Robot Wars

Monkey Puzzle · 15 Apr 2008 at 01:17

I saw a few youtube clips of that warhead robot - seems to have a design flaw where the disc moves down and keeps smashing into the floor.

CoreRipOffDuo · 15 Apr 2008 at 01:22

Craig Charles said it was extremely embarrassing having to do that show.

I quite liked it to begin with, but after a few season it was just the same old rubbish.

BoB3rt · 15 Apr 2008 at 02:55

i liked Matilda.... although 'she' wasnt very effective.

Emlyn_Dewar · 15 Apr 2008 at 09:34

George Francis was always quite interesting... There were always questioned asked when Chaos2 was on. The questions were usually something like, "is that a man?"

The Dread Pirate · 15 Apr 2008 at 09:50

Klo said:
Chaos 2 ,Hypnodisc and Razer where my personal favorites. Of course, Sir Killalot was the best house robot no doubt.

Nah sirkillalot was:

A. Not an original housebot

B. Too Big

C. Prone to catching light

This made him the worst housebot Imho the Greatest Had to be either Sgt. Bash or Shunt

da_mic_1530 · 15 Apr 2008 at 10:24

Loved it, as usual was George Francis (chaos 2) a man or a woman? I've wondered for years

The Dread Pirate · 15 Apr 2008 at 10:26

da_mic_1530 said:
Loved it, as usual was George Francis (chaos 2) a man or a woman? I've wondered for years

I think it's more option three: eunuch

A.N.Other · 15 Apr 2008 at 11:53

Capn' $qu!ff said:
This made him the worst housebot Imho the Greatest Had to be either Sgt. Bash or Shunt

I agree really though it was good when he spun around and chucked robots about. Sgt. Bash was lame though. It literally had no effective weaponry - a pincer that never did anything and a flame-thrower that only ever set fire to cosmetic stuff added for a laugh. Shunt was the way forward.

MeatLoaf · 15 Apr 2008 at 13:20

Anyone remember one of the later episodes where Choas 2 got totally destroyed. Flipper got ripped off and it was totally trashed. I think this was when it was on channel 5

Alibaba99 · 15 Apr 2008 at 20:46

shaffaaf27 said:
i did like the earlier series with cassius, when he was on the big ramp, IICR, and he went upside down.

then his creator (rex?) used the flipper to flip it back up....

i was amazed.

then Wheely Big Cheese and its massive flipper, chucking a robot out of the arena.

then came Hypnodisc, my favourite of all RW robots, till this day. it was amazing when it came out against that flimsy big robot, and totally nakeded it

Chaos2 with that gay guy/woman was a superb robot. so small, yet so power full at flipping.

lastly, razor..... i would have loved to see this up against hypnodisc.

you lot have already said enough about razor.

BTW who won the 7th series of RW, and anyone got a YT of it?

Typhoon was the winner of the final series. Was a full body spinner.

iviv · 15 Apr 2008 at 21:03

The original house robots were the best, none of those extra added ones, pah!

shaffaaf27 · 15 Apr 2008 at 22:32

Alibaba99 said:
Typhoon was the winner of the final series. Was a full body spinner.

got a vid?

CoreRipOffDuo · 16 Apr 2008 at 00:50

MeatLoaf said:
Anyone remember one of the later episodes where Choas 2 got totally destroyed. Flipper got ripped off and it was totally trashed. I think this was when it was on channel 5

Once a show goes to channel 5 it's officially dead

Channel 5 has nothing but crap, and the odd American series.

Berserker · 16 Apr 2008 at 01:16

iviv said:
The original house robots were the best, none of those extra added ones, pah!

Yup - they hired Robin Englebright - as he seems to have been responsible for most of the 'let's just make it bigger then' mentality.

Sir Killalot was at least tolerable, but what the hell were they thinking with Mr. Psycho, and did Growler ever actually do anything?