I actually like Hellbent a lot. The little skeleton swinging the weapon is ingenious 😂 I love it. Cool looking bot too, with a pretty well made weapon system.
It would probably have done better had it not come up against Chaos 2 (twice) in Series 4 and Hypnodisc in Series 5, I mean, those are robots as tough as they come, had they not met those, I think they could have had a reasonable shot at the semis in those series aswell. Taking nothing away from its performance here though, it is most definitely at its best in Series 7
They applied for it multiple times, but were turned down. If you watch Techno Games though, they enter their earlier machine Hell Bound in two series, before the current Hell Bent you see here is in the 2003 series.
According to the Robot Wars Wiki, an earlier version of Hellbent which had a very different design, failed to qualify for Series 4 despite winning its battle. This version of Hellbent was originally supposed to enter Series 5, and later Series 6, but wasn't ready each time. I think that's a shame, given how good it looked in Round 1.
I imagine Mentorn probably gave SMIDSY the fight against Mean Streak hoping to see MS ripped to bits for ratings. SMIDSY had discs and the plan of pushing into the House Robots so it probably made for a better idea to have utter carnage. Guess it didn't work out that way.
Geoff: It's not cardboard. Honest. It's er- Jayne: THIS IS A CARDBOARD ROBOT. Ohh my, I forgot how much that makes me laugh! Ohh I love it. Man, this show is so damn good. And it always will be.
This heat truly was Atomic Warfare SMIDSY had to avoid that flipper to have any chance but they couldn't and they went flying out of the arena. Atomic did show potential in Extreme 1 and in Series 5 but got a dreadful draw against Hypno-Disc but here that potential was realised
Crushtacean was 2nd in the commonwealth carnage episode in extreme 2, 4th in the 3rd world championship, and was 5th in the 2nd Dutch wars as Krab-Bot. Success was not much, but a 1-off for this Cheshire team. From Joe.
For some reason I'm convinced Cygnus has appeared in series before, but apparently only as a featherweight in this season. Hmm. Also dropping the TV has to have a risk of filling the insides with shards of glass right? I wouldn't like to be the team that's got to go into the machine with all those rattling around inside afterwards. Spoiler alert - Cygnus X-1 is the only robot Atomic doesn't defeat with an OOTA. It's easy to mock Terror Turtle but at the same time, it's kinda a noble endeavour to make robots out of recycled material. If anything it should be encouraged for a lower cost category - the amount of scrap that roboteering produces means anyone willing to make use out of all of that is very respectable. Only problem then is how you can stop people 'finding' E-teks in the rubbish. And lets' be honest, considering how many robots do one hit and just die, the fact that TT would be ready to go if they put it back in the ring means you can't rate it at worse than average. Hell Bent impresses in the second group battle but it doesn't really face any actual competition. Two lacklustre spinners with pathetic armour, and I-Bot-One-Beta was probably the other one to watch, but that slam into the arena wall knocked them down. I had doubts about whether two 10kg spinning bars were really worth it compared to one 20kg one, though if it was in the arena with anything it could have damaged it would be those two. Diotior is always going to be a hard act to follow for any Irish robot but TopBot did a lot better than I thought it would. Considering they entered Monad in S5, which is my contender for worst robot of the series, that spinner was at least as powerful as Typhoon 2 to break the arena - we've just seen four that I doubt could have even scratched it. JP's claim that TopBot was immobile I think is wrong - Crushtacean just realised what a threat they faced and did the Control Bot style perfected after the pit release was added. SMIDSY is a robot I have some relevance to considering I'm on Team ACE who own it - even if the foster owners are up in Yorkshire. The two discs you see on the back are made to the exact same specifications and are interchangeable with High-5, Up Vote and Mr Emoji. When Dave restored SMIDSY after buying it off Gary Cairns, he sought out exact replacements and ended up machining the disc to the exact specifications. I think we even have one of the original discs that he tracked down to get the sizes, with bits of Atomic still on the tips. Might have to put it up on Team Toon's charity auction some time! It didn't look like they did a lot to Mean Streak though, and in fact had trouble finishing it off. I assume the producers put SMIDSY with Mean Streak for some destruction, but whoops. Not that Mean Streak was a threat to SMIDSY in any way, shape or form of course. I was still on the fence whether Atomic was a top tier flipper - I'd usually put it in my B-grade when thinking about S7, but I think I need to correct that - it's definitely A grade. Maybe not A+, but that flipper is powerful, well designed, effective, and the driving is top notch as well. Atomic had two draws in S4 and 5 against top tier robots and they've learned from experience. Definitely worthy semi-finalists, even if they had a weak-ish heat. A pair of fights that comes to mind are the two times Chaos 2 fought Tornado in Extreme 1. The simple box shape versus the flipper was technically all in favour for the flipper, especially with the level of ground clearance of both members of the Four Wheeled Warriors. Atomic didn't just win because it was well driven, but because it was well designed. That huge plough flipper means that it's the whole of the front that's a no-go zone, and the heavy armour it's put on means those discs are useless against it. SMIDSY might have stood a chance against a slightly less well driven and built flipper like Grim Reaper or Raging Reality, and perhaps even against a good flipper with design faults like Gravity. But they did their best and that's all we can ask.
