>>"Some say the new BadBoy can
trace its roots to the standard Icon
fixture; likewise with the V676 and the Icon
Desk. "
Actually, the V676 is a direct descendant of the Virtuoso
console (and I believe uses much of the same code
base.) Additionally, the Bad Boy, is more of a
Vari-Lite progeny than Icon, using color and
gobo mechanisms similar to the VL-2c, and
zoom similar to the VL-7.
(it does stand to reason, since both the Bad Boy and V676 are being developed in Dallas, by engineers that used to work for
Vari-Lite, before the VL/VLPS split to Genlyte/
PRG)
A
bit of trivia... originally, a prototype of the VL-7 (circa 1997) used a liquid cooled
LCD system for
gobo images. Cooling was an issue, and the design was scrapped. The VL-7 's development took a different course, and the rest is history.
Just my $.02
RB