Mighty Machines at the Demolition Site

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Mighty Machines at the Demolition Site is a Mighty Machines episode from the first season in 1994. The main characters are several machines and people that are razzing an old, rundown factory to make room for an executive townhomes, live/work storefronts and a small park. The imagery is very impressive, and the work is well done. But (in the case of most of the 1994 episodes), there are several contradictions, goofs, and plot holes as well.

[edit] Characters

• Dino (pronounced Dee-know): the main character of the episode. He is a demolition excavator (called a shear tractor in the episode) with beak-like shears on the end of his arm. Dino is the character with the most appearances.
• Crane: She is a mobile crane who is seen only once in the beginning of the episode. In that scene, Crane is helping remove pipes and salvaged items from a section of the building before demolition begins.
• Grapple: Grapple is a "grappled" excavator who makes two appearances and one cameo loading wreckage into Big Mack the dumptruck.
• Dozer: Dozer also appears in two scenes, with one cameo. He is seen making a crude road for Big Mack the dumptruck.

[edit] Trivia

• The building being demolished is the St. Lawrence Starch Plant in Port Credit, Ontario, Canada, which is a neighbourhood in the southern part of Mississauga, Ontario on Lake Ontario. It started operations in 1899, and was torn down some ninety years later. All of it was razed, except for the main factory office.
• The contracting company that the machines work for is Teperman Demolition, who has specialized in over 80 years of working in the demolition and scrap metal industry (it was at least 65 years at the time of this episode).
• The Teperman Logo can be seen on three of the machines, most notably Big Mack and Dozer. Dino also has a small version of the logo on his rear end.
• THe show includes a long-running Mighty Machines joke: the name Big Mack for the dumptruck is somewhat of a pun, as the truck in concern is a truck built by the truck company Mack Trucks. And the truck is big too, thus "Big Mack Truck".

[edit] Goofs

• On the video cover, Dino and Crane are referred to as Needle and Sabercrane.
• Also on the cover, it says that all of the machines help demolish the building; however, Dino is the only character actually seen destroying the factory walls.
• In one scene, Dino sends a little ledge of the wall crashing down. A few minutes later, the same ledge is still attached to the wall when it has supposedly been wrecked.
• In the opening, there is a far-off shot and closeup shot of Crane as she lowers the pipes down to Dino. However, Crane's cab, the operator, and the surroundings in the closeup look relatively different from those in the far-off shot.
• The same cab closeup shot is used for two different machines when it only belongs to one machine.
• The name of the tracked character "Dozer" is probably short for bulldozer, a machine that has tracks as well. However, Dozer (in real life) is actually a tracked front loader, rather than a bulldozer. This is because a bulldozer has a wide, blunt blade that can only lift a few inches off the ground, rather than a loader's shovel, which can lift into the air several feet higher.
• When Dino says "I'm a shear tractor", the accent on the words is incorrectly used. The correct accenting is this: "I'm a SHEar tractor", meaning a tractor with shears. But Dino says it like this: "I'm a SHEAR tractor", meaning that he is sheer in size.