Favorite Prizes...

[Dbacksfan12]

A while back, I queried about prizes people would never want to win.

Aside from a car, have you ever seen a piece of merchandise given away on a show that you wanted badly?  Did you ever actually go out and get it?

[BrandonFG]

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Aside from a car, have you ever seen a piece of merchandise given away on a show that you wanted badly?  Did you ever actually go out and get it?
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When the 80s Pyramid (first season) offered Colecovisions to the contestants, I desperately wanted one of those, even though the reruns were already ten years old. ;-)

[Jimmy Owen]

When I was a kid, I wanted a Super 8 camera and projector that I would often see given away on game shows.  I did eventually get a projector but no camera as a gift in 1969.  I would save my pennies to get those three minute Frankenstein and Mr. Magoo movies at the dept. store.  I finally bought a camera in 1975.

[Clay Zambo]

Well, I dunno, the internet fridge is pretty spiffy...

(Ducks to avoid shoes being thrown by Lambert.)

I've wanted a ceramic dalmatian for a long time.  Really.  ('Course, if I had to take the 50" plasma tv instead, I'd be okay with that.)

[Ian Wallis]

Aside from a car, have you ever seen a piece of merchandise given away on a show that you wanted badly? Did you ever actually go out and get it?

The Beat the Clock home game, which I got for Christmas in 1973.  Oh, maybe that's not what you mean...

[Don Howard]

Mogen David concord wine...the wine with tradition.
Dad finally caved in to end the begging.
Some of the worst tasting stuff I ever drank.
And I used to take Cheracol D.

[gwarman2005]

From all the trades I've gotten I've been searching eBay for a stereo chamber chair.  It's ugly as sin but it also looks very comfortable.

[DoorNumberFour]

On TPiR a few months back, they gave away a set of videophones as an IUFB.

Those would be amazing to have.

I also wanted the home version of Camouflage after seeing an episode of the show.

[Neumms]

Me, too, on the stereo chair. Also, I always wanted the "Games People Play" carpeting, as seen on TPIR and I think LMAD. Why one would want to play chess on shag carpeting I'm not sure, but it was the 70s.

[Joe Mello]

Just out of novelty value, I would want the water walker things BigJon's mother won (and then promptly pawned) and that entertainment center where the TV goes in and out of the cabinet via a motorized contraption.

I call it the Hi Lo TV Set just because.

[Fedya]

Every time I see Dick Clark hawking the $3K upright piano as a Mystery 7 prize on the 1986/7 Pyramid episodes GSN is cycling through, I find myself wishing I could have told Dick I'd prefer an immoral piano, myself.  :-)