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Main battle demo arena, photos with major damage our house robot, or have a drive of our Battle Ratz... fun for all the family!!
Our demo arena will be built in the market square, and a rare chance for people to see the famous robots from the Tv series fighting live and closer than normal.
Aylesbury Town Centre
Kingsbury
Aylesbury
Sunday 11am - 3pm
Roboteers ... Sign ups are now open via the roboteer section of the website.
Thanks
John
www.RoamingRobots.co.uk
signed up :proud:
shall be there :D
Will antweight roboteers need to be FRA members (we are, but some others aren't)?
Simon
Hiya,
No, if they are coming just for the Ant Weights for this one event, then I dont think they need to be members of the FRA.... in the past I think it has been waivered for this event only.
If i'm wrong the FRA can say so.
Regards
John
Roaming Robots
In that case, I am likely to turn up as a spectator but if I can get an ant built and running in time then I'll bring it.
No promises though.
hey, all ready :) looking forward to it...orrion will be in attendance yipee :D
what happens if it rains? the weather isnt looking too good :(
jack
we get wet :mrgreen:
It's a covered area, but we'll still get a bit damp.
Simon
can anyone bring a spare br6000 receiver as i may be bringing a robot and need the reciver for my spektrum?
thanks
I have a couple of BR6000 and a DX6 transmitter which I am thinking of selling you can either borrow one or buy it which ever you prefer. I will bring it on Sunday.
I need to buy two receivers.
Ones for alex anyway. I'll talk to you on sunday.
Or if u want to sell them both tell me how much.
Cheers
Will be there. Am looking forward to it. LR Evo has got a bit of a new paintjob after the fur started to come off at Nottingham. Just you wait and see.
Gd gd we will be running the Battle Ratz competition once again... A chance to grab hold of the trophy until the next event :-)
John
Will be bringing along a failure of an ant to be fodder for the others.
Hopefully the glue sets in time...
There's a trophy for the Ratz?!Quote:
Originally Posted by roamingrobots
I should have had it at Nottingham then!! :sad: :lol:
We built one for Brentwood so the winner gets to keep it until the next event :-)
well, can i be the first to say that i really enjoyed today, the event was fantastic, the roboteers were fantastic and the weather...well it didnt rain! :lol: good to meet some people for the first time, including george, jordan and alex, all very nice people and looking forward to seeing more of you in the future! orrion had motor problems that we tracked down to a broken wire inside the motor housing...quick fix but getting to it was very time consuming :angry: still we got to look at some interesting bits of the robot :D learning experiance! had a slight scare with dad and some c02...lost his lenses :( but his glasses flew hiiigh :lol: which dave weston seemed to find funny :D orrion fought merlin right at the end...gas leak meant nowt weapons and we lost the dodgy motor halfway through...new motors me thinks :( merlin shoved us down the pit in the end good one alan :D big thank you to dave weston, pete lale, alex marler, and matt and steve hunt and a HUGE thank you to ed wallace, without who we would have got nowhere! got myself some 120 mm blue wheels and a big ass sheet of polycarb so im happy :D thanks to RR for another awsome event!
jack
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Originally Posted by team_orr
Was very good to meet you, got to drive the Ratz in the big arena, coming second in the whole event, right until the annihilator when I drove into the pit (thanks to my driving), and I got to drive SMIDSY!!!!! I lost, because I was against Scorpion, but it was a good fight, but I think Andy's annoyed about the dents... Also got the Rat an upgrade as well, new metal caster!!! Met some new people, including Matt, Jack and Alan! I sooooo want a heavy now!
Had a great time at my first event even though I lost most of my fights.
Met a lot of great people with special thanks to Simon Windisch for lending me a battery when mine ran out.
I may have caught a glimpse of you...
too busy fixing Smidsy, which I can now classify as my own. :rofl:
that's be the day.... lol cheers andy :)
I think you'll find Andy isn't bothered about the dents, mainly because there aren't any. The scratches to the paint now that's a different matter. SMIDSY makes a fantastic noise when it's hit with an axe (and even better when it only has four bolts in the top so it rattles) and I did find the 10 - whack, 9 - whack, 8 - whack....................countdown quite funny.
It was a good event for us, hydras flipper worked well and the axe buried itself in the floor good and proper. Just needs a bit more work to get it to come back up.
DTK's new motor worked just fine. Got a good test when one half of the Roboteq blew and set it running full pelt.
And WE WON THE BATTLERATZ!!! Dead chuffed with the upgrades and now don't need to charge them after every fight so all good.
