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Syfy Reality Show Will Feature Giant Boxing Robots
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like the next generation of 'Battle Bots' is here: 'Syfy has greenlit and shot the first season of a new show where eight-foot-tall state-of-the-art humanoid robots will rock 'em and sock 'em in a boxing cage until one is defeated. The future-shock new series is called Robot Combat League and the project has been kept under wraps until today. The action resembles a real-life version of last year's hit movie Real Steel, with large menacing robots pounding away at each other in a satisfying shower of sparks and gushing hydraulic fluid.' Pictures are included with the story."
But are they robots this time or just remote control vehicles?
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But really, Syfy should do Science Fiction (or even fantasy) instead.
To me, I could find all this kind of stuff on youtube.
Sorry, imho.
Syfy? What's that? Sisyphus? Syphilis? Almost sounds like it could be referring to science fiction, like that old Sci-fi channel, but it's spelled much more like that newer wrestling, horror and infomercial channel.
Oh - that's it, isn't it? It's that horrible cable channel that metastasized from the ruin of a science fiction channel. Well, nice to know they're still busy poisoning the very concept of imagination and entertainment in the name of ambiguous shareholder value.
robots pounding away at each other in a satisfying shower of sparks and gushing hydraulic fluid.
But why is it being hosted by a Troll doll dressed as a douche?
You don't get to design your robot. that sucks.
Discovery Channel can do better. and I want to see the MythBusters build one.
This reminds me of Rock 'em Sock 'em Robot commercials that used to be on some of my favorite Saturday morning TV shows years ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVDpuTqD1Nc
The action resembles a real-life version of last year's hit movie Real Steel
So, just like Battle Bots, it won't actually have anything to do with robots. It'll just be giant remote-controlled toys operated by humans.
Don't really miss cable. Definitely don't miss "SyFy" (aka, the John Edwards and fake wrestling channel) or Comedy Central.
Pronounced "Shitty". Glad to hear they're living up to their name. And still no reason for me to pay for TV.
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Heh. More like they'll turn it into a reality show where there's 38 minutes of annoying hosts, watching the teams struggle with the design and construction of their bots, yelling at each other, making the token girl on the team cry, trash-talking about their opponents, and fighting at the last minute with control system problems, followed by about three minutes of actual robots in the ring, one minute of actual robot-on-robot attack.
Oh, and nineteen minutes of commercials.
So, in other words, that motorcycle-building show with some intentional, rather than all accidental, occasional mechanical carnage.
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I had mod points so I stepped in to see if there were any corporate shills I could mod down, but as it should be SyFy is still a laughingstock and generally regarded as one of the dumbest channels on pay tv.
It's also the channel that got me to cut the cord.
Piss off and die SyFy. the nitwits that went for reality TV and wrestling to make more cash should be put up against a wall, shot, Duct Taped back on the wall, shot again and finally be staked in effigy to warn off others from being total douche-bags and emulating the way you destroyed a perfectly good SCI-FI channel.
If that isn't clear enough - SyFy Sucks!
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My Reader preview shortened this to "Syfy Reality Show Will Feature Giant Boxing".
Then I thought "Whoa! But won't that just be like regular boxing, just a foot (or seven) higher?"
I suppose there must be demand for it, as there seems to be for "midget boxing"...
So....right up your alley then?
It'll need more ghosts in it too, and people screaming in the dark.
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Heh. More like they'll turn it into a reality show where there's 38 minutes of annoying hosts,...
They got the annoying host, Chris Jericho.
He plays (played?) a whiney annoying bitch of a wrestler in the WWE universe, though he hasn't been around much lately. He of course, could be a stand up guy a very nice in RL, but I'm not holding my breath for that...
He also is in a band that doesn't make much waves, Fozzy. They might be good, but as stated above, he plays such a whiney bitch of a wrestler, I've never bothered to listen to them.
But none the less I will check it out. I mean, big ass robots beating each other up? Sounds fun.
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Those would not be robots. They would be mechanical exoskeletons.
They would also be really, REALLY cool.
But they would not be "robots".
Now go to the office and turn in your geek card.
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Apparently they get them to fight by shoving a pole up their asses.
