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Most bizarre or interesting set
Ian Wallis:
--- Quote ---The BTB '76 set was the most thought provoking to me. How many guys were in the board? Were they on bleachers? Did they spend a lot of time looking up at Jaye P.?
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That's the one that's most striking to me. When the show was first on, I was amazed by that huge game board and always wondered how it worked.
Does anyone know exactly how they changed the boxes around? Did the amounts and money bags just slide in and out, or was there some other way they were changed?
Also, for the first few weeks Tom gave a demonstration of the board at the top of each show to explain how the game was played. I'm pretty sure that was actually on tape - notice how the camera was so tight you didn't see any celebrities' names? It was probably too much trouble for the board operators to reset it to the demo board at the beginning of every show. FYI, the exposure of the demo board was dropped by about the seventh week of the show - too bad GSN's run stopped just short of that.
KrisW73:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Bouleva...5410/other.html
Scroll down about 3/4 of the way, in the moneybag picture it looks like there are two pieces of steel on either side of the trilon...I would assume they art would slide in and out in this manner- but its a guess.
DaveAndrews:
The Winning Lines set - hands down. The awesomeness of having 49 people in a massive grid - like a huge Hollywood Squares on steroids. When I first saw that thing I said, oh wow.
Dave
clemon79:
[quote name=\'DaveAndrews\' date=\'Oct 7 2003, 08:51 AM\'] The Winning Lines set - hands down. The awesomeness of having 49 people in a massive grid - like a huge Hollywood Squares on steroids. When I first saw that thing I said, oh wow.
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That's a good one. \"I'll take Number 32 to...well, I GUESS it's a block...\"
That set also makes excellent use of...well, is it LEDs or instant-on florescents that create those great lighting effects we would see on the Forty-Niners grid (Did that first round have a name in the US?) on Winning Lines and on the floor on Weakest Link? (Heh. I was gonna refer to Winning Lines as WL until I realize that Link was WL as well... :))
Whatever it is, it's damn slick and more shows should use 'em. :)
GS Warehouse:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Oct 7 2003, 11:03 AM\'] That set also makes excellent use of...well, is it LEDs or instant-on florescents that create those great lighting effects we would see on the Forty-Niners grid (Did that first round have a name in the US?) on Winning Lines and on the floor on Weakest Link? (Heh. I was gonna refer to Winning Lines as WL until I realize that Link was WL as well... :)) [/quote]
They say the WWTBAM set is a lot smaller than it looks, but the lighting in the stage floor was kewl at that time. Now every new game has either lighting effects like Millionaire or like those on Link. But you can't beat chase lights and cycloramas that change color.
--- Quote ---Whatever it is, it's damn slick and more shows should use 'em. :)
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Doesn't the new border of the WoF puzzle board change color like that?
Finally, call me crazy, but I think Go might work nowadays, and the set wouldn't need a lot of updating. After all, no matter what the shot, you'll know what show you're watching. :-)
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