

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It is the usual pinball back glass. A couple of girls. Someone playing a pinball on the front porch. And a guy getting thrown off his horse into a horse watering trough in the back ground.

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The focus is on the guy being thrown from his horse. It is not just the guy being thrown. He gets thrown off along with his saddle and the saddle blanket. In the real world, a saddle would not come off the back of a horse as shown here. The artist made that saddle come of for a reason. IMO, he was trying to put one over the public's head. I think he did a pretty good job. He did not get caught. Until now

As noted, I cannot unsee this kind of stuff.

The cowboy is being thrown and he is holding on tight to the saddle horn. For you city slickers, this is a saddle horn.

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Now look at that cowboy a little closer. He is hanging onto that saddle horn with both hands. And is saddle horn does not look very much like a saddle horn. I know he is hanging onto a saddle horn, but I'll argue the artist was trying to subliminally convey a little bit of over-your-head artwork. Yeah, I know, cowboy is hanging onto the saddle horn, which is a legitimate exercise when you are being thrown, but .................

I think the artist did a pretty good job with some artistic sleight of hand.

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