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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: TimK2003 on August 24, 2011, 09:59:17 PM
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I had been poking around the cbs.com website, and went over to the LMAD page. As we are getting closer to the start of the new Fall season (#3 for Deal), I happened to notice that Tiffany Coyne is not listed on the cast page (http://"http://www.cbs.com/daytime/lets_make_a_deal/cast/") anymore. Nor do I see any mention of her anywhere on the page other than her appearances in the videos/photos from past shows.
Any official word if she has left the show, and/or what other changes are to be expected for their 3rd season?
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Looks like Door #4's making a comeback (http://"http://www.cbs.com/daytime/lets_make_a_deal/photos/Tweets_and_Sneak_Peeks/0/0/") (more or less)
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That's a pretty slick looking wheel. Interesting that this version puts titles on the games, unlike the prior versions. I think the previous ones may have used titles on some...
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I think the previous ones may have used titles on some...
Yeah, some of Monty's games/props had labels, some didn't.
OT: aside from Match Game '90 and the one Jim Lange show, I can't think of any other shows where you spun the pointer.
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OT: aside from Match Game '90 and the one Jim Lange show, I can't think of any other shows where you spun the pointer.
You're making the assumption that it's spun on this one. Unless you have some kind of proof outside of that photo, I wouldn't make that assumption.
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Considering the way the prize spaces and the arrow are oriented, I'm willing to say that the pointer is spun for at least the iteration shown, if not longer.
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Considering the way the prize spaces and the arrow are oriented,
Well, the arrow, not so much, necessarily, but your point about the prize spaces is absolutely spot-on. You're likely right.
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I love the idea of bringing the wheel back. Very fun. The '80s-child-in-me invokes a lot of nostalgia when that Door 4 siren would sound on the '80s LMaD.
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I had been poking around the cbs.com website, and went over to the LMAD page. As we are getting closer to the start of the new Fall season (#3 for Deal), I happened to notice that Tiffany Coyne is not listed on the cast page (http://"http://www.cbs.com/daytime/lets_make_a_deal/cast/") anymore. Nor do I see any mention of her anywhere on the page other than her appearances in the videos/photos from past shows.
Any official word if she has left the show, and/or what other changes are to be expected for their 3rd season?
Tiffany tweeted that she was taping a week of LMAD shows last month, and her Twitter account (http://twitter.com/#!/tiffanycoyne) states she's still with the show.
Brian
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I love the idea of bringing the wheel back. Very fun. The '80s-child-in-me invokes a lot of nostalgia when that Door 4 siren would sound on the '80s LMaD.
It feels like between this, the "Now Serving" gimmick, and the mini-Big Deal, they've used every aspect of the Door #4 game except for the door itself.
Another "new" game photo. (http://"http://www.cbs.com/daytime/lets_make_a_deal/photos/Tweets_and_Sneak_Peeks/1/0/") I must say that for a last-5-years show, LMAD has some awesome props.
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They're using the Sale Of The Century Winner's Board. Perhaps I'll watch the show this season...
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I also saw them using a version of the SotC Winner's Board on the April 16, 2010 episode.
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I love the idea of bringing the wheel back. Very fun. The '80s-child-in-me invokes a lot of nostalgia when that Door 4 siren would sound on the '80s LMaD.
It feels like between this, the "Now Serving" gimmick, and the mini-Big Deal, they've used every aspect of the Door #4 game except for the door itself.
Another "new" game photo. (http://"http://www.cbs.com/daytime/lets_make_a_deal/photos/Tweets_and_Sneak_Peeks/1/0/") I must say that for a last-5-years show, LMAD has some awesome props.
Seconded on the props...really...who would have thought to use hexagonal doors on that board instead of standard square ones? I like seeing them put together new games, but it doesn't always have to be "random chance" games in my opinion. I'm sure over at Fremantle they're worried about cannibalizing the games at Price, but I'd like to see LMAD use some pricing elements like back in the old days to add some variation...maybe even reimagine some of the retired pricing games as to not to stomp on Price's turf?
/you know you wanna see Super Saver 2011
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I like seeing them put together new games, but it doesn't always have to be "random chance" games in my opinion. I'm sure over at Fremantle they're worried about cannibalizing the games at Price, but I'd like to see LMAD use some pricing elements like back in the old days to add some variation...maybe even reimagine some of the retired pricing games as to not to stomp on Price's turf?
I don't mind having only random-chance games on LMAD, I think it DOES distinguish them from what Drew & Co. are doing. They've only begun to tap into game-playing possibilities that are totally based on luck. An hour of "The box or the curtain?" gets old.
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If they can use the Money Cards with nary a word to it being a classic format, I see no problem with things other than "Pick X, Y or Z." They can do Door #4, or the Bingo America Bonus Board, or that deal where you have to roll 21 points in 5d6, and so on, but there's still only about 40 minutes of good content per hour show. The "money or the box" games are being dressed up in other forms, but you're still picking one or the other, and it gets tedious.
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Good news: looks like we have our first game of skill. Bad news is... (http://"http://www.cbs.com/daytime/lets_make_a_deal/photos/Tweets_and_Sneak_Peeks/2/0/")
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Bad news is what?
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I don't mind having only random-chance games on LMAD, I think it DOES distinguish them from what Drew & Co. are doing. They've only begun to tap into game-playing possibilities that are totally based on luck. An hour of "The box or the curtain?" gets old.
It would be nice if the random-chance things posed more interesting risks to the contestant. I saw something like How Much Is Enough? but it wasn't even as suspenseful as that--two traders were at a button and pushed the button to take the cash instead of the curtain. They went up from $500 to $1000, one hit the button, then the other got the curtain.
I would think they could replace pricing games with something that has a whiff of skill, even if it's Spot-the-Transvestite from Billy Bush's version. Even counting gumballs in a machine would have more play-along value than the Barry-Enright bonus-round kinds of things they do.
Recently, they did a bit with the contestant under a beauty-parlour hair dryer. It was your basic cash-or-curtain deal. The only reason the set-up existed was for Wayne to slay us with an effeminate-hairdresser character. Big fun, that.
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They did have at least one (semi-)skill game in Season 1. A board was brought out with cards giving the names of various items in foreign languages. You pick a card and you win whatever the card named. At least there's some skill if you can recognize some words in foreign languages. (If memory serves, at least two of them were French, which I immediately recognized. So it wasn't as if they were all in languages so obscure that it would effectively be a guessing game.)