I always wanted the house robots to fight each other. Shunt Vs. Dead Metal, Matilda vs. Srgt. Bash, Growler vs. CC(lol), Sir Killalot vs. Mr. Phyco. In a Turny style show. Pretty sure Phyco would win simply because of his huge claw, or Matilda with the flywheel, still would of loved to see it.
I imagine Matilda's flywheel would make a mess of the exposed hydraulics and electronics of Psycho and Killalot. Bash wouldn't fare much better, Growlers speed would probably cause a significant amount of shock damage, Cassius Chrome wouldn't be much of a threat, Shunt could be a danger as long as it stays upright and Dead Metal would probably not be large or strong enough to grab another house robot. Matilda, Growler and Shunt would probably be the most potent. Psycho would probably tip over trying to lift a 200kg+ robot off its wheels, Bash might be able to damage the guts of Killalot and Psycho but it wouldn't last long against anything faster.
@@jds355 I'd like to see superheavyweight 200kg versions of Carbide and Aftershock let loose on the house robots. Give them a taste of their own medicine. Did I mention I hate the house robots?
And they realised this in the rebooted Robot Wars, and then people moaned about the walls being too high and there not being enough OOTAs. At least they did in Series 8
@@TPH250290 if there was no point having a flipper in the reboot, how is that 2 of the 3 champions from it were flippers? Maybe the way the walls were simply encouraged more skill and better designs for flippers. Besides, all UK heavyweight events now limit the areas an OOTA can be scored, simply because the live shows needed to keep things interesting, and low walls all the way around were leading to every fight being over in less than 10 seconds with the advances making flippers more and more powerful.
@@TPH250290 The high walls didn't stop 2 of the 3 reboot champions. And yet the producers didn't want carbide winning again despite the fact that 4 of the 10 champions were flippers, not including lifting weapons or wedges like Roadblock or Panic Attack.
@@233Deadman It makes me laugh that the entanglement device rule was overturned in the wake of Carbide winning Series 9. So 4 flippers can become champions (Chaos 2 twice back to back) and no-one has an issue and yet a spinner finally succeeds and all of a sudden it's a problem. Don't get me wrong I have no issue with any machine winning with any weapon.
I always loved Crustacean, it looked very well designed, the curved shell was pretty strong against axes and the pincers were perfect control weapons (even though they offer no real way to do damage how they're powered by some car jacks), but the driving was mostly garbage (nice exception here though) and they had that power glove setup that never looked like it worked properly.
Why do Terror Turtle bother? They seem to keep turning up - and going out in the first round. I thought it was very considerate of Atomic to gently put Smidsy out of reach of the house bots down the pit. :)
And I bloody *hate* how the producers keep going "Coming up after the break" and show spoilers for the fight that is about to follow. Bastards. Just as well TH-cam has a skip-forward function...
