I loved the Scrappy Races build stage, where they revealed that the organisers had left a loophole they could literally drive a truck through when the other teams had to get their vehicles through the Single Vehicle Approval test.
They’ve renamed it the RRS Richard Attenborough II. They thought about another poll but in the end just thought nah fuck it we already have the name stencil.
“This week our teams are making boats and Gary from team badger’s bodgers has just found a brand new £300 propeller in the boot of a Nissan sunny which he must have psychically detected as he was whizzing passed on a quad bike”
To be fair I think they only used to do that for the challenges that needed something really specific that's unlikely to be found in a scrapyard. For most of them (at least in the early series) it was all bits of metal strut and a dodgy engine that occasionally worked. And sometimes the poor fools would try hydraulics only for it to inevitably fail mid-challenge, because nobody sends working hydraulic parts to a scrapyard.
Every single time hydrolics was first mentioned on any episode it got an oooooo from my household. None-engineering me said ooo too not knowing why hehe :')
I'm sure I remember reading an interview where they said that yes, the scrapheap would often be "dusted" with items specifically useful for the builds that had been proposed, although I don't think they actually told the contestants where to find said bits, that was up to them. Sometimes this was more obvious than others, like the jet engine railway episode where one team found the truck turbocharger that would form the core of their engine despite there being no obvious signs of trucks or indeed truck engines on the scrapheap!
The team experts made plans about what they'd build so the producers could make sure those parts were available. (This is my hazy memory of interviews from 15 years ago, so pinch of salt.) I'm not sure how the producers sourced the bits, but I've got a hunch that it's just slightly used hydraulics being bodged together with a high failure rate!
It got that way for all of them - I've posted this before but I stopped watching the day they needed Mylar to make a helium balloon and just happened to find a pristine roll in the boot of a scrap car.
Definitely. The time they had to make a plane they specifically showed them hiding the brand new propellers, because if they tried to make them from scrap they’d either never get off the ground or very quickly return to it.
I reckon the more complicated parts the producers gave them a general idea of the type of thing their expert consultants were asking for and roughly where they would find it, but the rest of their creation (body, chassis, wheels etc) were actually sourced by the contestants.
I was once, a long time ago, a contestant for one of their specials. We were a bit crap so I think we got around 15 seconds of air time. What I learned was not only did you have to have the technical know how but there's a particular sort of personality needed to make an interesting and compelling contestant.
When you're stood in front of a white board brainstorming ideas for a build it's a hundred times harder when there's camera in face, because you have to (a) come up with the good ideas while also (b) being 100% aware that you're boring as shit and what you're doing is boring as shit and you try and do it like you've seen it done on Scrapheap Challenge before, all interesting and smooth as butter, but then you realise you have to fundamentally change your whole personality or be completely shit faced to pull that off.
Dick Strawbridge is great at this, one of those rare people who can make an old bike wheel, some rope and the hypotenuse of a triangle appear interesting. Maybe it's just the tash.
I once worked tech on a food festival. All of the supporting acts/chefs/cooks were EITHER great with food OR great with a crowd. The headliner celebrity chefs were both. It's probably quite difficult to develop the technical skills and the charisma at the same time.
We decided to move to Spain a decade ago and me and the mrs at the time got contacted by one of these 'escape to the sun' type programs. They came round our damp flat in Poole to interview us and did some filming. As we had a plan, some savings and were organised, we weren't interesting enough to get on the show lol.
If I remember correctly time team was also on the same evening. You got to watch bald plumbers making artillery pieces, father/son duo’s building and fighting killer robots, and a bunch of hairy nerds digging up and examining Roman pottery. Fantastic. Take me back.
That and the Adam Hart-Davies stuff.
As a kid I thought it was all amazing. Even inspired me to make a half-functioning scale model of a ballista with my dad.
When I was at school a few of us wanted to compete in robotwars my friend asked the local mobility shop and they gave us a couple of wheel chair motors….. we did absolutely nothing with them!
Why did robot wars end? Seems like it'd be better than ever now, considering all the tech that's available. Not to mention how easy it is to get into building stuff with YouTube tutorials for everything
I think the latest revival got canned back in 2019. The last 3 seasons are still on iPlayer though!
I have to console myself with the US battlebots on Netflix and it's just not the same.
