Your favourite Battlebots
Id be interested to know what all of yours are. This thread is here so you can create a list of your US faves, it can include any of your chioce from any weight calss and the list can be any length long.
Heres my top 10:
1. Toro (SHW) - weapon: flipper
2. The Judge (SHW) - weapon: hammer
3. Biohazard (HW) - weapon: lifter
4. Bad Attitude (MW) - weapon: brute force
5. Huggy Bear (MW) - weapon: clamp
6. Hazard (MW) - weapon: spinning tool bar
7. No Apologies (SHW) - weapon: spike/axe
8. Diesector (SHW) - weapon: clamping/lifting/ramming jaws, spiked tail, axes
9. MechaVore (HW) - weapon: flywheel
10. Codebreaker: (SHW) - weapon: spinning drum
Your favourite Battlebots
Living in Belgium I have never seen a Batttlebots fight, except once when spending a night at the family Watts home and I was rather ill then so I dont really remember much. I heard its rather boring to watch, arena hazards doing most of the damage and such, so I am curious: is it really boring ? Or are there fierce battles worth seeing ?
Your favourite Battlebots
Ive seen several very good matches, specially in the lightweight and middeweight division. The heavyweight fights are about the same as ours, and the superheavyweights to me are boring.
My RC versions of Minion and Diesector have seen better fights then the real ones. :)
Your favourite Battlebots
IMHO Battlebots is tedious and the arena hazards (kill-saws especially) do the damage. The robots just dance around each other for a while, on the first coming together someones weapon breaks - lots of whoopin and a hollerin when the pulverizer comes into play but that gag is as subtle as it looks. 2 minutes 30 seconds worth of yawning later and we see Carmen Electra in another new outfit (a different one every link) then 2 guys behind a desk giving ever-so witty repartee (more yawns) then lo and behold its finished.
Be even more thankful if youve never watched Robotica............
Your favourite Battlebots
Still its the only place Ive seen Warhead in action - its a lovely robot but it seems to think its a helecopter :)
Your favourite Battlebots
Ive seen robotica, and that is much worse.
Whats even worse is that discovery channel aired a couple of shows of Robotica.
What i hated the most is the fact that robots were activated on the floor while everyone was standing around them, less than 4 feet away. No barriers, no bullpens, no arena, nothing to protect you.
And im not even talking about the presentation.
Your favourite Battlebots
but back on topic:
1: Biohazard
2: License To Kill
3: Warhead
4: Mauler
5: Mechavore
6: Vlad the Impaler
7: Diablo
8: Greenspan
9: Atomic Wedgie
10: Nightmare
Your favourite Battlebots
honerable mentioning though not in my top 10:
Mecha Tentoumushi
:)
Your favourite Battlebots
Karoline, the reason why you find Battlebots tedious and theres lots of dancing around isnt because the fights are boring, but because there isnt someone in the cutting room dropping all the dull bits on the floor.
If you think its only the killsaws that do the damage then I think youve missed the point somewhere.
Battlebots is far more a pure sport than Robot Wars is, and when people are trying to move Robot Wars to a more pure sport, its a shame that people think watching a full fight (rather than the edited version) is tedious :sad:
Oh well
Ed
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Your favourite Battlebots
quote Still its the only place Ive seen Warhead in action - its a lovely robot but it seems to think its a helecopter :)
best description of warhead I ever heard....
love it1