Having watched Robot Wars for several series now, they are just introducing Battlebots here.
Having seen some of the more interesting robots (Mechatron) on AVI/MPG's I was looking forward to it. Having seen the first few programs it looks just as bad as Robot Wars...
Robot Wars appears to be aimed at a much younger audience and hence the robots are smaller (the upper weight category is less) and more *annoyingly cute/pathetic*.
They also spend too much time talking about the people and recapping the robot's previous battles.
Who gives a crap about this - if it's not technical info or stuff that I haven't seen before I couldn't care less... There are only so many times that you can stand to see a small child humiliate themselves in an interview on national TV (Well, maybe not... >;).
Battlebots has the same problem with the WWF/WCW
style commentary. Don't talk - just get on with it. Do they really need to ask if the competitor is ready? Has anyone _ever_ said 'No'? Did they spend months/years preparing for this just to miss the deadline because of a few loose nuts?
The house robots do provide an unfair advantage.
Let me build a robot to their weight/weapon specs and we'll see who wins...
Whovever was saying about the wedge shaped robot
evolution was correct. It happens in RW too.
Along with the flipping arm and the self righting mechanism.
They have recently showed the 'Techno Games' which were an attempt at a robot Olympics. No weapons, just a series of events similar to human Olympics (shot put, long jump, swimming, sprints etc. supposedly there was even a crossbow accuracy event but they never showed it...)
The premise was sound enough but again they aimed it at school kids (this drew out the inevitable toss) and spent far too much time talking about it. I'd rather see one or two well put together shows with lots of action than two weeks worth of inane interviews, even if two of the presenters were cute.
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Having watched Robot Wars for several series now, they are just introducing Battlebots here.
Having seen some of the more interesting robots (Mechatron) on AVI/MPG's I was looking forward to it. Having seen the first few programs it looks just as bad as Robot Wars...
Robot Wars appears to be aimed at a much younger audience and hence the robots are smaller (the upper weight category is less) and more *annoyingly cute/pathetic*.
They also spend too much time talking about the people and recapping the robot's previous battles. Who gives a crap about this - if it's not technical info or stuff that I haven't seen before I couldn't care less... There are only so many times that you can stand to see a small child humiliate themselves in an interview on national TV (Well, maybe not... >;).
Battlebots has the same problem with the WWF/WCW style commentary. Don't talk - just get on with it. Do they really need to ask if the competitor is ready? Has anyone _ever_ said 'No'? Did they spend months/years preparing for this just to miss the deadline because of a few loose nuts?
The house robots do provide an unfair advantage. Let me build a robot to their weight/weapon specs and we'll see who wins...
Whovever was saying about the wedge shaped robot evolution was correct. It happens in RW too. Along with the flipping arm and the self righting mechanism.
They have recently showed the 'Techno Games' which were an attempt at a robot Olympics. No weapons, just a series of events similar to human Olympics (shot put, long jump, swimming, sprints etc. supposedly there was even a crossbow accuracy event but they never showed it...)
The premise was sound enough but again they aimed it at school kids (this drew out the inevitable toss) and spent far too much time talking about it. I'd rather see one or two well put together shows with lots of action than two weeks worth of inane interviews, even if two of the presenters were cute.
btw Razer kicks ass...
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>The MPAA must be saying "Ho Lee Fook." ;)
Actually, in London there is a damn fine Chinese restaurant named 'Lee Ho Fook'
I highly recommend it.