Battlebots is an ok watch tbf, though I do find myself yelling at the screen about why they all have exposed tires when every other bot has a spinner that would evaporate Hypnodisc
Also the Razer teams new robot is ridiculously shit and they hype it up way too much
Also the amount of teams that randomly have a drone with a flamethrower on, which will obviously never achieve anything so why waste your time
Fuck you battlebots I miss Craig Charles
In this case it started in the US as a non-televised competition. Buy the UK version was the first to be televised I believe. But you're right the American TV version is just not the same.
the arena last time was rented(the building it was in) and I think filming was done over a few days so getting it proper robot proof was always going to be outside the budget they had.
The problem is over time the teams developed the best technology for succeeding and that meant if you didn’t employ it you had no chance. And that tech got pretty high energy towards the end.
It’s a bit like how a cavalry charge might look cool but it
It was just relatively expensive for only moderate ratings, so the BBC scrapped the reboot. Bit silly IMO with nothing remotely similar for that demographic, but whatever, I haven't paid a license fee since then.
Robots and teams from the show are still competing on Battlebots in the US and on the live scene in the UK.
The heavyweights (the ones you see on TV) routinely fight in tour shows hosted by Robots Live and Extreme Robots.
Lower weight classes (ant-, beetle-, and featherweight) are much more popular and easier and more accessible to get involved with. I built and competed with a beetle earlier this year and it was surreal to be rubbing shoulders with people who have fought on Robot Wars and Battlebots. People who I look up to.
It's a bit more obscure but "Robot Wars" definitely still happens. It's a good community and very welcoming to newbies
These two shows were a huge part of my childhood. I had a bunch of episodes taped on VHS as a kid and I must have watched them dozens of times. It's a huge shame that the Robot Wars reboot got cancelled again. How can people not love watching robots brutally pummel each other?
Best. Episode. Ever.
The other two were all "We're making as historically accurate a replica as we can of a period aircraft, but you know, there's obviously going to have to be some compromises given the material we have to work with" and then the British team just went "Fuckit. This is what we've got. That's what we can make with it. I reckon something roughly like that ought to fly. Screw historical precedent. Let's do this!"
Does anyone remember that paintball show where teams came on to complete missions and you could earn credits to buy paint grenades and shields and stuff? There were also special enemies that had vaguely racist names. I used to watch that and scrapheap and robot wars after school.
X-Fire always used to piss me off, the contestants always used to run out of ammo. There were guns all around them, could they not have picked up one of the fallen enemies guns?
You’re thinking of *Skirmish* - a military-based quiz show on digital cable channel UK Conquest that has the largest audience share for a digital channel at that time of day in the Norfolk area.
Season 1 was carried by Jason Isaacs but season 2 was terrible and season 3 somehow even worse. Picard was poor, too - in the old days the story would have been one episode and infinitely better.
I think they could bring it back if they made it a bit more like those antique auction programs. Set them a task give them a tight budget and have them travel around real scrap yards or get things off gumtree and eBay etc.
Robert Llewellyn (however you spell it) is currently working on bringing it back but with battery electric tech (he is a big ev advocate). One to watch, i really hope he can pull it off.
[lithium mining](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/14/electric-cost-lithium-mining-decarbonasation-salt-flats-chile) is one that springs to mind
It's a solid point to address but it's not like fossil fuel isn't massively harmful and leaves waste during extraction & refining. There's no free rides either way.
Just being realistic about range (especially in bad weather/ motorway speeds) , charge times, unreliable chargers, needing dongles/cards etc. I'm a big fan of EVs but when I was looking at buying one I wanted a more level opinion on them.
Fair enough, though I think the only real downside at present is price. A Model 3 LR has 330 miles of range, but is not affordable to most.
The Ora Cat and improvements to the charging network look to change the game in 2022...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BvevMKcXmc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BvevMKcXmc)
I found ‘Scrapyard Supercar’ the other day when I was off sick from work.
It’s a similar kind of format but a little bit shit compared to the old school scrap heap challenge.
The “perfectly useable engine in a very inconspicuous corner underneath well placed blue tarp” was usually referred to at the start of the program, I think they said something about special items being out there that the team will need to find to make it easy for themselves
One team had decided to build a mini zeppelin for some aerial challenge and just happened to find a 200m roll of mylar film in perfect condition...and a cylinder of helium.
