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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: weaklink75 on April 11, 2011, 07:52:54 PM
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This is cute actually- The Wendy's Kid's Meal toys are all Wheel of Fortune-related for the next few weeks, as part of a sponsorship deal (they'll be branding a week of shows in May):
http://www.wendys.com/kids_meal/index.jsp
I think this might be the first time any GS has had kid's meal toys (I don't think any of the Nickelodeon shows had them)....interesting collectible for GS fans.
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It does look kinda fun. I'll have to swing in to Wendy's the next time I'm near one and check it out.
\Wendy is a flat-chested bimbo.
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\Wendy is a flat-chested bimbo.
Who cares? Wendy has nice buns.
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Four letter puzzle board? But I wanted Megaword in my pocket. :)
Looks great for kids. I know if I was 8 I would have wanted all of them.
//I still kinda do!
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I got the E-mail, wasn't too sure at first. But I guess I'll have a hankering for where the beef is...!
\Wendy is a flat-chested bimbo.
/Well depends on How cute she is, I'll washboard her!
//There's a difference between "Gingers" and "Redhots"!!
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\Wendy is a flat-chested bimbo.
Who cares? Wendy has nice buns.
Hi-yo!
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I'll just leave this here:
"Where's the beef?"
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I didn't know WWE's Heath Slater was a fan of Wheel.
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Four letter puzzle board?
I noticed the "TOYS" example in the picture. If it hasn't already been used, I could see that as a reasonable bonus round puzzle. If things haven't changed since I watched WoF occasionally, A is guessed more often than O for the vowel, and even if the contestant picks an O and doesn't guess the puzzle right away if they run through the alphabet, they might run out of time before they get to the Y.
/Did I ever tell you I'm really good at accepting criticism?
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I noticed the "TOYS" example in the picture. If it hasn't already been used, I could see that as a reasonable bonus round puzzle. If things haven't changed since I watched WoF occasionally, A is guessed more often than O for the vowel, and even if the contestant picks an O and doesn't guess the puzzle right away if they run through the alphabet, they might run out of time before they get to the Y.
I could see them using that in the 1990s, where almost every bonus puzzle was five letters or fewer. But they've been keeping them reasonably long now; the last four-letter one I found was in May 2005 (unless you wanna get technical with A GULF in September 2005, since it really didn't need the A), and even the last one that was shorter than seven letters was in November 2009.
I do like your thinking, though.
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This looks halfway decent; will definitely head over to Wendy's sometime this week. I definitely thought this would have been something one of the fast food chains would have done back in the 80s during Wheel fever, but a couple decades late is better than never.
I remember McDonald's doing a Nickelodeon game show promotion back in the early/mid nineties once. If I remember correctly, none of the toys pertained to a specific Nick game show; they were just a bunch of game show related toys with Nick branding. I distinctly remember applause hands contraption and a category changer. But hey, this is me recalling something from 17 years ago.
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I seem to recall that Burger King had Nick GAS toys about ten years ago in their kids' meals. The toys appeared to be more focused on the sports rather than the game shows.
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I remember McDonald's doing a Nickelodeon game show promotion back in the early/mid nineties once. If I remember correctly, none of the toys pertained to a specific Nick game show; they were just a bunch of game show related toys with Nick branding. I distinctly remember applause hands contraption and a category changer. But hey, this is me recalling something from 17 years ago.
For some reason, I want to say there was also one involving a whistle-type toy that when you blew into it, it "spun" a wheel. I could be mixing toys up here.
Nick also had a promotion thru McD's where kids could play some sort of Concentration-style game via AT&T an videophone. I remember desperately wanting to be a contestant and getting in trouble with my mom for calling a local McDonald's to see if they knew anything about this. ;-)
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For some reason, I want to say there was also one involving a whistle-type toy that when you blew into it, it "spun" a wheel. I could be mixing toys up here.
Yeah that was Nickelodeon, I still have one of those somewhere around here. I believe it was a Burger King promotion.
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For some reason, I want to say there was also one involving a whistle-type toy that when you blew into it, it "spun" a wheel. I could be mixing toys up here.
Yeah that was Nickelodeon, I still have one of those somewhere around here. I believe it was a Burger King promotion.
It sure was--one of my favorite toys when I was little. It was in the shape of a Nickelodeon Blimp, and it had two little wheels on the side (I wanna say that each one pointed to a different letter of the alphabet) that spun when you blew into it.
