Pretty bog-standard for me. Watched it on TV since its first episode (missed the Blue Peter episode with RoadBlock but remember seeing the main advert earlier in the week)
Churned out tonnes of useless HW designs, then moved on to covering an RC car in cardboard and duct-tape.
Didn't really start picking up the necessary knowledge needed to actually build anything though until I started collecting the Real Robots magazines. From there, I got interested in the Rex's Robot Challenge section and eventually built a machine to compete in the 2004 competition. Entered the 2005 and 2006 UK Robotic Games events before joining the main featherweight fighting circuit in 2007.