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for Channel 4 - Scrapheap Challenge

Rating Summary based on 15 reviews

  • 5 Stars
    		7
  • 4 Stars
    		8
  • 3 Stars
    		0
  • 2 Stars
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  • 1 Star
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  		• 3.4
  		• 4.2
  		• 3.9
  		• 4.9
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  • 23 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    SteveAston

    4 Stars You just gotta love this scrapheap 25/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Doesn't try to be something its not, original concept

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Limited appeal outside its chosen demographic

    I'd like to start this review by clearly stating that Scrapheap Challenge is, in my humble opinion, aimed directly at blokes. Ok its probable that some women enjoy it, and if you're one of them, all power to your elbow, but there not the demographic sector thats been targetted by the show. The show is well presented by Robert Llewellyn (Kryten from Red Dwarf) and a woman whose name escapes me at the moment Both presenters are knowledgable about there subject and don't try and talk technically when its either not called for or beyond there limited knowledge of the technicalities of the subject ... more
  • 9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mickb

    4 Stars This shows not all junk 01/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Something to watch on a Sunday, different and fun

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Some of the teams are a bit sad

    This show was shown at the perfect time in my opinion, on a Sunday at 6PM when there was not much else on, and it provided something to watch as an alternative to the news or the Antiques Roadshow. After stumbling across the show one week it became a firm favourite of mine and was always worth watching, if only to see what a complete mess one of the teams made of the challenge, before managing to come god at the end. The idea of this programme, as suggested by the title, is to take any item they can find in the scrapheap, where this show is set, and build something to carry out the task set by ... more
  • 36 of 36 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 wiggglypufff

    Member since 15/11/2000

    Reviews written: 293

    4 Stars Things To Do With A Pile Of Crap 27/04/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A unique concept, interesting challenges, appeals to kids and adults

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Only one new series a year

    Scrapheap Challenge is a programme that gives hope to those with partners who keep a shed or garage full of seemingly useless junk on the premise of it coming in handy for something, one day. But what exactly is it all about? Two teams of three people, each joined by a guest ’expert’ are given 10 hours to construct a machine that will be able to carry out a specified task. They have the use of anything they can find in the scrap yard they’re at. After the 10 hours are up, construction stops and the following day the machines are put through their paces in performing the task ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    wampyrii

    4 Stars This Show Is Full Of Crap...And Its Great 21/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages see review

    Disadvantages Disadvantages see review

    Its nice to see something truly original hit the television screens no matter how odd the idea may seem. Scrapheap Challenge is one of the most original gameshows I have seen for a long time, and whilst it may not be to everyone's taste, nobody can deny that it isn't original. The idea behind the programme is as follows. Two teams of four people are given 10 hours to build a machine which will be able to complete a given task. The program is set inside a scrapyard and the teams are allowed to use anything they can find around the site to build their machine. One member of each team(the ... more
  • 13 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    andycharger

    4 Stars Convieniently placed junk. 24/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good concept

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Badly laid out

    "Oh a handily placed rocket motor, great" says one contestant. Come on, are we really expected to believe these people are making these vehicles and strange contraptions from a typical contents of a Scrap yard? I think not. Scrapheap challenge is an excellent idea. Its a gameshow on channel 4 where 2 teams have to build a machine to complete a certain task. It can be anything from an rocket to a vehicle without Wheels that must complete an assault course. Sounds mad doesnt it? Well its only half as mad as the people on it. Every week that its on, there is either the same bloke competing in one ... more
  • 2 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    jimbuck

    5 Stars Challenging Time 16/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Rewards inventiveness

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    For those people with a mechanical bent Channel four's Scrapheap Challenge is a must. Hosted by Robert Llewellyn (Kryton of Red Dwarf fame) and Cathy Rogers the programme throws out a challenge to two teams of four specialists in something or other to produce a working object using bits and pieces found in a scrap heap. In the first semi-final a team of Cornish Surfers, the "Beach Boys", and a team of US computer geeks, the "Nerds" had to build and race a steam powered car for three laps around a specified course complete with a pit stop to re-fuel with coal and water. The major components ... more
  • 11 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    pishton

    5 Stars Every Blokes Dream 16/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great concept.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    Scrapheap Challenge is the TV gem of the moment. The concept is brilliantly simple: Two teams are given a task to build a machine, a scrapyard and tools to build it from and ten hours to do it. Previous tasks have included boats, submarines, hovercraft, guns, dragsters... get the idea? The programme reminds me of the early A-Team episodes where BA would create fantastic fighting machines from a puile of junk. There seems to be no end to the initiative of the teams involved. Each team consists of three friends and an expert. The contestants' backgrounds are as varied as the tasks they face. We ... more
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    daseaford

    5 Stars Compulsive Viewing 24/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great fun

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Only a short series

    If you have not seen this Channel 4 programme then I can highly recommend it. The programme has all the features that I enjoy in a light entertainment television programme. Each week two teams of four people are set a challenge to make a device or machine to complete a set task and the team that most successfully completes that task moves on to the next round of the competition. The teams have ten hours in which to complete the task. The tasks have included such things as: A crane to raise a car from the bottom of a lake. A rocket. A canon. A rugby ball launcher. A hovercraft. A walking ... more
  • 2 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Manx

    5 Stars The British Army Vs American Nerds 19/11/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Entertaining and informative.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages I can imagine it appeals to a select (an elite!) mindset.

    Robert Llewellyn plays Kryton in the wonderful Red Dwarf and he co-hosts this mechanical masterpiece on Channel Four. The challenge is simple: two teams in a scrapyard have until the sun goes down (or ten hours in the winter) to scavenge parts and build a machine. What they have to build depends on the challenge and then, once (if) they manage to construct their machines then the two go head to head. In the last final (the teams compete on a knockout basis) the Brothers-In-Arms, a team of brothers and British army engineers ended up against a team of cyber-geeks and neo-nerds from the United ... more
  • 2 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    GENIUS

    4 Stars Is it junk or antique 13/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages They make scrap come to life

    Disadvantages Disadvantages bits are fixed and planned, and the Americans copied it but gave it a dumb name, Junkyard wars

    Two teams battle it out to build the best, Dragster, Hovercraft, Coffee Grinder, etc. They have 10 hours to create their piece of machinery using anything that they can get their grubby little hands on, as long as it is in the SCRAPHEAP. Yeah its exciting, and a great programme to watch, but if you think about it deeply, you can obviously tell that they have cheated. They must have made sure that there were some working engines, some wheels, and stuff like that or else there wouldn't be a show. And sometimes you will notice that some of the parts are in perfect condition. I thought that they ... more
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