EDIT: Nope--one had a category and one had letters. Look: http://banrigh.com/images/93%20nickelodeon%20blimp.jpg
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For some reason, I want to say there was also one involving a whistle-type toy that when you blew into it, it "spun" a wheel. I could be mixing toys up here.
Yeah that was Nickelodeon, I still have one of those somewhere around here. I believe it was a Burger King promotion.
It sure was--one of my favorite toys when I was little. It was in the shape of a Nickelodeon Blimp, and it had two little wheels on the side (I wanna say that each one pointed to a different letter of the alphabet) that spun when you blew into it.
EDIT: Nope--one had a category and one had letters. Look: http://banrigh.com/images/93%20nickelodeon%20blimp.jpg
Yep! That's the one I'm thinking of. :-) And like grandgame said, BK sounds right.
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Yep! That's the one I'm thinking of. :-) And like grandgame said, BK sounds right.
Take a second look: There's a visible M on the fries on the Food category.
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Yep! That's the one I'm thinking of. :-) And like grandgame said, BK sounds right.
Take a second look: There's a visible M on the fries on the Food category.
Ahh I see...I stand (or sit) corrected.
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Just a quick note: My Wendy's is selling Pac Man toys now, so if you haven't picked up whatever Wheel toys you wanted, it's probably too late.
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Hm, it shouldn't be. The in-store promotion is supposed to last until mid-May.
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I picked up a Trigger powered wheel. And the Kid's meal bag was for PacMan but they were giving* out the WoF toys.
*coming with the meal
/PacMan looks cool, the ghosts... meh...
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It's typical for fast food places to save previous kids meal toys that weren't sold and give them out instead when they run out of whatever the current toys are supposed to be. Pac-Man toys were given out last month, so that's likely what's happening at Jeremy's Wendy's.
/Is ticked off at Wendy's, they recently took my favorite items off the menu
//Jr. Bacon Swiss and the boneless chicken wings
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Yep! That's the one I'm thinking of. :-) And like grandgame said, BK sounds right.
Take a second look: There's a visible M on the fries on the Food category.
Ahh I see...I stand (or sit) corrected.
As do I, goes to show how good my memory is with nearly 20 year old fast food toys. :-p
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It's typical for fast food places to save previous kids meal toys that weren't sold and give them out instead when they run out of whatever the current toys are supposed to be. Pac-Man toys were given out last month, so that's likely what's happening at Jeremy's Wendy's.
Two things I found out today:
1. I didn't know that Wendy's kids' meal toys were changed monthly; I thought 2 weeks is/was the norm for everybody.
2. I didn't know that Pac Man was LAST month's toy set; those toys are still in our Wendy's kids meal display.
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Went to Wendy's (drunk) and got a Kid's Meal.
Almost became belligerant because I saw the Pac-Man bag. (Was secretly OK with it, you know, since I'm pacdude and everything.)
Looked inside, and in it was a Wheel of Fortune toy.
It's the Spin to Win one, with the push-button wheel. Good quality, spin duration lasts forever, with a cute little game attached to it.
Here's a picture: https://skitch.com/pacdude/r4squ/cam
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It's the Spin to Win one, with the push-button wheel. Good quality, spin duration lasts forever, with a cute little game attached to it.
Here's a picture: https://skitch.com/pacdude/r4squ/cam
I worked at Wendy's on-and-off between high school and college...I would've stolen quite a few of those wheels if I still worked there. :-)
/Not a big fan of how they've changed their food
//Now I might have to pick up a few Kids Meals to get that toy for my children
///Yeah, that's it..."my children"
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/Not a big fan of how they've changed their food
The fry change is the most disappointing to me. They were always a nice change of pace from McDonald's. Now, with no Chick-fil-a's around, I'm stuck with McDonalds for 'regular' fries, as Burger King's suck (the coating is terrible) and Hardee's and Wendy's are essentially the same.
/Wish I had moved south, not north
//Might still swing by just to pick toys up. Wonder if they'd sell me the display.
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/Not a big fan of how they've changed their food
The fry change is the most disappointing to me.
+1
The "natural cut sea salt" fries are awful IMO, not that I'm a fan of anyone's fries anymore, except Chick Fil-A and maybe Rally's/Checkers. The sandwiches aren't that good anymore either, almost as if they're trying too hard to go for a gourmet feel.
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I picked up a Trigger powered wheel.
Shouldn't that be a toy for the Roy Rogers restaurants to be giving out?
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/Not a big fan of how they've changed their food
The fry change is the most disappointing to me. They were always a nice change of pace from McDonald's.
