Giant fighting robot TV show

[orac]

Anyone got any more information on this ?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/...5875-22146283/

Insiders suggest Fight For Me will see Transformers-style fantasy meet 90s hit TV show Robot Wars - where fans built machines to do battle.

[typhoon_driver]

interesting concept but it's whether or not they can deliver it. That god awful computer generated show thing they replaced robot wars with promised a lot and delivered none of it.

[calumco]

which tv show was that?

[bobblebot2]

Fightbox?

[typhoon_driver]

yeah complete lot of garbage. Wasted a good few million on that. When will people learn that getting kids to use their hands to make something rather than sit in front of a pc for hours on end is a far better thing to do?

[RogueTwoRobots]

When will people learn that getting kids to use their hands to make something rather than sit in front of a pc for hours on end is a far better thing to do?

When its too late probably. I like how handy computers can be at times; if it wasn't for computers and the internet, I wouldn't have been able to access all the resources that have helped me build robots and learn lots of things about engineering. But if computers had been as popular when I was younger as they are now, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be studying engineering and have the knowledge to compete in this spobby; I'd be too computer-obsessed. Heck, if it wasn't for Robot Wars I don't even know what I'd be doing in terms of career options just now.

If a programme like this helps inspire another generation into engineering then great, but if the TV execs just try to get as much money out of it as possible or, as mentioned, produce another pile of guff like Fightbox, then what's the point? Even scenes from Arenas of Destruction were more interesting than Fightbox.

[chimera1]

The year is 2010,all children believe is what they see on the television and cinema!.

Contestants for a new giant robot combat game are chosen from hundreds of applicants- 10 mins of build time is allowed at the start of the show and no weapon is banned (anything goes).

A weight limit is in force of 100 metric tonnes (virtual).

Persons good with spanners and electronics (redundant) but 10000 hours joystick use an advantage.

The graphics will be amazing, as seen in transformers-boxes wedges and spinners will look garbage in comparison.

This only a fictional scenario but we will wait and see what virtual reality brings,is this the end of real fighting robots on our screens?-Shame.

[robotic_ants]

http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/New_Shows

Fight for Me - The people behind Walking with Dinosaurs and Primeval do a fighting robots show. The world says it's a bit like Robot Wars. We say, more like FightBox, surely? (Impossible Pictures / ITV Studios for ITV1)

http://quizzlestick.wordpress.com/

ITV Studios is teaming up with Impossible Pictures, the CGI specialists behind Walking With Dinosaurs and Primeval, to make what all and sundry are calling A Bit Like Robot Wars. Though it sounds more like CGI-heavy flop FightBox. Anyway, the working title is Fight For Me and it sounds like exactly the sort of thing that commissioning editors think will go down well and then get awfully surprised when it flops.