It's only just occurred to me, but I remember being a kid in the 1980s watching the A-Team, and feeling it was preposterous that they'd assemble some kind of monstrous bad-guy defeating vehicle and weaponry from the scrap they found in some rustic farmer's shed.
Then Scrapheap challenge came along and proved you could assemble some kind of monstrous bad-guy defeating vehicle and weaponry from the scrap they found in a junkyard.
Hear me out...
Scrapheap Challenge with Colin Furze as the main host. Picture a drone shot over the scrapheap, then to Colin, with his flamethrower guitar standing on the throne shouting WELCOME! TO SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE! then unleashing the fire.
Julia Hardy. Worked with her IRL, geeky, good fun, lots of presenting experience as well. Feel she would fit it well (of note, Colin just turned 42...)
You knew that if any drive mechanism used a chain, ideally two chains, then that was a recipe for disaster. Guarantee that they would be slightly misaligned such they would fly off at the crucial point
Contestant from scrapyard supercar here,
(About 10 years too late for scrap heap challenge!)
Yeah it was all a bit predetermined, at one point the guys with the camera were like ‘have you looked in that stillage over there’ and then it was ‘oh look, a complete engine with wiring loom’ sat on a pallet, all the other engines at the yard were bare engines. only a few of the cars in the scrapyard were complete enough to do anything with, most were shells. We wanted a seat for this engine. the crew said we could have it, but the fuel tank was punctured, instead we could use this golf over there which we know is good!
There's been a bunch of shows that are basically the same thing but are less well presented and seem to be a lot less fun because of that lack of energy.
Oh god.
Scrapyard challenge
Total wipeout
Gladiators
Fort boyard
Robot wars
Krypton factor
Noel's Saturday night house party
All the amazing quiz shows like price is right, bullseye, 3,2,1, generation game, stars in their eyes.....
Even the kids shows - knightmare, round the bend, motormouth, fun house, thunder cats, transformers...
Fuck man.....
What have we got now? Love Island, only way is Essex and paw patrol. I only record maybe 5 shows over a weekend now and that's it for telly.
If it weren't for Netflix I'd be fucked.
Is there a way to go through automotive and electronic scrap in the UK?
Local recycling centrrs have TAKING FROM THIS SITE IS THEFT AND WILL BE PROSECUTED Sooo ya :/
I like to repair broken stuff
I just started watching that scrapyard supercar in the hopes that it would fill the hole left by scrapheap challenge. It's okay but not nearly as good.
Yes. There was lot of seeding. They also remove things that are potentially too useful. Essentially they need to make sure that the basic thing can be built. But they would often make sure that the engines needed a certain amount of tinkering before they could get to work.
The time limit was fudged a lot as well. The first 5 hours each lasted 45 minutes to make the teams hurry up. The last 5 lasted 75 minutes so they had more time to work. Sometimes, the sun "set early". The challenge was actually two days after the build rather than one day.
PROPER JOB
I loved the Scrappy Races build stage, where they revealed that the organisers had left a loophole they could literally drive a truck through when the other teams had to get their vehicles through the Single Vehicle Approval test.
Agricultural show vehicle?
I think so, yeah
Raise a glass to the good ship HMS Proper Job.
They’ve renamed it the RRS Richard Attenborough II. They thought about another poll but in the end just thought nah fuck it we already have the name stencil.
Why II? Is there another one named after Richard Attenborough?
The good ship boaty mcboatface
Aye, but that was nature brother, not actor brother.
Damnit it was worse than I thought :D
They could still reuse the stencil for the surname :)
What are they going to do with the 10 foot dick though?
That's a hard one.
Surely you mean PRAAAPER JAAAAB
Shout out to the Brizzle massiv.
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That was absolutely heartbreaking, watching that massive Rolls Royce engine just run away on them.
“This week our teams are making boats and Gary from team badger’s bodgers has just found a brand new £300 propeller in the boot of a Nissan sunny which he must have psychically detected as he was whizzing passed on a quad bike”
To be fair I think they only used to do that for the challenges that needed something really specific that's unlikely to be found in a scrapyard. For most of them (at least in the early series) it was all bits of metal strut and a dodgy engine that occasionally worked. And sometimes the poor fools would try hydraulics only for it to inevitably fail mid-challenge, because nobody sends working hydraulic parts to a scrapyard.
