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CaNsA
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PostPosted: 18:22 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
IIRC, there were weight and size limits for the robots.
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PostPosted: 18:33 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
I hope they keep it simple and don't include too much interference with other shit, it was pretty good last time with the house robots and the pits / flipper shit but any more would ruin it imo.
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PostPosted: 18:38 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
IIRC, there were weight and size limits for the robots.


https://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Weight_Classes Thumbs Up
200kg seems to be the limit
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PostPosted: 19:45 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Forgot this ever existed Shocked. Used to watch it all the time when I was kid, will be interesting to see how they reinvent it.

With the amount of cheap drone tech available now days they should do an airborne version really Thinking.

Also reminded me of playing this for a while as a kid. I remember it being great fun but its probably out-dated rubbish now. Still available on torrents 15 years later Laughing.
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PostPosted: 20:00 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
A BCF Robot Wars robot? Shocked

I assume the design would be something along these lines (which is not work safe) https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=008_1173407958 and a bit like this (which also isn't work safe) https://i.imgur.com/yFMJAlu.jpg but with more flaling flame throwing dildos?

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PostPosted: 23:53 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lol, I love the 'might be unsuitable...',.

Anyway being serious, it needs to be bike themed in some way. How about a machine that lashes out with a motorcycle chain with a big iron fist on the end?
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PostPosted: 23:56 - 14 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
It needs a ban hammer to wave around. Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 12:24 - 15 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
I can help, I'm a right bender.















...so I could sort out the hydraulics.

Am I right in thinking the weaponry is strictly limited? If not I'm thinking a pair of triple articulating arms with a nine-inch grinding disc on one and a plasma torch on the other.
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PostPosted: 21:07 - 15 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogue_Shadow wrote:
I hope the old the House Robots are tucked away in some BBC warehouse, not dismantled Sad



There still in use doing shows. I went to one in Portsmouth last year, and it had the original house robots - the big one whatever it was called! I even went up and touched it... Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 21:17 - 15 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
arry wrote:
Pre the twenty two bazillion children (she seemed to be constantly pregnant) - mostly definite would smash like a train through a greenhouse

Ah, dear Philippa. An amazing talent for delivering the most innocent lines as though she were suggesting some form of payment-in-kind to a plumber with a pornstache and bulging toolbox.

Also something something robots something.
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PostPosted: 14:38 - 03 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dara O Briain is to host the new series of Robot Wars alongside Irish broadcaster Angela Scanlon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35482622
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PostPosted: 15:25 - 03 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Teaser video....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyJMmSMwME4

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PostPosted: 15:29 - 03 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pravda wrote:
The series will be filmed at a purpose-built fighting arena in Glasgow

The series will be filmed at a purpose-built fighting arena, comma, Glasgow.

OK, that presenting team could work. I shall allow it.
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PostPosted: 22:06 - 03 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Best start getting my entry ready then...

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PostPosted: 05:15 - 04 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Would be great to see something along these lines (OK it's a commercial)
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PostPosted: 07:14 - 04 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
-Matt- wrote:


Also reminded me of playing this for a while as a kid. I remember it being great fun but its probably out-dated rubbish now. Still available on torrents 15 years later Laughing.
https://i66.tinypic.com/2yno74k.jpg


My god.

The nostalgia!

Crying or Very sad

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Link for a non-virus filled one pleasm?
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PostPosted: 08:23 - 04 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
In the meantime, there was a USA series called battlebots last year (search "battlebots 2015" on youtube) which was good, not really sure the best bot won in the end though... again, flippage rules a lot IIRC
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PostPosted: 15:53 - 24 Jul 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bump.


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PostPosted: 16:37 - 24 Jul 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
My boy was a massive fan when he was younger, so much so that he badgered me to get tickets to the filming. It was all pretty good, as by the time we went, I had watched loads of them and became a fan too. You could wander the pit area out of filming time and chat to the makers and see the bots close up. You'd be surprised how big they are in the flesh/steel.

I had a great design idea for a robot, it was basically passive aggressive, causing anything coming close, to get flipped.

It never got off the drawing board as I just never had the workshop to put together a working prototype.
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PostPosted: 16:48 - 24 Jul 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
Bump.


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PostPosted: 16:52 - 24 Jul 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
yarps.
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PostPosted: 16:57 - 24 Jul 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
I really liked Robot Wars.

Series 1 had some good things which were dropped in favour of all out combat, but it was still good.
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PostPosted: 17:03 - 24 Jul 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
yarps.


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PostPosted: 17:44 - 24 Jul 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hypnodisc was the shit.
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PostPosted: 18:13 - 24 Jul 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh hell yes.

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