Really? I find that their fries went from 'good' to 'awesome' with the latest update. Don't see how you can compare them to the 'fry-like product' that McD's serves, at any rate.
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Really? I find that their fries went from 'good' to 'awesome' with the latest update. Don't see how you can compare them to the 'fry-like product' that McD's serves, at any rate.
I've been spoiled with Hardee's fries. The only thing I've eaten from McDonald's in the last 5 years is McNuggets. All of their other fare gives me the McRuns.
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I've been spoiled with Hardee's fries.
See, I went to a Carl's Jr. (the Best Foods to your Hardee's Hellman's) for the first time in quite a while over the weekend, and they've gone to the skin-on fries, too. They were okay but I miss the old ones. (But the Western Bacon Cheeseburger was its usual awesome.)
All of their other fare gives me the McRuns.
It just occurred to me that Burger King is rather appropriately named due to the time I spend on the throne a couple hours later...
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My local Burger King is ungodly slow. The last time I was there, a two-toed sloth was in front of me. He looked at me and said, "screw it, this is taking way too long. I'm outta here."
(Seriously, how does it take upwards of 20 minutes to make a burger and fries when I'm literally the ONLY customer in the building, and no one's lined up in the drive-thru?)
I think McDonald's fries are great if you can get them fresh (protip: ask for them without salt, that way they'll have to make a new batch). However, Rally's/Checkers wins the fry wars for me hands-down.
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(protip: ask for them without salt, that way they'll have to make a new batch).
You're the guy who asks for no onions on your Quarter Pounder so they have to make you a fresh one of those, too, aren't you?
(Protip: Minimum-wage employees have very little to lose when it comes to getting revenge on an annoying customer.)
/enjoy your "special sauce"
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I think this strip says it all:
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/blm/1980/blm801208.gif
You're the guy who asks for no onions on your Quarter Pounder so they have to make you a fresh one of those, too, aren't you?
No.
/I ask for no tomato
//I know Quarter Pounders don't have tomato
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I think this strip says it all:
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/blm/1980/blm801208.gif
How?
And little did that cartoonist know such a request would become common 25 years later.
Or, he or she has never been to California, where that fictional customer would have been one of the "good ones."
-Jason
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My local Burger King is ungodly slow. The last time I was there, a two-toed sloth was in front of me. He looked at me and said, "screw it, this is taking way too long. I'm outta here."
In my town, we have more standalone Burger Kings than McDonalds (6 vs 3). Even if you count the 2 Mickey-Dees in the 2 Walmarts, the King still wins. Very rarely do I go to BK.
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(protip: ask for them without salt, that way they'll have to make a new batch).
I hated people like you when I worked in food service. Get a f'n grip.
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(protip: ask for them without salt, that way they'll have to make a new batch).
I hated people like you when I worked in food service. Get a f'n grip.
Honestly, I've only done the "no salt" trick once. My sister, however, does it all the time. And she asks for ketchup only on the burger. And about 30 other customizations.
Really, the only thing I ever ask to be held 99% of the time is tomato. And 99% of those times, they forget. And 100% of THOSE times, I just pick the damn tomato off myself and move on with my life.
(And wow, do we ever need a Wendy's out here... nearest one's 50 miles away.)
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Every time I take my wife back home to Tennessee I have to remind her about the pace of things.
"Fast food. Or, as we say in the south, food."
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Honestly, I've only done the "no salt" trick once. My sister, however, does it all the time. And she asks for ketchup only on the burger. And about 30 other customizations.
That doesn't sound like someone who's employing an annoying trick. That just sounds like someone who's annoying.
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Honestly, I've only done the "no salt" trick once. My sister, however, does it all the time. And she asks for ketchup only on the burger. And about 30 other customizations.
That doesn't sound like someone who's employing an annoying trick. That just sounds like someone who's annoying.
Agreed...I understand your being a customer paid my check. That's no excuse to be obnoxious.
Oh, and a bit of fast-food A-holery: if you ask for "no salt" on the drive-thru, half the time the workers just throw already-cooked fries back into the fryer.
/Has a few words for those types of customers. (http://"http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/388107973_d7fa5f9e06_o.jpg")
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Honestly, I've only done the "no salt" trick once. My sister, however, does it all the time. And she asks for ketchup only on the burger. And about 30 other customizations.
I hope everyone else enjoyed how quickly the smug attempt at "protip" turned into "backpedal and deflect" as soon as he figured out that his "protip" made him look like a "huge douchebag."
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Agreed...I understand your being a customer paid my check. That's no excuse to be obnoxious.