A washing machine is like 30-40kg, from the height being dropped it's about the same kinetic impact as a 100kg robot being launched into the air by the floor flipper and crashing down since the chassis absorbs a lot of the energy. An anvil however has very little to give and is way denser than a robot, dropping it from the same height would probably just destroy the arena floor. Remember it's very simple metal paneling with a wood top in these series and all damage had to be repaired by the crew so they just didn't want any additional and unnecessary work: they even shouted at the shunt operator after the axe was improved because every miss would pepper the top of the arena floor and they had to repair bits after each match.
Round 1
Me: oh 3 decent robots! Whats next!
Terror turtle
Me: oh
I actually like Hellbent a lot. The little skeleton swinging the weapon is ingenious 😂 I love it. Cool looking bot too, with a pretty well made weapon system.
Dang, Atomic sure has improved since previous appearances.
It would probably have done better had it not come up against Chaos 2 (twice) in Series 4 and Hypnodisc in Series 5, I mean, those are robots as tough as they come, had they not met those, I think they could have had a reasonable shot at the semis in those series aswell. Taking nothing away from its performance here though, it is most definitely at its best in Series 7
I feel like Hellbent would have done really well in the eariler series, 3/4/5.
They applied for it multiple times, but were turned down. If you watch Techno Games though, they enter their earlier machine Hell Bound in two series, before the current Hell Bent you see here is in the 2003 series.
According to the Robot Wars Wiki, an earlier version of Hellbent which had a very different design, failed to qualify for Series 4 despite winning its battle. This version of Hellbent was originally supposed to enter Series 5, and later Series 6, but wasn't ready each time. I think that's a shame, given how good it looked in Round 1.
I feel for Hellbent a bit - they had great potential, but went up against Atomic...
Yeah if they had fought SMIDSY they might've had a chance to have a Famous victory over a Seeded robot I believe.
I imagine Mentorn probably gave SMIDSY the fight against Mean Streak hoping to see MS ripped to bits for ratings. SMIDSY had discs and the plan of pushing into the House Robots so it probably made for a better idea to have utter carnage. Guess it didn't work out that way.
yea i hope there is a wild card or something to get hellbent back in somehow...It has awesome potential
Hellbent was decent, but the other 3 machines in that melee were pretty awful.
"What are your tactics going to be out there?"
"Run".
:)
Man, Atomic vs Dantomkia would've been great. What a machine Atomic was
Geoff: It's not cardboard. Honest. It's er-
Jayne: THIS IS A CARDBOARD ROBOT.
Ohh my, I forgot how much that makes me laugh! Ohh I love it. Man, this show is so damn good. And it always will be.
Love Hellbent. Its rare for a robot to both look stylish and work efficently.
The team entered techno games with hellbound. From Joe. X
Haven't seen the final yet, but Atomic should easily beat SMIDSY.
After all, a farmer should be highly experienced with seeds.
He nearly broke the camera v Hellbent!. From Joe. X
Terror Turtle's series 7 goes the same way as its run in Series 8.
Oh God the dead lifeless eyes of Terror Turtle; it’s almost like he knew what he was going into
Atomic actually reached the heat final in series 4 and they went out to Hypno-Disc in the 5th wars.
Chaos 2 beat them in series 4. From Joe. X
This heat truly was Atomic Warfare SMIDSY had to avoid that flipper to have any chance but they couldn't and they went flying out of the arena. Atomic did show potential in Extreme 1 and in Series 5 but got a dreadful draw against Hypno-Disc but here that potential was realised
36:42 ´Matilda, will you marry me?´ I don't think so now.
Strengths:...And It's a Turtle. Weaknesses: It's a Turtle.
I was in the audience for the Atomic-Hellbent battle.
Hellbent went out of the arena!. From Joe. X
Crushtacean was 2nd in the commonwealth carnage episode in extreme 2, 4th in the 3rd world championship, and was 5th in the 2nd Dutch wars as Krab-Bot. Success was not much, but a 1-off for this Cheshire team. From Joe.
