Robot Wars 2016

Mr E

Starts tomorrow night at 8pm on BBC2, presented by Dara O'Briain and Angela Scanlon.

Robot Wars 2016: Everything you need to know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyJMmSMwME4

Thargor

Looking forward to it but slightly pessimistic about the amount of money that will have been spent on the bots compared to some of the American ones, then again even the old bots upgraded with modern materials and batteries should be entertaining.

ShaneU

Starts in ten minutes, loved this show back in the day

Ghost Train

Nice to see it's not too different from the original

Utah

Razer! Yes!!

ShaneU

Razer back on episode one

Thargor

Presentation feels a bit flat does it? I feel like Craig Charles and the crowd used to be going mental leading up to a fight. Good going getting the original commentator back.

Thargor

Hmmm, not a great first fight, feels a bit amateur hour compared to Battlebots...

Ghost Train

Razor messed up there

Pawwed Rig

Pity Craig Charles didn't come back. I would think Dara O'Briain would just take the piss.

ShaneU

Razer out already what a bag o ****e

Ghost Train

That blade on carbide is it? looks dangerous

ShaneU

Spinning blades are the best weapons

Mr E

Not bad, but not battle bots.

That chain flailing robot in the first round was a joke.

Ghost Train

ShaneU wrote: »

Spinning blades are the best weapons

Didn't seem to spin fast enough. Looks like it might have problems after the fight

Second fight was a bit better than first

Mr E

The single battles are much better than the groups.

Akrasia

It's a war of attrition. Clown team ftw

Akrasia

Akrasia wrote: »

It's a war of attrition. Clown team ftw

Or maybe not

Mr E

Do you like jigsaw puzzles?

Akrasia

Carbide are wreaking havoc. Very very entertaining

Indestructable

This is class!

Akrasia

Worst final ever

Ghost Train

Crap Final Fight

Looked like behemoth wasn't fully functioning

expectationlost

carbide hit bemeoth and damaged their wheels

expectationlost

wierd camera angles and camera switching, hard to watch

check out this pic https://twitter.com/digitalecom_com/status/757304787394322432 lol

Thargor

Hopefully it will pick up because that was a bit lame tbh apart from a couple of highlights, Battlebots a way slicker operation in every way, bot design, camerawork, presentation, buildup etc. Some of those robots tonight were complete amateur hour designs that would have been lame ducks 12 years ago when Craig Charles was presenting.

Now remake this!:

weemcd

Disappointing lads, nothing really new here from a show that launched back in 1998. The format, arena, house robots were all exactly the same, ffs give us a few new ones to look at with a bit of an upgrade.

As for the robots that entered, again I was disappointing as I saw little evolution from the shows first run.

A bit lazy in my opinion. The girl who interviews the teams in the pits is savage though.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I definitely miss Craig Charles. Not sold on it yet, there's a lot more arseing about and chit-chat than I remember from the original run (which benefited from having shorter episodes)

expectationlost

im unsure about the pit, maybe its good at it gives winning robots (who don't want to use their weapon once they've won) something to do with immbolised robots other then stand back and watch wait like happens in the US version

the_pen_turner

i liked it.
I would have preferred Craig but warmed to Dara.I liked the league set up . it gives us a few extra fights.
carbide looks great.
I was unsure when I saw razor. it looked like they didn't update the design. they always lacked grip and pushing power.
that final was very poor
.the pit is a poor feature. it cost razor and has taken from the series.


cant wait to see chaos 2 or hypnodisk. hopefully they will be back

youreadthat

The contestants only had 6 weeks from the BBC advertising for contestants to the first fights so not really surprising a few robots aren't the height of technology.