[quote name=\'lobster\' post=\'180452\' date=\'Mar 7 2008, 05:07 PM\']
I just heard from the gentleman who took those Pyramid set photos, and here's what he writes:
Hello Robert,
I used to go to the Pyramid a lot when I was a teenager and took lots of
photos. At some point I'll be posting more of the photo on my site, but
right now those are the only few I have.
Take care,
-Larry
So apparently there will be more to be had
I'm actually surprised they didn't mind someone in the audience having a camera (doesn't appear he was so stealth about it judging from those great shots), as it seems every time I've ever been to a taping that's the one big no-no..
in my follow-up I asked if they ever let him on stage to take a shot of the back of the large pyramid.. I guess we'll soon see what goodies he has :]
LObs
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Well, from my personal experience in going to these NYC
Pyramid tapings at ABC TV-15, and despite being printed on the ticket saying it was prohibited, photo taking was allowed by the show, as long as you did not use a flashbulb. That was instructed by announcer Bob Clayton during the warm-ups, and any audience member can easily shoot their photos with no problems or hassling from anyone on the network or production company staff.
[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' post=\'180460\' date=\'Mar 7 2008, 09:04 PM\']
A couple of Possibly-Stupid Questions: why, since this Pyramid never had the bottom four boxes, is there still a line under the row of three, and what is the mound of carpet (visible in the first picture) right in front of the big pyramid for?
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The dividing middle line for the ABC-TV big pyramid's bottom three boxes is a bit lower than the one for the original CBS-TV design, which was right at the edge of that board's now bottom three boxes. The ABC big pyramid board's lower section, where they would be a provision added for those four additional boxes never used on the CBS version, is hollow and nothing else.
The mound of carpet was simply a covering not to show a recessed portion of the pyramid board underneath that was not painted in gold lame. The carpet mound did not cover the so-called four bottom boxes on the original CBS set pet se, and that was instead covered with gold lame plywood in a two pieces (there is a straight line down the middle also).
Why not ten categories? Because during some run throughs conducted by Bob Stewart before they were going to start taping the first CBS 10K episodes, it was discovered that during game play, no one could easily solve ten subjects and win within 60 seconds. Stewart told this problem to CBS, and simply told them to make that change. The plywood stayed up there until the show moved to ABC TV-15 with its duplicate set and a brand new board from scratch.
