i remember this fight. definitely got to give credit to the obwalden overload. such an innovative design. one of those robots that's more for show than for combative power. much like Mark Setrakian's robots from the comedy central era.
@@TheRisingStorm316 Given the technology behind it, I wouldn't say it's a joke-bot. More of a gimmick-bot. They also likely knew they wouldn't get too far, so better to enjoy the moment and be happy that they managed to do a "dragon vs dragon slayer" match.
Current rules are that any such cameras (from either Battlebots or the builder) don't count toward the weight limit of the bot. The issue is that they're also not exempt from being utterly and completely destroyed by the current generation of extreme-damage weapons.
Epic destruction? It barely scratched the surface. If tombstone would've been in the fight that robot would have been epic destructed. Now it caught some flame
@@RudivanHemert I didn't want to say it.. haha sure, this was a funny matchup, but had Warhead used it's spinner, the baby transformer would have been ripped to bits..
Of course it's a silly fight, but I bet everybody watched right to the end. Sometimes you don't need massive kinetic weapons to provide a decent spectacle. I think the best thing about it is that the mysterious BattleBots Fight Selection Committee behaved itself and stayed true to the spirit of old-school robot combat, i.e. you follow your heart when pairing robots, give the crowd what it wants, and tell the bean-counting network executives to go and 🦆 themselves. Nobody wins in a Rusty-Tombstone mismatch. Having said that, Moist Pony 🦄 versus HUGE ❄️👀❄️ was the greatest fight in living memory.
Yeah exactly, it would be cool to have a separate category for themed bots like this, because there's no way they could stand even a single hit from a vertical spinner, but they're still really cool and fun to watch
@@jeffr3773not exactly a full category about it but it will be great as an intermedium show in order to elevate hype. Crazy looking and exotic robots, even can design a robot that can be controlled by random people.
But feel free to set a low tier Scrap Daddy against any serious spinner. Sometimes the Scrap Daddy team are just as hyped about the annihilation of their not as the crowd is… if not more so in some cases if memory serves.
Some interesting trivia about this, Warhead's creators said years before this fight they got into robot combat because they saw Rob Knight (Overlord's creator) on Robot Wars in the UK and wanted to beat him. They never met in Robot Wars, it's amazing that it happened here 15 or 20 years later. I wonder if they asked for the fight.
Rob Knight and Ian Lewis - two absolute titans of the sport. It's hard to overstate their impact, especially in the UK! Apparently, there's a new Obwalden Overlord in the works...
Will they return, maybe in the 2023 or 2024 Season? OB Overlord was my favorite bot design-wise from 2016, and that was the main reason I loved the 2016 Season.
Obwalden Overlord may be the 2nd weakest bot of the season but it is at least a new concept. Imagine if it works and we have several humanoids in battlebots now. That would be cool.
First time I've seen Warhead with a T-Rex head instead of a spinner. Overlord seems like an idea ahead of its time. It's a neat idea and certainly different from any other battlebot, but the tech simply isn't reliable enough yet and it's probably too fragile.
I'd love some bonus rounds each season featuring bots designed to be destroyed, where the "match" is just to display some destruction. Showcase specially selected teams by just having them wreck some fun looking throwaway bots.
@@corbud I loved Rusty, but that's essentially what he was. This, of course, would be fights that are an obvious win, but won't count towards a team's score/standing. Just purely for fun. We see home videos and bots in the test box all the time, but this would allow them to show off more with some quality cameras/production as well. On top of that, it would allow for some creativity and experiments for the bots meant to be destroyed.
I give huge credit to Warhead for losing that spinner. The opponents new technology was slow and easy to grab but I give them credit for trying something different.
warhead: we are a legend! we need to stop losing! Battlebots: but you are bad warhead: I don't care! feed us some easy bots! And... that is how this matchup happened
The future of this fast growing sport sure is bright. That is one of the coolest robot fights ever in the battle box. Can't wait to see what these creative builders come up with next.
