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Post by WooWho on Apr 20, 2013 15:12:12 GMT -5
Since we discuss it so much around here, I thought I'd throw it out there...what's your favorite wheel configuration used throughout the years? Any season, any round, any...you get the idea. Mine happens to be this one (apologies to wheelgenius for reposting the photo here):  |
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Post by MarioGS on Apr 20, 2013 15:31:19 GMT -5
Definitely the '86-'96 R4 configuration. Second place goes to the current R4 layout.
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Post by WarioSajak on Apr 21, 2013 1:40:53 GMT -5
Late-1986 daytime Round 3. My personal love for daytime Wheel aside, the color overhaul is when the Wheel finally found itself, and no further changes were made to the daytime layouts (barring the introduction and later removal of the Jackpot wedge) until the move to CBS in '89.
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Post by germanname1990 on Apr 21, 2013 21:01:17 GMT -5
That's a really good question. I probably would have to say the nighttime layouts used from late 1989 to early 1994. Among those, perhaps the round 4 layout from then. The daytime layouts, especially the one's with $650, $850, and $1250. Still trying to figure out from those.
As for set pieces, the rug layout with two Lose A Turns along with the ones used on the Bonus Podium from 1989-1992.
Intro layouts: The 1996 concrete Wheel as well as the one used in 2004 with the $1500 and $2000 spaces.
As for the game layouts, no doubt the Live Play prototype layout from 2004 with the purple $10,000 and pink $5000 (that's the reason why I wanted that game and still do). Second place in that group would probably be the Game Gear layouts.
International ones would be broad, but I would say the British layouts used in 1988 (with the 350-point spaces) and 2001 (with the Miss A Turn and 500 Gamble) along with the French layouts from 1993 (I know only two of them so far).
I certainly have quite a ton of favorites, but if it's only the layouts used in play on the show, I'd go with the round 4 layout from the late 80s to mid 90s.
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Post by StrangerCoug on Apr 22, 2013 11:42:34 GMT -5
Domestically, the last layouts from before they made it single-template. (I think my occasional calls to bringing back $1,500 as a wedge menas that Round 4 is the best of them all.) Internationally, it's a tossup between Germany's wheels while in Adlershof and Australia's wheels from 1992 to 1996.
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Post by WooWho on Apr 27, 2013 18:43:01 GMT -5
Actually, I liked the color scheme from the R3 wheel on the '96 nighttime layout the best, but the current color scheme is pretty up there as well...
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Post by gameshowguy2000 on Apr 27, 2013 19:09:41 GMT -5
Well, some said the 1996 template's color scheme was too bright, others say it was too pastel. My vote goes to 1986-1996 Round 3, given the beautiful colors on it...and $250-$400-$500 looked much better than $500-$400-$250 in terms of color (and I'm going clockwise here with the values hit).
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Post by germanname1990 on Apr 27, 2013 20:43:57 GMT -5
Considering that the $500-$400-$250 had another purple space just three spaces away from the $250, GameShowGuy2000, I agree with you.
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