Dominic Visser's hands controlled Crushtacean's gloves, and were powered by a screw jack mechanism. From Joe. X
For some reason I'm convinced Cygnus has appeared in series before, but apparently only as a featherweight in this season. Hmm. Also dropping the TV has to have a risk of filling the insides with shards of glass right? I wouldn't like to be the team that's got to go into the machine with all those rattling around inside afterwards. Spoiler alert - Cygnus X-1 is the only robot Atomic doesn't defeat with an OOTA.
It's easy to mock Terror Turtle but at the same time, it's kinda a noble endeavour to make robots out of recycled material. If anything it should be encouraged for a lower cost category - the amount of scrap that roboteering produces means anyone willing to make use out of all of that is very respectable. Only problem then is how you can stop people 'finding' E-teks in the rubbish. And lets' be honest, considering how many robots do one hit and just die, the fact that TT would be ready to go if they put it back in the ring means you can't rate it at worse than average.
Hell Bent impresses in the second group battle but it doesn't really face any actual competition. Two lacklustre spinners with pathetic armour, and I-Bot-One-Beta was probably the other one to watch, but that slam into the arena wall knocked them down. I had doubts about whether two 10kg spinning bars were really worth it compared to one 20kg one, though if it was in the arena with anything it could have damaged it would be those two.
Diotior is always going to be a hard act to follow for any Irish robot but TopBot did a lot better than I thought it would. Considering they entered Monad in S5, which is my contender for worst robot of the series, that spinner was at least as powerful as Typhoon 2 to break the arena - we've just seen four that I doubt could have even scratched it. JP's claim that TopBot was immobile I think is wrong - Crushtacean just realised what a threat they faced and did the Control Bot style perfected after the pit release was added.
SMIDSY is a robot I have some relevance to considering I'm on Team ACE who own it - even if the foster owners are up in Yorkshire. The two discs you see on the back are made to the exact same specifications and are interchangeable with High-5, Up Vote and Mr Emoji. When Dave restored SMIDSY after buying it off Gary Cairns, he sought out exact replacements and ended up machining the disc to the exact specifications. I think we even have one of the original discs that he tracked down to get the sizes, with bits of Atomic still on the tips. Might have to put it up on Team Toon's charity auction some time!
It didn't look like they did a lot to Mean Streak though, and in fact had trouble finishing it off. I assume the producers put SMIDSY with Mean Streak for some destruction, but whoops. Not that Mean Streak was a threat to SMIDSY in any way, shape or form of course.
I was still on the fence whether Atomic was a top tier flipper - I'd usually put it in my B-grade when thinking about S7, but I think I need to correct that - it's definitely A grade. Maybe not A+, but that flipper is powerful, well designed, effective, and the driving is top notch as well. Atomic had two draws in S4 and 5 against top tier robots and they've learned from experience. Definitely worthy semi-finalists, even if they had a weak-ish heat.
A pair of fights that comes to mind are the two times Chaos 2 fought Tornado in Extreme 1. The simple box shape versus the flipper was technically all in favour for the flipper, especially with the level of ground clearance of both members of the Four Wheeled Warriors. Atomic didn't just win because it was well driven, but because it was well designed. That huge plough flipper means that it's the whole of the front that's a no-go zone, and the heavy armour it's put on means those discs are useless against it. SMIDSY might have stood a chance against a slightly less well driven and built flipper like Grim Reaper or Raging Reality, and perhaps even against a good flipper with design faults like Gravity. But they did their best and that's all we can ask.
Cygnus X1 got a television dropped on it!. From Joe. X
My only thing to say about Araknia's defeat. What would you expect with a cardboard bot?
I always wanted the house robots to fight each other. Shunt Vs. Dead Metal, Matilda vs. Srgt. Bash, Growler vs. CC(lol), Sir Killalot vs. Mr. Phyco. In a Turny style show. Pretty sure Phyco would win simply because of his huge claw, or Matilda with the flywheel, still would of loved to see it.
Yeah, me too!
Perhaps I would see see Hydra or Bronco flip Sir Killalot.
