Curious...

Hi all.

I was just watching this weeks Episode (HeatN) nsaw in the coming
nex week bit a machine of peculiar interest to me...

...its got spherical wheels of calor style, a cutting disc and a
wedgey bit at the back - now, unless Stingers grown sum steel or we
wos kidnapped, re-modelled and entered into Series7 wivout my
knowledge im at a curious loss!

- if anyone knows owt about wots gotta be The Last of
the Axle Bots ild be sorta interested to find out too...


All the best every1&fanx in anticipation,

- Dig.



Ps - Hope they won one ;)

PPs - Dont suppose they did though... :sad:

Can you say that in english. Even im not that bad

Youre a little snob, arent you mate? Dont blame Dig for talking like that.

Personally, he made more sense there than he does on the telly. :wink:

No, but then I understand everything e sez.

I notice, inc. myself, no-one can answer is Q!

I noticed that bot as well and considering we were in that heat its a bit worrying that I couldnt even remember it being there, let alone its name!

http://www.team-iron-awe.co.ukwww.team-iron-awe.co.uk

it wasnt stinger no, i believe it was called xenomorph. Looked very nice and at the time it didnt remind me of stinger but now you mention it. Ive got a picture ill dig out sometime and put it onto my profile

Hi Chaps, thanx for your comments - (i guess!)

Xenomorph eh? - Yes Gary, i wunt mind looking at a pic if you have 1...

its on my profile now

Cheers Gary...

...Um. Thats the one -Not quite wot i had in my minds eye tho...

...Still,guess ill cheer it along come sunday. Oh!, and your goodself of course! :)

Nice name Xenomorph...our team was using it 4 years ago!

Another forthcoming bot is Black and Blue another name Rob has been using for his feather for a while now!

Tom

Yeah Tom, know how you feel - imagine our surprise when after a few years on the tele another team appeared using our team name Team Tetanus - yould kinda think Mentorn would look out for these things or at the very least the imposters would have run it through a search engine...

Anyhow, we got over it - why we ever decided to call ourselves after summut that ends in an ass ill never know!

Ha, ha! - on that note ill bid you well :)

- EZ guys, Dig (Of da SUMP)

Did you enter Sump Thing this year

Xenomorph is a blatant copy The Master...

Mr Grimm and Mr Cairns your comments could have counted as spoilers by hindsight. Oh well, well done to both of you for putting on a good show. I think that the speed at which Typhoon moves is similar to that of Ziggo!

I have seen the master and they do look similar but as far as im concerned that is as far as it goes.
Oh yeh, and well done to Gary and Rob!:)

Hear, hear! - Nice job Gary, Rob - Fully entertaining TV!

No Jamie, no SUMPTHING this year - we kinda felt that as the Wars went by our struggle has become more of the up-hill variety ;)

Its our learned opinion that it takes a lot more than simple skid steer, on /off control and luck (most of it bad) to pulverize current oposition...

HEY! Doesnt Xenomorph look like Sumpthing????

ya dont say!
thought there were a few robots in it this year that we 2 or 3 years out of date, not to take anything away from them, but a lot of wheelchair motors are creeping back in.
think we should be encouraging these new roboteers to visit the fra site... missed oppertunity during filming I think

wots wrong with wheelchair motors?

Thats wot we use for drive in typhoon 2 and typhoon

The only problem with Wheel Chair motors is that you use them......if we ban them then some of us might even get an offensive move in once in a while.

Typhoon was built without knowledge of Ziggo indicating that great minds do think alike

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ya dont say!

Lol

Yes, I can be a total idiot (and most probably am), but at least im not an idiot who posts hundreds of spoilers on series 7 on top of annoying and insulting everyone on it beforehand)

In my posh A - grade style writing I managed to write a formal e-mail to five about the Man U person. cant believe he heasnt gone already.
Sorry dont let this make you go off topic

Thats ok. Been there and done that myself a few times

The wheelchair motor comment is mainly an observation that a lot of first time robots are relying on wheelchair motors, with their existing gearboxes, and running them at reccommended voltages.
This is very much what was happening in the beginning, then we moved on to bigger and more powerful solutions.

I was simply pointing out that as a community, we were seeing what others had done, and using their knowledge and experience to push further. It seems many newcommers are not aware of the previously tried and tested methods and so we should be making efforts to reach these people and introduce ourselves, not to improve their machines as a priority, but as its clear from the old skool styles of the robots that they might not be aware of the live sceen, and the FRA, thats all I was saying.

Typhoon...... to be honest you could have said Drill motors and Id have believed you. I think you guys are the exception that proves... well... rips up and eats the rules.

lol no prob james

Dig, Sump Thing, in my opinion, may not have been 1 of my fave robots but it was a wicked piece of kit. Whats the current status of Sump Thing & whats happened to it?

Last time i seen sumpthing it was residing in the Enginuity museum.

Hmm, come to think of it, I remember the next 2 or 3 issues of Real Robots mentioning that Sump Thing now resides at Enginuity.