Most Impressive Set Piece Created

[Kniwt]

It might not look impressive, but creating a fully-stocked mini-supermarket for Supermarket Sweep (and then restocking it after every episode) is certainly no small feat.

[bossjock967]

The TTD 7x board.  From a technological stand point at the time, it was very advanced.  And... I'm a sucker for block graphics.  :-P

[Unrealtor]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'243621\' date=\'Jul 4 2010, 04:12 PM\'][quote name=\'JepMasta\' post=\'243605\' date=\'Jul 4 2010, 07:44 AM\']with the bank of 42" HD monitors in the big board[/quote]
Do you have a source for this? I have a 42" HD screen in my living room, and based on images like this:

http://thewizardofoz.info/pics/jeopardy20091116a.jpg

...I have a hard time buying that those individual screens are 42" diagonal. 32", maybe?

(I welcome the opportunity to be wrong. I just question the information, that's all.)

EDIT: Never mind. This article corraborates that information. I'm still unsure, but hey.
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If I do my math correctly, a 42" diagonal on a 16x9 screen results in a height of 20.6 inches. Depending on how wide the borders are around the set piece and around each monitor, that would put the top of the third monitor between five and six feet above floor level, which would seem to agree with your screen shot.

On the original topic, the most impressive set piece I can think of is the Winner's Circle board from the 80s Pyramid, just for the sheer size and complexity of the thing. It was the one I grew up seeing in first run and reruns, and '70s board has always seemed a bit cheap by comparison.

[Craig Karlberg]

[quote name=\'bossjock967\' post=\'243657\' date=\'Jul 5 2010, 12:36 AM\']The TTD 7x board.  From a technological stand point at the time, it was very advanced.  And... I'm a sucker for block graphics.  :-P[/quote]

That was my thought.  It made me wonder who was running the computer & where it was comming from(directly behind the board or somewhere off-stage).

Also, the MMM was a huge piece of awsomeness.  I always had fantasies of having such a giant pinball machine, but it never came to fruition.  Oh well.

[Bobby B.]

I've always liked the PYL board.  It would be awesome to have seen it in person to see how big it actually was.

[joker316]

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'243638\' date=\'Jul 4 2010, 09:01 PM\']The MMM Pinball ranks up there, but the first thing that left me in a state of awe when I was a young'un was the Joker's Wild slot machine.  I thought that the "slides" were as tall as the windows back in the day and that there were 6 slides to a wheel.[/quote]
I totally agree, sir. At the ripe old age of 10, that machine and its graphics (especially the Joker himself) were totally awesome!!!

But my love for this genre actually began by my fascination with two classics. The Concentration board and the pop-up Lightning round words on the Password table.

[golden-road]

My vote is for the Winner's Circle board itself; there's a promo pic for Clark $100K that illustrates the size of the board (the one with DC point at the "$100K" display).

[TimK2003]

Let me also throw in the "starting gate" set of Celebrity Sweepstakes:  Colors, Celebs & Solari displays.

[irwinsjournal.com]

My first thought would also have been The Magnificent Marble Machine but I like a lot of the other choices presented so far.

How about the original Hollywood Squares board?

[pyrfan]

[quote name=\'irwinsjournal.com\' post=\'243729\' date=\'Jul 5 2010, 10:39 PM\']How about the original Hollywood Squares board?[/quote]
This gets my vote, too. Has anyone here had the good fortune to see that set in person?


Brendan

[Offshored2007]

1. The Magnificent Marble Machine
2. The Gauntlet of Villians (all the lights and huge $25,000 display) from Whew!
3. The MG/HS background flashing away.

[dazztardly]

The Joker's Wild gameboard

That or any lottery games made by Steve Ryan.

[Loogaroo]

I've always liked the set pieces that slide on or off the stage during the show - the desk on Super Password, the podiums for Classic Concentration, etc.

[wheelloon]

[quote name=\'Loogaroo\' post=\'243777\' date=\'Jul 6 2010, 03:29 PM\']I've always liked the set pieces that slide on or off the stage during the show - the desk on Super Password, the podiums for Classic Concentration, etc.[/quote]

Similar to what I was gonna say, trying to go off the board a bit and trying to not be predictable, I was always enamored with the massive setup for the 8 cars on CC, and visually trying to picture how big that thing must have been in person, then trying to imagine them getting the cars on and off it and then, when necessary, rolling the massive thing off the stage in one form or another, never failed to intrigue my imagination.

/The addition of the palm trees and other tropical touches on it later on just made it that much more epic in my mind too...

[Jimmy Owen]

[quote name=\'wheelloon\' post=\'243780\' date=\'Jul 6 2010, 07:32 PM\'][quote name=\'Loogaroo\' post=\'243777\' date=\'Jul 6 2010, 03:29 PM\']I've always liked the set pieces that slide on or off the stage during the show - the desk on Super Password, the podiums for Classic Concentration, etc.[/quote]

Similar to what I was gonna say, trying to go off the board a bit and trying to not be predictable, I was always enamored with the massive setup for the 8 cars on CC, and visually trying to picture how big that thing must have been in person, then trying to imagine them getting the cars on and off it and then, when necessary, rolling the massive thing off the stage in one form or another, never failed to intrigue my imagination.

/The addition of the palm trees and other tropical touches on it later on just made it that much more epic in my mind too...
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...and yet such a disappointing game board.