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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soundwave106" data-source="post: 223790" data-attributes="member: 3746">Generally speaking, I would say that the majority of the artwork that is more boobalicious is 1970s-early 1980s. So that sort of fits. Like I said in another thread, many things made in the 1970s could not be made today. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />A huge portion of pinball artwork is fantasy and science fiction related. So you get all the rest of the tropes of fantasy / sci-fi in your pinball art (including the shirtless, steroid-pumped musclemen, the fantastical machines and creatures, and the like). It's not like other similar fantasy / sci-fi artwork of the time didn't have similar tropes. (See: Heavy Metal...)In the 1990s, when I started playing, the Heavy Metal style wasn't in, and pinball machines were probably more general audience anyway. I certainly can't recall playing a machine of that sort. If there was any boobalicious stuff, it was in a campy way (like "Scared Stiff"). Of course, Stern makes machines for middle age male collectors, and certainly a hair metal pin like Guns N Roses is going to pump up the hair-sleaze-o-meter (of course, seen a 1980s hair metal video lately?). None of that is present on a machine where that theme is not appropriate, like say "Ripley's Believe It Or Not". My opinion: for some reason, a recent trend has been for portions of people online to get *way* bent out of shape in an overly simplistic way out of various stylings and tropes that they see as overtly sexual. This is unfortunately a mistake, akin to the "radical feminists" of the 1970s which also overall probably did more harm than good to the cause. There are certainly fantasy tropes that sell to the other sex too (the 50 Shades of Gray / Twilight type trope as one obvious example) and terms like "objectifying girls" oversimplifies both the artwork concept itself as well as what all women feel about such fantasy art (As in, I know women who like that type of style, don't see it as objectionable, and actually get pissed at the people that overly banter the "objectification" angle). Obviously there are a lot of silly things about these tropes, but let's be careful and not make too big a deal out of it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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