Here is a link to "game show" releated stuff at Target:

http://www.target.com/gp/browse.html/ref=i...&size=19&page=1

Some of the illustrations are prototype boxes, and most of the stuff was already mentioned in previous posts. New to the list is a new Deluxe WOF game, listed as available online, but not in stores.

BTW, I was in Toys R Us last night, and they had the DOND TABLETOP electronic game there for $29.99! Some copies have turned up recently on eBay, with much higher winning bids, and a couple of sellers have offered "Buy it Now," options from $75 to $150!!

Proving once again that there is no shortage of fools waiting to be separated from their money.

Pull an XBox 360 and buy in bulk to make a profit. :P

And I just purchased the tabletop game from Toys R Us on the way home from the airport. Capitalism or no capitalism?

I was looking for the handheld Deal game at TRU. Has anybody seen that in stores?

Yea? How does the game play? With four players I mean. Are there fancy sound effects and music and witty banker comments? and one more question, did you happen to see the DVD game at TRU? because I called them and asked if they had it on Tuesday, the clerk said she had it, I said are you sure it's the DVD game, she said oh yea it is, I get there and she holds the board game, grrrrr. She acted so proud of herself too. Anyhoo sorry 'bout my rant, it was just frustrating. Gonna check again next week.

New Deluxe WoF for $15!?!? Count me in! I'd take one just for a new edition and a new wheel, but they can go all-out and include Jackpot and Mystery. Would be cool. Oooooh.

-Jason

I doubt they would throw in the Jackpot and Mystery wedge spaces, because we're talking about Pressman, who, so far, has only repackaged their stuff in new colors.

Yeah, well, if you would have bothered to take 3 seconds to read the item description, you would see that it states:
"Deluxe spinner wheel offers interchangeable sections and 160 puzzles".

Furthermore, your own argument is faulty...as according to Matt O's page, Pressman did the original deluxe games...so if they did, as you say, a "repackage"...the game would still have wedges.

One too many trips to Alton Heights, hmm?

It's really good to see Pressman re-release the Deluxe version again, a game I played many a time as a kid.

And yes, Pressman did the Deluxe games, they had 6 interchangable wedges, and the same puzzle board as the regular version. However, the puzzle cards were made out of cardboard (instead of paper in the basic version), and it included a money tray (that had a little lowered area to hold the crayon.

I'll be sure to pick it up, and if it's the same (only with updated amounts and colors of the wheel) as it was back in the 80s (which it looks like) then $15 is a good deal. :)

1986 had interchangeable wedges.
2006 is going to have "interchangeable sections".

Please explain to me the difference, because after seeing the "new" versions of Wheel and Jeopardy!, there's nothing there to prove to me that there will be significant change to the game's presentation.

EDIT: Sorry. I forgot to clarify. When I said spaces, I meant the spaces JasonA1 was referring to (Jackpot and Mystery wedge), saying that they wouldn't be packaged in the new game. Original post edited.

I'm sorry...am I late to the party, or did I miss the announcement of the Match Game DVD? I think I vaguely remember reading about this, but I honestly can't remember.

Seems to me that it was mentioned around the time of the Toy Fair earlier this year.

The "LMAD" DVD game is the surprise to me--I'm assuming that Monty taped new stuff for this, since that's a recent picture of him on the box.

The question is whether this is exclusive to Target or not. Target doesn't ship to Canada (unspurprisingly), but I'm getting dragged down to Watertown, NY for a family reunion next month. Anyone know if Walmart/KMart/KB carries it?

According to letsmakeadeal.com
"Coming later in 2006 - you can play the game at home - for fun and a large dose of nostalgia! Watch for the new Let's Make A Deal DVD Game featuring Monty Hall and clips of Let's Make A Deal shows broadcast in the 1970's and 1980's . From IMAGINATION - soon to be released - a new way to play Let's Make A Deal!"

I just received my Deluxe Wheel game today (July 31).

The good news: the game does contain 160 new puzzles, printed on heavier paper than the last standard edition.

The bad news: there are no add-on wedges for the wheel.

Are there still the slots in the Wheel for the wedges? I just find it stange that the description would include them, but they didn't happen.

So what the hell was this part refering to?

Does the actual game contents listing (or the instructions) say that it should include the "interchangable sections," and they were just mistakenly left out? Even Pressman's own website says that such sections are included with the game.

Good point, and not an uncommon mistake....the first shipments of Carcassonne: The City came with two too few wall segments...fortunately the folks at Rio Grande Games are great and were happy to not only ship me the two for my set, but two more for the set I bought as a Christmas gift for friends, and I didn't even have to open it to check to see if it was short too.

Pertaining to the wheel, while the blue plastic parts are the same shape as the old green ones (including the holes on the plastic wheel), the cardboard wheel top does not have any hole cutouts.

I checked the box back and the instruction book, and they also give no mention or picture of any add-on wedges.

I'm thinking that someone at Pressman may have copied the press release word-for-word from the copy for the original Deluxe Edition and simply ported it over to the description of the new one (i.e. an Endless-esque job). I wonder if those of us who bought the game could receive the "promised" add-on wedges if we ask Pressman about them.

So what you're saying is, you wonder if Pressman would do a print run of extra pieces, at great expense to them, none of which are mentioned in the game itself, only in a press release that a very small portion of their potential audience even saw to start with, just to make that very small segment of their audience happy?

Do you still want to ask that question?

Not really. Point taken.

Just got my new Deluxe WOF game today.