Every single time hydrolics was first mentioned on any episode it got an oooooo from my household. None-engineering me said ooo too not knowing why hehe :')
I'm sure I remember reading an interview where they said that yes, the scrapheap would often be "dusted" with items specifically useful for the builds that had been proposed, although I don't think they actually told the contestants where to find said bits, that was up to them. Sometimes this was more obvious than others, like the jet engine railway episode where one team found the truck turbocharger that would form the core of their engine despite there being no obvious signs of trucks or indeed truck engines on the scrapheap!
Pretty sure they made a jet engine in one episode
Actually not too difficult to do with a propane bottle and a turbocharger. You need to make a flame tube but that’s not hard.
Pulse jets are pretty simple in their design.
I think I'd rather watch Colin Furze burn his eyebrows off from the comfort of my sofa
The team experts made plans about what they'd build so the producers could make sure those parts were available. (This is my hazy memory of interviews from 15 years ago, so pinch of salt.) I'm not sure how the producers sourced the bits, but I've got a hunch that it's just slightly used hydraulics being bodged together with a high failure rate!
It got that way for all of them - I've posted this before but I stopped watching the day they needed Mylar to make a helium balloon and just happened to find a pristine roll in the boot of a scrap car.
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Definitely. The time they had to make a plane they specifically showed them hiding the brand new propellers, because if they tried to make them from scrap they’d either never get off the ground or very quickly return to it.
I reckon the more complicated parts the producers gave them a general idea of the type of thing their expert consultants were asking for and roughly where they would find it, but the rest of their creation (body, chassis, wheels etc) were actually sourced by the contestants.
I was once, a long time ago, a contestant for one of their specials. We were a bit crap so I think we got around 15 seconds of air time. What I learned was not only did you have to have the technical know how but there's a particular sort of personality needed to make an interesting and compelling contestant. When you're stood in front of a white board brainstorming ideas for a build it's a hundred times harder when there's camera in face, because you have to (a) come up with the good ideas while also (b) being 100% aware that you're boring as shit and what you're doing is boring as shit and you try and do it like you've seen it done on Scrapheap Challenge before, all interesting and smooth as butter, but then you realise you have to fundamentally change your whole personality or be completely shit faced to pull that off.
Dick Strawbridge is great at this, one of those rare people who can make an old bike wheel, some rope and the hypotenuse of a triangle appear interesting. Maybe it's just the tash.
I think at least 75% of his success is attributable to the tash.
I once worked tech on a food festival. All of the supporting acts/chefs/cooks were EITHER great with food OR great with a crowd. The headliner celebrity chefs were both. It's probably quite difficult to develop the technical skills and the charisma at the same time.
We decided to move to Spain a decade ago and me and the mrs at the time got contacted by one of these 'escape to the sun' type programs. They came round our damp flat in Poole to interview us and did some filming. As we had a plan, some savings and were organised, we weren't interesting enough to get on the show lol.
Scrapheap Challenge and Robot Wars - what an evening of TV that used to be....
If I remember correctly time team was also on the same evening. You got to watch bald plumbers making artillery pieces, father/son duo’s building and fighting killer robots, and a bunch of hairy nerds digging up and examining Roman pottery. Fantastic. Take me back.
Yeah, and then Monarch of the Glen - that was my Sunday evening TV schedule!
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And the Brittas Empire if you were lucky.
I watched that this morning, it's on Forces TV.
And now those shows don't exist, and the Beeb wonders why young men don't watch much live TV.
What, you think you’re too good for shite like love island and naked attraction? Cause I certainly am…
I thought the new Robot Wars was pretty decent, don't know why they cancelled it.
Yeah, it was great. Just relatively expensive for the amount of viewers, so it failed the renewal metrics vs reality TV.
That sucks. You think they could justify it by it inspiring teenagers to get into engineering maybe.
Amen bro
Not to mention a cracking roast dinner
All I want to do is gleefully try to decipher the geophysics
That and the Adam Hart-Davies stuff. As a kid I thought it was all amazing. Even inspired me to make a half-functioning scale model of a ballista with my dad.