Anyway, a great big thankyou to Alan, Dave and Mr Hunter (who's name I can't remember) for helping Paul lug the heavies around all day, hopefully the back will be ok for the next event.
Andy
PS: I haven't missed that bit about classifying SMIDSY as your own!!
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Originally Posted by widow_twanky
Many thanks to RR team for a fun day St Hammer went well no problems at all, I was happy that it could fight Stinger, as it has been one of my favourite machines from the Robot Wars days.
Seraphim won a couple of fights as well even when it had stopped The Wotty needs some modification Ian is going to fix it next time our paths cross at one of the shows, I am looking forward to the next event.
Many thanks again :D :D :D
Team
Saint
Also met you for the first time (briefly). How could I forget? :roll:
Still wished stinger could have beaten you, but jonno was driving....
I would not have worried if Stinger had won either but jonno had some technical problems :uhoh:Quote:
Originally Posted by George_TeamZog
Hi Guys,
A huge thank you to all that attended !!, Also a big thank you from Diana, the Town Centre Manager.
The event was one to remember with a few €œ technical €œ issues, but easily overcome with a bit of inspiration.
A successful day of robot battles, I only realised on the way home that we didn€™t have a break like we normally do€¦. Mainly due to the fact we had such a good attendance of robots and people wanting to play in the arena.
The Battle Ratz had a brilliant day, actually taking centre stage in the main arena for the first time. I hope you enjoyed taking the limelight for once boys !! Well done to Luke for taking the trophy€¦ don€™t forget to bring it to Guildford so they can try and get it back !!
There was a lot of interest in the Battle Ratz kits€¦ and the Pay to drive was as popular as ever as we had it on offer for free !!
Diana has already booked us to return in 2011, that will be our 8th visit to Aylesbury .. WOW.
Thanks to Craig for letting me drive St Hammer twice€¦.. Brilliant FUN !!! Will get Stinger working as good€¦ that€™s a promise !! Wasn€™t so good on 12v€¦. back up to 24v for Norwich !!
John
Roaming Robots
An Email I recieved Yesterday.
Hi Roaming Robots
Just wanted to thank you for organising this event, which me and my family along with everyone else really enjoyed!
Having watched the series on TV, I was suprised at just how big the heavyweight robots are, and you can't help but come away thinking of building one yourself! especially after my son really enjoyed operating the Rat bots?
Well, I also wanted to let you know that I took some pictures and video of the event which I've created a small Robot Wars page for, this has been added to my website, http://www.DavesVideoArcade.co.uk/robotwars.html
Please Feel free to link to my robot wars page for your visitors and fans to view.
Once again, thanks for such a great event, I look forward to next year!
Regards
Dave
Was a nice relaxed event and time to get to speak to people and have a laugh...
enjoied driving a battle ratz.. shame about dead battery ... jonno fixed it so i lost. booo hahaha!
Great day.. some funny battles, the locals loved it...
Cheers again see you at the next main show.
Also big thanks to Dave Weston for the Pizza from Pizza Hut for the 'Crew'.
i echo the pizza praise
cheers dave :talker:
I really enjoyed this event, even if I didn't get to use cabrakan, but TBH I was glad to just play with the ants and watch the fights for a change.
I might have to get 3 pizzas next time :P
Dunno if anyone noticed a comment on one of the photo's Jonno linked to, the writer seems to think the Ratz are a little overpriced. They're still cool for their money though
Probably do seem that way but having worked out wether or not I'd build another of our own on the same principles I decided that I'd let Jonno waste his time and work for peanuts. Material cost is most of what it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by razerdave
Andy
I noticed it... We are looking into buying our own milling machine to bring the price down , but anyone who's seen inside them can see there's a lot of components onside and a lot of drilling and custom made parts.
Did notice it.
i got to about £150 of standard components (before you get to the custom parts) before i gave up and decided maybe they were quite good value. I do think the reliability is impressive and they're so much easier to run than the feathers. I know a lot of the guys with the ratz really enjoyed being in the big arena although the floor was a bit rough for them (some bugger chopping holes out of it apparently :proud: :proud: ). Think most of the guys need to learn that driving really close to the pit normally results in one thing. Only you and Luke weren't in there at the end :rofl: :rofl:
Andy
To be honest, if I was a member of the viewing public and had little understanding of the cost of components, I would also think that £325 was a bit overpriced, but knowing what is included in the kit, the amount of work and development that has gone into them, the reliability of them and their ability to keep you occupied easily for ages, the price of them is pretty good.
Bottom line is that this spobby isn't that cheap to get into so you have to be prepared to invest a bit, but it's also not too shabby compared to the cost of getting into some other recreational occupations.
Viva la robots :)