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where are all the rest robot wars veterans, would love to see razor, chaos 2 (robot the bruce),firestorm and my personal favourite Cassius what a great machine, and many other great robots. would love to see them again seen many of them in robot wars filming many years ago. I wonder EO's if we could persuade some of these great robots out for a show or even show and tell some time .??????
That's still more than most. Count yourself lucky.
Panic Attack & Tornado have run recently as one offs though.
Chaos 2 is dead.
The razer boys sometimes show up at robochallenge.
Xterminator is somewhere, still looks like its in fighting condition. (Series 6)
dunno about others
Chaos 2 has been disassembled?
It got destroyed beyond repair in a match with 13 Black and Razer.
It got repaired, the last matches for RW were in 2002/2003, I've seen it on display since then at Lettering and Colchester.
Mantis is residing in the basement here, disassembled. Resurrecting it would take quite a bit of work tough.
New batteries, new hydraulic pump/motor/valves and electronics are needed.
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Is there a video of the fight? And I am sure I have seen more recent pics of Chaos 2. Though It may have been for display, there was no way to tell.Quote:
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The All Star Champs fight from Extreme 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMuxy3vwUeI
And a couple of pictures of Chaos 2 from the Finals of the UK Robotic Games in 2005:
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Has Hypno-Disc seen the light of day since Robot Wars? I've heard that it has, but I've never actually seen any footage of it as a static display or otherwise... If it happened to be on display at an event at some point, I'd be there in a flash! Same with Lightning too, I know it has appeared more recently after Robot Wars ended, but that was a very cool machine - liked the design a lot!
It's been nice to see Panic Attack and Tornado appear in the odd event recently, it'd be a shame to see some of the old greats appear again instead of disappearing forever.
I do know that some of the old machines have changed teams though, I'm led to believe the Roaming Robots team own Stinger and Pussycat, maybe Mortis but I think that changed hands, then Team Enigma own one of the X-Terminators (series 6 era?) and both Wheely Big Cheeses are being restored/upgraded by separate teams, from what I've heard. Most of that's come from the Robot Wars Wiki though, so I wouldn't count on that being 100% true, but it's as good a place to mention it as any!
mortis also a great robot, shame about chaos 2 and that I have missed panic attack also at events, just shame to have them rusting in sheds that's why I have ceros
The damage to Chaos 2 in that fight doesn't look bad at all. Razer did more damage in the first world championships. Oh well.
From what I've heard, it's more the Psycho hammer of doom that twisted the chassis out of shape than the damage from Razer/13 Black. Though I do agree there, it doesn't look like there's a whole lot of damage at all, I'd assume that it's mostly internal or just damage that's more difficult to spot from a distance...
Apparently the chassis got all twisted.
I own and run Bulldog Breed for the same reason adz600 got Ceros, I find it such a shame to see them sat in workshops not being used how they should
Yeah, its a shame when you have an old robot in fighting condition, and you just dont fight it. There are some robots that cant fight anymore, unfortunately, for whatever reason.
Bulldog is about as old as I feel comfortable with still fighting, at the champs I got a good flip from Ripper and that finally twisted the chassis mounts too far so am making them all fresh, the armor is pretty good so once I have the chassis solid plus a few upgrades it should be up to speed with most
I've always wanted to buy an older machine and run it in competitions, something like Stinger if that ever went up for sale - fewer moving parts, but a lot of fun to run in fights. Always wonder what happens to some of these older machines, if they do go into a workshop and just sit there fully assembled or if they get dismantled and turned into other projects or scrapped... would definitely be a shame for the latter to happen!
That was the beauty of SMIDSY when I had it, was a known bot that was simple
I've spent the last year or so trying to convince Team Enigma to give me Mr Nasty as a gift but he still says it's his hahaha
Matt, I've been through fewer lightbulbs than you have old robots.
Ahh, Smidsy! That's a name I remember! Bet that was a good one to drive about
There is something pretty cool about the older, more well known machines... It's like owning an iconic car or something!
Speaking of old bots, what's the news on X-Terminator? I know Team Enigma bought them but haven't heard if it's combat ready or not.
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