At one time, Burger King ran an ad that there were a thousand ways to have your Whopper. (ten condiments that you could have or leave off, I think.) If you're not going to back that up by actually doing it instead of just making assembly line burgers, don't advertise that.
On the other hand, you can do what Dick's Drive In does. You get your burger with what it has on it, no customizations. Don't like it, you can pound sand. Every Friday I hit up my nearby Wendy's to get a value menu bacon cheeseburger, ketchup only. I've never gotten any guff or any extra-curricular stuff in my sammich, possibly because they know they're getting my money each week, and maybe because that's a really disgusting thing to do.
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At one time, Burger King ran an ad that there were a thousand ways to have your Whopper. (ten condiments that you could have or leave off, I think.) If you're not going to back that up by actually doing it instead of just making assembly line burgers, don't advertise that.
And McD's, which is what Sparky McNosalt up there was talking about, has never advertised that. BK's pretty much always stressed the "have it your way" thing, because when they and The Clown were the only games in town, that's what set them apart.
So, yeah, if I go to BK and I want no onions, I order it without onions. If I go to McD's and I want no onions, I suck it up and scrape them off.
Every Friday I hit up my nearby Wendy's to get a value menu bacon cheeseburger, ketchup only. I've never gotten any guff or any extra-curricular stuff in my sammich, possibly because they know they're getting my money each week, and maybe because that's a really disgusting thing to do.
Wendy's has also been all about the "we make it fresh and to order" thing, too. Really, most burger joints are anymore, aside from the aforementioned Place Where The Cool Hang Out, Swass Play, And Rich Flaunt Clout and McD's, which is why I mentioned the Quarter Pounder in the first place.
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(protip: ask for them without salt, that way they'll have to make a new batch).
I hated people like you when I worked in food service. Get a f'n grip.
Far be it for me to defend Peacock, but on the flip side, if you don't like the work, find something else to do.
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At one time, Burger King ran an ad that there were a thousand ways to have your Whopper. (ten condiments that you could have or leave off, I think.) If you're not going to back that up by actually doing it instead of just making assembly line burgers, don't advertise that.
And McD's, which is what Sparky McNosalt up there was talking about, has never advertised that. BK's pretty much always stressed the "have it your way" thing, because when they and The Clown were the only games in town, that's what set them apart.
So, yeah, if I go to BK and I want no onions, I order it without onions. If I go to McD's and I want no onions, I suck it up and scrape them off.
You know, it's not like McDonald's is inflexible. Hell, it's not like ANY fast food place is inflexible.
In fact, I find that Burger King seems to get it wrong the most often, and not just my local one. Literally every Burger King I've been to has no idea what "no tomato" means.
I still don't see how it's "annoying" to make one custom order. Everything's made to order now anyways, so does it really matter if they have to make ONE batch of fries without salt? Or ONE burger without pickles or onions?
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if you don't like the work, find something else to do.
Glad to hear you love your job, Mark. :)
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Far be it for me to defend Peacock, but on the flip side, if you don't like the work, find something else to do.
There have been at least three times that I didn't enjoy my job, but I enjoyed the money more than I enjoyed not having money. So I worked. I don't think I'm alone in that regard.
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Far be it for me to defend Peacock, but on the flip side, if you don't like the work, find something else to do.
There have been at least three times that I didn't enjoy my job, but I enjoyed the money more than I enjoyed not having money. So I worked. I don't think I'm alone in that regard.
And even if you enjoy your job, that doesn't mean you have to like douchebaggery.
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Far be it for me to defend Peacock, but on the flip side, if you don't like the work, find something else to do.
There have been at least three times that I didn't enjoy my job, but I enjoyed the money more than I enjoyed not having money. So I worked. I don't think I'm alone in that regard.
And even if you enjoy your job, that doesn't mean you have to like douchebaggery.
After further discussions off-board with a couple of others, I recind my previous comment(s). As someone else pointed out to me, "it smacks of "lolz i'm putting the screws to you because i can". That is indeed an asinine thing to do...and hadn't original thought of it from that prospective. I had only thought of it from the prospective of "The customer is paying you...blah blah blah" So, I apologize to Chris C. for that.
[quote name='Clemon79']Glad to hear you love your job, Mark. :) [/quote]Oh, but I do! 40 hours/week helping others learn blackjack? Not a bad gig at all.
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After further discussions off-board with a couple of others, I recind my support of Peacock. As someone else pointed out to me, "it smacks of "lolz i'm putting the screws to you because i can"
I see your point.
I don't agree with it, but now I see how my fry thing might come off as douche-y.