Rainwoman | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 04:58 am     Who thinks that box is as ugly as I do? I think BB needs to come up with a better design. It has absolutely no character, and I think it's too big. The houseguests struggle alot to carry that thing anyways.
Shout out your ideas! and hopefully we'll see something alot better next year. |
Gina8642 | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 05:25 am     Ugly? I don't know - but it is way too large and bulky. Every year the smaller women complain of strained backs from carrying it. I definately think they need something a little more portable, or they will lose a HG to a back injury. Something else is definately a good idea! |
Torch | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 05:53 am     I don't know? Being heavy could signify the heavy responsibility of nominating fellow houseguests for eviction. Nah, it's probably heavy because that's what the carpenter came up with. I do like the fomat though, because you can even send messages to fellow houseguests in the way you position the keys. I've been sitting here trying to think of different ways to do the same thing, but most thoughts are not as good as the present way. I do have one thought envolving cloth sacks with messages included, but it needs work. |
Dreamweaver | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 05:59 am     Why not just put the nomination box on a wheeled cart. No lifting and they could use it during the week for go cart races....... |
Tweety | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 06:19 am     I think they need the large box because of the size of the dinning room table at the beginning. But, maybe they could have a box that shrinks as the table shrinks . . . |
Needmylifeback | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 06:19 am     The simplest soulution would be for the HOH to put the keys in at the table (after a crew member placed the box there during lockdown) and this could happen because the HOH is the only one in the house when the keys happen...everyone else is on lockdown until the HOH calls them in...then it could be removed in the same way... I like the way the box looks.....but, my husbands hobby is working with wood and my home is filled with it... |
Dan | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 07:04 am     How about having smaller and smaller boxes with reduced number of key holes to be used in conjunction with the smaller and smaller tables? We would lose the effect of showing the reduction in number of HG but it would solve the size problem. |
Bastable | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 07:11 am     Watching the BB3 DVD last night made me realize that not only is the nomination box ugly this year (all those blue lights like the bottom of E.T.'s spaceship!), but the whole house is pretty nasty. Last year's house was gorgeous--the flagstone, the satiny fabrics, the DR that didn't look like it had been colonized by Tribbles. Last year's nomination box was smaller by one key, but it was also smaller by a considerable diameter. And it didn't light up. It was so much better. |
Prisonerno6 | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 07:17 am     I said in another thread that that house this year looks like it was designed by one of the bad designers on Trading Spaces. It not only looks bad, it looks uncomfortable to me. |
Iscreamer1 | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 07:21 am     The question is, why do the keys have to be so big and made of metal? If they made the keys smaller then the box could be smaller and lighter. Does the box light up this year? I hadn't noticed. |
Ezgoing | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 07:23 am     . |
Ezgoing | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 07:23 am     I agree! That nomination box is too heavy and cumbersome this year. I'm not a carpenter so my suggestion may not be as easy to do as I think it is, but couldn't a nom box be fashioned which has a smaller diameter and double rows of slots to place the keys? That way, it would serve the purpose of holding the maximum number of keys (first HOH has everyone's to consider) all the way down to this most recent HOH (only one key in the box)? I can see BB wanting to show how many empty slots there are as the game progresses, and this design serves that purpose without risking the HOH getting a hernia! Can you imagine if the HOH got a strained muscle from carrying the nom box which affected their ability to fully participate in veto/food/luxury comps?! (they can't compete in next HOH comp, otherwise I'd include that). Just a thought... |
Spunky | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 07:47 am     Dreamweaver got it... put it on wheels.. simple as that.. |
Earthmother | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 07:53 am     Okay this is getting reallllly bad..we have run out of things to bash the hgs and each other about and now we are going after the nomination box... |
Therlin | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 08:17 am     I actually like this nomination box better than the previous one. |
Cndeariso | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 08:27 am     It lights up? Wow! I hadn't noticed that. What causes it to light up or does it stay lit? You are correct though in that it is way too gangly for the folks to tote around. Why not do a square box with rows and numbered slots? It would take up so much less room. I also agree that this year's set is ugly as horse dung and very cheap looking. |
Rainwoman | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 01:29 pm     Earthmother, I thought the general discussions area was used to talk about "anything". Accept my sincerest apology.  |
Carrly | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 01:32 pm     Why not go a little high tech and use a laptop like Anderson Cooper used in the mole? The suspense of it all...! |
Cliotheleo | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 03:00 pm     What I have never understood is why they are so many key holes in the thing. I don't think they even fill them up when the house is full. It's just like the Communion trays at church, never in my life (and I'm a preacher's kid) have I ever seen one of those things full of cups! Must just be an aesthtetic thing. |
Cliotheleo | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 03:01 pm     And another thing.......... why does the HOH clump all the keys together? Why not spread them out? That annoys me about as much as the couch segments not being pushed together. But there I go being obsessive compulsive again. |
Spear | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 03:21 pm     Since the HOH makes a big deal about the key sequence, I guess they clump the keys together so that it's easy for the HGs to figure out which key to pull next. |
Cliotheleo | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 03:24 pm     Yeah, that's true. That's another thing I've thought about, how does the HOH ensure that the keys are pulled out in the correct direction? I bed part of the reason we get FOTH during that time is that they're rehearsing the key pulling! (ha ha!) |
Bastable | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 03:31 pm     Does anyone have an image to post that shows the nomination box with the lights in the top? |
Rainwoman | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 03:55 pm     I'd like to know that too Bastable, I never noticed that before either. |
Cliotheleo | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 03:56 pm     Are we sure it wasn't just the light reflecting off the keys? |
Spygirl | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 08:25 pm     Looks like the nom box got a starring role tonight! |
Reiki | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 08:28 pm     I think the slots on the top of the box are numbered which is why they always bunch up the keys like that. Never noticed any lights. |
Bastable | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 08:29 pm     Spygirl, that wasn't the same box--the keys were different, too, and there were only three slots. It did appear in the montage at the beginning, though, if that's what you meant. Clio--there are definitely blue glowing spots on the surface of the box, and it's not from the keys. |
Kaili | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 06:30 am     I never noticed it lights up! Maybe they should get a big foam, sponge nomination box. Or maybe just put slots in the table. |
Earthmother | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 10:03 am     It was meant as a joke Rainwoman...I rarely post something serious and I usually put a happy face or lol at the end...this time I forgot..my humor is an aquired taste...lol |
Gigglesalot | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 10:19 am     Didn't the houseguests pull the keys out in a random order in previous years? I thought the unveiling of keys one right after the other was new. Am I incorrect? |
Bbfanatic | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 10:22 am     i thought it was kind of funny that we discussed the nomination box yesterday. then last night they had a replica of it they were using for the hoh competition. |