Recent content by T.C.

Yes, as I mentioned in my first post, I just assumed that the scrapyard was seeded with useful stuff. I recently found a blog post by one of the contestants -- He said the producers consult with the experts before the show and get a list of critical parts; then they make sure those parts all...

I've been watching it on YouTube. Somebody posted many of the episodes there. I just watched one where the challenge was to build a machine that could hurl Minis accurately on an ice rink -- Car Curling, they called it.

I just discovered the TV show Scrapheap Challenge, also known as Junkyard Wars. I've binged-watched about half the episodes. For those who haven't discovered it yet, Scrapheap Challenge was a British show that ran from 1998-2009. The premise was that a different competition was presented every...