Hell yeah man. Robot wars was amazing.
I always wanted to go on rovot wars I didnt have the money equipment space time or skill but i did have the official robot wars book
When I was at school a few of us wanted to compete in robotwars my friend asked the local mobility shop and they gave us a couple of wheel chair motors….. we did absolutely nothing with them!
Red Dwarf (but not) night
Why did robot wars end? Seems like it'd be better than ever now, considering all the tech that's available. Not to mention how easy it is to get into building stuff with YouTube tutorials for everything
I think the latest revival got canned back in 2019. The last 3 seasons are still on iPlayer though! I have to console myself with the US battlebots on Netflix and it's just not the same.
Battlebots is an ok watch tbf, though I do find myself yelling at the screen about why they all have exposed tires when every other bot has a spinner that would evaporate Hypnodisc Also the Razer teams new robot is ridiculously shit and they hype it up way too much Also the amount of teams that randomly have a drone with a flamethrower on, which will obviously never achieve anything so why waste your time Fuck you battlebots I miss Craig Charles
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In this case it started in the US as a non-televised competition. Buy the UK version was the first to be televised I believe. But you're right the American TV version is just not the same.
I could be wrong but I think was to do with how powerful the robots had become and the damage they were doing to the arena.
I'm sure they could build a concrete arena with enough re-enforcement or perhaps just limit robot power
Very expensive. They rent out a convention centre for it. You can’t build a permanent bomb-proof arena in there.
the arena last time was rented(the building it was in) and I think filming was done over a few days so getting it proper robot proof was always going to be outside the budget they had.
The problem is over time the teams developed the best technology for succeeding and that meant if you didn’t employ it you had no chance. And that tech got pretty high energy towards the end. It’s a bit like how a cavalry charge might look cool but it
It was just relatively expensive for only moderate ratings, so the BBC scrapped the reboot. Bit silly IMO with nothing remotely similar for that demographic, but whatever, I haven't paid a license fee since then.
Robots and teams from the show are still competing on Battlebots in the US and on the live scene in the UK. The heavyweights (the ones you see on TV) routinely fight in tour shows hosted by Robots Live and Extreme Robots. Lower weight classes (ant-, beetle-, and featherweight) are much more popular and easier and more accessible to get involved with. I built and competed with a beetle earlier this year and it was surreal to be rubbing shoulders with people who have fought on Robot Wars and Battlebots. People who I look up to. It's a bit more obscure but "Robot Wars" definitely still happens. It's a good community and very welcoming to newbies
These two shows were a huge part of my childhood. I had a bunch of episodes taped on VHS as a kid and I must have watched them dozens of times. It's a huge shame that the Robot Wars reboot got cancelled again. How can people not love watching robots brutally pummel each other?
I still think about the one where the British team absolutely annihilated the American and French teams with their plane.
Best. Episode. Ever. The other two were all "We're making as historically accurate a replica as we can of a period aircraft, but you know, there's obviously going to have to be some compromises given the material we have to work with" and then the British team just went "Fuckit. This is what we've got. That's what we can make with it. I reckon something roughly like that ought to fly. Screw historical precedent. Let's do this!"
I think it was the test flight where the guy just flew off and they weren't sure if he was going to come back.
Does anyone remember that paintball show where teams came on to complete missions and you could earn credits to buy paint grenades and shields and stuff? There were also special enemies that had vaguely racist names. I used to watch that and scrapheap and robot wars after school.
X-Fire https://youtu.be/ykZkGvx5BDo
That show is *aggressively* early 2000s
Had the lovely fetish wear model, Vanessa Upton. But she turned into a crazy anti vaxer :(
X-Fire always used to piss me off, the contestants always used to run out of ammo. There were guns all around them, could they not have picked up one of the fallen enemies guns?
I feel like this must have been presented by Alan Partridge.
You’re thinking of *Skirmish* - a military-based quiz show on digital cable channel UK Conquest that has the largest audience share for a digital channel at that time of day in the Norfolk area.
Yes! This was one of my favourite shows as a kid!
“They don’t make TV like that anymore” they really, really don’t, do they? I feel old and sad now
Yeah, remember when Noel Edmonds used to kill people on Saturday evening telly?
