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Ask 'Junkyard Wars Diva' Cathy Rogers
Junkyard Wars (and the British Scrapheap Challenge) have long been popular with Slashdot readers. Now Cathy is co-host of a new show, Full Metal Challenge, that also involves teams building strange machines out of this and that. Take a look at this 'Cathy' fan site (and possibly her less interesting official biography), then ask away. (Usual Slashdot interview rules.)
One of the reasons I was quickly turned off of the show is because of the seemingly mysterious apperance of items that seemed perfect for the challenge at hand (to the point that in one episode there were rocket engines hidden through the `junkward' :-)). My question is this: Was the junkyard stacked with items specifically chosen for each challenge: i.e. components necessary for a boat, etc.
It just seems a bit false how the show portrays itself as an engineering challenge involving creating objects from random objects in a junkyard, when in reality it seemed to have been specifically stocked with pertinent objects for each show. Why not just eliminate the scavenger hunt and just give the teams an equal pile of appropriate components?
It appeared to me that SO often the yard had been seeded. In one show, the contestants were required to build a flying machine, low and behold a complete Cessna fuselage appeared on the top of the heap. Frequently things like brand new, whole rolls of wire would be "found" on the scrap heap, not to mention a large number of fully operational vehicles.
What kind of junk yard was being used in Junk Yard Wars and how often was it seeded?
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