Anyone remember Robot Wars?

I happened upon some old episodes the other week on Sky. My 8 year old loves it! I forgot how much fun it looks.

My kids used to love it, used to be some proper nerds building kit on there

Yes! 😀
I caught it on Sky the other day too and couldn’t help but sit and watch it. Hypnodisc owning it IIRC

Loved it, shame it’s no longer on IMO.

Sadly, they rather converged on a solution.

Pointy horse cock kind of ruled the roost on that one.

I’ve met Craig Charles; then said hello to his missus, child, fiddled with his
dish and pooped in his house.

True story.

Nah Chaos 2 and Hypnodisc were way better than the the slow moving pointy cock on that thing

Apologies, I must have missed them.

I still pooped in his house though.

I had an ex who was the spitting image of Phillipa Forrester.

*Drifts off in a reverie of good memories….*

We had a team at work, it was pretty impressive seeing it in action. (Dominator was its name).

I think I was the right age for it, but it was ace. THis guy was a legend, proper alpha nerd.

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I had an ex who was the spitting image of Phillipa Forrester.
*Drifts off in a reverie of good memories….*

And yet all we get are pictures of the Diverge 🙁

Not sure if I should admit it but I helped a mate build one. We got accepted at auditions based on work in progress but it never got completed, mainly as we liked engines and welding and nothing about electronics.

Was more scrapheap challenge than robot wars, ran on 2 2-stroke engines with diaphragm carb so worked inverted powering a dragster rear wheel made from a BMX hub shell on a T45 steel tube axle and using Land Rover bevel gears. Started with a power drill. The weapon was mass and speed. Tool steel battering ram and pivot steering. Noisy and dangerous, probably best it never ran…

its was a guy? 😕

Forgive me for not posting pictures of my ex-gfs on here!

Here, have this to tide you over.

Pointy horse cock kind of ruled the roost on that one.

Razer.

THis guy was a legend, proper alpha nerd.

George Francis.

*cough* I imagine. Never watched it. Erm.

Great program as a child…. Saw an old repeat and felt I had grown out of it…

Surely someone on here built one!?!?

No shame here; i was a serious RW nerd. I could have told you the details of each machine, the name of its builders, which other machines it has faced… just like Northwind, i was exactly the right age.

Incidentally they still run the competitions, they’re just not televised any more. I’ll just leave this here:

Can I enquire as to what “the right age” happens to be? Future input depends on it

the Razor lot really spoilt it for everyone else, spending ludicrous amounts of money and bad losers to boot they didn’t like it when Hypnodisc got in behind and starting to eat them did some real damage… but it was ok for them to crush and mangle everyone else.

Those robots look waaaaay better than the ones they had on the TV show…

they didn’t like it when Hypnodisc got in behind

*cough* Pussycat *cough* 😉

I agree, i didn’t like them at all. They really drained the fun out of it, in my opinion.

As for the age thing, i was 10 when it all started. I remember going to school and spending the day discussing the battles from the previous night!

was it pussycat my memory has gone 🙂 it was a disc type though IIRC

I agree, i didn’t like them at all. They really drained the fun out of it, in my opinion.

I liked the granny in the wheel chair ! 🙂

I remember watching the first series and being excited about the prospect that you could do reasonably well with a standard rc car wearing a biscuit tin… Then the second series came and brought dedicated machines made from mobility scooters and road signs and it never seemed quite as accessible!

Remember it? We bloody won it!

I was a member of staff on the Cadet squadron that built Typhoon. We won quite a few championships and destroyed a few house robots on the way. Typhoon was a lethal thing and to this day I wonder how we managed all that time without a Cadet losing a limb to it

ROADBLOCK FTW KERNOW BYS VYKEN!

Typhoon was the black box with lots of torque, yes?

Also a big fan of the Spaced episode.

The first rule of Robot Club is, you do not talk about about Robot Club. The second rule of Robot Club is, YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT Ro… wait, I… got that wrong.
The second rule is, no smoking.

War Bastard??!?

Remember reading the reason the show got canceled the robots where getting to powerful and dangerous, people getting injured etc.

Haha quite the coincidence, I found a robot wars VHS in the back of my bookcase this evening. Not that I have anything to play it on anymore…

OP: Have a look on ebay, you should be able to find a mini arena and the small metal models (pull back).

My kids discovered robot wars about 5 years ago (but have grown out of it now). I bought loads of the mini bots on ebay plus the arena, also bought three of the DVDs (I wasn’t obsessed, honestly!!).

A shipping container was sold on Storage Hunters Uk on one episode that was full of the house robots, fact

Typhoon was the spinning disk with hardox claws on the rim, painted like an RAF roundel

We need pics ol blue eyes!

Typhoon was the spinning disk with hardox claws on the rim, painted like an RAF roundel

…which broke the arena!

Which one are you franksinatra?

Loved robot wars, stumbled on it on quest or something the other day, my kids thought it was brilliant

Oh yes 😀

None of the above.