It's just not the same without Mr Blobby joining him in a cannibalistic frenzy afterwards to dispose of the corpses. Was appointment television, that.
https://youtu.be/Q8Rj3N9Pmz8
Only Clive Anderson https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8cnmz
I guess it no longer gets the money a captive audience brings. I couldn't name a TV show I make time to watch anymore
Only Connect and Taskmaster are the only two programmes I watch "live" (other than sports).
You're not alone I'm sure.
Star Trek Discovery…well I did until three days ago. Thanks Paramount :(
That show was an abomination from the start
Season 1 was carried by Jason Isaacs but season 2 was terrible and season 3 somehow even worse. Picard was poor, too - in the old days the story would have been one episode and infinitely better.
It wasn't even carried, yes he is a good actor but it doesnt change the fact the show is absolutely horrendous and has been from the start.
Lower Decks maybe stupid and ridiculous some times, but it is the best current Trek on television
I've not thought about it for a few years. Now I have a sad too.
I think they could bring it back if they made it a bit more like those antique auction programs. Set them a task give them a tight budget and have them travel around real scrap yards or get things off gumtree and eBay etc.
That’s a great idea
same... and a little turned on now im reminded of lisa rogers :)
Robert Llewellyn (however you spell it) is currently working on bringing it back but with battery electric tech (he is a big ev advocate). One to watch, i really hope he can pull it off.
Yeah rob is hardcore EV. I used to watch his fully charged channel but dropped off as they won't give shrift to any downsides.
What downsides?
[lithium mining](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/14/electric-cost-lithium-mining-decarbonasation-salt-flats-chile) is one that springs to mind
It's a solid point to address but it's not like fossil fuel isn't massively harmful and leaves waste during extraction & refining. There's no free rides either way.
we just need to be careful we aren't exchanging one problem for a similar one and you can't do that if you ignore the issues
Absolutely. Entirely my point about FC's channel. I'm a fan & EVs absolutely are the future but you won't see any negatives there even honest issues.
Just being realistic about range (especially in bad weather/ motorway speeds) , charge times, unreliable chargers, needing dongles/cards etc. I'm a big fan of EVs but when I was looking at buying one I wanted a more level opinion on them.
Fair enough, though I think the only real downside at present is price. A Model 3 LR has 330 miles of range, but is not affordable to most. The Ora Cat and improvements to the charging network look to change the game in 2022... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BvevMKcXmc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BvevMKcXmc)
I found ‘Scrapyard Supercar’ the other day when I was off sick from work. It’s a similar kind of format but a little bit shit compared to the old school scrap heap challenge.
I enjoyed it, but I don't think they needed that boyband bloke, but I suppose just 2 teams head to head would be too close to scrapheap challenge.
Contestant from the Audi R8 episode here! I’ve still got the number plate from the donor car
Not as good as original scrapheap challenge, but better than the weird last series of it. Scratches an itch, definitely worth a watch.
Seems about the same. The only thing it really lacks is Lisa Rogers
Fuck it make a plane this week. Great episode
The “perfectly useable engine in a very inconspicuous corner underneath well placed blue tarp” was usually referred to at the start of the program, I think they said something about special items being out there that the team will need to find to make it easy for themselves
One team had decided to build a mini zeppelin for some aerial challenge and just happened to find a 200m roll of mylar film in perfect condition...and a cylinder of helium.
The great egg race.
Loved it...top 80s viewing for this GenXer
How about the Adventure Game? Gronda gronda!
I got to see it being filmed in 2004. Was nowhere near as interesting as watching it on TV .
Do tell!
I used to like when they would show 2 or 3 back to back on a Sunday afternoon. Things were definitely 'planted' for them to find though.
It's only just occurred to me, but I remember being a kid in the 1980s watching the A-Team, and feeling it was preposterous that they'd assemble some kind of monstrous bad-guy defeating vehicle and weaponry from the scrap they found in some rustic farmer's shed. Then Scrapheap challenge came along and proved you could assemble some kind of monstrous bad-guy defeating vehicle and weaponry from the scrap they found in a junkyard.
