Talk:Scrapheap Challenge

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are there any dvds out for this show?--Capsela 14:05, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 International Competition? 2 Location of Uk show 3 Lisa Rogers 4 Another spoof 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Scrapheap 07 logo.JPG 6 Why the renaming?

[edit] International Competition?

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)

It was one of the occasional one-off specials (called Scraphead Mega Challenge). Bluap 15:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Location of Uk show

" 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)

Well i think i've answered my own question, look [1]

In the same section; "The next two seasons of both the US and UK series, were filmed in California. The US edition continued to use the Los Angeles site, and for the next 2 series the UK version moved to a new site, a rented part of a scrapyard near Wokingham, Berkshire." Those 2 senteces are contradictory. First actually states that the UK show was filmed in California... Probably at source just sloppy grammar? (I don't know facts sufficient to assume so and correct the grammar though.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.137.90.156 (talk) 18:24, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

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)

[edit] Lisa Rogers

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)

[edit] Another spoof

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)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Scrapheap 07 logo.JPG

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[edit] Why the renaming?

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)

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)

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)

because "wars" sounds more exciting to the primordial American mind. it's the same reason the first harry potter book became "the sorcerer's stone" when they took it over the pond. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.4.248.20 (talk) 17:30, 28 March 2008 (UTC)