Here is your first auction. Ready? Go.

[Mike Tennant]

The first items from the Dick Clark memorabilia auction are up on eBay here.

I quickly skimmed through all 18 pages of items, so I may have overlooked something, but the only specifically game show-related item I saw is in this lot, which contains (among other, non-game-show things) a copy of The $25,000 Pyramid home game from Cardinal, the only one with D.C.'s picture on it.  The great thing about that game--as the box clearly points out--is that you can also play The $100,000 Pyramid with it, which is important because the two shows are so vastly different.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'137858\' date=\'Nov 14 2006, 03:55 PM\']The great thing about that game--as the box clearly points out--is that you can also play The $100,000 Pyramid with it, which is important because the two shows are so vastly different.[/quote]
If you're lucky enough to have an early version, the instructions also said you could play The $1,000,000 Pyramid.  That would be cool, because you couldn't play that version with the later sets.  No way, they crossed out the million.

Seriously, it's too bad they don't have more game show stuff, though it's possible Clark may not have been all that interested in preserving that part of his career.  As I mentioned when this auction was first announced, I once saw in his office some of the orange category cards from Winner's Circle boards.  Some of those might be fun to have, though I doubt there would be all that much interest in them at auction.

[chad1m]

Does anyone have an approximate idea of how big the cards would be/would have been?

[Pyramid80]

I really wish that all of this stuff could go into a Dick Clark museum or something, so that everyone could enjoy viewing it.  I know there is memorabilia in his restaurants, but compared to some of these things being auctions...it doesn't even compare.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'137866\' date=\'Nov 14 2006, 02:46 PM\']
Does anyone have an approximate idea of how big the cards would be/would have been?
[/quote]
About a foot square, maybe a little bigger.

[Joe Mello]

I would think they were a little bigger, just by eyeballing what a foot square is.  I think I recall one of the transparent ones from 25K/100K coming off at one point and it looked like about the size of a typical posterboard.  Can't imagine that ye oldie cards were that much different.

[Jay Temple]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'137859\' date=\'Nov 14 2006, 03:42 PM\']I once saw in his office ...
[/quote]
Damn, I love this place.