Sweet memories



Sweet memories

by giablakiee1288

23 comments
  1. Hot take: Sir Killalot was a bitch who let the other house robots do the work, and then came in at the end to take the glory.

    Matilda and Shunt were the powerhouses of the house robots IMO.

  2. Maybe it’s just camera tricks, or nostalgia, but the old robots seemed MASSIVE and powerful, and the robots in the new series seem tiny competitively.

    It’s honestly just not as exciting to watch now because they all look like small toys that bounce around the arena, compared to the old robots that actually looked like they could flip your car into the pit.

  3. While Jonathan Pearce laughs maniacally. Good times!

    It’s not a patch on the UK show but BattleBots is quite good fun. Carbide is basically their version of Hypodisc. Just tearing shreds out of anything it comes up against.

  4. I miss the early Robot Wars, when it was hosted by Clarkson and they had a bunch of different games like The Gauntlet, Sumo, Tug of War, etc, it meant that robots had to be more well rounded, and not just flippers on wheels.

  5. Didn’t Hypnodisc have to be downgraded for the later series because it was just too powerful?

    My favourite Robot Wars moment was when Cassius got turned upside down by one of the house robots and then just flipped himself back over into it’s feet! (well, wheels). It was the first time a robot had self-righted and inspired a fair few other teams later. What a moment that was to watch as a kid!

  6. As a non Brit. I can say I thoroughly loved this show. It was bigger than you would expect in the Middle East. The American version was popular too.

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