American fan here. I just discovered a couple of days ago that Robot Wars had come back, and I instantly watched the three episodes so far. I'm really enjoying it!
Had a lot of fun with this series- Series 9 has been confirmed, for those who missed it. Hope it comes back on a larger scale- it's fantastic to see both Robot Wars and BattleBots back on television and slowly growing, but they still quite aren't on the scale they used to be, and I truly do hope we can climb back there one day. In any case, Series 9 wishlist- Deeper field-(God, how many robots competed in Series 4 and 5? No idea, but it was way more than 40. It's unreasonable to think we can just get back there at the drop of a hat but I'd like to keep making strides towards that.) Return of events/exhibition matches- This is something I felt truly differentiated RW from BB and did a lot to give it it's own identity and match types you wouldn't see on BattleBots. The Annihilator, the House Robot Rebellion (led by Apollo if it comes back!), Tag Team Terror (the matches were always goofy and unregulated but quite charming) it was all great fun stuff and I'd love to see them return. Shit, maybe I'm alone on this, but I for one would love another Extreme season. I consider that to be a highly innovative and fun adventure in robot combat that was never truly capitalized on, but opened up the door for a lot of potential ideas that have yet to be cashed in on, and another take on the many things this wonderful, wonderful sport is capable of being. Apollo flipping Killalot- Because dammit man, you can't go three out of four. Man up! Go all the way! Finish what you started! Refbot- I knew both him and Bash would be missing heading into this, and maybe it is a bit too dangerous for him these days, but let's face it, it's just not quite the same without refbot. I for one miss him dearly. But it was fantastic to have Jonathan Pearce back. I've said it once and I've said it a million times, truly the best commentator this art will ever know or have. I went on a bit there, didn't I? Apologies. I love robot combat more than anything else on the planet. I thought it was gone for good and I still get very emotional and passionate that it's really back after all these years.
What this episode can teach you is - Having the fastest, toughest, most expensive and technologically advanced robot doesn't guarantee success in the arena. TR2 beat many technically 'better' robots in this heat, because it had the best driver.
Gay Bathroom Smell I don't think the driving was the real problem with Big Nipper, it seemed more like the wheels just didn't have much grip on the steel floor so it kept slipping and almost ending up in the pit, which seems to be a recurring problem in this series.
***** From what I've seen, most of the drivers preferred the new floor to the old wooden one, so I don't think that was the issue. Big Nipper just strikes me as hard to use properly, what with its complicated weaponry and 8 wheel drive.
Gay Bathroom Smell Whether or not some or most of the other drivers preferred the steel floor, there definitely have been some robots that had problems with it, and the General team even mentioned that the arena floor surface was "slick" in the first episode, and Simon Scott's reaction to Razer falling in the pit was to ask Ian Lewis, "Did you skid?". It was pretty obvious straight away that Big Nipper was skidding around enough to cause steering problems that would hinder it. According to Craig Danby (Foxic driver, who also had steering problems partly caused by the floor surface), the wheels on Big Nipper are made from hockey pucks, which probably wouldn't have helped much lol. the 8 wheel drive actually makes it easier to control, in theory - it's basically 4 wheel drive, with 4 additional counter-rotating wheels on the top, so that if it gets flipped over the controls don't get inverted and they can continue driving it with normal directional control.
Great Series of Robot Wars I love it when I was in school but there is a few house robots missing SGT Bash with the flame thrower,Growler and MR Psycho and the Ref bot
Captain Smartass It simply wasn't solid enough anymore - the walls and the floor kept getting broken in series 6 and 7, too many robots were getting flipped out of the arena too easily, and it wouldn't be sufficient to contain debris from spinning weapons by today's health and safety standards. If they kept the old arena, they would've had to restrict the power of spinners in this series quite severely.
+Captain Smartass that arena was the best one, this arena...ok what is that? can't throw any robot over it...that sucks...and I miss dantomkias old driver he was good
Another American fan here. Such great bots! Such a shame that they spend so much time fighting the pit and "house bots." Do away with the distractions and let the robots fight! This applies to Battlebots, as well. We don't need drones or flames, we want destruction!
