When We Were Kings !

[craig_colliass]

anukhet wrote,

Just a small point on the toy deal - exactly £0 was made from that - plus the pride of seeing your creation reproduced in the shops. In that respect absolutely nothing has changed - except nowadays we make or commission our own merchandise and our shop windows are the event organisers. What money is made actually goes back into keeping the robot running instead of straight into the pockets of the toy makers and tv companies.


This is why I won't be jumping for joy if the series comes back you the roboteers that were in the Robot Wars TV series were fleeced for everything, you came in and you were told to sign contracts that boiled down to them getting everything and you nothing, the injustice of this is too much.
If the robot fighting dose come back on TV I would like to see partnership not dictatorship. The series did get me interested in the robot scene but that's the only thing positive it did for me.

[ady]

if it came back on tv the eo's would be laughing, with new popularity and reaching the new younger generation, you would be quids in

[Bodge Job]

I still think the tv show is what made fighting robots become great, If it had never been on tv I would hever had know about robots as im still only a little boy robot wars canged my life , lol.

[psycho_fling]

eo s would only be quids in if the tv deal involved all of them otherwiise its another competitor

[elobire]

I still think the tv show is what made fighting robots become great, If it had never been on tv I would hever had know about robots as im still only a little boy robot wars canged my life , lol.

same with me. spent most of my childhood wanting to build a robot because of robot wars, glad i came across this forum.
people have to realise that robotwars is gone, and probably will never be coming back in the near future.

[widow_twanky]

I still think the tv show is what made fighting robots become great.

Yes, you are absolutely correct but that brings its own problems.

Effectively you start on the top of your game as a 'fad' for most people without any infrastructure behind it.

It's a reason I like the idea of kilobots and Jonno's Battleratz. They start to build the grass roots level of the sport and start to create some sort of relatively easy access to the spobby (we must remember our esteemed president has decreed this a spobby).

It will take a long time to build this type of infrastructure but it's getting there.

Andy

[gravity]

Me personally, I like robots flying and bouncing around the arena, getting back on their wheels and fight on ! Instead of 1 hit bam death, as it was pretty often on tv...
3 full minutes of roaming robots is awesome

[RogueTwoRobots]

Instead of 1 hit bam death, as it was pretty often on tv...

I agree, I never liked the fights where a robot took out its opponent with one attack in about 6 seconds

[botmad]

That is one of the reasons johnno has changed the Roaming Robots arena to encorporate the cages .....

Takes away the 321 activate One Flip fight over senario ....

Tests the skill more as the fights go on longer ...

[team_orr]

this thread throws up a lot of interesting questions,

robot wars for me was the gateway to getting interested in fighting robots, and i think its the same for a lot of the younger generation robot wars put robot combat on the map, and helped it towards what it is today. hands up everybody who heard about robot combat through robot wars?

that being said however, i think its time we exept that robot wars is gone from the television, and that we need to stop hanging on to its reputation, the inflow to fighting robots nowdays is a lot smaller then it was back then, the viewers back from 7-8 years ago have grown up and moved on, it time to show the world what we have evolved into and get a whole new wave of people interestd in the current format, which, i think, is the best its ever been.

E.O's like RR, RL, and RC have kept us going, really well actualy, having competed at many events i can tell you that they do a great job, many of the luxureys from the golden era can still be found at live events, we sign autographs, get lunch, and most importantly entertain the crowd and have fun, after all, isnt what this spobby is...a bit of fun? unlike robot wars (where there were many hours between fights, and taking ages to do pre/post match interviews) nowdays we get non-stop robot action!!!

yes, there are many wedge flippers nowdays, the problem is that it is a very effective design, somthing that the iron awe's have shown very well, but tbf there is also a lot of variety, for example, the saint, terrorhurtz, and puck, the thing is, there are only so many basic robot platforms (axe, rammer, flipper etc) and if you stray to far away from them you might end up with a slightly pants robot that may implode on its first outing...which is bad seeing as heavyweights are very expensive.

the point is, im proud of what we have turned into, the current format of live events is top notch, and although there are certain things we dont get now we're off the tv...im perfectly happy with what we're getting atm