Robot Wars is coming back

[davepoth]

Behemoth seems a bit flimsy. I can see this getting messy.

[poing]

stuartmmcfc said:

I wouldn't want to face carbide

Nope, reminds me of Hypnodisk from the old one.

[stuartmmcfc]

Suicide?

[0a]

An anti climax in the end!

[Mastodon2]

What an anti-climax.

[CoolHands]

did carbide's blade pack up at the end? It looked like they stopped using it which I can't imagine they would have done through choice.

Anyway, good show - it made me laugh

[Jetblackonetenth]

stuartmmcfc said:

Suicide?

Maybe thought it was better than being taken to pieces

Reminds me of when we first saw Hypnodisk

[leglessAlex]

That was so enjoyable, exactly what I was hoping it would be. Fair play to Nuts, I like how the people building these robots are just massive nerds doing what they love. So uncool they're cool.

[FourWheelDrift]

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[mikebradford]

Well im glad to say i found that really enjoyable.
Nice to see a mix of old and new robots, and the format meant we got to see the strengths and weaknesses of them all

Carbide was great to watch, love the fact its so aggressive, although it did lose a round. So goes to show no robots perfect.

Great to see everyone must have helped the team that's robot was destroyed. Very reminiscent of the old series were i always felt everyone was there for fun.

Presenters were good as well.

Will definitely watch the next one

[Neith]

Ah Razer... either dominates everything or goes out in spectacularly stupid fashion. It didn't disappoint

Seemed like a pretty good first episode and I used to love the old shows. Only real criticism was the camera work; way too much time on the audience and way too many replays rather than footage of the actual rounds. Still, pretty good show. Interesting to see how things have moved on since the 90s; the horizontal spinner blade robots were lethal in BattleBots too so I imagine we'll see a lot more of them.

[stuartmmcfc]

My missus was reading an article online about the new series this morning.
Apparently in the first series (with JC) the judges could sit with their feet in the arena, by the third they were hiding under tables as nuts and bolts were flying around.now they've got bullet proof glass separating them from the arena.

[daimatt]

CoolHands said:

did carbide's blade pack up at the end? It looked like they stopped using it which I can't imagine they would have done through choice.

Anyway, good show - it made me laugh

I thought they stopped it to prevent the recoil from sending them down the pit instead. Much safer to push Behemoth than hit.

[vonuber]

daimatt said:

I thought they stopped it to prevent the recoil from sending them down the pit instead. Much safer to push Behemoth than hit.

That's what I thought. I would have thought they would've been better off just smashing it to pieces than taking the risk of the pit like Razor did.

[ajprice]

Thumbs up . The first rounds were a bit manic to keep track of, but once it was 1v1 I liked the league system of everybody fighting each other. Nuts was great fun, it reminded me of the Irish guys with Diotor the furry robot in old RW, there for the fun of it .

[AlexS]

Mastodon2 said:

So much untested stuff here. If the Carbide team had tested that they'd know they were going to blow the motor by spinning it at full speed and then slamming it to a dead stop against something.

And just how do you test something that destructive safely?

[Some Gump]

J4CKO said:

Wardy. said:

Good battle.

Blacksmith vs. Minotaur - BattleBots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkbAcwYix7I&fe...

Thanks for sharing that, grinning like a loon at that.

That was class. Matey boy looked deranged. If anyone on to has ever looked like a man likely to murder a prostitute, it was him.
The tubby guy looked heartbroken when his robot melted.
Great fight!

[ajprice]

This many posts and nobody here has said what car and model year the alloy wheel used as the pit release was from? Or what tyre is was?

As Lee McKenzie would say, disappointing

[Poisson96]

A good base, needs time and money to improve however. Arena felt a bit flat with poor atmosphere (needs music in broadcast) and the area felt tiny and very hemmed in. Enjoyable watch however and it took 3 series for Robot Wars to sort itself out before so I look forward to RWX

[227bhp]

AlexS said:

Mastodon2 said:

So much untested stuff here. If the Carbide team had tested that they'd know they were going to blow the motor by spinning it at full speed and then slamming it to a dead stop against something.

And just how do you test something that destructive safely?

Drive it into the corner of a house or an RSJ/UB.



It hasn't changed much has it? Just as good as before and I really enjoyed it, made me laugh just like it used to do, even the commentator still sounds just like Craig Charles. Great to see the old teams up against the new ones.