I don't know, I would have loved to see the shimmering, I just figured it would be in the new one, I just didn't think any thing of it not being there, but if it was, well it would go, "oh way cool, it shimmers, just like in the show", its nothing more than eyecandy, but that is always a good thing to have, mind you, I rather a bugless game with little eye candy than a buggy game with a lot.
BTW, this new board looks great, an update was really in order, the old CGI Perl boards are on the way out.