This is the closest we ever got to Razer vs. Mortis and it wasn't even in Robot Wars. I guess the nearest we'd get now is Quantum vs. Shatter. Well, unless Photon Storm or Mohawk come back.
Is that the guy/team from Mortis? I recognised the Razer lot but not him if so. Man, I loved Mortis back in the day and how it was so sleek with an axe that looked like it could do some damage, even if it never quite came off.
Interesting fact is that one of the Obwalden Overlord team members is formerly part of the Mortis team that had participated in the the first to fourth season of Robot Wars UK.
1st - huge props to the Overlord team for bringing the with its hands controlled by the operator's hands. That is such a cool thing (unfortunately, the other arm did not work, but they probably knew that prior to the fight; it seems that the operator did not have the gear for that arm on himself. They may have lost the battle, but they won our hearts. At least I admire bots that are not "generic spinners" (though, this seems to be from some early season, when spinners weren't the meta to go)... 2nd - is it allowed to use flames to melt your opponent? I've read in the rules, that "flames are for showmanship only". Were the rules different when this battle took place?
I've been saying this , they should have an event where a "Boss Bot" takes on two or three and score based on the same parameters. They're betting closer !
While its tech isnt ready yet, thats definitely a glimpse of what the future of battlebots could look like one day. Honestly its biggest issue was the exposed "muscles" and how susceptable they were to fire. They may have been able to do more vs a flipper or spinner bot, even though they still wouldve probably lost
It's too bad we never saw too much of these two teams in the new era. I'm a huge fan of warhead and overlord had such a unique design it was hard not to like it
Yeah it is a shame. Warhead is now officially retired but Rob Knight the guy who made OB Overlord is building a new one with the intention of applying to Seaaon 7 with it :)
2016/17 I think. Just an old fight to get us through to tommorrow..or at least, the lucky people in the world who have managed to see this season somehow
Theres no Robot fighting scene in Switzerland so to see an overcomplicated machine wasn’t surprising at all. I would still love to meet the people behind it and make a new robot to fight seriously for the giant nut!
I wonder if Rob Knight, Ian Lewis and Simon Scott sat down and reminisced about Robot Wars after this fight? I know for obvious reasons they didnt mention it but the driver of Obwalden Overlord used to be in Robot Wars with a team called Mortis, who did fairly well in the early series but were painted as the "bad guys" due to controversial judges decisions when in reality they were just another team with a cool robot and a cool controller setup.
I have no idea what Overlord is supposed to do and is one of the only bots I've looked at and thought, yeah I could probably jump in the ring with it and not only not die but win.
Go on, me: Say the line *simpsons I didn't do it meme* "Why did they let Warhead have a good bite of Obwalden Overlord BEFORE THE GREEN LIGHT?!" *crowd cheers*
This is about as close at the newer series has got to Chinkilla vs Ghinsu and La Machine and whatever other exhibition matches it did "It's not meant to be taken THAT seriously, new viewers, look how much fun this is!!" Did Obw even have any other fight bar this one? Can't remember if they even showed short highlights of anything else but this?
Warhead is a really old bot, originally it had a spinning dome thingy instead of the Kraken head. Good to see it's still around even though I liked the original look better!
Obwalden Overlord is like a Gundam with lots of serious health issues
that was funny
Made me spit out my coffee
I wasnt ready for that xdddddd
You win, Frosty.
My other description of it was "a transformer fetus" but I thought that might get deleted 😅
As a fight, this was awful.
As a thematic matchup, it was excellent.
Seriously.. Rusty delivers more entertainment, 😅
@the last firefighter no cap
@the last firefighter lol youre wrong again man. Thats 2 for 2 of terrible takes.
@the last firefighter thats not an insult thats a badge of honor
@the last firefighter cool glad we're on the same page
Who would win?
A mechanical flamethrowing T-Rex?
Or a wobbly boi held together by string?
🤔
The bite-bot, obviously... 🤣
they should've used iron string dum dums
The fire breathing dragon!