I dont think any of the "best" robots have been knocked out by the pit without mitigating circumstances. The only one i can think of being Supernova, however due to gyro they simply lost control so thats kinda fair - its skill based, and if your a good driver you avoid the pit
We are talking about the "best" robots here. Razers not on that list, infact its no where near the list. 13.6kg Robots nowadays are more powerful than it, so its heavily outclassed and outdated. Also theres a common consensus Razer went down the pit intentionally to avoid spinner damage
Razer would have been destroyed by Carbide. Just look at what happened to it against 13 black which had two circular spinners that Razer could stop if it were to get into a good angle. With Carbide's spinner it would have been really difficult for Razer to stop it spinning, and would have probably lost its weapon if it wasn't quick enough to get in behind Carbide. They would have probably been better off entering with Warhead, but they were probably getting that ready for the next season of Battle Bots. Maybe next series of Robot Wars will have either a new improved version of Razer, or they might enter with Warhead.
Because (a) that 3.3 million subscribers is for everything the BBC, one of the world's most productive TV companies, puts on TH-cam, and (b) British viewers can see the full show free for a month after it's broadcast, on BBC iPlayer
The amount of subscribers I understand, the amount of views I do not. I have only 9 subscribers and get alright views by posting videos on subjects I feel are trending.
FrisianKarelian The BBC's output of videos is so large and so varied, that any given subscriber will only watch a tiny fraction of the entire output (e.g. every Robot Wars video available, but none of the Proms videos).
FrisianKarelian It's pretty inevitable for channel which doesn't have a narrow focus. Give people the same sort of stuff time after time after time, you're going to get big views per subscriber.
To clarify, Dantomkia was given to the new team, but the robot was rebuilt from the ground up. It's still under the same name and design, but they made the robot itself.
Yes if you watched the whole episode, the 'manager' of dantomkia said "how can something that looks like a doorstep win?" Its a shame because i used to love dantomkia in the old series, but these obnoxious idiots ruined the team spirit of robot wars.
5 months on from watching this and I still think the BBC have another program ruined. Somebody needs to let me tell bbc what to put on and what not to put on.
Extreme was a good concept that led to some very memorable battles between some of the best robots on the scene at that time, but the childish presentation damaged the show's reputation. IMO, Extreme was when Robot Wars lost the credibility that it is still struggling to regain even 15 years later. The Telegraph's review of the latest episode dismissed Robot Wars as a kiddie show where people play with radio controlled toys, that's best enjoyed after a few pints. This is Extreme's legacy...
The Telegraph is an awful news outlet, and yes kids love robot wars, in fact most of us millennials grew up with it as children. But Extreme was just that... it was extreme. The battles were longer, the presenter was far more enthusiastic, the arena was bigger, the audience was bigger, everything was just bigger and better. The only 'downside' was that it was cheesy and often scripted. But then again, so is WWE, and who doesn't love a bit of cheese now and then? Admittedly the robots nowadays take far less time to build and are far more powerful, and some of the carnage is great. But already we've had at least 3 matches in 4 episodes where nothing happened at all.
SadeGames I was 11 at the time Extreme was first broadcast, and it seemed a bit childish to me even then (Also the Robot Wars official magazine went to shit at the same time). I remember most people I knew who were older than me (or the same age) lost interest in it at that point and it was the kind of thing you didn't admit to still watching by the time series 7 came along - assuming anyone still remembered it, which few people did. Extreme pushed the show in a direction made it appeal to a very limited audience, and the BBC would've limited the audience for the new series to people who those who are afflicted with childhood nostalgia, had they kept the "Extreme" style of presentation.
Actually Overdozer managed to cause damage to Dantomkia that cost them later down the road... Dantomkia could have gotten to the grand final had they not been drawn against Overdozer.
i miss the old arena :( this arena is not that good and they pulled refbot...and u can't throw amy robot out of the arena wich was the best thing to win on....
