RWars Series 1 Heat D Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Here we are! The War that started them all! The fourth Heat of the first ever War. Jeremy Clarkson presents, Johnathon Pearce commentates and Philippa Forrester interviews the teams. The six combatants are Cunning Plan, Demolisher. Sat'Arn, Bugs, Krazee Tokyo and Vector of Armagedon
LET THE WARS BEGIN!
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Demolisher crashing out of the arena during its intro is one of the funniest Robot Wars moments ever.
They keep mentioning Oliver Steeples as a Star Wars fan and now 20 years later, he's working as a prop designer for the new Star Wars movies. Awesome.
Awesome! Where'd you hear that?
+Richie Rich Walker (Richie Rich)
www.digitalspy.com/movies/star-wars/news/a791230/star-wars-the-man-who-built-r2-d2-in-the-force-awakens-was-once-on-robot-wars/
Fantastic news, he is living the dream!
Whenever I see people complaining about Jeremy Clarkson on Robot Wars, it's because of what he said about Prince of Darkness. I don't think that was a problem; the Prince of Darkness team were well aware that their robot was quite visually unappealing, and Philippa Forrester mocked it as well. Krayzee Tokyo was the one that got the real harsh insults. The team was only a group of three schoolkids!
Oliver Steeples (mentioned here as a massive George Lucas fan) is now working in the props department of the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
I love when bots get stuck on the greats while being introduced.
demolisher had the best intro in robot wars history
Damn, that little demolisher is surprisingly manuverable. And with so much speed... despite having so little mass, those spikes might still do something. I hope they make it to the arena!
Bugs is one of my relative's robot who unfortunatley had to be replaced by Stephen Devereau because he was with someone else on a special day out so he couldn't make it into the recording.
in my opinion the best heat in robot wars history well its my fave
@Psycho18C The chainsaw.
It caused numerous failures for Matilda throughout the early series. Later on they replaced it with a circular saw, and surprise surprise, Matilda stopped going up in smoke. I can only assume the fuel for the chainsaw leaked, or the chain came a bit loose and tore up something inside. Either way, it became a clear message to everyone: using a chainsaw in a robot is a very, very bad idea.
There must have been some serious editing because The Demolisher looked to be way quicker than Cunning Plan.
The intros are a little comical. Demolisher goes through the bars, and if you look, it looks like Bugs gets stuck on the grill.
The lightweight episode of Robot Wars series 1 is one of the few episodes I remember a lot! Only occasion such thing was a heat in the UK championships. Cunning Plan was beautifully designed, brilliant to hear Oliver is living the dream working for the new Star Wars movies as part of the props department. Sat 'Arn was underrated, The Demolisher is tiny but fast and Krazee Tokyo was a joke entry! Least the schoolboys had a laugh xD
The Demolisher vs Tiny aka Metal Gear Rex lol
...seriously, what the HELL is the point of having a featherweight episode...? With brilliant ideas like this, it's incredible they even managed to get a 2nd series.
Mind you, watching the Demolisher zoom into the arena, swerve off to the side and dive under the side bar and off the stage was hilarious.
God Jeremy Clarkson is a prick, isn't he? Sooner they bring on Craig Charles the better.
...wait, how the hell was the Demolisher not as fast as Sat'Arn or Cunning Plan? They basically just drove straight through without stopping. Was there something we didn't get to see?
+ArcaneAzmadi Clarkson mentions later in the episode that it overturned in the Gauntlet, even though we clearly don't see that happen. I'm guessing it was edited out and that's why Demolisher finished slower than it appeared.
Also, the featherweight class has continued competing for years afterwards, and is still going strong today - really, in the UK, robots are only ever heavyweights or featherweights - so don't sneer.
+Kill Dozer Yeah, but in this series the featherweights were being set up to compete against the heavyweights (and the middleweight episode winner) in the final. That's why we got the splendid sight of featherweight heat winner Cunning Plan charging at T.R.A.C.I.E, getting stuck underneath it, and immobilising both bots because T.R.AC.I.E's wheels were being held off the ground and it was too heavy for Cunning Plan to move.
I don't have anything against featherweights, but their implementation in this series was nonsensical.
