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Moving floor pieces
Jumpondees:
--- Quote from: irwinsjournal.com on May 02, 2011, 04:12:56 PM ---I suppose that Numberwang doesn't count, but the first thing I thought of when I saw the topic title was, "Let's rotate the board!"
And I have you guys to blame for that... I'd never heard of Numberwang before I started reading this board.
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For a brief moment, I had thought the same thing, but decided to leave that one alone. :-)
HYHYBT:
--- Quote ---Once the set was repaired to resume production, the raising mechanism for the percentage sign was no longer used.
Rumor has it, the format change from couples to one-on-one was implemented, as a quick turnover to finish the production.
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That doesn't make much sense: they'd stopped using the sign for anything but decoration well before dropping the couples, and continued raising it for a while after going to individual contestants.
--- Quote ---WOF puzzle board after a puzzle was solved. Mind you the board was rarely seen moving on air. if ever except for the pilot and a few reflections seen in the contestant backdrops so it was probably just rolled off manually.
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There was at least one time: an end-of-show Pat and Vanna moment demonstrating how the puzzle board worked. Rotating one space around all the way from letter to green to blank to letter again, switching out that letter for another.... and then Pat said something like "and it moves, too" and pretended to start the thing like a car, then it slid away.
clemon79:
--- Quote ---if ever except for the pilot and a few reflections seen in the contestant backdrops so it was probably just rolled off manually.
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Actually there was a time when it wasn't uncommon for the board to roll out after a bonus round win where the prize was something too big to fit on the main part of the stage, like a boat. You'd see Vanna walking off of it as it moved and everything.
dazztardly:
--- Quote from: HYHYBT on May 02, 2011, 11:35:00 PM ---
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--- Quote ---they'd stopped using the sign for anything but decoration well before dropping the couples, and continued raising it for a while after going to individual contestants.
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I'm just going off the stories told to me from talking with a Barry & Enright staffer. If it was used over the one-on-one format, then that's when it broke.
BrandonFG:
--- Quote from: clemon79 on May 02, 2011, 11:48:11 PM ---
--- Quote ---if ever except for the pilot and a few reflections seen in the contestant backdrops so it was probably just rolled off manually.
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Actually there was a time when it wasn't uncommon for the board to roll out after a bonus round win where the prize was something too big to fit on the main part of the stage, like a boat. You'd see Vanna walking off of it as it moved and everything.
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I couldn't find it, but there is/was a Youtube clip from the mid-80s, where IIRC someone won an RV, and the board indeed rolled offstage. I remember being somewhat wowed by it all...
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