The wobbly boi held together by string
Yeah,the concept is cool,but its executed horribly
Pairing these to was brilliant. It gives some Pacific Rim vibes and I love it
No no it wasn't.
@@patrickcarpenter6258 thematically it was
That was the point...
Pacific rim but the jeager loses lol
@@YukinoAniPianolike most of the jeagers in actual Pacific Rim
i remember this fight. definitely got to give credit to the obwalden overload. such an innovative design. one of those robots that's more for show than for combative power. much like Mark Setrakian's robots from the comedy central era.
what year was it?
@@redberries8039 Like 2015 or 2016
@@MagicalBread cheers
@@redberries8039 it was like in season 1 or 2
I’d love to see Overlord vs Rusty
man, Obwalden overlord was such a unique bot but unfortunately its technology just wasn't ready for the box yet
The overlord team has really good sportsmanship. Took that lose like champs
Wasn’t Overlord a joke-bot? Because their team was laughing at their own loss
"chumps"
May be they reconfigure arms to be more robust and more simple but effective weapons.
@@TheRisingStorm316 Given the technology behind it, I wouldn't say it's a joke-bot. More of a gimmick-bot. They also likely knew they wouldn't get too far, so better to enjoy the moment and be happy that they managed to do a "dragon vs dragon slayer" match.
Wow, what an epic destruction! Also we need more cambots. Gotta give some bonus points for having a camera in there.
We also need more Croooooow 'bots 😆
Current rules are that any such cameras (from either Battlebots or the builder) don't count toward the weight limit of the bot.
The issue is that they're also not exempt from being utterly and completely destroyed by the current generation of extreme-damage weapons.
Epic destruction? It barely scratched the surface. If tombstone would've been in the fight that robot would have been epic destructed. Now it caught some flame
@@RudivanHemert I didn't want to say it.. haha sure, this was a funny matchup, but had Warhead used it's spinner, the baby transformer would have been ripped to bits..
We need more humanoid robots too, but they need to be metal instead of PLA filament.
Of course it's a silly fight, but I bet everybody watched right to the end. Sometimes you don't need massive kinetic weapons to provide a decent spectacle.
I think the best thing about it is that the mysterious BattleBots Fight Selection Committee behaved itself and stayed true to the spirit of old-school robot combat, i.e. you follow your heart when pairing robots, give the crowd what it wants, and tell the bean-counting network executives to go and 🦆 themselves.
Nobody wins in a Rusty-Tombstone mismatch.
Having said that, Moist Pony 🦄 versus HUGE ❄️👀❄️ was the greatest fight in living memory.
🛞 👀 🛞
Yeah exactly, it would be cool to have a separate category for themed bots like this, because there's no way they could stand even a single hit from a vertical spinner, but they're still really cool and fun to watch
@@jeffr3773not exactly a full category about it but it will be great as an intermedium show in order to elevate hype.
Crazy looking and exotic robots, even can design a robot that can be controlled by random people.
@@jeffr3773 war head is a legit bot, but I agree with overlord
But feel free to set a low tier Scrap Daddy against any serious spinner. Sometimes the Scrap Daddy team are just as hyped about the annihilation of their not as the crowd is… if not more so in some cases if memory serves.
Some interesting trivia about this, Warhead's creators said years before this fight they got into robot combat because they saw Rob Knight (Overlord's creator) on Robot Wars in the UK and wanted to beat him.
They never met in Robot Wars, it's amazing that it happened here 15 or 20 years later. I wonder if they asked for the fight.
It's like bringing a Galdiator to a fire breathing T-Rex fight.
Rob Knight and Ian Lewis - two absolute titans of the sport. It's hard to overstate their impact, especially in the UK!
Apparently, there's a new Obwalden Overlord in the works...
Will they return, maybe in the 2023 or 2024 Season?
OB Overlord was my favorite bot design-wise from 2016, and that was the main reason I loved the 2016 Season.
