Magic City / Magic Town

Full-length illustrated electro-mechanical style pinball playfield with a cream, pale-blue and salmon-pink cityscape background of skyscrapers, a domed stadium and an Eiffel-Tower-like spire, framed by a metal ball guide. The title appears twice: large curved red-and-blue outlined block letters M-A-G-I-C on a row of cream vertical tubes at the top, and again spelled out M A G I C (star) C I T Y in red capitals across the fascia of a ten-window drop-target bank in the middle. A bright green pentagon sign below the pop bumpers reads 50 POINTS / SPOTS LETTER / ADVANCE & / ON BUMPERS. Artwork figures crowd the borders: a fire-breathing orange dragon top right, a man in a peaked cap at top left, cartoon men in blue shirts and hats down both side rails, seated and standing showgirls in striped swimsuits and yellow skirts in the lower corners, a dancing couple on a green lawn at lower centre, and a man in blue overalls with arms flung up beside a sleeping figure at the bottom. Colour palette is dominated by cream, red, blue and yellow with green accents.

A tall, hand-painted cartoon backglass showing a wide city avenue in one-point perspective, drawn in bright saturated flat colour with black outlines. At upper left a red script maker's wordmark sits beside a small round emblem, and below it the title 'MAGIC CITY' is lettered in large white block capitals with a heavy blue drop shadow, stacked on two lines and enclosed in quotation marks. The avenue recedes to a vanishing point at centre, flanked by tall tan and grey office blocks. On the left a vertical yellow cinema blade sign reads CINEMA in red; beside it a white-walled building carries a bulb-studded movie-palace marquee. In the centre of the street a huge white tiered fountain sprays upward, with a dark stepped skyscraper with a spire rising directly behind it. On the right, a large white marquee-style billboard with a red rounded border contains the mechanical score window reading 2000; below it a white advertising board carries several lines of black text, and further right a vertical sign reads DAILY above a column of red circular lamps. Cars line the kerb: a red saloon, a blue car, a yellow bus or taxi, and a red car at the bottom right, plus a red car at the left kerb. The sky is flat mid-blue with a few white cloud streaks. Along the bottom, on the pavement in front of a green lawn with a low flower border, stands a crowd of roughly fifteen small cartoon pedestrians in bright clothing. Dominant colours: blue, white, red, yellow.

A painted city-street backglass in a mid-century cartoon style, framed by a dark cabinet edge. A broad boulevard runs from the bottom foreground into the distance between tall ochre, yellow and grey office blocks under a deep blue sky. Dead centre-left stands a multi-arched fountain whose blue water jets upward in a glowing plume in front of a black tower with a lit spire; a crowd of several dozen small figures in 1950s dress (suits, hats, dresses, red and blue coats) lines the green park strip in the foreground, most facing away, watching. Cars in yellow, blue, red and white queue along both kerbs, including a yellow taxi and a yellow bus-like van. The left side carries stacked vertical neon-style signs reading CINEMA, HOTEL, Paramount, CAFE and Big Show; a white sign on the right reads PLAY FLIPPER SKILL GAMES AND FUN FOR RELAXATION above PREVIOUS HI-SCORE. An oval score window with a fat red rim sits upper right, and six plain red round inserts run vertically down the right edge. Upper left holds a white arrow placard reading BALLS TO PLAY with a blue 3, above a red script word and a white circular emblem containing a red letter.