Picture of TPiR's new showcase podiums

[Casey Buck]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdCesRwa_w0/Slvn...ce+is+right.jpg

[BrandonFG]

Damn that's one fugly mess. Too many florescent colors IMO

[chad1m]

I like them. That's a nice shade of green, the background is pretty nice and the silver is still good looking. I'm sure it will look great in HD. The card holders on the sides are slick, too. The photograph may not do them justice, though. This color may look blah in a blurry, average photograph but it could very well jump out at me when it's shown on my HDTV. It sort of reminds me of a combination of the squares on the Family Feud '94 set and dividers at my old orthodontist's office.

[urbanpreppie05]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'222316\' date=\'Aug 7 2009, 05:34 PM\']Damn that's one fugly mess. Too many florescent colors IMO[/quote]

Part of me thinks that's the instamatic-camera, blurry picture. There's another pic on Drew's Twitter that looks better and has slightly different colors (which begs the question- do those colors change?)

Still not sold on the podia though.

[Jimmy Owen]

The podia look like upside-down pyramids, so maybe Sony made them a deal for some set pieces when their show didn't get picked up.

/joking

[TheLastResort]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'222322\' date=\'Aug 7 2009, 06:30 PM\']The podia look like upside-down pyramids...[/quote]

They look like coffins to me.

[CarShark]

I like the backdrop, but I can't stand the podiums. They're that same horrendous shade of green that (IMO) really made the Infamous Purple Wheel ugly.

[Craig Karlberg]

The backdrop looks OK(if it weren't for the fuzziness of the picture, I would've given it nice compliments).  Not really a big fan of green, but it'll grow on me.  The glittery silver really stands out here.  If I see it on HDTV, it would look more elaborate.

[HYHYBT]

They're a bit too two-dimensional, but OK otherwise.

[Neumms]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'222316\' date=\'Aug 7 2009, 04:34 PM\']Damn that's one fugly mess. Too many florescent colors IMO[/quote]

Correct. The colors don't look good on TPIR, they don't look good on television, they don't look good anywhere on earth. Drew's remarks about pushing for better Showcase prizes would then to push the show away from campiness. This awful sets only sucks it back. They'd be better off with the original brown set than this--at least that looked good at the time.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'222379\' date=\'Aug 9 2009, 06:04 PM\']Correct. The colors don't look good on TPIR, they don't look good on television, they don't look good anywhere on earth.[/quote]
Funny, I really don't have a problem with it.

/The Showcase set: Serious Business

[Don Howard]

Is that a five-digit display area or six?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'222383\' date=\'Aug 9 2009, 06:36 PM\']Is that a five-digit display area or six?[/quote]
I am almost 100% certain that it's a flatscreen monitor (since the combined area of the readout and the Showcase name readout comes WAY too close to a 16x9 aspect ratio for me to think it's mere coincidence), and so I would think it's whatever it needs to be.

[NickS]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'222390\' date=\'Aug 9 2009, 09:18 PM\'][quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'222383\' date=\'Aug 9 2009, 06:36 PM\']Is that a five-digit display area or six?[/quote]
I am almost 100% certain that it's a flatscreen monitor (since the combined area of the readout and the Showcase name readout comes WAY too close to a 16x9 aspect ratio for me to think it's mere coincidence), and so I would think it's whatever it needs to be.
[/quote]

To add - it's probably a monitor and the cabinet's modded so you don't need that middle part - just get your output (via Flash?) in the areas you need them.

Let's hope that they don't have to go six figures, but all one would need to do is go to a condensed version of the font and it's done.

[chad1m]

[quote name=\'TeppanYaki\' post=\'222394\' date=\'Aug 9 2009, 10:36 PM\']Let's hope that they don't have to go six figures[/quote]Primetime specials and Million Dollar Spectaculars say yo!