Discount Sir Killalot was fun to watch and the fact that it's Warhead fighting it AKA team Razer just makes me smile
That, and you also had Rob Knight (from Mortis) in the Obwalden Overlord side!
Obwalden Overlord may be the 2nd weakest bot of the season but it is at least a new concept. Imagine if it works and we have several humanoids in battlebots now. That would be cool.
Weakest being ultraviolet?
@@ryanamburgy2791 creepy crawlies
@@nicholascahyadi2770 fair, they were also really bad
Imagine Obwalden (from 5 years ago) squaring off against Tombstone from 7 years ago... Obwalden's pieces would be littering the whole battle box.
Radioactive, perhaps?
Oh cool I’ve managed to click on this before I get region blocked 😂
That wasn't very cash money of them
Lol
I’ve been blocked from so many even tho I’m in the US
I assumed it was tomorrow 😂
Same
First time I've seen Warhead with a T-Rex head instead of a spinner.
Overlord seems like an idea ahead of its time. It's a neat idea and certainly different from any other battlebot, but the tech simply isn't reliable enough yet and it's probably too fragile.
Warhead is a great-looking bot, the fact he breathes fire is 👍
And Warhead's crusher jaw was its weaker weapon. Imagine this fight if Warhead had the spinner head!
There UK Robot Wars bot Razer was my favourite and had a much more destructive crusher
@@duozero00 I think Razer is from the same team as Warhead
@@duozero00 wow someone still remembers Razer? That thing can surely be called "a relic from the past" Imagine it against Tombstone or uppercut
Razer was such an awesome bot in Robot Wars. I was stoked to see them come to BattleBots with Warhead. The dinosaur configuration is awesome!
Definitely a creative concept. Would love to see a more durable/fireproof version next season.
This fight is from season 2, like 5 years ago.
@@Kq347 something tells me these types of bots are never gonna work..
i feel like 99% of the creative battlebots just don't work
That was several years ago. It was from season one or two of the new BattleBots.
@@rediponto9588 the creative one with the super flexible foam wheels worked quite well.
“Help, I’ve fallen and can’t get up!” -Obwalden Overlord
> Hey grandpa built some kind of robot warrior back in 1967. It's a pos that can't get out of it's own way. What should we do with it?
"Mr Director, why can't we create Gundams?"
"Because we already tried."
Actual Gundams:
I used to watch this all the time when it was on Comedy Central. It's insane how different and more advanced the robots are 20 years later.
I know it's a silly fight, but I do love seeing flamethrowers actually damage the opponent. Bet the Warhead team had a lot of fun in this one.
I'd love some bonus rounds each season featuring bots designed to be destroyed, where the "match" is just to display some destruction. Showcase specially selected teams by just having them wreck some fun looking throwaway bots.
I built a plywood antweight once just for that purpose. It was a crowd favourite!
So a fight with Rusty. Got it.
@@corbud I loved Rusty, but that's essentially what he was. This, of course, would be fights that are an obvious win, but won't count towards a team's score/standing. Just purely for fun. We see home videos and bots in the test box all the time, but this would allow them to show off more with some quality cameras/production as well. On top of that, it would allow for some creativity and experiments for the bots meant to be destroyed.
Basically Free Shipping. Although the fun thing about Free Shipping is it gets turn to bits but it never stops working and goes back for more.
I think that's all this way. @Fanible
I give huge credit to Warhead for losing that spinner. The opponents new technology was slow and easy to grab but I give them credit for trying something different.
warhead: we are a legend! we need to stop losing!
Battlebots: but you are bad
warhead: I don't care! feed us some easy bots!
And... that is how this matchup happened
Love BB uploading old fights we never saw or can't find anywhere else!
And with battle robots fight being shutdown it’s really needed
The future of this fast growing sport sure is bright. That is one of the coolest robot fights ever in the battle box. Can't wait to see what these creative builders come up with next.
This is the closest we ever got to Razer vs. Mortis and it wasn't even in Robot Wars.
