Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

A full electro-mechanical playfield photographed under glass, shot from above the coin door so the whole machine and its cabinet apron are visible. The playfield is deep blue with a purple star-field wash and orange, gold and cream moulded plastics. Down the exact vertical centre runs a tall orange-and-yellow ladder-shaped drop-target bank of ten round yellow targets, flanked by cream scrollwork, bonus values climbing 1000 to 10000, capped by a yellow BONUS shield. Above it the upper third holds three cream pop bumpers with red-and-white starburst caps, two glowing yellow saucers, a fan of five red plastic lane guides and a spinner, all under the orange arch. Curved red-and-gold script across the middle reads CAPTAIN FANTASTIC with ELTON JOHN above. Two painted illustrations flank the ladder: on the right a cartoon cowboy on a rearing white bucking horse; on the left a black-hatted cowboy in dark glasses holding a cream hat beside a barrel. Two yellow starburst bumps read FEEL THE BUMPERS, with painted women holding signs at each outlane. Two white flippers and two white slingshots with red rubber sit above a blue apron with INSTRUCTIONS and rule cards.

A glossy, glass-fronted backglass in a chunky black outer cabinet frame, drawn in bright flat comic-book colouring with heavy black outlines and white highlights. A huge arched logotype reading CAPT. FANTASTIC in fat orange-red block capitals with a green outline and long red underline swash spans the top, with a green cursive signature-style word at the far left and a smaller artist credit in blue-and-white script tucked under the right of the title. Below the title, two horizontal banks of mechanical score reels (cream windows with black digits, showing 5016 and 1 on the left, 20000 and 0 on the right) flank a central full-height figure: a young white man in a red knitted beret, round green-tinted glasses, a red jumper patterned with white stars and white braces, cream flared trousers, orange ribbed socks and towering shiny blue platform boots, standing side-on and playing a huge red grand piano whose lid reads ELTON John in white. The piano body fills the lower left and its open lid acts as a screen showing a tiny inset poster. The right half is packed with a cheering crowd of roughly a dozen adults in 1970s clothing holding placards, backed by a curved white colonnade of striped pillars and two blonde women leaning on a balcony rail. The background is deep blue night sky scattered with white stars, and the whole lower edge carries teal and green machine bezel panels with round yellow illuminated inserts.

A landscape backglass set inside a bright yellow metal cabinet rail. Upper left: a huge arched logo, tall serif capitals FANTASTIC in red with gold and white outlines, a small cream-on-red CAPTAIN banner above it, and a pale blue ribbon reading AN AUSTRALIAN on the left and ADVENTURE on the right. Left of centre is a score window: white circles carrying 3 and 4, a magenta SCORE panel, a red rolling-digit window, a cyan BALL IN PLAY panel and four round white lamps. A small white sticker sits on the art just right of the logo, with a printed 1 beneath. The lower two-thirds is a surreal airbrushed treasure collage: a large orange-red woven cone, a grinning top-hatted man with round spectacles at the top, fanged winged monsters and a dragon head on the right, a harp, a red-robed figure and heaps of treasure along the bottom over yellow-brown diamond-plate ground. Dominant colours: red, yellow, gold, black.