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PostPosted: 16:17 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: ACTIVATE! 8pm - BBC2 Reply with quote

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/robot-wars-returns

I doubt Philippa Forrester will be on it though Sad


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PostPosted: 16:56 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

thats my type of fun

would love to enter if I ever find the time, I have boxes of RC servo's battery's and controllers from my doomed RC Helicopter days (kept crashing them)
and have access to a top notch engineering company that I look after their computer systems to manufacture parts for me
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PostPosted: 17:09 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool!
A bit shocked to find how long its been since it was on the Beeb.
Looking forward to see what the advances in electronic devices will
bring to it.
Hope they go bit more gloves off Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! this time.
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PostPosted: 17:16 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know (vaguely) one of the guys who is pretty well involved in the building of the arena (think he was in a team but I can't remember which bot, or when). I saw a rapebook post a week ago saying it's gonna go ahead again, thinking it was creative marketing.

I'm actually impressed, and will definitely be taking more interest!

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PostPosted: 17:17 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

attack is the best form of defence Thumbs Up
I have a few idea's from watching the original series years ago I'd love to work on
and I'm more than familiar with large saw blades with carbon tips
rams and stabby pointy things Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: 17:44 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Problem is, the self flippers dominated by the end. Someone needs to come up with a flipper type robot that has the ability to destroy another flipper type robot.
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PostPosted: 17:59 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

or can still operate when flipped Laughing
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PostPosted: 18:06 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Team BCF ??
I'm sure with the talent on here we could put a decent effort together Laughing
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PostPosted: 18:20 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

oldpink wrote:
Team BCF ??
I'm sure with the talent on here we could put a decent effort together Laughing


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PostPosted: 19:35 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

you read my mind
ste can control the secret weapon Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 19:36 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Comrade NobBot
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PostPosted: 19:43 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

CaNsA wrote:
oldpink wrote:
Team BCF ??
I'm sure with the talent on here we could put a decent effort together Laughing


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Laughing Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: 20:16 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

CaNsA wrote:
Comrade NobBot


In the spirit of the current left leader is that the one that invites all the other robots to beat him up while doing nothing and playing a repeating loop of, "It's all my fault, I'm to blame for everything"?
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PostPosted: 20:23 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

ThoughtControl wrote:
CaNsA wrote:
Comrade NobBot


In the spirit of the current left leader is that the one that invites all the other robots to beat him up while doing nothing and playing a repeating loop of, "It's all my fault, I'm to blame for everything"?


No brother.

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PostPosted: 21:01 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

My design for a Robot would just involve it spewing lit thermite all over the place. I reckon its a winner.
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PostPosted: 21:44 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was called upon to go with my mate many years ago to the early heats for this. His proper building partner was in America and he needed help carrying the big lumpy thing and the spares/tools.

We went to some godforsaken ex RAF base where the show is filmed in a hangar.

They make everyone remove some electroniccy bit (I am not technically minded) so if someone is adjusting his chain saw/pick axe/nasty sharp chopper, somebody playing with their controller round the corner doesn't activate it accidentally.

The thing I remember the most is the small metal cage you have to go in when arming anything hydaulic or flamey, so that if it goes bang..... only you get strawberry jammed.

A strange creature came round giving advice and telling people what to do. I am still not sure if it was a man or a woman. He/She was one of the early winners and he worked for the show.

My mate got through and appeared on telly, but with the proper builder mate this time. His robot was mullahed!!!!
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PostPosted: 23:26 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

yen_powell wrote:
A strange creature came round giving advice and telling people what to do. I am still not sure if it was a man or a woman. He/She was one of the early winners and he worked for the show.


https://www.monkeychops.karoo.net/b3ta/pics/robogeorge.jpg

George Francis, of Chaos 2 fame? Anyway, I was up much too early for work last week and an old episode of Robot Wars was being repeated on some channel way down the list.. I thought it'd be a bit of a laugh, cheer me up. It wasn't as good as I remembered, perhaps even irritatingly stupid and bad. Not sure if this is a good idea Shocked There again it's not for me any more, I'm no longer 8 years old.
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PostPosted: 23:35 - 13 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think I stopped watching when the robots became too good, one hit and the other robot was over, then they set about destroying the house robots.

Didn't it move to a different channel? Also remember Craig Charles being really annoying.

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PostPosted: 08:47 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Snod Blatter wrote:
yen_powell wrote:
A strange creature came round giving advice and telling people what to do. I am still not sure if it was a man or a woman. He/She was one of the early winners and he worked for the show.


https://www.monkeychops.karoo.net/b3ta/pics/robogeorge.jpg

George Francis, of Chaos 2 fame? Anyway, I was up much too early for work last week and an old episode of Robot Wars was being repeated on some channel way down the list.. I thought it'd be a bit of a laugh, cheer me up. It wasn't as good as I remembered, perhaps even irritatingly stupid and bad. Not sure if this is a good idea Shocked There again it's not for me any more, I'm no longer 8 years old.
That's the one!!!
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PostPosted: 15:19 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hope the old the House Robots are tucked away in some BBC warehouse, not dismantled Sad

The flipper bots were good, but the likes of Hypnodisc and Razor started to dominate towards the end Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 15:34 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

M.C wrote:


Philippa Forrester Wub


Pre the twenty two bazillion children (she seemed to be constantly pregnant) - mostly definite would smash like a train through a greenhouse
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PostPosted: 16:37 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

oldpink wrote:
Team BCF ??
I'm sure with the talent on here we could put a decent effort together Laughing

Well we're pretty good at wrecking machinery aren't we?
I second the motion. Very Happy Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 16:38 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Andy_Pagin wrote:
oldpink wrote:
Team BCF ??
I'm sure with the talent on here we could put a decent effort together Laughing

Well we're pretty good at wrecking machinery aren't we?
I second the motion. Very Happy Thumbs Up


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PostPosted: 17:22 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Id deffo be up for a BCF team, ive got rc gear from my drone flying days
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PostPosted: 18:21 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

these days there are plenty of mobility scooters to use for a drive train and battery's are a lot better
combine that with some hydraulics attached to some rams and the basic's are easy to source
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