I guess the nearest we'd get now is Quantum vs. Shatter. Well, unless Photon Storm or Mohawk come back.
Is that the guy/team from Mortis? I recognised the Razer lot but not him if so. Man, I loved Mortis back in the day and how it was so sleek with an axe that looked like it could do some damage, even if it never quite came off.
@@matthewhart898 yep. The guy who who pushed the button for the Red Team is Rob Knight, who drove and operated the weapons on Mortis.
I actually really love this concept for overlord, incredible work by those guys I hope they keep at it cuz I think there's something to it for sure
Interesting fact is that one of the Obwalden Overlord team members is formerly part of the Mortis team that had participated in the the first to fourth season of Robot Wars UK.
That spinning at the end was freaking funny and awesome at the same time
Evolution might be the most overengineered bot in bot history.
Help ive fallen and I can't get up 2:31 😆
1st - huge props to the Overlord team for bringing the with its hands controlled by the operator's hands. That is such a cool thing (unfortunately, the other arm did not work, but they probably knew that prior to the fight; it seems that the operator did not have the gear for that arm on himself.
They may have lost the battle, but they won our hearts. At least I admire bots that are not "generic spinners" (though, this seems to be from some early season, when spinners weren't the meta to go)...
2nd - is it allowed to use flames to melt your opponent? I've read in the rules, that "flames are for showmanship only". Were the rules different when this battle took place?
Would love to see this design make a come back with todays modern technology
Overloard is a really cool concept. Fire was definitely not a great matchup.
I've been saying this , they should have an event where a "Boss Bot" takes on two or three and score based on the same parameters.
They're betting closer !
This is from one of the ABC seasons, isn't it? I feel like I saw it before and it doesn't have the upper deck of the recent bonus fights.
ABC Season 2, yes.
I love when flames works !
I remember that fight, the humanoid robot went up IN FLAMES! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
1:00 maybe using actual string to move your robot arms was NOT the best choice
i think that the makers of the losing bot knew that they wouldnt stand a chance, but its cool to see a bot so unique
Glad to see warhead back in action, even better that it didn't sacrifice any of it's looks at all.
such a cool concept
I saw the fire and knew it was over! Great battle, I remember when McDs gave these toys away as a kid
Warhead reminds me of another robot that had a spinning wheel in it's head.
That was another configuration of Warhead.
@@wolflinggon5664
its a joke
@Peters6221
its a joke
Woosh
its a joke
It's amazing how far this "sport" has gone is such little time.
This episode is from like 4 years ago
Why quotes
@@PRSonic945 It's not a sport if it isn't a bunch of people ingesting ludicrous amounts of drugs.
@@bami2 wow very bold statement but ok lol
petty sure this sport has been around for like 30 years
“Hey let’s build Sir Killalot from Robot Wars but with a shoestring weight budget and actual shoestrings and no weapons.”
While its tech isnt ready yet, thats definitely a glimpse of what the future of battlebots could look like one day. Honestly its biggest issue was the exposed "muscles" and how susceptable they were to fire. They may have been able to do more vs a flipper or spinner bot, even though they still wouldve probably lost
It's too bad we never saw too much of these two teams in the new era. I'm a huge fan of warhead and overlord had such a unique design it was hard not to like it
Yeah it is a shame. Warhead is now officially retired but Rob Knight the guy who made OB Overlord is building a new one with the intention of applying to Seaaon 7 with it :)
This is the first time fire did the job as intended. most of the time fire are fancy
Really cool build, but the Overlord team could never have had any serious aspirations to win with that kind of bot. 😅
This is probably what the future of BB will look like
Imagine a day where you can actually see haptic control on robots
Great to see Rob Knight back!
Feels like a battle of two house robots
I know the idea was dragon vs dragon slayer, but I wish they'd put the spinner on for this one
Cool! What season was this from? They don't have the deck, so it isn't this season.
2016/17 I think. Just an old fight to get us through to tommorrow..or at least, the lucky people in the world who have managed to see this season somehow
Season2
Obwalden Overlord was actually built by Rob Knight, who was known previously for Mortis. I think this must've been a joke bot.