I think a lot of the childhood nostalgia fanboy types wanted the show to come back as an exact copy of series 5-6 only with better quality cameras, and expected to see rematches such as Chaos 2 vs Hypno Disc, Razer vs Pussycat, etc.. As if Craig and Philippa's absence didn't upset them enough already, when Razer fell in the pit in the first fight of the series, the rage and butthurt took over big time, and they won't be accepting that things have moved on any time soon.
the new camera work is worse, the studio too sterile, like fighting in a hospital, but then i guess settling for sub standard re makes is what the current era of t.v is about
***** It's annoying, personally I'm loving the new show, it's not the same as it was but that is okay, having been off air for so long it was never going to be. The new robots, format, presenters and style are all working for me even if the original will always be treasured as well
American fan here. I just discovered a couple of days ago that Robot Wars had come back, and I instantly watched the three episodes so far. I'm really enjoying it!
If you want more watch the original version
Watch the older version. This new stuff is rubbish.
Had a lot of fun with this series- Series 9 has been confirmed, for those who missed it. Hope it comes back on a larger scale- it's fantastic to see both Robot Wars and BattleBots back on television and slowly growing, but they still quite aren't on the scale they used to be, and I truly do hope we can climb back there one day.
In any case, Series 9 wishlist-
Deeper field-(God, how many robots competed in Series 4 and 5? No idea, but it was way more than 40. It's unreasonable to think we can just get back there at the drop of a hat but I'd like to keep making strides towards that.)
Return of events/exhibition matches- This is something I felt truly differentiated RW from BB and did a lot to give it it's own identity and match types you wouldn't see on BattleBots. The Annihilator, the House Robot Rebellion (led by Apollo if it comes back!), Tag Team Terror (the matches were always goofy and unregulated but quite charming) it was all great fun stuff and I'd love to see them return. Shit, maybe I'm alone on this, but I for one would love another Extreme season. I consider that to be a highly innovative and fun adventure in robot combat that was never truly capitalized on, but opened up the door for a lot of potential ideas that have yet to be cashed in on, and another take on the many things this wonderful, wonderful sport is capable of being.
Apollo flipping Killalot- Because dammit man, you can't go three out of four. Man up! Go all the way! Finish what you started!
Refbot- I knew both him and Bash would be missing heading into this, and maybe it is a bit too dangerous for him these days, but let's face it, it's just not quite the same without refbot. I for one miss him dearly. But it was fantastic to have Jonathan Pearce back. I've said it once and I've said it a million times, truly the best commentator this art will ever know or have.
I went on a bit there, didn't I? Apologies. I love robot combat more than anything else on the planet. I thought it was gone for good and I still get very emotional and passionate that it's really back after all these years.
Cool too see King Buxton out of retirement after all these years, with Razer it's probably the oldest competing machine!
1:08 when you know you've messed up
What this episode can teach you is - Having the fastest, toughest, most expensive and technologically advanced robot doesn't guarantee success in the arena. TR2 beat many technically 'better' robots in this heat, because it had the best driver.
Hell, Big Nipper is probably the best engineered robot in the whole show, but that meant nothing when they couldn't drive the thing.
Gay Bathroom Smell
I don't think the driving was the real problem with Big Nipper, it seemed more like the wheels just didn't have much grip on the steel floor so it kept slipping and almost ending up in the pit, which seems to be a recurring problem in this series.
***** From what I've seen, most of the drivers preferred the new floor to the old wooden one, so I don't think that was the issue. Big Nipper just strikes me as hard to use properly, what with its complicated weaponry and 8 wheel drive.
Gay Bathroom Smell
Whether or not some or most of the other drivers preferred the steel floor, there definitely have been some robots that had problems with it, and the General team even mentioned that the arena floor surface was "slick" in the first episode, and Simon Scott's reaction to Razer falling in the pit was to ask Ian Lewis, "Did you skid?". It was pretty obvious straight away that Big Nipper was skidding around enough to cause steering problems that would hinder it. According to Craig Danby (Foxic driver, who also had steering problems partly caused by the floor surface), the wheels on Big Nipper are made from hockey pucks, which probably wouldn't have helped much lol.
the 8 wheel drive actually makes it easier to control, in theory - it's basically 4 wheel drive, with 4 additional counter-rotating wheels on the top, so that if it gets flipped over the controls don't get inverted and they can continue driving it with normal directional control.
