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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p040cvp9/robot-wars-meet-the-house-robots https://twitter.com/UKRobotWars I used to LOVE this show as a kid, and I had no idea they'd bring it back again years later! For those of you unfamiilar with this show, Robot Wars was like WWE for remote-control cars, all the teams who came on we're packing their bots with spinning discs, large pincers, chainsaws, steel blades, and they'd just ram and smash the gently caress out of each other! The show kicked arse, the contestants were awesome (Razer was my personal favourite) and little toys were made out of them. I remembered owning a World Championship VHS set with toys of Razer and Chaos II. I don't think this'd be good enough for TVIV, but goddammit, I'm already feeling pumped for this and I can't loving wait! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ77e-Uzscs Junior Jr. fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jul 12, 2016 |
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wedge bot everytime
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 19:47 |
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Don't you mean Battle Bots
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 19:50 |
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 19:50 |
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cuck cuck im gay posted:Don't you mean Battle Bots get that inferior poo poo out of here
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 19:51 |
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They filmed the first episode in Dallas the other day. NWS/NMS: http://www.dangerandplay.com/2016/07/10/graphic-picture-of-micah-johnson-the-dallas-shooter-after-he-was-killed-by-a-robot-bomb/
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 19:54 |
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oh god I think I know exactly what this is I remember this one jobber fight with a mouse-aesthetic robot called Squrmin' Marvin or something vs this birthday cake robot and both were poo poo at combat so they awkwardly bumped into each other a whole bunch. Then there was this pyramid shaped robot with a gnarly pickaxe that would cleave through everything and won most of the tournaments Those were good times and I finally have a reason to get hyped for something.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 19:55 |
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a bunch of skateboard ramps with R/C cars under them will ram into each other until one flips there I just predicted the outcome of every robot battle
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 19:55 |
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I remember there was a caterpillar/snake bot that pretty much moved around the floor but did nothing else. I wonder if the team that made it ran out of time when it came to putting a weapon on, or of they figured they could outlast it the other robots.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:01 |
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The new Sir KIllalot is a bit weird, now he looks like a Brotherhood of Steel soldier from Fallout.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:11 |
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City of Tampa posted:a bunch of skateboard ramps with R/C cars under them will ram into each other until one flips Whatever robot is the least complex, has the fewest moving parts and is the easiest to control will win. To put it in other terms the most boring-rear end robot wins!
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:14 |
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This is one of my favourite bits from the old show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e4cHWS2758
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:14 |
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They're not really robots. They're remote controlled.
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City of Tampa posted:a bunch of skateboard ramps with R/C cars under them will ram into each other until one flips e: also the best bit of Robot Wars was the v. good joke scene in Spaced where Daisy pretends to be Phillipa Forester.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:17 |
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Junior Jr. posted:This is one of my favourite bits from the old show: That's the stuff.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:19 |
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I built a robot wars robot at school and won a bunch of engineering awards but then the show finished and I went to college 😥 I emailed the school last year to ask what happened to it and they didn't respond. I love robot wars. Razor is the boy.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:19 |
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they need to make this outdoors, on uneven terrain, and let the bots use guns. Maybe ditch the audience and film the fights with drones.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:24 |
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Im going to miss craig charles coked up and out of his mind talking to children
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:29 |
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They should make Robot Whores: teams of kids make robot fuckmachines and Craig Charles shags each one to destruction. The one that lasts longest wins.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:31 |
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Razer was the best because it actually destroyed the other robots rather than just tipping them over or whatever. I remember so many wedges. And so many had "pneumatic spikes" that the teams hyped up that never did anything at all.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:31 |
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Grand Prize Winner posted:they need to make this outdoors, on uneven terrain, and let the bots use guns. Maybe ditch the audience and film the fights with drones. maybe ditch the bots and just use people maybe poor or otherwise underprivileged or disadvantaged people it could be some kind of game. we could call it the hungry games
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:31 |
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introduce flying bots and projectile weapons and I'm game, otherwise it's gonna be boring as hell
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Elukka posted:Razer was the best because it actually destroyed the other robots rather than just tipping them over or whatever. I remember so many wedges. And so many had "pneumatic spikes" that the teams hyped up that never did anything at all.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:36 |
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Whorelord posted:Im going to miss craig charles coked up and out of his mind talking to children i saw him dj last year and he was extremely coked up
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:36 |
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gemini was a pretty cool bot, it could split in two and flip stuff, though according to the rules if one half of them was immobilised they'd be gone. They did a pinball run and it was amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nauRiyxxAPQ
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:40 |
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Wheely Big Cheese was awesome, it had the biggest flipper ever in the show, and the team showed off how good it was against Axe-Awe, in possibly the shortest battle ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cvVYzvQQB4&t=148s
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:44 |
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Razer kinda sucks because it just grabs the other robots and that's it. grabber robots shouldn't really be a thing... but whatevers.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 20:50 |
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HYPNO DIIIIIIIIISK
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 21:35 |
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Jose posted:i saw him dj last year and he was extremely coked up same except this year and twice
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 21:36 |
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EL TORO is obviously the best bot
Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jul 12, 2016 |
# ? Jul 12, 2016 21:38 |
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Robot Wars is what made me want to get into robotic engineering. Unfortunately I wasn't a smart kid and wasted my youth, just as I continue to do to this day!
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 21:41 |
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dead metal is still the best house robot, killalot is still poo poo
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 21:52 |
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sgt bash is best house robot. flamethrower, that's it.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 22:13 |
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Also cool: Junkyard Wars. Bring that poo poo back.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 22:26 |
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Jose posted:i saw him dj last year and he was extremely coked up Hahaha awww yeahhhh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSPW6EU0zQ
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 22:48 |
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it's funny yet sad how he was on it, then said he'd never do it again, then went straight back to doing it again. poor lister.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 22:52 |
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so this is like the fake pro-wrestling version of battlebots?
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 22:54 |
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The Goatfather posted:so this is like the fake pro-wrestling version of battlebots? 1. robot wars came first, even though both shows came from the same creator 2. never bring up that poo poo in this thread again
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 22:56 |
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City of Tampa posted:introduce flying bots and projectile weapons and I'm game, otherwise it's gonna be boring as hell I remember the first time I caught the show. Must have been aaages ago. I didn't know anything about it and I got pretty excited about watching it, thinking it was going to be so neat to watch robots battle it out. Five minutes into the program I was like "What the gently caress is this horrible poo poo? It's just RC bumper cars! These are no robots!" And I felt so cheated. Of course it should be real actual ROBOTS in one on one combat. That would be awesome. But... since that's not going to happen for some time now, I'm on board with the whole RC thing, I guess.... if we're talking about DRONES! Having a drone combat show to watch would be cool. I'd watch the living daylights out of that. And with today's tech, that should be a viable option for telly, I do believe.
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Can't they bring back eurotrash instead? Robot wars was poo poo.
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