Battle Bots
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Topic: Battle Bots
Posted By: DeTrevni
Subject: Battle Bots
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 6:29pm
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Anyone remember that show? It pwnt all in it's day. Turns out they still do it, but it's not televised. Dang. Anyway, to get to the point, there is a high school division called Battle Bots IQ. It's an educational program where high schoolers, such as yours truely, build and compete in compitition. I'm trying to talk my school into doing it, or at least something on those lines, since we already have a robotics club. Meh. I just felt like sharing and digging up memories. Seriously, how cool would a school sponsored Battle Bot be!? ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: paintbusta
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 6:30pm
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that show wuz awsome ------------- 
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 6:31pm
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Mechadon FTW.
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 6:32pm
| I loved that show. It gave me something to watch at night. |
Posted By: BooksAndLeaves
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 6:54pm
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it was alright
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Posted By: Farcry0092
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 6:56pm
| great show. |
Posted By: TEHGANGSTER
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 7:02pm
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it was ok, i think i would watch it last out of everything else i watched but w\e
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Posted By: Spike511
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 8:15pm
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that show was beast
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Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 8:45pm
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DeTrevni wrote:Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 8:47pm
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Sweet show indeed. Me and a friend got all of the criteria and were designing our own to mess with. Building ceased after the show was ended. ------------- Pumpker'd; (V.) When a pump player runs up and shoots you at point blank range because you thought 20bps made you good. |
Posted By: estcstpnt
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 8:55pm
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I had battlebot toys. That show was bomb. ------------- Thinking about it... |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 9:41pm
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I was an absolute junkie back in the day. I was around before the IQ program, but I still had one half built. If you need any help PM me. |
Posted By: blackdog144
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 10:33pm
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that show rocked!
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Posted By: The American
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 10:35pm
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There was too much BS in the show, I wanted to see the robots fight all the time. Interview those people got kinda old. ------------- 
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Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 10:40pm
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Show kicked serious rear.
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Posted By: welcome guest
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 10:42pm
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Do you have any ideas what you are going to build? Or do you need some ideas? The best way to sell anything is to have drawings or a model to show them. Tell them nobody has everbeen hurt it is completely safe. I had an idea but never built it. It was going to be a combination of a turtle shell with a bottom spinning circler blade and a helicopter on top. Good luck and have fun just don't forget to take some pictures and post. ------------- http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml - http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. 
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 10:45pm
Newb. People did get hurt in the garage area back in the day. It is not child's play. Also, everybody and their mom had an idea. Nobody starts off building something fancy. You start off making something that goes foreward, and backwards. Then you go on from there. |
Posted By: barn_user
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 10:54pm
| Thats what I watched at friends house all night since I didn't have that channel. That show rocked. |
Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 11:03pm
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I loved that show. I was a big fan of Toro. It would often flip its opponent completely over, keeping them in the fight while scoring points. And it was fast as hell. When it would clip an internal hose it was screwed.
I'll never forget the Son of Wyachi vs. Nightmare fight. Wyachi having horizontal spinning hammers, and built as a walker to make the weight requirement. Nightmare being a huge vertical saw on a tripod. It was going to be a one hit fight, and the odds were against Nightmare. Nightmare ended up in pieces after a single hit. Then, when Wyachi fought Biohazard, the flat titanium one, it was a slugfest. They beat the hell out of each other, and were almost down for the count after Biohazard lost a skirt bar and Wyachi's hammers were in pieces. Biohazard won when it was able to twitch forward and miss the count out ahead of Wyachi. Good stuff. ------------- 
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 12:49am
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Styro, Mechadon rolled into a ball and the center legs hammered down. Not a really great attack, and always seemed to lose, but it was THE biggest crowd pleaser to watch that thing roll around and smash something. Tae, thanks for the offer. I might need some tech advice. Welcome Guest, yeah, I've got safety all thought out. Since it's gonna be for school, there would be size restrictions, and I'd have to say, no spinning objects, AKA gyrobots, spinning hammers, blades, or saws. We wouldn't want to lose control of that...