Now why would you make wheels out of something designed to be slippery XD
I wanted to see overdozer on the flame pit
I'm pretty sure you'd know what'd hsppen
Imagine overdoser vs carbide. Actually that might be awesome to see haha
Great Series of Robot Wars I love it when I was in school but there is a few house robots missing SGT Bash with the flame thrower,Growler and MR Psycho and the Ref bot
As an American I love Robot wars I watched it all the time on techtv can we please re air this in America!
I doubt we're getting it, because we have our own Robot Wars (Battlebots) on ABC.
True i love the new series but I grew up with the uk bots. Pierce is a fantastic commentator
Your dream came true in 2018
It's so beautifu,so funny to see Robots fighting for the pleasure of everyo🎉
"Ya goin' home in a bin bag yeh?" -Johnathan Pearce, 2k16
0:08 She has a very manly voice.
hahaha I was about to say that
Correction. She's Scottish.
lol
But... she is Tiny Tina from Borderland II WOW
She's Irish
WOODEN IT BE NICE IF OVERDOZER SURVIVED
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overdozer vs hypnodisc...any thoughts lol
I love those stuff
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wooden armor and petrol powered robot don't mix
StFidjnr The only way they could have made it worse was to give normal tyres.
The wooden robot (overdoser) was just begging for sgt bash to burn it :( but no sgt bash to do it
Dantomkia?! Yay!!
Wonder how a battle bots vs robot wars would go
It's so nerdy but I love it. ;-;
All the old-timer robots are getting defeated. :(
I also don't like the new arena, it's too small compared to the previous ones.
wrong - the new arena is a fair bit bigger than before - it's 15x15m whereas the largest arena previously was approximately 14x9m.
Really? Wow, I had not know that.
Captain Smartass
It simply wasn't solid enough anymore - the walls and the floor kept getting broken in series 6 and 7, too many robots were getting flipped out of the arena too easily, and it wouldn't be sufficient to contain debris from spinning weapons by today's health and safety standards. If they kept the old arena, they would've had to restrict the power of spinners in this series quite severely.
+Captain Smartass that arena was the best one, this arena...ok what is that? can't throw any robot over it...that sucks...and I miss dantomkias old driver he was good
Another American fan here. Such great bots! Such a shame that they spend so much time fighting the pit and "house bots." Do away with the distractions and let the robots fight! This applies to Battlebots, as well. We don't need drones or flames, we want destruction!
3,2,1, activation !!!
I think glitter bomb would last 3 minutes with razer in the ring
I want to play :D
Rukhs Rehman Build a robot and enter then.
the pit is far too big all the best robots are being eliminated by accidents.
I dont think any of the "best" robots have been knocked out by the pit without mitigating circumstances.
The only one i can think of being Supernova, however due to gyro they simply lost control so thats kinda fair - its skill based, and if your a good driver you avoid the pit
And Razer. But they got pulled in.
We are talking about the "best" robots here. Razers not on that list, infact its no where near the list.
13.6kg Robots nowadays are more powerful than it, so its heavily outclassed and outdated.
Also theres a common consensus Razer went down the pit intentionally to avoid spinner damage
the pit should be a weapon not an obstacle.
Razer would have been destroyed by Carbide. Just look at what happened to it against 13 black which had two circular spinners that Razer could stop if it were to get into a good angle. With Carbide's spinner it would have been really difficult for Razer to stop it spinning, and would have probably lost its weapon if it wasn't quick enough to get in behind Carbide. They would have probably been better off entering with Warhead, but they were probably getting that ready for the next season of Battle Bots. Maybe next series of Robot Wars will have either a new improved version of Razer, or they might enter with Warhead.
3.3 million subscribers, barely 10k views on avarage. why?
Because (a) that 3.3 million subscribers is for everything the BBC, one of the world's most productive TV companies, puts on TH-cam, and
(b) British viewers can see the full show free for a month after it's broadcast, on BBC iPlayer
The amount of subscribers I understand, the amount of views I do not.
I have only 9 subscribers and get alright views by posting videos on subjects I feel are trending.
FrisianKarelian
The BBC's output of videos is so large and so varied, that any given subscriber will only watch a tiny fraction of the entire output (e.g. every Robot Wars video available, but none of the Proms videos).
ah that makes sense, still kind of a waste tho
FrisianKarelian
It's pretty inevitable for channel which doesn't have a narrow focus. Give people the same sort of stuff time after time after time, you're going to get big views per subscriber.
how much time untill he have reel steal?
