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Ice To Meet You
Mar 5, 2007

The robot with the saw blade just ripped the one with a tiny brain on it to shreds! That's what I like to see.

I hope Hazard comes back, it used to be my favorite.

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Ice To Meet You
Mar 5, 2007

BAH GAWD A SUPLEX!

This is reminding me of Hulk Hogan's American Gladiators in how unbelievably overproduced it is, and the faux-rabid crowds. It's great!

Ice To Meet You fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Jun 22, 2015

Ice To Meet You
Mar 5, 2007

What? A handicap match? How is that legal? And why did one of them commit suicide by exploding?

Normal Not Odd
Nov 5, 2003

what a t e r r i b l e world

what a b e a u t i f u l world
This is a good thread.

Let's Go Battlebots!

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
I built a battlebot once. My university's team was too lovely to get on TV.

Another Person
Oct 21, 2010
hypnodisc is king of england

robot wars was the best robot fighting tournament

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Another Person posted:

hypnodisc is king of england

robot wars was the best robot fighting tournament

Razer.

HulkaMatt
Feb 14, 2006

BIG BICEPS SHOHEI


did i miss robot fighting

SamuraiFoochs
Jan 16, 2007




Grimey Drawer

HulkaMatt posted:

did i miss robot fighting

Yes

Also gently caress wedges

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

Lid posted:

Razer.

Ice To Meet You
Mar 5, 2007

HulkaMatt posted:

did i miss robot fighting

Another Person
Oct 21, 2010

Lid posted:

Razer.

Razer was boring, Hypnodisc is where it was at. Back then it always felt like he was going to win, but in retrospect it looks like he was always the underdog.

If there is one thing we can agree on here, it is "gently caress Chaos 2."

Big Coffin Hunter
Aug 13, 2005

is vlad the impaler still around?

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Another Person posted:

Razer was boring, Hypnodisc is where it was at. Back then it always felt like he was going to win, but in retrospect it looks like he was always the underdog.

If there is one thing we can agree on here, it is "gently caress Chaos 2."

gently caress Chaos 2 and gently caress Tornado and it's anti-Razer cage that made it too large for the pit giving it the most controversial and unearned title in the shows history.

rare Magic card l00k
Jan 3, 2011


Big Coffin Hunter posted:

is vlad the impaler still around?

gently caress Vlad The Impaler/Vladiator.

#TeamVoltarc

#TeamDiesector

...


#TeamMauler :smith:

RacistGuidingLight
Apr 5, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
My favorite bots are the ones with stupid nonsensical weapons that help tip themselves over.

Ice To Meet You
Mar 5, 2007

Buddy Lee, Don't Play In The Street

cams
Mar 28, 2003


i'm having a really hard time figuring out what is causing the explosion in this gif

Ice To Meet You
Mar 5, 2007

There is a very small robot that has some kind of flame thrower weapon. That weapon got punctured by a gigantic saw blade.

oatgan
Jan 15, 2009

what was the ladybug that was my favorite

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

Kenny fuckin Florian talking about fighting robots is all I ever need from this show or any show

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord
What the gently caress is this bullshit where some people have like two/three bots going at the same time?

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008

oatgan posted:

what was the ladybug that was my favorite

Tentoumushi. The little girl that drove it is back and her new robot is big and has a light up brain. She's also got pink hair and tattoos all over now so it's kind of funny when they show her from the original series.

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

Saint Freak posted:

What the gently caress is this bullshit where some people have like two/three bots going at the same time?

Yeah when at least two competitors had 'nuisance bots' that help flip the main bot back over or distract the opponent it starts to get ridiculous.

KungFu Grip posted:

Tentoumushi. The little girl that drove it is back and her new robot is big and has a light up brain. She's also got pink hair and tattoos all over now so it's kind of funny when they show her from the original series.

haha they made such a big deal about their stupid-rear end brain. It's a light.

rare Magic card l00k
Jan 3, 2011


The Tentoumushi team is my favorite "Obviously A Joke Entrant", because Tentoumushi got killed like eighty different times and instead of deciding "No, this is a bad design" they went "Ok, we just need one adjustment". They're so determined to make it work.

Blooming Brilliant
Jul 12, 2010

I liked Domino or Dominion or whatever it was called, the red polka dotted one that always caught on fire.

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord
I love that there's all these crazy-rear end walking bots and brains and weird arm/wing things, and then one team just said gently caress it and made a roomba with a lawnmower blade on its head. It's just so elegant.

Blasmeister
Jan 15, 2012




2Time TRP Sack Race Champion

Another Person posted:

hypnodisc is king of england

robot wars was the best robot fighting tournament

I got to touch hypnodisc on a school trip once. I think I have a 'spin to win' badge buried in a box somewhere

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

I liked how they presented Warhead like it was British royalty before it got completely owned.

Another Person
Oct 21, 2010

Blasmeister posted:

I got to touch hypnodisc on a school trip once. I think I have a 'spin to win' badge buried in a box somewhere

jealous so bad

ninety
Mar 13, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo

(and can't post for 4 years!)

SamuraiFoochs posted:

Yes

Also gently caress wedges

Wedges are the lay-n-pray of robot fights

rare Magic card l00k
Jan 3, 2011


Wedges are cool when combined with other weapons, like huge-rear end flippers, lifting arms, hammers, or blades.

Except Chaos 2.

Propaganda Machine
Jan 2, 2005

Truthiness!
What the gently caress was that hypnodisc even supposed to do? Because it did nothing.

The first battle was pretty alright but the other two were disappointing.

go team robot

SamuraiFoochs
Jan 16, 2007




Grimey Drawer

Great White Hope posted:

Wedges are cool when combined with other weapons, like huge-rear end flippers, lifting arms, hammers, or blades.

Except Chaos 2.

No they are not, they're loving lame and boring and almost never show visible damage.

ninety
Mar 13, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo

(and can't post for 4 years!)

Anyone who would design and build a featureless remote-controlled doorstop for a robo-deathmatch is an enemy of mine.

That DICK!
Sep 28, 2010

Is Biohazard back? He was my favorite.

ChrisBTY
Mar 29, 2012

this glorious monument

Son of Whyachi.
King of All Robots. Vanquisher of Biohazard (sorta).
Also, gently caress wedges. Except Biohazard who has my begrudging respect. Actually gently caress Biohazard too.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_3r-P7B4-s

NowonSA
Jul 19, 2013

I am the sexiest poster in the world!
Somewhere a Mr. Antilles is crying in a corner.

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Another Person
Oct 21, 2010

Propaganda Machine posted:

What the gently caress was that hypnodisc even supposed to do? Because it did nothing.

The first battle was pretty alright but the other two were disappointing.

go team robot

You mean THE hypnodisc, or is there a new one? Because the real deal ripped poo poo to shreds with a flywheel. If you had a weakspot, an opening in your armour or any kind of design, hypnodisc would destroy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w04BgclPmY8

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