[TheForge] Re: Junkyard Wars

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The Nerds, an American team that appeared on the British version gave a 
good write up on the experience and the practices 
(http://www.the-nerds.org/on-seeding.html)  their home page is at  
http://www.the-nerds.org/   

I also want to make sure everyone understands that I was not attacking 
"Junkyard Wars".    "Junkyard Wars" was the innovator here and still 
stands out as the quality original.  I was simply pointing to it as an 
example of how work and craft are becoming entertainment.    "Junkyard 
Wars" takes the time and effort to make it an education vehicle, but the 
fact that it is a vehicle, just highlights the fact that the 
construction aspects are entertainment.    "Junkyard Wars" spends a lot 
of time evidently in post production and brings in doers as experts 
rather than and expert with nothing more than a magazine article on the 
topic.   I am often dissapointed by innacuracies in the shows, such as 
refering to a mig as an "semi automatic soldering gun" as has garnered 
attention on the metalworking group. 

Charles



Ralph E Douglass wrote:

>Andrew Vida wrote:
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>>I always assumed that much of what was needed was planted in the yard.
>>I really see no problem with this at all.  It's still junk.  Now, if
>>by chance there was collusion between the teams and the producers in
>>the form of deciding beforehand what they were going to make and how
>>it was specifically to be designed so that the right materials for
>>that particular work was planted, then I would say the show is bogus.
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>Actually I think that the American version of the show and perhaps the
>original one as well, do sorta pre-plan and stock. The teams (the expert
>at least) decides on the plan and then the show will seed the yard with
>approriate gear. But then again, I could be wrong, especially as I can
>not remember where I read this. Bummer.
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>Ralph 
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