Hypnodisc or riot.
They'd probably be best off ditching the attempts at nostalgia and just going for a near all new approach at this stage. I can't see the former being anything but a disappointment.
You'd think advances in technology since it was last on will make for some pretty impressive competitors though.
Such a great programme on every conceivable level. I can't think of an obvious way to ruin it, either. How will they do it?
Ref bot was a complete gimp and even that didn't ruin it.
What a show. I remember as a small kid going out to some school thing and leaving my Granda with instructions on how to record the grand finals. I came home and he had recorded the wrong channel. Devastated.
Razor was the best.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...t-wars-returns
I did like Razer. And Hypnodisc. There was one team I hated but I can't remember who or why. Probably Chaos II.
It was the funny little heshe that drove for Chaos 2. He/She was unsettling.
Was Chaos II (and presumably chaos 1) the flippy one?
What a waste of space Sir Killalot was, or whatever he was called.
They'll all be aerial drone type things now.
Just wasted about 20 minutes reading up on Robot Wars on wiki and then watching some videos. I remembered the battles as being better in my head.
I see they've slipped an 'iconic' in early. Why do people not get pulled up on it? It's like a marketer's freebie word to make your thing sound amazing regardless of whether or not it is.
I remember seeing Hypnodisc and thinking it would be unbeatable.
I used to lol when Mortis rolled up every year, its team of Cambridge nerds boasted about it being worth thirty grand, and then it sucked shit and lost to some idiots.
True. I think with them both having flipping weapons and the names being vaguely similar, I've rolled memories of them into one.
I liked the one the Irish lads had that always set on fire.
I don't think I have ever seen this. Someone post some videos.
Just watched this one. That looks ace.
We did something similar for a course at uni where we had to make some hockey playing robots. Ours got royally shafted.
Make it happen.
Barry Davies probably considers it a low-point, but I used to like Techno Games as well.
Didn't realise Clarkson had a presenting role before Craig Charles
Jonathan Pearce almost made this unbearable.
Am I right in thinking there was one that could split up into two smaller (much more easily squished) robots?
Gemini. I think Chaos II blasted one of them out of the 'ring'.
Gemini was made by that odd sounding ginger chap called George something. I know far more about this than I ever realised.
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I loved this show, behind the scenes was good as you see all the teams trying to repair their battered robot in a rush.
I went to the Gadget Show live at the NEC in the summer. I'm not really into that stuff so found it to be mostly shit, but they had the Robot Wars World Cup going on which was well worth the extortionate care park fee.
My Friday nights growing up - football practice, double Simpsons, Robot Wars and a curry .
I can't wait for this.
That final where Tornado rocked up with that shitty fucking frame to counter Razer was the most bullshit thing in the history of competitive anything.
I was absolutely seething at the time. They should have been publicly executed.
How do you all remember so much detail about this?
Bunch of fucking nerds.
The part of your brain responsible for misery is responsible for memory in the rest of us.
Hypnodisc.
The channel that showed this in Sweden had a flash game version of it on their website, was that a thing in the UK? It was ace.
Don't remember that one, but the game on the PS2 was class.
The customisation
Watched some on Challenge last night. Phillippa Forester laughing in the face of a twelve year old for his dad's robot being shit was a highlight.
Still no mention of Roadblock? Shame on you all.
I'm a twit
How will the new robots be different/better then, engineers? Will they be loaded up with stupid software or will heroic efforts from sixth form college still don it?
I often wondered how hard it was for someone who put hours and hours into designing, building, and programming their robot only for it to then get torn to shreds in the arena. Especially against the likes of Hypnodisc.
The latter, as long as they are still remotely controlled. If they were to try to make them autonomous then that would be more interesting in a technical perspective, but you just need to watch those football playing robots to realize how much of a borefest that would be.
Been trying to remember one name all morning, the yellow one that won more often than you would expect.
Fucking Panic Attack!