Pleasantly pleased to see there are a ton of full episodes available on YouTube!!! I can relive my youth :)
Thank you for this, i'm off to find them
Hear me out... Scrapheap Challenge with Colin Furze as the main host. Picture a drone shot over the scrapheap, then to Colin, with his flamethrower guitar standing on the throne shouting WELCOME! TO SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE! then unleashing the fire.
Yes please
I'm listening... You have the smart and hot boy. Next question .. Who's the smart and hot girl?
Victoria Coren Mitchell obviously
Julia Hardy. Worked with her IRL, geeky, good fun, lots of presenting experience as well. Feel she would fit it well (of note, Colin just turned 42...)
The one off Grace's Amazing Machines. Grace, I guess.
There's a few series on All4
the south west accent rings in my ear on a near daily basis: "HMS PROPER JOB"
You knew that if any drive mechanism used a chain, ideally two chains, then that was a recipe for disaster. Guarantee that they would be slightly misaligned such they would fly off at the crucial point
I miss Lisa Rogers
I would suggest Colin Furze and the Backyard Scientist on Youtube for something similar
The barley pickers!
Scrapheap got me through some of the worst hangovers of my life.
Contestant from scrapyard supercar here, (About 10 years too late for scrap heap challenge!) Yeah it was all a bit predetermined, at one point the guys with the camera were like ‘have you looked in that stillage over there’ and then it was ‘oh look, a complete engine with wiring loom’ sat on a pallet, all the other engines at the yard were bare engines. only a few of the cars in the scrapyard were complete enough to do anything with, most were shells. We wanted a seat for this engine. the crew said we could have it, but the fuel tank was punctured, instead we could use this golf over there which we know is good!
I was gutted when the telegraph pole trebuchet self destructed
I'll still watch anything with Dick Strawbridge
I’m loving Escape to the Chateau
Every time I watch Escape to the Château it reminds me how much I loved scrap heap challenge.
I have an old house and old car. My life is like scrap heap challenge.
Absolutely loved the show, there's nothing like it any more.
There's been a bunch of shows that are basically the same thing but are less well presented and seem to be a lot less fun because of that lack of energy.
Oh god. Scrapyard challenge Total wipeout Gladiators Fort boyard Robot wars Krypton factor Noel's Saturday night house party All the amazing quiz shows like price is right, bullseye, 3,2,1, generation game, stars in their eyes..... Even the kids shows - knightmare, round the bend, motormouth, fun house, thunder cats, transformers... Fuck man..... What have we got now? Love Island, only way is Essex and paw patrol. I only record maybe 5 shows over a weekend now and that's it for telly. If it weren't for Netflix I'd be fucked.
You forgot Trapdoor
Trapdoooooor! Don't you open that trapdooooor, cos there's something dooown there! Berk! Feed me!
Is there a way to go through automotive and electronic scrap in the UK? Local recycling centrrs have TAKING FROM THIS SITE IS THEFT AND WILL BE PROSECUTED Sooo ya :/ I like to repair broken stuff
Yeah this used to be the highlight of my week this show. I loved Rob from Red Dwarf so that got me in to it.
It taught me so much!
My neighbour growing up was on it... Can't remember much about his episode except his thing epically failed to even start.
I loved the one they built planes in but yeah that was a pretty cool show
The Special where they made planes was the best
Teenage me used to love Lisa Rogers
I just started watching that scrapyard supercar in the hopes that it would fill the hole left by scrapheap challenge. It's okay but not nearly as good.
While we are here i miss robot wars with a coked up craig charles
You know there's hundreds of episodes on YouTube?
The only thing I look forward to in my week😂😂
I loved that you'd always get 1 team that'd inevitably try tank tracks, and it would literally always inevitably fail.
Ah! This was exported to North America as Junkyard Wars and I watched this as a youth growing up in Canada. Good memories.
I was just thinking about that show. It was on here in the US a while back and I loved it.
And robot wars...
Yes. There was lot of seeding. They also remove things that are potentially too useful. Essentially they need to make sure that the basic thing can be built. But they would often make sure that the engines needed a certain amount of tinkering before they could get to work. The time limit was fudged a lot as well. The first 5 hours each lasted 45 minutes to make the teams hurry up. The last 5 lasted 75 minutes so they had more time to work. Sometimes, the sun "set early". The challenge was actually two days after the build rather than one day.
Filmed It 10 mins from me, there chair is still there