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Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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Robot Wars
I've recently became somewhat addicted to Robot Wars on TechTV. The announcer is annoying and the show is cheesy, but when the matches begin, it's awesome as hell. It goes a while without anything cool for a while, but then you'll get a robot like Razer or Hypno-Disc that simply dominate. I didn't think those robots were very powerful until I saw Hypno-Disc (a robot with a 90 MPH steel saw on it) literally saw through a half inch of metal and rip the sides off of the other bot.
Razer was pretty badass too. It has a hydraulic claw on the top. On that one episode, Razer clamped down on the other robot and pierced through its steel shell. Then it picked it up in the air (those robots weight like 50 pounds minimum) and tossed it in the pit. Anyone else like this show? -Lasereth
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Insane
Location: The Oposite, Inverse of Hell (Wisconsin)
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I can't stand Robot Wars and shows similar. Uhg. And it has nothing to do with the various poor anouncers.
They never really destroy eachother, which is what I would prefer to see. They just drive around, often with an unskilled driver at the controlls, until one gets flipped or stops working. Is Robot Wars the one with the pit where one robot pushes the other one in and then smoke shoots out of the side of the pit? And the entire audience acts like that's cool? What might be cool is if the pit crushed the robot into a cube. Although, I have never seen Razer but the name Hypno-Disc is familar, but I don't remember anything special. There was one episode where a "robot" had an ice-pick like thing that would dig into the other machine. If it would have been allowed to destroy the other machine, that would have been cool. Maybe that one was "Razer", but I didn't see anyone get thrown in a pit. Instead Razer and the lame machine built for flipping tried to take on one of the home machines. If the home team would build really powerful machines and the contests had to try and beat them, that would rock. .... But that's just my opinion. |
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Veteran
Location: Uppsala, Sweden
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I used to watch it when it was on over here, Razer and Hypno-disc were the coolest one's. At the end of the first match Hypno-disc was in, there was only small bits and pieces left of the opponent, it was great. I hate the flippers though...
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Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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I do watch the British version. I've never seen Battlebots (which I assume is the American version) so I can't compare them. I want to see it though! I agree on some opinions...I think the robots should be pit against each other and then simply fight until one is not working anymore. But if that happened, there would be way too many episodes, and the cheesiness would have to be cut out...and we can't have that. ![]() -Lasereth
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Devoted
Donor
Location: New England
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IMHO, Battlebots was more like a sport, while Robot Wars was more like professional wrestling entertainment. One-on-one timed matches, elimination-style, in three weight classes. No limit on spending, but limits on what you are allowed to do (no projectiles, no tanglers). And every once in a while, they'd take all the still-functioning losers and put them in a 20-bot cage match, which was also fun. |
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