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    Default Scrapheap Challenge

    I was doing the usual skim through the drivel on Saturday night TV last night after dinner and caught the end of a show called Scrapheap Challenge on ABC2.

    I don't recall seeing it in the TV guide before. Another enjoyable show from the Balmy Army by the look of it. I'll be trying to catch a full episode next week!

    http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/abc2/...008T183500.htm

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    Another good one is "Junk Yard Wars". We had it for a couple of seasons but then it just went away.

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    Saw an add for that Scap yard challenge. Looked like it could be fun. But then of course promptly forgot about it. Will certainly try to remember next week.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rrich View Post
    Another good one is "Junk Yard Wars". We had it for a couple of seasons but then it just went away.
    Been trying to remember the full title for the past day or so; thanks for completing it. It was one of my favourites while mostly made up of ad hoc teams. Then they went "professional" and seemed to involve casting agents and all that blather. I hope this one works out better.

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    I've seen both of them when we had Austar years back, and still reckon they could be my favourite shows of all time! Love 'em. Could even beat Mythbusters, as my dream job!!
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    quote"I was doing the usual skim through the drivel on Saturday night TV"

    and missig out on serious shed time?????

    suggestion:....move the tv

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    Maybe we (the forum -as in) could have our own junk challenge? Only we get a box of rubbish and swap or "Chris Cringle" with other members. WIPs of resulting .....objects? Exhibit at woodwork show. Best and worst mess. Hey!! Maybe get it shown on channel 31. (Melbourne community TV.) The team effect might work better to. Randomly draw out participents, or self nominated teams. (Handicaps worked out by combined years of woodwork experience.)
    Could be fun.
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    The Pommie and Seppo versions of these shows are both currently showing on Austar. There's another pommie one where they get given so much money 1,000 pounds I think to go and buy a car and all the bits they need to convert it into something like a boat or a lawn mower, that's pretty good to, pointless but fun.

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    On nice thing about Scrapheap is that it doesn't seem to be quite as safety conscious as the Yanks and Junkyard Wars. Some of the machines they've built, such as submersible cars, diving gear or "smash 'em bash 'em" dodgem cars wouldn't even be considered in the US shows.

    A few years back - '04 I think - in my favourite Scarpheap Challenge they built locomotives that had to pull an authentic railway carriage a set distance. One of the teams built a dinkum steam loco!

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    On nice thing about Scrapheap is that it doesn't seem to be quite as safety conscious as the Yanks

    Magnificent nutters, the British.
    Im with skew on that....like the time they built jet powered dragsters

    ...who knew you could build jet cars from 44 gallon drums, a few pipes and and an old BBQ gas bottle

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    Complete with afterburners, too!

    I'd forgotten that episode... it was another classic.
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    Love 'em.
    They are both on Foxtel too.

    they have built hovercraft, buldozers, trebuchets, pumpkin cannons, drag cars, drag sleds, underwater helmet/airpumps,
    Its pretty rare that it isnt totally entertaining.

    The one where they give them the 1000 pounds is always car based and they have to "make" cars to pass certain challenges and actually race at the same time. They have had submersables, articulated, 4wheel drive, 8wheel drive8wheel steer, mudracers.
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    i loved the junkyard wars.

    pitty we dont have digital tv might have to rethink that

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    Damn, you blokes get it good. All we get down here are the Paul Lennon Chronicles its all about how good? the government is.
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    Don't have Foxtel down that way?
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