Hasbro 2.0 game shows

[Honolulu Blue]

I'm bumping this old thread because this is the largest, most recent thread I could find dealing with the Hasbro shows.

 

I was on the Conquest last week and went to both Hasbro shows (7:30 PM, Tuesday and Thursday). Contrary to the opinion of most in this thread (and elsewhere, it seems), I enjoyed my experience both times.

 

Assistant CD Roly and CD staff member Rebecca helped warm up the crowd and were the captains of the respective teams. Cruise Director Mike was the host. For most of the cruise, I found him a typically droll British John Heald wannabe. But for this he surprised me by being genuinely enthusiastic. Enthusiasm is the name of the game here.

 

The weakest part, IMO, was the trivia questions used to select the members of the audience. The trivia questions were listed under various Hasbro games - Trivial Pursuit was straight trivia, Scattergories was trivia with a twist ("Name a musical instrument starting with the letter 'C'"), and the point of Guesstures was to guess what the person on the big screen was doing. I thought the trivia questions were mostly pretty easy and could have gotten many of them right in isolation. But...

 

Mike urged members of the audience who wanted to get selected to "act random". His words, not mine. And random seemed to be the word of the day. It reminded me of the contestants on "Let's Make a Deal", only without the crazy costumes (I don't want to give anyone any ideas...). Acting random is not my thing, and so I never participated. This is a good point to note that there were a fair number of children in the audience and some of them made it up on stage.

 

Once on stage, the two teams of four competed against each other in Hasbro games that were adapted to use for this game show. I saw four different games:

 

* Connect 4 - Like the board game, you need to get four in a row. Unlike the board game, you have to shoot your shot into the oversized board with balls that were roughly the size of basketballs.

 

* Simon Flash - Each team member was given a monitor to wear that had a single color on it. Then a pattern using all four colors flashed on the screen and each team had to arrange themselves - from left to right - with their colors in the same order that were on the screen. This was best of five, with the patterns flashing faster each time.

 

* Sorry Sliders - Not much like the board game except for the game pieces. Each person slid an oversized game piece along the floor that was marked with concentric circles that scored 1, 3, and 5 points. Part of the area outside the circle were marked "SORRY" and didn't score any points. The game was only scored once all the pieces were played. I know I'm not describing it very well, but I'm sure the Canadians in the audience would have found it awfully familiar.

 

* Operation Sam Dunk - Kind of like skee ball with each ball scoring points if they landed in spots that represented Sam's body. Each team had one minute to score as many points as possible.

 

After each game, the four members of each winning team would get a Monopoly EBM card and a seat in the front row. The losers would get a consolation prize (they looked like card games as opposed to full-sized board games) and be escorted offstage. After both games were completed, the eight people left would put their cards in the Monopoly EBM "machine" and receive a score. If their score was currently highest, they would stand on stage, to the side. If it wasn't good enough, they'd get a consolation prize. The last person standing would win a set of Hasbro games and a $150 gift certificate for more Hasbro games.

 

One thing I'd like to mention is that each show had a couple of short breaks. One break was for Mr. Potato Head - the old Head, where the box had body parts and you needed a real potato for the head. This was before my time, but I'm sure some members of the audience appreciated it more.

 

I found this show had that old game show appeal with enthusiastic audience members, willing contestants, and a sharp host. If you like watching game shows, it's probably worth giving it a shot. The show overall was pretty short - about 45 minutes.

[cruzinlisa]

We enjoyed it, but then again I am the type of person who loves the Game Show Network, the Price is Right, Let's Make a Deal, etc. I am also not the type of person who would normally be bored going to a musical, play or the opera. So yeah, I enjoyed it. But I can see where people who like more of a structured performance would be disappointed.

 

Now I noticed that this is an old thread, but I will still put in my 2 cents.

Edited October 5, 2014 by cruzinlisa