Post by duke on Apr 28, 2024 20:27:40 GMT -5
Well it looks unlikely that I'll be able to do any prize wedge hunting today, because I've been busy making my first Oreo add-on wedge, which is easily three wedges worth of effort.
Why so much effort? Glitter wedges take a lot of extra effort to make, because the vinyl does not adhere to the glitter. Yet treating the surface with clear coat or similar kills the sparkle of the glitter. So, to make it adhere, I need to create a stamp of the wedge text, and then stamp a few coats of clear coat in the shape of the wedge text, and then apply the vinyl onto that. It's at least a 2 day process waiting for glues and paints to dry. Plus, for this wedge, I had to make and test brand new jigs and templates for working with the wedge slivers. I think that's the last bit of tooling needed, though, until I get to the double wedge.
They say it's gold colored... It's a really light gold, which can be seen if you look at screenshots of this wedge and the $5k wedge side by side. I'd call it more "champagne" colored than gold. Later ones seem a bit more saturated, much closer to a proper gold. I had two shades of gold glitter cardstock. I used the lighter one, though I might have preferred an even lighter shade.
Also, I seem to have found some discrepancy on the wiki... It states that this is the second version of the $10k wedge. However, according to video sources, this is the one that was used the night the wedge was introduced, [S12-E2206 1994-11-28 (Marilyn, Dale, Brenda)]. What the wiki calls the first version, was used the following night in [S12-E2207 1994-11-29 (Gordon, Brenda, Donna)]. Then they switched back to this one for at least the next few days (E2208-E2217), while the wiki claims the other version with the thinner dollar sign was used for at least the gameplay mechanic's first six days... not sure how to account for this discrepancy.
This one is not double-sided since the original two wedges were not double sided. I will make the double-sided versions later on.
As for the MDW... I have a confession, I kind of hate the MDW for a number of reasons. From a gameplay standpoint, it is way too hard to actually extract the $1M from MDW... It hasn't been won in syndicated in nearly 10 years, and has only been won 3 times in 16 years of syndication. Even putting four of them simultaneously the Celebrity Wheel doesn't seem to do much to increase $1M wins. Plus it does nothing toward helping to win the main game. This latter attribute also makes the wedge fairly useless for home play, where once you've already won a match, adding $1M to your match total doesn't have much meaning within one match, and is OP for a "Wheel Cup" series. From a design aesthetics standpoint, whereas the 10K wedge at least had a number in the middle slice, MDW is just a wall of text, with a whopping 26 characters. For all of these reasons, it might be a while before I make that one, probably not until I make my HD layout.
