robot wars

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slipstream 1985

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12,127 posts

178 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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god i miss this show thank god for dave. shame it ended but it was almost like f1 when the tech/development reached the limits of the rules/regulations with robots that are spinners etc.

however why do people make obviously rubbish robots, diotor for example. yeh they win the best sports award but who sets out to make an obviously weak rotob sir cromealot as well. pos.

Conian

8,030 posts

200 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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remember the UK vs USA show they did

the americans showed up with what looked like shoe boxes with a laser gun drawn on them
UK really did reach the tech limits, shame it ended.

ajprice

27,321 posts

195 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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Yeah it's a shame it stopped. The Razer team went over to Battlebots with a spinner robot called Warhead, it had the same kind of track record of "when it works it's amazing" over there. In the UK it did get a bit 'stone, paper, scissors' between flippers, spinners, pushers etc. and the ref bot and newer house robots weren't as good as the earlier series. I can't remember names but there was one bigger than Killalot, and his dog that had grabber jaws??

ArtVandelay

6,689 posts

183 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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I used to like 101, because it was cheap and cheerful.

I used to have a game called Robot Arena 2 where you drew a robot and used various motors and parts to make weapons. Great fun.

Razor was always one of my favourites, along with Wheely Big Cheese. Favourite house robot was always Shunt.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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ArtVandelay said:
Favourite house robot was always Shunt.
I think my favourite house robot was Philipa Forrester....... laugh

Killer2005

19,595 posts

227 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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ArtVandelay said:
Razor was always one of my favourites,
Certainly a pretty little thing


slipstream 1985

Original Poster:

12,127 posts

178 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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the problem with battlebots is that its american and as such they went ott with the arena weapons interfering too much

Gun

13,431 posts

217 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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I used to love Robot Wars, I did an engineering course at college and me and a couple of mates were going to build one as our final project but when we did some sums it was going to be too expensive. One of the robots I used to like watching was Hypnodisk, one huge attack where it would all but tear the other one apart then it'd stop working as the impact broke something. Great fun!

tim2100

6,279 posts

256 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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Robot wars is awesome. Although the later series did lose the appeal when additional outside interferences were introduced.


dilbert

7,741 posts

230 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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I have to say that my fave was pussycat.
I don't know that it looked that vicious,but it was the best engineered and most imaginative robot, IMO.

Robot Wars lives, but it's a live touring thing now.



Edited by dilbert on Saturday 4th September 15:06

ArtVandelay

6,689 posts

183 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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dilbert said:
I have to say that my fave was pussycat.
I don't know that it looked that vicious,but it was the best engineered and most imaginative robot, IMO.

Robot Wars lives, but it's a live touring thing now.



Edited by dilbert on Saturday 4th September 15:06
nono Pussycat cheated IIRC, they used an illegal weapon which shattered (Diamond tipped saw?)

It lead to their improved weapon ofcourse but they still broke the rules.

Chaos 2 used to win quite often by flipping opponents out of the ring, the problem I had with that was the hired driver, surely if you go to the expense of building something, you want to do it all by yourself with your kid.

Can you tell I used to watch it religiously as a kid hehe

The pit was always good fun too.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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I still rate Hypnodisc as brilliant, simply for the way it burst on to the scene and, although beaten later on, systematically and calmly dismantled beyond repair everything else in the arena at that time.
The slightly nerdy twins (along with their slightly sinister dad) running it added to the effect too.

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 4th September 16:26

ajprice

27,321 posts

195 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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FourWheelDrift

88,382 posts

283 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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Surely Cassius was the greatest and not just the name. As from it's appearance every other robot had to be redesigned to cope with being flipped over.

clarksonisawilly

377 posts

168 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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I was going to start this thread after watching it every morning this week! (late shift for the daytime TV win)

Bring it back, it was awesome.

becksW

14,682 posts

210 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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Razor was great but Chaos was my favourite I loved the awkward lad who was at the controls he deserved some street cred for that robot.

There were lots of very good robots (some very bad as well) that was a great series, I loved it.

The house robots were great, always amazed me howe big the robots were close up.

Edited by becksW on Saturday 4th September 21:23

ArtVandelay

6,689 posts

183 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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SystemParanoia

14,343 posts

197 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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Hypnodisk was my fave too smile loved that spinny little bot. If only they got their self righter mech fitted sooner.

You could see the trepidation of everyone they went up against!! Lol

FourWheelDrift

88,382 posts

283 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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Killer2005 said:
ArtVandelay said:
Razor was always one of my favourites,
Certainly a pretty little thing

Aren't they the team who complained when they got damaged because it cost so much money to build?

If you are prepared to crush your opponents robots be prepared to have yours done too, if not feck off.

Nimbus

1,176 posts

227 months

Saturday 4th September 2010
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no, they were the team that complained when having being clearly immobilised and out of the round, one of the house robots then started to cut thro the very expensive looking body parts..

not quite the same thing, and I don't blame them, given the obvious expense of the robot..

poor sportmanship by the house robots....

but those were the days, and yes.. I've started to watch it again on Dave too smile