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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: nate80s on October 22, 2009, 10:39:32 PM
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If you could have your local sign company make a sign (being that it actually lights up) of any game show logo, what would it be and why?
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GO! Budgetary reasons and I liked the show.
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I'd want one of the "Match Game 7_" signs ... or really, even the unlit 6x one, which would hang down overhead at the start of each show. Just because MG is a perennial fave of mine.
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The old "$25,000" sign from Wheel. White light bulbs OR the green one.
EDIT: Wait, that's not really a logo...ooh. The Password Plus logo. Because it looks so damn funky.
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Would the Jeopardy logo from '91-'96 be asking too much?
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[quote name=\'Kevin Prather\' post=\'229055\' date=\'Oct 22 2009, 11:20 PM\']Would the Jeopardy logo from '91-'96 be asking too much?[/quote]
I wouldn't say so. I wonder how tall those letters are (or were) in person...
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[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'229058\' date=\'Oct 22 2009, 08:30 PM\'][quote name=\'Kevin Prather\' post=\'229055\' date=\'Oct 22 2009, 11:20 PM\']Would the Jeopardy logo from '91-'96 be asking too much?[/quote]
I wouldn't say so. I wonder how tall those letters are (or were) in person...
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IIRC, ginormous. Somebody bought the Y alone at auction, and it was pretty massive.
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I would take either the Super Password neon logo from the Bonus Game display, the neon spinning Joker from "The Joker's Wild", or the old neon "Barker's Bargain Bar" sign.
/ Do I have a thing for Neon?
// Dodge Neon?
/// No, Neon. Elemental symbol: Ne. Atomic Number: 10.
//// Periodically, I'm a stalker.
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The sign used to open NBC Concentration for a time. It was a series of mini trilons, each with a letter on it, which would rotate to expose the word "CONCENTRATION" to the accompaniment of Milton Kaye on the celesta.
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[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'229058\' date=\'Oct 22 2009, 08:30 PM\'][quote name=\'Kevin Prather\' post=\'229055\' date=\'Oct 22 2009, 11:20 PM\']Would the Jeopardy logo from '91-'96 be asking too much?[/quote]
I wouldn't say so. I wonder how tall those letters are (or were) in person...
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Maybe 5 feet. Bob Boden has the J.
Randy
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Probably The Price Is Right in white letters with the old red $ next to it on a black background. That's how I saw it lit up at night on a sign or billboard or whatever it is down a country road around these parts in south Jersey back in the early 1970's(I wanna say 1974 but I might be off by a year or two).
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I'd also say the spinning neon Joker from the early-80s...either that or the PYL logo (the small one from the back of the contestant island).
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[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'229054\' date=\'Oct 22 2009, 11:09 PM\']The old "$25,000" sign from Wheel. White light bulbs OR the green one.
EDIT: Wait, that's not really a logo...ooh. The Password Plus logo. Because it looks so damn funky.[/quote]
Didn't Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak have a similar sign?
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I'd probably have to go with the 2nd version Match Game sign (cuz then I don't need to order a new one with the year change. :-P).
And I know at least one person on here wants a Classic Concentration sign...
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[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'229085\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 06:01 AM\']Didn't Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak have a similar sign?[/quote]
Come to think of it, I don't remember Hot Streak having any signage at all aside from the chyroned logo at the top of the show.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'229096\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 10:36 AM\']Come to think of it, I don't remember Hot Streak having any signage at all aside from the chyroned logo at the top of the show.[/quote]
Seconded. For practicality's sake, the neon "Card Sharks" from Perry's version would be mighty nifty. Although a giant word balloon with "Whew!" on it could find a use somewhere.
And when did "The Price Is Right" ever have a red dollar sign?
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[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'229085\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 09:01 AM\']Didn't Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak have a similar sign?[/quote]
Something like that...they had a gigantic sign that displayed how much money a team had just won in the bonus round, or how much was won up to that point. It would also flash dollar signs during the credits.
Courtesy of YouTube and chrisivision07, here's said sign (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cL90NKAdJo#t=1m01s\") from the last segment of the finale. The numbers are usually a lot clearer to see than that, though.
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Can I just get the SEX part of the sign from "The Better Sex"?