ArcaneAzmadi And, as I said, they probably didn't really have a choice in the matter. It was only the first series, and they didn't even have enough legitimate robots to make it work out. They had to work with whatever they had.
+Kill Dozer Hmm, didn't consider that. I guess when a whole bunch of people turned up for auditions with "robots" that were little more than remote controlled cars they had to say "hmm, what can we do with this...?"
ArcaneAzmadi Apparantly, some people just turned up with wheels.
In the first series they really couldn't turn away any robot no matter how small
I half expected the demolisher to be too light and too fast to be able to complete the obstacle course.
gg
@LilSophi42
Yep, rumour has it Demolisher was flipped at one point in the gauntlet, but that was edited out for the TV broadcast. Looks to me like there's a break at 8:58 where it crashes into Matilda. Robot Wars was pretty heavily edited for TV throughout its existence.
They probably wouldn't have weighed enough to push the seesaw ramp down!
"Obviously too quick for its own good", indeed.
Now, the house robots seem scary!
4:53, Cunning Plan almost went through the fence, lol!
Demolisher not as quick as Sat' Arn or Cunning Plan? What is Jonathan Pearce talking about? He was easily twice as quick as them.
Demolisher actually did take longer to finish the gauntlet - for some reason they edited it to make it look like it got through without any difficulty.
***** Yeah, from what I remember it rolled over during the gauntlet.
Woolly Jumper
I think Jeremy Clarkson mentioned that it had been upside down in the gauntlet later on in the episode.
There we go ^^
Haha, thanks for the uploads! I like Jeremy Clarkson but I agree with others here, Craig Charles is a much better host for this show! I wonder when he enters the fray?
He started in the second wars.
Yea he is on now, just started watching the second series. And Razer makes their short but sweet debut.
Virgin Hypno-Disc vs Chad Demolisher
I laughed so hard that I started to cry. XD
feel so sorry for Vector of Armourgeddon...would've been a good opponant in the battles and would've gotten through th trails...as well, Tokyo was crap XD
The official report of the event shows that Demolisher actually got flipped during it's run, so took longer than the 9 seconds shown
I'm told that Demolisher got itself turned over, but that part was cut out in the TV show.
THERE ALL FEATHERWEIGHTS???
@MultiBattleaxe It is made for tv ... for all we no theres more that we didt see, that got edited out.
it depends what happened off camera/ not shown on tv. could be that demolisher hit an object.
@MultiBattleaxe
I'm going to hazard a guess that something happened during the Gauntlet run that, for whatever reason, was cut....why, I don't know.
cunning plan? a family of jokers would be a punning clan! lol
@hazface Yeah, the featherweights.
@MultiBattleaxe because they both completed the course it makes no difference since neither were going out.
XD The Demolisher. XD
correct me if i'm wrong, but wouldn't the flamethrower be completely useless? unless of course you were interested in the aesthetics...
true but some robots have more weak armor and the stuff inside is sometimes more open
A lot of components would melt very easily. Of course, that flame thrower isn't going to be melting much. It's purely for aesthetics at this point.
The flame thrower causes very little to no damage to most robots it's mainly for the entertainment value. Setting flammable robots on fire is extremely entertaining for the audience in series 5 heat H there was a robot called Granny's Revenge that was up against axe awe that ended up being set on fire by Sgt bash. It was my favourite sgt bash moment and the audience and Jonathan Pearce really loved it.
Well....
ryan blaschke there have been times when Sgt Bash has melted electronics
Seems strange that Jeremy is introducing things that are small and not particularly effective without introducing Richard Hammond
Craig Charles took over from Clarkson from Series 2 onwards
Their run was edited down
Why were there no baldrick or black adder jokes with a robot called cunning plan
Welp, matilda shit herself
when does sir killalot become a house robot?
Series 2.
2:16
The number of entrants is so poor they have a round with only feather weights in it, which they later expect to stand up against the big boys. Well they were only just finding their feet.
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You know you've sucked when you're beaten by a 10 year old :L
Clarkson is more cringeworthy in every episode. I thought he'd get better after 2 or 3 episodes, but now it's just obnoxious.