Robot Wars - gone for good?

[Liverpool-Lad]

I havent seen this proggie around for a good few years now, has it all ended? It wasnt bad entertainment.

 

[georges]

It wasn't for the first series or two.. after that it deteriorated badly..
Especially with getting rid of the original house robots and adding loads of massive ones.

 

[iCraig]

It went stupid with that house robot with the big pointless hammer.

 

[Liverpool-Lad]

That was slightly silly as the contestants were about a third of the weight.

 

[Memphis]

If they just left it as it was, without adding crud like the drop-zone etc, it would likely still be going on BBC2.

It used to be good entertainment and it was a pretty good showcase for some diy R/C machines.

 

[Stratos]

Sadly i think it has, i went 4 times to see it live. Amazing how they fly in the air although they weigh 100kg Saw Hypno-disc and talked to the team.

 

[trojan698]

Mortice (or mortis?) rocked, shame it never won!

 

[Liverpool-Lad]

I thought Mortis was cool but it was pretty flawed in its design. Didnt they say it cost something like 20k to build?

 

[VaderDSL]

Razor or Razr was the nicest, that shiney robot with the scorpion tail thing?

 

[Memphis]

Razer was always my favourite, just a shame it was so fragile in it's early incarnations.

 

[sjt269]

I loved Razer, the one with the massive claw/beak/pointed thing. That was great. I think it killed Mathilda once, totally put it out of action.

Heh, you've got me remembering all the robots in it now. Which ones were the House Robots? So far I can remember Shunt, Mathilda...Sir Killalot (have I made that one up?) and there was another one too, wasn't there?

I always wanted to build a robot for that show, me and some mates even designed one.


:edit:

Wierd, I must have skipped over those last two posts praising Razer when I read the thread. I could swear they weren't there a minute ago.

 

[iCraig]

Razer, Hypnodisc and Chaos 2 made the show.

Every other robot was made out of cheese and ****.

 

[Liverpool-Lad]

Sgt Bash had the flamethrower on a turret, camo paint and a firemans 'jaws of life' mounted on its front.

 

[alexakasloth]

I helped the guy who did Big(ger) Brother cut some sheets of metal

Every other robot was made out of cheese and ****.

Wasn't there one which was called cheese? I 'flippy' type one.

 

[Psycho Ned]

I always thought it was a bit of a missed opportunity tbh, I'd have quite liked to see some big companies have a go at making something amazing with the tech they'd have to hand you know really see some special stuff.

Instead it ended up full of school projects that looked like they were made out of scrap

Razer was about the only really really good one I ever saw on it, the original flipper (cassius I think it was) was also good but then got ripped off about 100 times over.

 

[Liverpool-Lad]

I helped the guy who did Big(ger) Brother cut some sheets of metal



Wasn't there one which was called cheese? I 'flippy' type one.

That would be the Wheely Big Cheese.

 

[VaderDSL]

The best ones, were they small children who had laboured over their prized robots supervised by their creepy looking school teacher.

I absolutely loved seeing their pride and joy being ripped to shreds by hypnodisc lol

 

[5ingh]

cassius was great. oh, and chaos II - the driver looked like a woman and had a high pitched voice lol. razor was also nice, loved the looks. according to wiki mortis only cost £100, the £40k was sponsor money..

anyone remember these guys:

their robots name was plunderbird iirc. they used to spit freestyle rhymes to scare the other contestants, but their robot was always ****

 

[hybrid]

The presenter, the bloke, used to batter my head in!!

 

[Raymond Lin]

The presenter, the bloke, used to batter my head in!!

Craig Charles?