I have been religiously following both shows and I must say, Not only Robot Wars bots appear a decade old technology when compared to that of Battlebots but they are pretty much pussys.
I mean Robot wars still had decade old offence such as flippers and shovers while drum barrels and side spinners are the new destructive things...
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I was watching some of the old seasons of robot wars and a few things I noticed is.
1. A lot of time is shown the house robots beating up the incapacitated robots which gets old real fast.
2. A lot of the fights are boring. Since they show every fight you can have fights where two robots shove each other around or one small hit and one robot stops moving.
3. Flipping out of the arena. In the older seasons Like seasons 1-4 of robot wars flipping a robot out of the arena was rare since flippers were not really that strong then all of the sudden everyone is doing it. And like the house robots it gets old real fast.
It was fun when the contestants would go after the house robots, though. I remember one ep that I think had four contestant robots in the arena, and they all turned on the house bots. They managed to flip every house bot except Killalot, and they damn near got HIM over.
- What are you gonna do, when the world catches on?
That was fun. I saw that fight and apparently from what I heard Bigger Brother in season 7 was suppose to fight in the house robot rebellion because because Bigger Brother had a habit of flipping house robots they switched him with gravity.
But I feel they focused too much on the house robots instead of the actual competitors.
I personally never could get into Robot Wars. The arena was way too dark.
shareAdd me to the list too. Robot Wars just did not do it for me. I especially hated the whole concept of having a "house bot" as a hazard. They seemed like a sorry excuse for some frustrated builder to go out and bully competitors. I would almost swear that a couple of times it looked like the house bot activated early when a competitor merely came close to the activation square without really entering it.
The Robotwars episode I did enjoy was the one Drunkbear mentioned where the contestants ganged up on the house bots. Since most of the house bots weighed 2,3, 4times what the contestants did it would take that kind of effort. I also seem to recall another where the contestant(s) disabled Sir Killalot and had just about shoved him into the "pit". The other house bots then scrambled and came to save their sorry brother even though no one violated their square. That was mildly amusing.
The house bots were the main reason I didn't get into this show, for similar reasons posted above. It was like if one was watching a teen martial arts competition, and right in the middle of a fight Bruce Lee shows up and attacks anyone who gets too close.
Pass.
If you buy a ticket for a remake, you are the problem, not Hollywood.
It was like if one was watching a teen martial arts competition, and right in the middle of a fight Bruce Lee shows up and attacks anyone who gets too close.
I actually never watched it and didn't even know it existed. When I did find out about it fairly recently I watched a few videos and didn't like it
shareWatched a few bouts from Robot Wars on YouTube yesterday to refresh my memory. Confirmed my many reasons for my decision to quit watching it the first time. Most of them have already been expressed by others on this thread, dark lighting, lack of newer tech, house bots, etc. I will add that beyond the ridiculous "house bots" the number of hazards the contestants have to navigate around in that smaller (or so it appears) arena takes away from the fight.
While Battlebots does have hazards to watch out for. The arena looks larger (especially without the house bozos taking up space) and therefore it is more a bot vs. bot fight. The hazards can be a factor but don't usually define the match.
The show has not appreciably improved any. Can't tell much difference between new and old fights.
Robot Bores is more like it. The pit and house bots are lame, and the competitors are all boring except for Carbide (even that is just a poor man's Tombstone). The scoring system is probably the worst part of it. The competition should be 1v1 single elimination like a real fighting tournament. Battlebots is better in both design and production value.
shareCompletely agree. Even the average robots such as Brutus, SOW are far better than the final 6 of robot wars grand finale
shareI can think of one possible bout that might be fun to watch. Have Tombstone and Bronco go in as a team against a couple of house bots. They would flip and shred the house bots. I bet even Sir Killalot would be leery and possibly in danger. Granted it is massive in size, but I bet Bronco could at least tip him over. I seem to recall seeing Bronco flip 250 lb. bots out of the arena and into the perimeter behind the barriers. Any of those other lame house bots would be toast. That might one worth watching.
shareKillalot weights like 1650lb.
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