Talk:Extreme Engineering

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Premiere Dates Added

I added a column for premiere dates over the past day. The dates at the Discovery.com website and epguides.com are consistent for Season 4. Dates at epguids.com for Seasons 1 and 5 look ok also. There are a number of doubtful dates for Seasons 2 and 3. These are all marked with (?). If there is a date before the (?), a typo has been corrected, but we have no other documentation.

Big Dig done?

The Big Dig article sounds like that project is completed rather under construction. --Abdull 18:40, 22 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The project is complete, but as the column head says "Status at the time of series production", it was under construction when the series was filmed. Fosnez 18:54, 22 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a column to that table for 'Current Status' of the projects but I could use some help filling it out. - Siddharth Prabhu 07:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That column is gone. I could help filling out, but not if it will be removed again. jax (talk) 18:17, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Subways in America" is WRONG

The project displayed in "Subways in America" is NOT a project of MTA New York City Transit and has little to do with the city subway. The project is East Side Access, a plan to bring a sister MTA operation, The Long Island Railroad into a new terminal under Grand Central Terminal. It's only connection to the subway is that it will use the lower level of the 63rd street tunnel. Also, construction has already begun, and in a few places it's finished, on various parts of the project. —Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]])

Having just rewatched it, there are actually several projects discussed in this, some ongoing, some proposed, and some completed at the time of showing:

History of how the NY subway was built
BART's immersed tunnel under the bay
Repairing the damage to the NY subway following 9/11
New efforts to improve the maintenance of the NY subway
Addition of GPS and laser range detection to NY subway trains in order to decrease the minimum distance between them
New terminal and East River tunnel (as mentioned by the unsigned commenter above)
A brief mention of another new station which I think is a reference to the South Ferry Subway Station that is discussed in more detail in a later show.

How to summarise this in the table format, I'll leave to editors more skilled than myself. :) JulesH (talk) 13:58, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Inside jokes

In the pilot, the drifting/out-of-control ship is named "Weylan Yutani." Presumably, the person who programmed the vessel is a fan of the Aliens movies... dafydd (talk) 00:11, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Name Change?

My thought is that maybe this article should be retitled "Build It Bigger". I realize that this article is read both by British and Americans. The show in America is called Build It Bigger, but in the UK it is Extreme Engineering. I realize that we shouldn't be completely selfish and say because we're Americans it should be our name. However the show is filmed with an American host and as far as I know Discovery started as an American TV Network. So my thinking is that this should be changed to Build It Bigger and redirected from Extreme Enginnereing. Any other thoughts? (RC43 (talk) 21:13, 26 March 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Well, with other outside sources mainly referring to it as Extreme Engineering, I'd say we should stick with that title. Netflix, for example, has all of the episodes listed under that title, and since it was an American company, that should be some significance. Not to mention Extreme Engineering is a better title, it is less arrogant and more catchy, "Build It Bigger" seems like it could just be a show about cars or stadiums, or any of the other cliche structures we tend to go overboard in building... However, there could be a link to the page from looking up Build It Bigger, although there may already be one. Ziggaway (talk) 10:06, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Names

I've come across references to a show titled "Colossal Construction" showing on Discovery Science with an episode list that sounds suspiciously similar to Extreme Engineering's. Is this another renaming? JulesH (talk) 14:00, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Host

The lede includes the claim "The show has been hosted by Danny Forster since season 4". Is this actually correct? He's in season 4 and season 6 onwards but of the season 5 episodes that I've seen, he's not present in any of them. --AussieLegend (talk) 11:10, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I recall him being in the stonecutters bridge episode.--Cygnusloop99 (talk) 14:03, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are two episodes featuring that bridge, one in season 5 and one in season 7. He's in the season 7 episode but not season 5. --AussieLegend (talk) 14:30, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've managed to chase down 5 of the 6 season 5 episodes and he's not in any of them. --AussieLegend (talk) 13:59, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Season 09 is 10 Episodes - Really?

Give us a source for this. I don't think there will be two more episodes added. Normally, all is aired within a few weeks, no long breaks between episodes.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.62.90.129 (talk • contribs) 07:56, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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