anyone remember Robot Wars?
Rock'em sock'em (http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=4495&title=The%20return%20of%20the%20Transformers?) is taken to a whole new level...
and boy is that one sore looser.
Liberated New Ireland
05-12-2006, 04:37
anyone remember Robot Wars?
*raises hand*
Robot wars was cooler. It had circular saws and pneumatic spikes.
Imperial isa
05-12-2006, 04:39
oh i do, what a good show
New Stalinberg
05-12-2006, 04:40
That show kicked ass.
*raises hand*
Robot wars was cooler. It had circular saws and pneumatic spikes.
circular saws... can you imagine those guys with such armaments?
Markreich
05-12-2006, 04:47
Wasn't the guy from Red Dwarf the host?
Imperial isa
05-12-2006, 04:55
Wasn't the guy from Red Dwarf the host?
yup he was and there was a female host too
Goonswarm
05-12-2006, 05:27
Sir Killalot would have those guys for afternoon tea.
Wilgrove
05-12-2006, 05:30
Sir Killalot would have those guys for afternoon tea.
Totally!
I remember it. Then on battlebots, someone built a bot that spun at a few thousand rpm and had large iron teeth on its shell. It could beat anything. Then it was cloned. That is when things went downhill. I liked the one on TLC the best. The robots had to be able to do something other than fight (which made the spinners less common).
Cannot think of a name
05-12-2006, 09:34
I remember it. Then on battlebots, someone built a bot that spun at a few thousand rpm and had large iron teeth on its shell. It could beat anything. Then it was cloned. That is when things went downhill. I liked the one on TLC the best. The robots had to be able to do something other than fight (which made the spinners less common).
I can't remember the name, but the one with the spinning hammers was pretty spectacular to watch. I saw it fight once where it actually slammed the other bot against the side of the ring.
Incidently, I've worked in that hanger on another show and as of three days ago live a short walk from it.
Not that that matters or is really all that cool.
I can't remember the name, but the one with the spinning hammers was pretty spectacular to watch. I saw it fight once where it actually slammed the other bot against the side of the ring.
Incidently, I've worked in that hanger on another show and as of three days ago live a short walk from it.
Not that that matters or is really all that cool.
The one I am thinking of is basicall the shape of an upside-down pie tin, with triangular prisms on it.
It fought the bot that had just one the super-uber-mega- heavyweight match. The battle was ended in less than ten seconds. The other bot was a giant three wheeled axe (it was more of a giant knifish-sythe, but it was used like an axe). It chopped the spinner, and due to sheer luck, the spinning on sythe collision launched the spinner into the axe-bot. The axe-bot was left wife only its sythe in a reusable state. The rest was too mangled. Next week. Every second bot was a spinner, and only cause spinner vs spinner fights sucked.
LiberationFrequency
05-12-2006, 09:52
Original Robot Wars used to have loads of obsticles and challenges to complete
Seangoli
05-12-2006, 09:57
On a related note, I found this video, that I thought was pretty damn cool(Not really fighting, just a sweet robot):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp-XPOJM65I&mode=related&search=
Cannot think of a name
05-12-2006, 10:10
On a related note, I found this video, that I thought was pretty damn cool(Not really fighting, just a sweet robot):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp-XPOJM65I&mode=related&search=
This was linked on that, super cool-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STQ3nhXuuEM&mode=related&search=
Boonytopia
05-12-2006, 10:27
This was linked on that, super cool-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STQ3nhXuuEM&mode=related&search=
That's very impressive. :cool:
Harlesburg
05-12-2006, 11:51
Ja we ist der supermen!
Erm, yes i remember.
Call to power
05-12-2006, 12:05
Roadblock FTW!
I am always surprised of the ability of NSG to make me feel 9 years old again :)
Pure Metal
05-12-2006, 12:09
awsome show, but it got a bit shite towards the end iirc
phillipa forrester was hot! :D
Gataway_Driver
05-12-2006, 12:12
Wasn't the guy from Red Dwarf the host?
Craig Charles, I think Jeremy Clarkson hosted it for a while. The guy commentating on it was quality aswell
Call to power
05-12-2006, 12:13
phillipa forrester was hot! :D
seconded!
The State of It
05-12-2006, 12:14
I remember Robot Wars in the UK, saw some Battlebots when they showed it over here...
I went to a couple of Robot Wars meets where fights were held(Between the robots, not the robot builders) and you could see the robots close up and talk to the builders. Good times.
The best robots were Razer, (Best damaging power, could literally crush a robot to death with it's claw creating pressure but only won the UK championship once because of bad luck on other occasions denying it's full potential.), Chaos 2 (Won the UK Championship multiple times) Hypnodisc, Tornado and Gemini, but there was many, and the UK scene was flourishing with brilliant designs to the extent a number of big-hitting US robots came over for a UK vs US tournament and had their bottoms spanked. One was a spinner, and the other was one with a large hammer.
Then there was a European tournament, and the UK won that, and I'm pretty sure there was a Europe vs US tournament and the UK on behalf of Europe won it.
Sadly, with the BBC not recommiting to television rights for Robot Wars, Channel 5 picked the rights up, but it just seemed to me the quality of new robots seemed to decline, and no new contenders came to challenge the established ones, and there was talk of some of the established ones were going to retire and not enter new robots, and Channel 5 kept moving the times it showed Robot Wars around to the extent I did not keep up with it anymore.
I don't think anybody shows it now, but I believe tournaments non televised are still held, but only those on the scene will be in the knowledge about times, dates and locations.
Pure Metal
06-12-2006, 11:41
seconded!
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7420/phillipaforrester01tb1.jpg
yay!! i had a major crush on her when i was a wee lad :)
Call to power
06-12-2006, 11:47
yay!! i had a major crush on her when i was a wee lad :)
I will always have a place for phillipa forrester :fluffle: