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Dawson/Combs era.... The Big Board. How many freaking light bulbs were in that thing?
John
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[quote name=\'Skynet74\' date=\'Jan 19 2005, 10:44 PM\']Dawson/Combs era.... The Big Board. How many freaking light bulbs were in that thing?
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Zero.
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[quote name=\'Skynet74\' date=\'Jan 19 2005, 10:44 PM\']Dawson/Combs era.... The Big Board. How many freaking light bulbs were in that thing?
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More importantly - and Don Howard might be able to help me out here - how many colors of light were there?
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Zero.
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ZERO??? OK Maybe I did not make myself clear. ZERO for the actual Board that turned. Think it's called a Trilian??? But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the rest of the wall unit. The one with all the sequential flashing lights. All those little white light bulbs that look like the type you put in your Car.
John
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The fast money/logo board is called a Ferranti-Packard system. (Or is it Packer?) The entire turntable is called a trilon.
Now just so I understand, why do you care how many bulbs were on the wall?
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This is worse than someone asking whether or not the 1984 logo of Jeopardy was yellow; or what color the LAT space on Wheel is. Pure crap that service no purpose, IMNSHO...
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[quote name=\'Skynet74\' date=\'Jan 19 2005, 11:24 PM\']I'm talking about the rest of the wall unit. The one with all the sequential flashing lights. All those little white light bulbs that look like the type you put in your Car.[/quote]
The part that "chases" to show points going into a family's bank?
I have no idea.
(Sorry for the earlier smartassery--you say "big board", I think "game board".)
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[quote name=\'Skynet74\' date=\'Jan 19 2005, 07:44 PM\']Dawson/Combs era.... The Big Board. How many freaking light bulbs were in that thing? [/quote]
637 (Slaps head)
First periods then this...
Go listen to your Score music and leave us alone.
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I counted 562 (Yes, I did actually bother to count them!) if you don't count the flashing lights around the Feud logo shown at the beginning of the show
Ok, how many lights on the MG 7x set? (running for cover)
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Coming from someone here who has redrawn the first two sets of Family Feud, I can't tell you exactly how many lights there are but I can say that there's an extra row of lights directly below the trilon board in the Comb's version.
Which ever way you look at it, there's a whole lot of friggin' lights on it and I'm sure it's expensive to operate.
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[quote name=\'whewfan\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 08:11 AM\']I counted 562 (Yes, I did actually bother to count them!) if you don't count the flashing lights around the Feud logo shown at the beginning of the show
Ok, how many lights on the MG 7x set? (running for cover)
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On a side note...didn't Pat mention one time how many light bulbs were in the WOF $25000 sign? Am I making that up? It sticks in my mind for some reason...not the number, but just that he said how many (and I know it wasn't 1.5 million!).
ITSBRY
itsbry@juno.com
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 12:05 AM\']The fast money/logo board is called a Ferranti-Packard system. (Or is it Packer?) The entire turntable is called a trilon.
Now just so I understand, why do you care how many bulbs were on the wall?
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In the grand scheme of things it certainly is not important. I just ask out of curiosity. I don't ever recall another game show with so many flashing Lights on the set. Every time I would watch the show I would look at that board and kind of wonder in the back of my mind how many lights there were on that Board. Then I also wondered how often those lights would blow out. I'm sure they had to be replaced constantly as they blew out one by one.
Near My house there is a Pizza Place who has had an outside sign with the same type of flashing lights. That sign has been there since the 1970's and I swear that they NEVER replace those damn bulbs. The sign used to have a nice chasing lights sequence. But now only three or four bulbs light up and it looks pathetic. Thank God they wern't that Lazy when it came to replacing the Feud bulbs. lol
Of course.... none of this really matters to anyone but me. Well I guess that it matters to "ITSBRY" too since he actually counted them! Thanks man.
I'm just in the mood to ramble anyway. Thanks for listening everyone.
John
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[quote name=\'Skynet74\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 03:54 PM\']Of course.... none of this really matters to anyone but me. Well I guess that it matters to "ITSBRY" too since he actually counted them! Thanks man.
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First off, it was Matt who counted them, not Bryan.
Second of all, I'm inclined to believe Mr. Kaiser was jesting. If he wasn't...then I don't know what to say.
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I apologize. Wrong person. Thanks Matt. So to clear this up....... Did you actually count them?
John
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[quote name=\'Skynet74\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 03:54 PM\']I don't ever recall another game show with so many flashing Lights on the set.
John
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I can't believe I'm contributing to this one, but, um, Press Your Luck's set I do believe had more. And no, I'm not going to count them.