It's been awhile since I've watched Mythbusters, but I remember a fairly small amount of actual strife between people, much more humor and mirth than bitchiness. Yes, too little experimentation, but it didn't normally turn nasty between the cast.
What I envision for this 'bot show is much more reality-TV, meaner and eating-one's-own since it's a competition, and most competition shows are much more about the mellodrama than the talent that led to a competition in the first place.
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Didn't Fox already try this? A reality show that was allegedly about some kid named John Connor and all the problems he had with his unusual family, but mostly about a robot in a miniskirt, or a "cybernetic organism with hyper-alloy combat chassis in a miniskirt," that boxes other robots without messing its hair up. There seemed to be a bug in the programming that invariably caused the robots to stop boxing and begin throwing each other through walls. Often this would be followed by one or both being hit with motor vehicles moving at high speed. Perhaps SyFy has fixed this problem?
Do you see anything here about "Mechanical Exoskeleton Jox?"
No?
NO, I DIDN'T FUCKING THINK SO
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This was done (and almost certainly better) fifty years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_(The_Twilight_Zone)
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The best thing I've heard about this is that Mark Setrakian is involved. Competitors and real fans of robot fighting know him as one of the great geniuses of the sport.
He won the first Robot Wars with The Master. His later machines, Mechadon and Snake, were far less competitive, but were much more interesting.
Here's a video of Mechadon in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El8ne4zSCY0
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Awesome idea, but whoever owns the MechWarrior franchise these days would probably sue.
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Well of that 38 minute of annoying host talk at least 20 minutes are spent discussing the search for ghosts or big foot.
with a stabilizing bar so one robot can't trip up the other robot then smash him. STUPID. I'd rather see robot wars where the robots were autonomous, and were allowed to splash each other with corrosives, water, oil, foam, whatever. there's no need for the robots to be shaped like humans, and in fact, it makes it DUMB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163488/
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This is "reality"? it will be just as scripted as WWF. Probably completely pre-programmed while the "jockeys" just roleplay and mug for the cameras.
has achieved the ultimate expression of the medium. People are no longer relevant to the process.
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8 foot tall does not equal giant. 80 FOOT TALL = GIANT
Heh. More like they'll turn it into a reality show where there's 38 minutes of annoying hosts,...
They got the annoying host, Chris Jericho.
He plays (played?) a whiney annoying bitch of a wrestler in the WWE universe, though he hasn't been around much lately. He of course, could be a stand up guy a very nice in RL, but I'm not holding my breath for that...
He also is in a band that doesn't make much waves, Fozzy. They might be good, but as stated above, he plays such a whiney bitch of a wrestler, I've never bothered to listen to them.
But none the less I will check it out. I mean, big ass robots beating each other up? Sounds fun.
Will there be any fake robots.
Heh. More like they'll turn it into a reality show where there's 38 minutes of annoying hosts, watching the teams struggle with the design and construction of their bots, yelling at each other, making the token girl on the team cry.
Except they don't design and build their own bots...and one of the token girls is George Lucas's daughter, who is apparently an accomplished MMA fighter and will be controlling her teams robot.
Sorry, I RTFA...well, skimmed it.....
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I need to start watching WWE!
Seriously it's funny to me that the the opening paragraph hypes the "eight-foot tall robots" under a photo that was probably purposefully staged to not make the host look smaller than the bots behind him so as not to bruise his ego or something.
Pure speculation on my part of course. Don't bring your WWE robot buddies to my house to beat me up, Mr Jericho!
Could I get a little bread with my circuses, please?
(Though this does sound awesome. Gotta admit)
WWE Chris Jericho will host the show he rocks.
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That said, I'm looking forward to the day when we have giant mechatronic "robots" fighting in arenas. By "giant" I mean big enough that you'll need to host these in stadiums - think monster-truck shows, and attendant audiences. This would, of course, be vastly expensive, but at $30/seat in a 30,000 seat stadium plus corporate sponsorship, it could work. I'm talking fire-breathing, metal crunching, roaring beasts, twenty or thirty feet tall. Burning Man meets Survival Research Labs meets Mythbusters, with enough WWF to keep the seats full of hollering fans full of two percent beer.
THEN I'd watch TV.
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