Truth be told, the loss of the extra wedges is a minor one. Besides, there are other things in this game that suck worse...such as the 30-space board incorporated in the recent versions of the game (ye gods, are they really that cheap they couldn't have just had the original 33-space board?) and that thrice-accursed promo Wheel that we see everywhere with the one Bankrupt, the Free Spin card eternally glued to the Wheel and the immortal (and really ghetto looking compared to the rest of the Wheel) $5,000 space. The joke is that unlike the cheaper editions, the Wheel looks REALLY good here. As a matter of fact it looks nicer than the older 80's-era Wheel replicas.

Which brings us to the Wheel replica itself. An aside: I recently bought a copy of the most-recent edition of the Aussie WOF, mostly to see their version of the Wheel replica. It was just like the 80's-era Wheels (except for the Aussie's somewhat bizarre Wheel values) down to the six extra wedges and their values: Bankrupt, $500, $900, $1000, $2500 and $5000 (the latter of which is REALLY strange since the $5000 space never made it to the Aussie show). What really sucked is that for whatever reason, the Aussie DIDN'T SPIN AT ALL; as a matter of fact, I had to bring in the base from my old First Edition Deluxe game to get it to even budge.

Not so with the new game. Older Wheels had simply spun around an elevated hub in the center of the base, basicaly lying flat on top of the base. As a result there were a lot of "spin-outs" where the Wheel scraped against the sides of the base, causing the Wheel to sputter to a sudden (and very noisy and annoying) stop. The Aussie game had this kind of Wheel and it wouldn't spin at all. In the new Wheel, there's an extra axle (and a hole for it in the base) which elevates the Wheel slightly and reduces friction (by keeping the Wheel in the center).

In short, the new Wheel spins, faster, easier and better than the old ones. Huzzah!

And if you absolutely have to have a different configruation on the Wheel, just do what I did: make your own in Powerpoint or some other program.

All in all, not bad for $15. :D

Excellent call, sir. The actual Wheel is replaced by changing out entire layouts, no reason this one shouldn't be, too. :)

Come to think of it, some years ago I made my own Wheel game out of cardboard, paper, colored pencils, a black marker, and glue. As part of it, I made some add-on wedges, which were affixed to the wheel by drafter's tape on the underside for the particular round. I could probably do the same thing for the Deluxe Wheel (using a computer this time), but the wedges would be much smaller than my original home-made ones.

By the way, I also noticed that the new Deluxe Wheel spins much better than the old one. I thought the old one I have (bought used on eBay late last year) had its axel broken; according to Joe, it appears not to be the case.

Also, when I made my reply to Chris's question about the extra expense of making new add-on wedges for the new Deluxe Wheel, I had forgotten at the time about how (I thought) the new game was made from the existing molds for the old game's parts, and that (if they hadn't lost or destroyed the add-on wedge molds) they could have easily made new add-on wedges for the new game without much new expense. Of course this point is now moot, since there appear to be changes made to the main plastic components themselves.

Perhaps Pressman is saving the extra plastic for a sixth category on the boards for a new Electric Jeopardy!? ;D

Not so much anymore. I went to a taping in '04 (kinda funny story about that, but I digress) and only certain wedges changed, but the way the wheel is now, it shouldn't be so surprising.

It's good that we finally have a wheel that spins. I have the Tyco version at home, and while it was an ambitious design, it just didn't work. I had to use my travel version.

My new Deluxe WOF came in on Monday as well...pretty much agree with what Mr. Ginkel stated...

One observation I'll make is that interestingly enough, if you look at the flip side of the wheel, you'll notice the same type of holes that were used for the add-on wedges in the previous WOF deluxe wheel are still there for this version, despite that the add-ons do not exist for this version (the holes are covered up on the front side). I would think that Pressman was originally planning on including the add-ons just as in the previous deluxe game but must have scrapped the idea at some point, and that could explain why the Target.com description has a mention of it. So if you happen to have the old Deluxe wheel with the old add-on wedges handy, you could try cutting or punching out the parts of the wheel that cover up the holes and stick these wedges onto the wheel; of course, you'll have to do the cutting and/or punching out very carefully so that you don't make your wheel unrecognizable.

Fred

It was moot anyhow, because "some expense" is a greater number than "no expense", and the expense incurred isn't EVEN close to the return they would get, tangible or otherwise, on that investment.

Speaking of moot points, given that they cost roughly the same, wouldn't anybody other than a collector be better off with the plug-and-play Jakks Pacific video version? You don't even need a host. It's swell.

Two different animals. That's like saying that the PC version of Risk is better than the board game because the PC version does all of the bookkeeping for you.

Yeah, but you don't need to work the goofy letter board to play Risk. And you don't need a host, which is pretty darn boring for W of F (as opposed to "Jeopardy!," when it's kind of fun).

While I'm hard pressed to figure out why one host is "boring" and another one "fun", you're still simply talking apples and oranges. There are reasons why different people would have different interests in different versions.

In "Jeopardy!" you get to read questions, at least, but I'll take your point.

Oh, being the host. Yeah, if your point was that it's more fun to host Jeopardy than Wheel, then I'll agree with that too.

Oops. My stinky grammar! But at least I capitalize letters!

Just an FYI to everyone....Match Game has been pulled from Target's website...does anyone have any info whats going on?

From my post on the Password DVD game, Randy West noted that production of a DVD game was starting soon, based on one of the Game Show Marathon programs, which led some to think it was going to be Match Game, but Randy has since informed it isn't MG!

I think maybe the game was just temporarily removed, because I think Target listed it as "arriving in 2 to 6 weeks," and maybe it will be a little longer. Just my thought.