Talk:Scrapheap Challenge

message: Would it be interesting/useful to put up a list of tools and machines they are provided with? 86.149.131.69 (talk) 18:04, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Power tools 

message: I specificaly remember an episode with a Russian team, an American Team and a British team where they had to build an amphibious car. They made a pretty big deal about it, so I don't know why theres nothing about it. It might have been on the Scrapheap Mega Challenge, but I am not sure. Anyone have any information about this? --ThrashedParanoid 01:52, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was one of the occasional one-off specials (called Scraphead Mega Challenge). Bluap 15:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  International Competition? 

message: " the UK series moved to a new site, within an army training area in Bramley, just outside Basingstoke, Hampshire, and is not open to the public. For Series 8, a new Scrapheap was used, "somewhere in the Hampshire countryside". For series 9 (filming May-June 2006) is again on part of the army site, this time with indoor workshops."
Does anyone have a source for this? only i live right next door to this place and I've never seen any comings or goings related to a TV show, only big helicopters! I thought the show was filmed in Finchampstead (about 8 miles away).--Mbfos 21:08, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The meaning should be that for two years, both the UK and the US series were filmed in  California.  After these two years, the US editiion continued to use the California site, while the UK edition was filmed in the UK. Bluap (talk) 04:46, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of Uk show 

message: Is currently expedcting the child of the long haired guy from the team Maximus, Source = from another of Maximus team. 195.93.21.65 20:55, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lisa Rogers 

message: Food network's Good eats also made a spoof combining Iron Chef with the US version of Scraphead Challenge called Scrap Iron Chef. Skindrafter
No. "Scrap Iron Chef" was a episode of good eats. And there was only one "scrap iron chef" episode, so it is hardly worth mentioning EvilHom3r 17:12, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Another spoof

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Scrapheap 07 logo.JPG

message: Why was it renamed from Scrapheap / Scrapheap Challenge to Junkyard Wars in the US, to the point of mostly blocking out the name on banners and such in the show? --StarChaser Tyger 10:12, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mostly, I'd have thought, because in America a scrapheap is a junkyard, and most English imports to America are 'Americanised'. TheIslander 10:29, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Could be, although I'd say 'some' rather than 'most'...Dr. Who, Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, etc. --StarChaser Tyger 11:00, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Hey, at least I'm smart enough to not fling mud at my fellow humans just because of where they live :) 64.246.122.202 (talk) 17:30, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

text: 'Junk' and 'scrap' are pretty much interchangeable here - a pile of scrap would be the same as a pile of junk. TalkIslander 11:45, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the renaming? 

message: shouldn't there be a list of the guest team members of Dick's Diamonds involved, I'd have done it myself but I missed the first episode The C of E (talk) 11:26, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  guest Diamonds 

message: We are now halfway through series 11 but this weeks tv listings say last in the series and next week it is not being shown. Does this mean that channel 4 has axed it?--Jdbullrat (talk) 13:41, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I certainly hope not! If it has been "axed" then they've probably thought the new style isn't working and so will go back to the old style The C of E (talk) 18:31, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Has Scrapheap Challenge Been Axed? 

message: I have linked in an episodes page I found for scrapeheap. It could do with reformatting and bulking out but it is up to date for series 1-10. I will try and work on this page if I have time but any help would be great. 79.65.194.241 (talk) 19:08, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Scrapheap Challenge episodes 

message: Hi, as a fan of Scrapheap Challenge, I came to this page. Browsing around I found that the only reference cited about the origins says, 'Street Tech: How did you come to create Junkyard Wars?
Cathy Rogers: It was after seeing the movie Apollo 13. We loved the scene where Ground Control has to make life-saving devices out of rubbish....'''
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The article says that Eva Kay invented the program mainly by assertions made by other editors. As well, the only reference to the Eva Kay claim is an Error 404; File not found. 
My understanding of Wikipedia is that it is based 'not on truth, but verifiability'. The only verifiable source is thus the one I mention above that states that Cathy Rogers was the inventor of Scrapheap Challenge. The assertions of editors who say, I was there' does not count. So I have changed the text to Cathy Rogers.  If citable references exist that confirm Eva Kay as the inventor, please find, reference them and change the text back. But as it stands, the only verifiable source says Cathy Rogers. Thank-you teams, you have eight hours remaining, eight hours, thank-you! Mondegreen de plume (talk) 09:49, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Allow me to weigh in on this. This issue was mentioned in an episode of Scrapheap Challenge here. I hope that can sort out this dispute. The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 09:47, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Here is the email in which Cathy Rogers confirms that it was Eve Kay who had the idea after watching Apollo 13 thumb|right|250 px  Heartfield01 (talk) 10:05, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  :: And here is page 72 of the Policy Exchange book Culture Vultures which states that Eve Kay was the originator. thumb|left|250 px Heartfield01 (talk) 10:30, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Not quite how you do that. You include it as a reference and don't include the br bit as I only put that in there to space out my wording. The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 10:46, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes that's right. Now you can put it in the article next to Kay's name on the created by section in the infobox (you may have to change the name from Roger's first) The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 10:59, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eva Kay vs Cathy Rogers