Razer vs Mortis in spirit at least 😂
Man that was so sad to see obwalden overlord was a super cool robot with really cool controls but it seemed quiet rickety
Obwalden had an interesting concept for how the arms moved. If only it had more fights.
I had forgotten all about the Overlord as well as the bot cams. I want one of those to return more than the other lol
Reminds me of the robot wars house bot Sir. Killalot
I don't care what anyone says, this is my favorite warhead match
2:22 he sluggishly tried to put the shield up and it did nothing 😂
My grand grand grand father told us never fight a dragon regardless how good your weapon is.. guess is truth 😅
Obwalden Overlord in a nutshell:
This is just sad. It has don’t great technology,but it’s just not ready for the box yet
Theres no Robot fighting scene in Switzerland so to see an overcomplicated machine wasn’t surprising at all. I would still love to meet the people behind it and make a new robot to fight seriously for the giant nut!
These battles never last long enough.
This one was freaking crazy 🤩
This is awesome… . I love this show!
That looks insane, what a maniac
Oooh this was a classic! Support wire and plastic frame construction is no match for *FIRE.*
I wonder if Rob Knight, Ian Lewis and Simon Scott sat down and reminisced about Robot Wars after this fight? I know for obvious reasons they didnt mention it but the driver of Obwalden Overlord used to be in Robot Wars with a team called Mortis, who did fairly well in the early series but were painted as the "bad guys" due to controversial judges decisions when in reality they were just another team with a cool robot and a cool controller setup.
I have no idea what Overlord is supposed to do and is one of the only bots I've looked at and thought, yeah I could probably jump in the ring with it and not only not die but win.
Robot knight vs robot dragon. Neither the best design. But both look amazing and cool tp look at
Well, they also had a spinner they could replace the head with
Thank you for the video.
That was a cool concept I will give them that
Cool sport!. 🇺🇲 😄🙂
Wait, is the guy who pushed the button for the Obwalden Overlord team from the Mortis team in Robot Wars back in the day?
I don't think that knight is doing so well against that dragon. 😂😂😂
One would think that they TEST their bots before putting them in the ring.
Go on, me: Say the line
*simpsons I didn't do it meme*
"Why did they let Warhead have a good bite of Obwalden Overlord BEFORE THE GREEN LIGHT?!"
*crowd cheers*
This is about as close at the newer series has got to Chinkilla vs Ghinsu and La Machine and whatever other exhibition matches it did
"It's not meant to be taken THAT seriously, new viewers, look how much fun this is!!"
Did Obw even have any other fight bar this one? Can't remember if they even showed short highlights of anything else but this?
This was obw´s only fight
You know what would be cool? If the Battlebots episodes had more of these matches in them, instead of being 2/3 filler.
Obwalden is like last bench students project
What a fun fight!
Warhead is a really old bot, originally it had a spinning dome thingy instead of the Kraken head. Good to see it's still around even though I liked the original look better!
Warhead HAD both a head and a spinner while he WAS still active, and THIS fight WAS from SEASON 2
very funny, the car in the form of a robot is attacking from which side haha?
When a ridiculous but cool design beats a cool but impractical design.
Rolls Royce vs Saturn 😂😂
As someone who used to drive a Saturn I appreciate this.
This just made me check for a new episode 😂
This warhead is how I'd configure a bot.
I'd love to see a simplified hydraulic or pneumatic version of Obwalden Overlord.
Me: Mom, can we get Pacific Rim?
Mom: We have Pacific Rim at home.
Pacific Rim at home:
The flamethrowers are rarely effective so this was a sight to see
Wait, are they gonna post more fights from previous seasons? If so, awsome!
They've been posting a bunch recently, but they've all been blocked in the US besides this one.
They have done this for a while, only now it isn’t getting region blocked
The mech bot acted like it was broken before it even started. Its weapon didn’t even work.