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“Wheel” EP Bellamie Blackstone Profiled

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colonial:

--- Quote from: TimK2003 on October 23, 2024, 10:58:35 AM ---
--- Quote from: colonial on October 22, 2024, 10:57:22 PM ---Honestly, I was surprised to learn she is the daughter of Harry Blackstone, Jr. Watched his magic shows on TV growing up and thought he was great.


JD

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Didn't she appear with her father on an episode of John Byner's "Relatively Speaking"? Either her or he appeared with his son.  I want to say I remember seeing him in an episode as the mystery guest, but I haven't seen all the episodes on streaming yet.

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Saw the episode just now on Tubi. Turns out Harry Jr. was the contestant himself, with the panel trying to identify his dad. For obvious reasons, Junior was hidden from the panel by a screen.


JD

SamJ93:
As an elderly millenial (born 1985), I was familiar with Harry Blackstone thanks to his many appearances on Square One TV in the '90s.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: with all the different gameplay elements/special wheel spaces that have come and gone over the years, there is absolutely no excuse for every single episode to follow the exact same predictable pattern. What exactly is stopping them from adopting a TPiR-esque rotation of bonuses that could occur in any round to keep things interesting?

Dbacksfan12:

--- Quote from: SamJ93 on October 23, 2024, 10:14:41 PM ---What exactly is stopping them from adopting a TPiR-esque rotation of bonuses that could occur in any round to keep things interesting?

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I look at HR ‘87 as an example of doing too much and messing with the flow of the game.

TLEberle:
I don’t think Sam means a mini-game (maybe he does?) but there are so many tokens, categories a stuff that round two could become a today’s special sort of thing. A star bonus could become a chance at $5,000 instant cash.

(Ditto the SQ1TV.)

BrandonFG:

--- Quote from: SamJ93 on October 23, 2024, 10:14:41 PM ---As an elderly millenial (born 1985)

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Get off my lawn ('82).


--- Quote ---I've said it before, but I'll say it again: with all the different gameplay elements/special wheel spaces that have come and gone over the years, there is absolutely no excuse for every single episode to follow the exact same predictable pattern. What exactly is stopping them from adopting a TPiR-esque rotation of bonuses that could occur in any round to keep things interesting?

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I'm intrigued to see how this could work. My biggest complaint about Wheel of the last 15-20 years is that it's just too busy and that I'd like them to go back to basics with four or five puzzles before the Bonus Round. But I wouldn't be against things like the Surprise round or Red Letter Puzzles.

A few years ago, I proposed a Shopping round similar to one they did during a Retro Week in the late-90s. Land on the "Shopping" space, solve without hitting Bankrupt, go shopping at the Wheel Store. Maybe make R3 a rotating special round each day? Monday is Shopping, Tuesday Red Letter, Wednesday Jackpot, etc.

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