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I took off the Supercharger on my Getaway HS2 and noticed that on the
small plastic in the upper lefthand corner of the playfield is a small
horseshoe. This plastic has green bushes and a small horseshoe (half
the size of a dime). It seems out of place and off theme to me.

Anyone know the story behind this? Are there other games with hidden
horseshoes? Did this have anything to do with good luck for the
machine?

Mark
 
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Guess not....

Fred
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moviereviews4fun@yahoo.com wrote:
> No info, or no interest?
 
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Heh. Yeah... ;)

Fred
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Steve Kulpa wrote:
> Hey Fred! you beat me to it.
> boring day at work for you too???
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I don't know about where you found a horseshoe, but I know where lucky
people stick them : )

Gerry
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Yes, like the kind you throw. Also like the kind horses wear on their
hooves. Also like the kind you find in Lucky Charms (is there another
kind of horseshoe?).

Most of the HS2 plastics have bushes, scenery, road signs, and even a
deer. This particular plastic is hidden under the Supercharger in the
upper lefthand corner (it covers the hole in which the wire harness
feeds through the pf). This particular plastic has the bushes like all
the rest, but there is a dime-sized horseshoe.

Back to my original question: Why the horseshoe? Good luck for the
game? Any other games with hidden horseshoes?

Trent Augenstein of Ohio is currently selling some of the plastics on
ebay, and the pictures can be found in the ebay links on his recent
post. However, I don't think the horseshoe is visible (too small of a
pic).

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.pinball/browse_thread/thread/fb78e2bf2119a354/13360431e299a104?q=trent&rnum=1&hl=en#13360431e299a104

Mark

Steve Kulpa wrote:
> ok, I'm interested - what the hell are you talking about???
> Horseshoes??? you mean like the kind you throw?
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> Hermitage, TN
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I emailed Steve Ritchie today and asked him about the horseshoe on the
plastic. He said he has never heard anything about it, but he
suggested that it may have been Mark Sprenger's good luck charm.

Here is a list of pins Sprenger has done art for. Maybe some of these
games have horseshoes, as well?

B*nzai R*n
BS DR*C*L*
D*ner
F*re!
HD
HS
J*k*rz
Sp*ce Sh*ttle

Anyone know how to get ahold of Mark Sprenger? I'd love to find out
the meaning behind this horseshoe.

Mark
 
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moviereviews4...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I emailed Steve Ritchie today and asked him about the horseshoe on the
> plastic. He said he has never heard anything about it, but he
> suggested that it may have been Mark Sprenger's good luck charm.
>
> Here is a list of pins Sprenger has done art for. Maybe some of these
> games have horseshoes, as well?
>
> B*nzai R*n
> BS DR*C*L*
> D*ner
> F*re!
> HD
> HS
> J*k*rz
> Sp*ce Sh*ttle
>
> Anyone know how to get ahold of Mark Sprenger? I'd love to find out
> the meaning behind this horseshoe.
>
> Mark

Interesting thought. I took a look at the Sp*ce Sh*ttle here in my
office and it appears to me that the left hand slingshot plastic has a
horseshoe (or partial horseshoe) on it. There is a partial horseshoe
shape under the oxygen tank on the astronaut which is not present on
the one on the right side slingshot, which is otherwise a match. I
have Din*r and Banz*i R*n at home and will check them tonight if I get
a chance.

Ron
 
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I tried a little intenet detective work.
There is a horseshoe on the head of one of the figures which appears on
the backglass of the 1971 Lady Luck by the S.A. based mfg. co. known as
"recel." Entering:"recel +"mark sprenger" into Google I came up with
several hits that showed his name and Recel in the same context with a
reference to game based on the great chigago fire ("Fire" by Williams).
I don't know why Recel, and Williams would be in the same hit with
Sprenger but here is the link
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Mark+Sprenger%22+%2Brecel&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
If he did the art for the 1971 Lady Luck, where the horseshoe on the
backglass looks simmilar to the one on the plastic (as best I can tell
from the blurred plastic photo), then maybe he decided to slip it into
his later artwork.
(There is also a big horseshoe on the backglass of the Lady Luck by
Williams, but a different artist is credited for that backglass,
whereas no artist's name appears for the Recel version on the Internet
Pinball Data Base... so just maybe the Recel backglass horseshoe is his
artwork?)
 
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