Oh, and for the fun of it, Megabyte vs. Biohazard. Sparks will fly! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifBLBYwxe2Q - Tons of vids on You Tube EDIT!!! I freakin' found a vid of Mechadon. You HAVE to watch http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=925940947&n=2 - this if you haven't seen Mechadon in action! ^^^DO IT! ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 1:30am
| My favorite was probably the most effective design, i believe it was called Mauler. it was essentailly a cylinder with to maces, one on each side(yeah, i know cylinders dont have sides, but you know what i mean.) and it spun around very fast. it went up against one that had been kicking butt all season, and ripped off the weapon and one of its wheels before disabling it. its only flaw was that it would flip easily, and had thin armor. |
Posted By: Cyberdemon
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 2:19am
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i was remember there was this huge robot that had to be like 4 feet tall and it had a flame thrower and all kinds of wepaons on it and it ran on belts like a bulldozer ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 2:20am
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That was probably Robot Wars. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Cyberdemon
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 2:25am
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if it was i dont remember... these shows were on a long time ago and there was a few of them... but there was once a CSI episode were people were killing each other over battle bats lol ------------- http://imageshack.us">
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 2:32am
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Heh. I saw that one. Dissector was there!
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Posted By: Cyberdemon
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 2:35am
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it was las vegas right? ------------- http://imageshack.us">
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 2:40am
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Yep. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Cyberdemon
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 2:56am
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well anyways i do miss battle bots. i really loved to watch the machines rip each other to pieces. and it was good to think that the players created the robots themselves. it would suck to lose and have ur robot wrecked (most likely) but you do learn something from it. ------------- http://imageshack.us">
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Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 3:29am
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I loved Robot Wars and Battle Bots but the english accents on Robot Wars got old after a while. ------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 3:32am
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Vlad the Impaler was pretty good. I think my favorite was the one with the Jaws of Life and the pickaxes... i can't beleive i forgot it's name... ------------- X |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 3:42am
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Dissector. Did you see the vid of Mechadon I posted? If you can't tell, it's my favorite. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 3:45am
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DISSECTOR! that's it. it was on the tip of my toungue. yeah, i saw it, pretty crazy... pretty good design too. what they should have done is put a "toungue" on the end to slide inderneath the opposing bot and flip it over, using it's legs to lift. ------------- X |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 4:00am
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The guy who made Mechadon and Snake* is a movie prop designer. He worked on Hellboy. *Snake, another odd battlebot:
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Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 5:24am
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^i remember that one ------------- X |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 11:51am
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I used to watch both. I believe it was on robot wars, but my favorite was one of the referee bots named Sir Kill a Lot. That thing pwned ------------- 
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Posted By: Cyberdemon
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 1:05pm
that looks weird ------------- http://imageshack.us">
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Posted By: TEHGANGSTER
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 1:47pm
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dude that mechadon thing is awesome!!
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 4:49pm
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**edited**illa FTW. http://imageshack.us">  |
Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 4:51pm
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What the hell...it won't let me edit my post. Stupid filter, let me fix that... Chin.killa FTW. http://imageshack.us">  |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 4:56pm
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The Whyachi family were cheap as hell. They manipulated the rules so they could be considered a "Walking" robot and get an extra 120lbs on the entire class. They didn't tell you this kinda thing on TV. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 5:04pm
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The Scrap Daddy team are here in Houston, they take their bots to car shows when they get a chance. It's pretty cool to see them in person. And if I remember right, while the Whyachi family was pretty cheap, they lost almost every time to a wedgebot that just slipped under the hammers. They couldn't move worth crap... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 5:26pm
Yeah, it was kind of cheap, but it was a rules option available to everybody else as well, and some of those fights were fun to watch. Still, he coudn't take out Biohazard, who I think was a much stronger all around robot. Wyachi was far too narrow in focus. Biohazard and Toro were definietly my favorites. -------------
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 6:17pm
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Well all the horizontal spinners were weak. They looked cool on TV, but most had horridly weak drivetrains, underpowered because so much of the battery and motor weight went to the torque needed for the weapon to be effective. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 11:43pm
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Man. You really knew your bots. Anyone remember Grendel? For some reason, it's not on the site.
If you can see it, the pick was powered by a garage door spring. You had massive power going into the attack, but the "reload time" was extremely long. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: vash357
Date Posted: 20 August 2006 at 12:15am
I can't remember what it was called, but there was one with a weapon that look alot like that, but it attacked really fast, it was almost like a jackhammer. I remember the pick hammer thing broke off at one point too. It was brutal, each hit didn't do much damage, but it would hit several times a second and punch holes in the other bots armor. EDIT: I think it was deadblow, but I'm not sure |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 20 August 2006 at 11:50am
 What about Sir Kill alot? It was a refbot in robot wars. The thing had a flame thrower too. The thing pwned-------------
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 20 August 2006 at 1:36pm
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Heh. The house bots. That one was a bit overkill though. Literally... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 20 August 2006 at 1:46pm
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The Robot Wars on TV was such a load of crap. Nothing like the original. I am pretty sure Botbash is still around though, last time they were in Arizona. |