I imagine Matilda's flywheel would make a mess of the exposed hydraulics and electronics of Psycho and Killalot. Bash wouldn't fare much better, Growlers speed would probably cause a significant amount of shock damage, Cassius Chrome wouldn't be much of a threat, Shunt could be a danger as long as it stays upright and Dead Metal would probably not be large or strong enough to grab another house robot.
Matilda, Growler and Shunt would probably be the most potent. Psycho would probably tip over trying to lift a 200kg+ robot off its wheels, Bash might be able to damage the guts of Killalot and Psycho but it wouldn't last long against anything faster.
@@jds355 I'd like to see superheavyweight 200kg versions of Carbide and Aftershock let loose on the house robots. Give them a taste of their own medicine. Did I mention I hate the house robots?
i realy liked hellbent cool design and looked good in their first battle
Atomic threw him over the fence!. From Joe. X
Arena sides were a bit low as the flipper bots are getting very powerful..
And they realised this in the rebooted Robot Wars, and then people moaned about the walls being too high and there not being enough OOTAs. At least they did in Series 8
@@TPH250290 if there was no point having a flipper in the reboot, how is that 2 of the 3 champions from it were flippers? Maybe the way the walls were simply encouraged more skill and better designs for flippers.
Besides, all UK heavyweight events now limit the areas an OOTA can be scored, simply because the live shows needed to keep things interesting, and low walls all the way around were leading to every fight being over in less than 10 seconds with the advances making flippers more and more powerful.
@@TPH250290 The high walls didn't stop 2 of the 3 reboot champions. And yet the producers didn't want carbide winning again despite the fact that 4 of the 10 champions were flippers, not including lifting weapons or wedges like Roadblock or Panic Attack.
@@233Deadman It makes me laugh that the entanglement device rule was overturned in the wake of Carbide winning Series 9. So 4 flippers can become champions (Chaos 2 twice back to back) and no-one has an issue and yet a spinner finally succeeds and all of a sudden it's a problem. Don't get me wrong I have no issue with any machine winning with any weapon.
I always loved Crustacean, it looked very well designed, the curved shell was pretty strong against axes and the pincers were perfect control weapons (even though they offer no real way to do damage how they're powered by some car jacks), but the driving was mostly garbage (nice exception here though) and they had that power glove setup that never looked like it worked properly.
He was 2nd in the commonwealth carnage in extreme 2, 4th in the 3rd world championship, and 5th in the 2nd Dutch robot wars as Krab-Bot. From Joe. X
23:12 🫱🏽💥🫲🏻🤝 “Watch your fuhckin’ hand, Craig!”
Feel Hellbent drew an unlucky option, I thought they had the potential to win a couple of the other heats.
Why do Terror Turtle bother? They seem to keep turning up - and going out in the first round.
I thought it was very considerate of Atomic to gently put Smidsy out of reach of the house bots down the pit. :)
I love Growler went and celebrated with Atomic lol
Psycho Psycho give us a wave! XD
And I bloody *hate* how the producers keep going "Coming up after the break" and show spoilers for the fight that is about to follow. Bastards. Just as well TH-cam has a skip-forward function...
Are robot wars has dropped plenty of washing machines but I want to see them drop an anvil
A washing machine is like 30-40kg, from the height being dropped it's about the same kinetic impact as a 100kg robot being launched into the air by the floor flipper and crashing down since the chassis absorbs a lot of the energy.
An anvil however has very little to give and is way denser than a robot, dropping it from the same height would probably just destroy the arena floor. Remember it's very simple metal paneling with a wood top in these series and all damage had to be repaired by the crew so they just didn't want any additional and unnecessary work: they even shouted at the shunt operator after the axe was improved because every miss would pepper the top of the arena floor and they had to repair bits after each match.
Atomic could have won this series
From when are the Battles😃?
2003
Middlemiss the poor mans Cheryl Tweedy! Common as fuck!
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South Africa?? But, their white!?
fok julle naaiers
I guess you don't know your history...
Yes mate, that's a thing, I've known several white South Africans.
They completed as Krab-Bot in series 2 of the Dutch wars and came 5th!. From Joe. X
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