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[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'229105\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 02:27 PM\']Can I just get the SEX part of the sign from "The Better Sex"?[/quote]
Oh, let's face it, the incandescent bulbs on that thing would be the closest a lot of us get to hot sex.
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[quote name=\'CarbonCpy\' post=\'229107\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 03:24 PM\'][quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'229105\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 02:27 PM\']Can I just get the SEX part of the sign from "The Better Sex"?[/quote]
Oh, let's face it, the incandescent bulbs on that thing would be the closest a lot of us get to hot sex.
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ZING!
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[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'229100\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 12:58 PM\']For practicality's sake, the neon "Card Sharks" from Perry's version would be mighty nifty.[/quote]
Seconded., with the neon Super Password sign which hovers over the Alphabetics round a close second -- both would look great in a bar surrounded by all the other neon beer signs.
Then again, that tiffany-style Liars Club "Lampshade" would look good in a room with a high ceiling! :)
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[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'229100\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 11:58 AM\']Seconded. For practicality's sake, the neon "Card Sharks" from Perry's version would be mighty nifty.[/quote]
This; if not available, I'd happily take the Password Plus sign (or even the Alphabetics one).
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Then again, that tiffany-style Liars Club "Lampshade" would look good in a room with a high ceiling! :)
As of 1986, that lampshade still existed. It was on the floor(!) of Larry Hovis's production office waiting room. You can keep the Password Plus logo. It looked like a handwritten scrawl. Whoever drew the logo on the home game is a true artist who made it look as if it might be a font.
Anyway, I'd go with the Concentration logo of Narz's head because I like it and I don't think anybody else would want it.
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I'll take the Scrabble sign.
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What constitutes a Pyramid logo? If it's the title plaque in front of Dick's lectern, I'd take that, but I'd rather have the sign with the dollar amount that went over the actual pyramid.
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[quote name=\'Allstar87\' post=\'229104\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 01:35 PM\']Courtesy of YouTube and chrisivision07, here's said sign (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cL90NKAdJo#t=1m01s\") from the last segment of the finale. The numbers are usually a lot clearer to see than that, though.[/quote]
Now that sign looks familiar. Is that not the same sign used for the dollar amounts on 50 Grand Slam?
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[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'229178\' date=\'Oct 24 2009, 09:23 AM\']Now that sign looks familiar. Is that not the same sign used for the dollar amounts on 50 Grand Slam?[/quote]
No, it's not.
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[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'229178\' date=\'Oct 24 2009, 11:23 AM\'][quote name=\'Allstar87\' post=\'229104\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 01:35 PM\']Courtesy of YouTube and chrisivision07, here's said sign (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cL90NKAdJo#t=1m01s\") from the last segment of the finale. The numbers are usually a lot clearer to see than that, though.[/quote]
Now that sign looks familiar. Is that not the same sign used for the dollar amounts on 50 Grand Slam?
[/quote]It would have been if it was not for the added border.
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The glittery $100,000 Name That Tune sign that used to be raised up from the floor (IIRC) on Kennedy's version.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'229184\' date=\'Oct 24 2009, 02:22 PM\'][quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'229178\' date=\'Oct 24 2009, 09:23 AM\']Now that sign looks familiar. Is that not the same sign used for the dollar amounts on 50 Grand Slam?[/quote]
No, it's not.
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Ah, you're right. Now that I compare both from Youtube clips, 50 Grand Slam's sign is MUCH bigger:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyzsUDqjZAw#t=1m09s (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyzsUDqjZAw#t=1m09s\")
They do look rather similar, though, apart from the size.
/That's what she said
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The clip-on Family Feud sign. Looks nice on its own; big, but not too big to fit comfortably in the house; simple wiring and light bulbs make repair easier and less likely to be needed than neon or chasing...
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I want that cool smokin' Hot Potato sign!
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The current WWTBAM logo, either the classic purple w/green dollar sings, or the current blue version.
--Charlie
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the 1978 "High Rollers" letters, I would put them in my front yard and run them all night long.
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[quote name=\'GiraffeBoy\' post=\'229393\' date=\'Oct 28 2009, 10:09 PM\']The current WWTBAM logo, either the classic purple w/green dollar sings, or the current blue version.[/quote]
Except there was never a physical sign of that logo anywhere on the set (only on video screens).