The new Turntable is friggin' ridiculous. It's unnecessarily bright and huge. Drew kept boasting about "all this space," but what's the point? All this new space will not be made of use!
I'll gladly eat my words if this turns out to be not true, but we've only seen one full episode with the new turntable and only two games on there, Pushover and Grocery Game. There are much more games to play on there that we haven't seen yet, so who knows, maybe they'll change the staging of some games to use the extra space, like Spelling Bee having its SP podiums moved to the space from the left door frame to where Drew and the contestant are. We may even see some interesting IUFB presentations from that space as well.
...it takes them longer to punch up the numbers. Even though the difference is only fractions of a second, the whole feel of the numbers being physically punched in is gone. It doesn't matter if it looks like the old displays. The old feel isn't there.
At least they kept the old font and reverted to bolder colors for the displays; they could have made them like Wheel of Fortune's or Jeopardy's if they wanted to. Even in the later years of the Sports Type ones, if you compare a bid entered during their early years to one through Season 37, they were much faster back then likely because the computer or whatever was used was newer and performed better. If you think about it, replacement parts for the SportsType displays are going to be non-existant in the future so when they can't be repaired anymore, they have to replace them or continue to use broken displays. Which one would make for better television?
The wide shot of the Race Game curtain rising for Plinko was indeed nifty and certainly the best use of the jib they've made ever since it was put in two years ago, though it would have been nice if Rich remained on the shot the entire time the curtain rose.
When Rich says "Plinko!" doesn't it seem natural to have the cameras just zoom in on the board, with the $50,000 graphic at the bottom? I mean, the announcer never was seen speaking during the Plinko Sign era, so why should they start now?
The dollar sign tacked onto Rich's calldown window is a bit much, especially since the window and the shot of him therein are too small and too far out respectively.
They probably can't make the window much larger than it is since the show is seen in both 16:9 and 4:3 configurations, you have to find something that will be viewable from both resolutions.
I'm glad they finally broke in realising that they could actually put a trip on just one screen.
There was a Temptation playing last season where a trip was one of the gifts and the screen displayed just the one trip, so it's not like during the break someone finally realized they can use one trip on one screen.
How is priceisright.com "brand new" and "re-designed" at the same time, Drew? And shame on you, Drew, you sent the Joe Plinkos to the wrong place for a message board.
priceisright.com was launched in late 2007 or so when Drew took over. It had videos from behind the scenes during Drew's era and even some classic moments as early as the mid-80's. It went down sometime in 2008 or so, but was relaunched recently with new videos.
Also, why would Drew sponsor this message board? Other than the fact that we had some people go over and post distasteful comments on Drew's personal blog, It's independent of the show's production company and there's probably some legal issues with sponsoring or even mentioning a non-affiliated website on the show (even when a member of ATGS was a contestant on the show in the late '90's, Bob only mentioned it was some Internet group, nothing more) and we have the disclaimer here this site is not a challenge to ownership and the show is their property, so they can create their own website and message board as they wish. This is like how Consumer Reports doesn't allow manufacturers to use its articles and results of their products in the press since they're an independent entity.
