Post by MarioGS on Jan 12, 2012 23:21:26 GMT -5
Just a small theory I thought of a while ago regarding a likely explanation as to why the second Bankrupt was narrow-lettered for a short time in season 14.
Even before the show began using a single Wheel template for the whole game, there has always been a second Bankrupt for at least one round. However, the second Bankrupt was always a part of the barren template. Here, it was most likely not realized until it was too late that if they were going to use a second Bankrupt eventually, they would need to make it an add-on wedge since it obviously wouldn't be on the template to begin with like before.
Not counting the "tokens", all add-ons were printed in the Clarendon font, including the top dollar value wedges since around 1988 (except for the "3" on the $3500 wedge starting in Season 14, which had changed from Clarendon to the usual number font). Also, other dollar value add-ons (which were then printed/painted in the normal number font for the most part) were no longer needed for increasing values for nighttime since the Bob Goen version used an entirely different layout. So, on such short notice, the best the graphics department could probably do was create a Bankrupt wedge in the style of a prize wedge, since they weren't capable of printing add-on wedges in the usual style in time.
So, yeah. Just a theory on why that odd Bankrupt came to be. Couldn't figure out how to make it short enough for the Wiki and felt like posting it here for anyone else who was mystified by it.
Even before the show began using a single Wheel template for the whole game, there has always been a second Bankrupt for at least one round. However, the second Bankrupt was always a part of the barren template. Here, it was most likely not realized until it was too late that if they were going to use a second Bankrupt eventually, they would need to make it an add-on wedge since it obviously wouldn't be on the template to begin with like before.
Not counting the "tokens", all add-ons were printed in the Clarendon font, including the top dollar value wedges since around 1988 (except for the "3" on the $3500 wedge starting in Season 14, which had changed from Clarendon to the usual number font). Also, other dollar value add-ons (which were then printed/painted in the normal number font for the most part) were no longer needed for increasing values for nighttime since the Bob Goen version used an entirely different layout. So, on such short notice, the best the graphics department could probably do was create a Bankrupt wedge in the style of a prize wedge, since they weren't capable of printing add-on wedges in the usual style in time.
So, yeah. Just a theory on why that odd Bankrupt came to be. Couldn't figure out how to make it short enough for the Wiki and felt like posting it here for anyone else who was mystified by it.