I love anime fight scenes soooooo much omigoshhh this is the best anime fight scene yet like omigoshhhh 😩😩
Thoroughly disappointed with Dantomkia. The new owners don't deserve it
To clarify, Dantomkia was given to the new team, but the robot was rebuilt from the ground up. It's still under the same name and design, but they made the robot itself.
***** I'm going to assume that the trash talking was all for the cameras, but yes it was pretty obnoxious.
Yes if you watched the whole episode, the 'manager' of dantomkia said "how can something that looks like a doorstep win?" Its a shame because i used to love dantomkia in the old series, but these obnoxious idiots ruined the team spirit of robot wars.
why are there two robots always in the corner?
Those are the house robots, they are arena hazards which the competitors can use to their advantage
OMG YASSSS
6:12 THANKS OBAMA
5 months on from watching this and I still think the BBC have another program ruined. Somebody needs to let me tell bbc what to put on and what not to put on.
I prefer Battlebots.
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Nowhere near as good as Extreme. Still good though, much better than episode 2.
Extreme was a good concept that led to some very memorable battles between some of the best robots on the scene at that time, but the childish presentation damaged the show's reputation.
IMO, Extreme was when Robot Wars lost the credibility that it is still struggling to regain even 15 years later. The Telegraph's review of the latest episode dismissed Robot Wars as a kiddie show where people play with radio controlled toys, that's best enjoyed after a few pints. This is Extreme's legacy...
The Telegraph is an awful news outlet, and yes kids love robot wars, in fact most of us millennials grew up with it as children. But Extreme was just that... it was extreme. The battles were longer, the presenter was far more enthusiastic, the arena was bigger, the audience was bigger, everything was just bigger and better. The only 'downside' was that it was cheesy and often scripted. But then again, so is WWE, and who doesn't love a bit of cheese now and then? Admittedly the robots nowadays take far less time to build and are far more powerful, and some of the carnage is great. But already we've had at least 3 matches in 4 episodes where nothing happened at all.
SadeGames
I was 11 at the time Extreme was first broadcast, and it seemed a bit childish to me even then (Also the Robot Wars official magazine went to shit at the same time). I remember most people I knew who were older than me (or the same age) lost interest in it at that point and it was the kind of thing you didn't admit to still watching by the time series 7 came along - assuming anyone still remembered it, which few people did.
Extreme pushed the show in a direction made it appeal to a very limited audience, and the BBC would've limited the audience for the new series to people who those who are afflicted with childhood nostalgia, had they kept the "Extreme" style of presentation.
MDF robot have they never watched robot wars before?
Actually Overdozer managed to cause damage to Dantomkia that cost them later down the road... Dantomkia could have gotten to the grand final had they not been drawn against Overdozer.
+chdreturns Also I think Big Nipper was robbed. They had better driving, strategy, and did more damage.
They came on to have a laugh, and it was funny.
i miss the old arena :( this arena is not that good and they pulled refbot...and u can't throw amy robot out of the arena wich was the best thing to win on....
any* pretty hard to type on a phone
xD Nice catch. Don't want any grammar nazi's getting triggered xD
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load of crap compared to the original, poxy robots and not enough robot noise
The lack of noise is just in this upload.
You spend thirteen years demanding the show return and when it does the first thing you do is dismiss it as "crap"?
I think a lot of the childhood nostalgia fanboy types wanted the show to come back as an exact copy of series 5-6 only with better quality cameras, and expected to see rematches such as Chaos 2 vs Hypno Disc, Razer vs Pussycat, etc.. As if Craig and Philippa's absence didn't upset them enough already, when Razer fell in the pit in the first fight of the series, the rage and butthurt took over big time, and they won't be accepting that things have moved on any time soon.
the new camera work is worse, the studio too sterile, like fighting in a hospital, but then i guess settling for sub standard re makes is what the current era of t.v is about
***** It's annoying, personally I'm loving the new show, it's not the same as it was but that is okay, having been off air for so long it was never going to be. The new robots, format, presenters and style are all working for me even if the original will always be treasured as well
This is the worst cinematography I've ever seen.