Tyshaun
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Uh... yes, I did. Ok, sue me, I was bored!
Basically, just pop in any ep. of Family Feud and when the camera zooms out from the logo to a wide shot of the set, and pause the tape when all the lights are lit... that makes them easier to count.
Really, all you have to do is divide the board in half, and count the lights in sections. Both halves have the same number of bulbs, so just count one side and multiply by 2.
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[quote name=\'tyshaun1\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 05:05 PM\']I can't believe I'm contributing to this one, but, um, Press Your Luck's set I do believe had more. And no, I'm not going to count them.
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I actually always wondered about those lights. On the contestant island, there were sets of chasing lights that appeared more like "rings" than anything. Anyone have any clue how that light pattern was done?
No, I'm not off my meds.
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This I wonder. Could 1.5 million colors of light on Bonus Island have saved Bullseye?
And I believe the award for biggest light bulbs goes to Body Language.
And the award for LBJFLB (Light Bulbs Just For Light Bulbs) goes to the nighttime version of Jeopardy! in 1974-75.
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I would think that both Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak (in the bonus round) and $50,000 Grand Slam used more lights than any of these.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 09:27 PM\']I actually always wondered about those lights. On the contestant island, there were sets of chasing lights that appeared more like "rings" than anything. Anyone have any clue how that light pattern was done?
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Yeah. The "ring" is a plastic translucent diffuser. The actual bulb is underneath it, and when it lights up, it illuminates the entire diffuser.
Lots of electronic produicts have something similar. Unfortunately the best example I can think of off of the top of my head is a Game Boy Advance, and I would imagine not too many of y'all have opened those up. :)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 21 2005, 01:17 AM\']Lots of electronic produicts have something similar. Unfortunately the best example I can think of off of the top of my head is a Game Boy Advance, and I would imagine not too many of y'all have opened those up. :)
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Not unless you installed one of those 3rd party backlights for them....
ObGameShow: WoF was made for the original GameBoy. :)
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 11:27 PM\']I actually always wondered about those lights. On the contestant island, there were sets of chasing lights that appeared more like "rings" than anything. Anyone have any clue how that light pattern was done?
No, I'm not off my meds.
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I'm not sure if I'm understanding what you mean, but I think I do because I always thought that they were neon circles or something. You can see that they are large clear round bulbs (like the ones in bathroom vanity light fixtures) because they are open on each end. If you look closely, you can see the 'banks' of bulbs when the turntable spins. I think the "ring" effect is created by the frosted panels that overlay the bulbs.
I know this topic might seem dumb, but I've always been facinated by lights and light patterns in game show sets and for that matter any of the 'nuts and bolts', how it works kinda stuff. It's cool! Ok, maybe I'm just distracted by shiny things.
Seriously, I'd love to know how it all works. Does a computer program the blinking patterns? How do they change them? (like 25K Pyramid did early in it's run).
I can imagine with sets being struck and moved over and over that bulbs would get smashed and/or burn out all the time. There had to have been a constant battle to keep them all working in shows with sets that had lots of lights.
I can remember HR87 having one bulb on the Big Number board that always seemed to be 'out'. It always stuck out like a sore thumb to me because the crawling lights would look strange in that area.
On a side note, some of the Dawson feud episodes have a streak of blue paint on the brown "rail" surrounding the board stage left. I always wondered if that was a quick repair job done before a taping.
ITSBRY
itsbry@juno.com
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I always thought that "Face The Music" needed just a couple more chase lights on the set.
Then again... maybe not. :-)
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[quote name=\'bossjock967\' date=\'Jan 21 2005, 10:56 AM\']I always thought that "Face The Music" needed just a couple more chase lights on the set.
Then again... maybe not. :-)
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The just needed chase lights that actually worked. (especially behind the door Ron walked out of).
Regarding Face the Music's lights... For the first season and half of the second, the lighted arches behind the band were different from those behind the contestant, in that every other light in the series stayed on continuously. They also didn't dim down like the rest of the lights did. I had assumed that this was maybe so the band could have extra lighting because they didn't turn on the stage lights in that area unless the band was shown on camera playing. This made them look very out of place when chasing because they just sorta skipped weirdly. Midway through the second season they changed them to work exactly like all of the rest of the lights and I was always curious about why they decided out of the blue to change it. It was about the same time that they started to give away Chrysler vehicles rather than Datsuns...
(Wow, way too much free time given to Face the Music lately) :)
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(Wow, way too much free time given to Face the Music lately) :)
Nothing wrong w/that! :-)
Chuck Donegan (The FtM-Loving "Chuckie Baby")