Robot Wars [Series 10] [Sundays, 8pm] [BBC2]

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PostRe: Robot Wars being rebooted by BBC
by Saint of Killers » Sun Jul 10, 2016 11:05 am

I wonder if Minotaur was made from a original Xbox...



I'm not usually into this, but that was very entertaining. :lol:

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PostRe: Robot Wars being rebooted by BBC
by jawafour » Sun Jul 10, 2016 11:17 am

Saint of Killers wrote:...I'm not usually into this, but that very entertaining. :lol:

I don't know anything about Robot Wars... but that was brilliant! If the new series is anything like that, I will be watching it :lol: .

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PostRe: Robot Wars being rebooted by BBC
by The Watching Artist » Sun Jul 10, 2016 11:25 am

That hammer was so gooseberry fool

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by Trelliz » Sun Jul 10, 2016 11:34 am

jawafour wrote:
Saint of Killers wrote:...I'm not usually into this, but that very entertaining. :lol:

I don't know anything about Robot Wars... but that was brilliant! If the new series is anything like that, I will be watching it :lol: .


Pfft, that was nothing.





I hope they bring back some of the greats to show the new lot how its done.

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PostRe: Robot Wars being rebooted by BBC
by Oblomov Boblomov » Sun Jul 10, 2016 12:01 pm

No Listy? :(

Used to love watching this with my dad back in the day. :wub:

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PostRe: Robot Wars being rebooted by BBC
by Victor Mildew » Sun Jul 10, 2016 12:50 pm

Hypnodisc utterly strawberry floating up months of people's hard work :lol:

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by The Watching Artist » Wed Jul 13, 2016 5:13 pm


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PostRe: Robot Wars being rebooted by BBC
by Dangerblade » Wed Jul 13, 2016 5:34 pm

The new series begins on BBC2 on Sun 24th Jul 2016 at 8pm

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PostRe: Robot Wars being rebooted by BBC
by Saint of Killers » Wed Jul 13, 2016 5:43 pm

Ad7 wrote:Hypnodisc utterly strawberry floating up months of people's hard work :lol:


And then in got flipped on its back and lost the final. :| :lol:

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by Trelliz » Thu Jul 14, 2016 1:14 pm

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I very rarely get excited about things, but i'm absolutely buzzing for this, bring on next weekend.

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PostRe: Robot Wars being rebooted by BBC
by jiggles » Thu Jul 14, 2016 1:31 pm

Saint of Killers wrote:I wonder if Minotaur was made from a original Xbox...



I'm not usually into this, but that was very entertaining. :lol:


I mean, you can post all the Hypnodisc videos you want, but this here was more entertaining than UK Robot Wars ever was. That weapon sounding like an old warplane spinning up, the sparks, the tiny robot absolutely flinging the big one through the air, and then it explodes to end it. Amazing.

One of the first reports on this new series was saying how the new arena was built to be bullet-proof. I really hope that's a sign it's going to be a lot more destructive.

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PostRe: Robot Wars being rebooted by BBC
by Jenuall » Thu Jul 14, 2016 3:41 pm

jiggles wrote:
Saint of Killers wrote:I wonder if Minotaur was made from a original Xbox...



I'm not usually into this, but that was very entertaining. :lol:


I mean, you can post all the Hypnodisc videos you want, but this here was more entertaining than UK Robot Wars ever was. That weapon sounding like an old warplane spinning up, the sparks, the tiny robot absolutely flinging the big one through the air, and then it explodes to end it. Amazing.

One of the first reports on this new series was saying how the new arena was built to be bullet-proof. I really hope that's a sign it's going to be a lot more destructive.


Agree - that video was pretty impressive compared to most of the rubbish we got in UK Robot Wars. If the new series has fights like this then I will be very interested to watch.

The original show was great, but it felt like after the first couple of series everyone just turned up with a different wedge shaped flipper and tried to use the same tactics constantly. Obviously it quickly became a proven approach that was no doubt easier to implement than other designs, but it didn't exactly improve things from a spectators point of view.

Mind you, half of the fun was listening to the commentary, the awkward interviews with the teams, and listening to Charles' terrible poems - whether the new series can deliver on the stuff outside of "the arena" will be a big factor.

Although if it starts and it's just Jonathan Pearce shouting about SRIMECs and continually repeating "Style, control, damage, and aggression" then I'll be annoyed :D

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PostRe: Robot Wars being rebooted by BBC
by Qikz » Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:16 pm



Yeah no Sgt. Bash is really disappointing.

Also, where's Refbot?

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PostRe: Robot Wars being rebooted by BBC
by Zellery » Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:17 pm

Qikz wrote:


Yeah no Sgt. Bash is really disappointing.

Also, where's Refbot?

Refbot was terrible.

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by Qikz » Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:18 pm

Zellery wrote:
Qikz wrote:


Yeah no Sgt. Bash is really disappointing.

Also, where's Refbot?

Refbot was terrible.


Take that back you monster.

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PostRe: Robot Wars [Sun 24th Jul 2016, 8pm, BBC2]
by Frank » Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:42 pm

Refbot was the start of the decline. Don't get me started on Mister Psycho, too :dread:

I never got the Hypnodisc love. Yeah, it was a powerful machine, but they never really had that much appeal as a team. A bit like Razer, really. Stupidly powerful robot, but I never *wanted* them to win.

Nemesis all the way.

I really like Behemoth too, mainly because it was one of the few original robots that was at the tour I went to see a few months back.

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PostRe: Robot Wars [Sun 24th Jul 2016, 8pm, BBC2]
by Errkal » Thu Jul 14, 2016 8:19 pm

Redfbot was all kinds of gooseberry fool!

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PostRe: Robot Wars [Sun 24th Jul 2016, 8pm, BBC2]
by Dangerblade » Thu Jul 14, 2016 9:06 pm

Frank wrote:Refbot was the start of the decline. Don't get me started on Mister Psycho, too :dread:

I actually really liked Mr Psycho. Even bigger than Sir Killalot and that hammer was strawberry floating terrifying (though it rarely made good contact).

Growler can get strawberry floated though.

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PostRe: Robot Wars [Sun 24th Jul 2016, 8pm, BBC2]
by Victor Mildew » Thu Jul 14, 2016 9:36 pm

Frank wrote:Refbot was the start of the decline. Don't get me started on Mister Psycho, too :dread:

I never got the Hypnodisc love. Yeah, it was a powerful machine, but they never really had that much appeal as a team. A bit like Razer, really. Stupidly powerful robot, but I never *wanted* them to win.

Nemesis all the way.

I really like Behemoth too, mainly because it was one of the few original robots that was at the tour I went to see a few months back.


Because it was hilarious watching the beardy nerds have a year's work smashed to gooseberry fool in seconds by something designed by one of that team's kids in lego :lol:

Never paid attention to the teams themselves, just loved watching their work go up in smoke :datass:

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PostRe: Robot Wars [Sun 24th Jul 2016, 8pm, BBC2]
by Lagamorph » Thu Jul 14, 2016 9:49 pm

My favourite spinner is still Typhoon 2. Not only ripping other robots to shreds but twice smashing through the actual arena wall.

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