Many a machine have had their best and most destructive fights covered on this channel, but what about the carnage contained within an individual series? In this video, some of the most brutal fights of Series 5 are covered. Which series, machines or types of battle montage videos would you like to see next? Let me know down below.
Most chaotic tournament melees (excluding Annihilator competitions)? The opening heat melees and the loser's melees of days past were generally fun to watch from both a damaging and a tactical perspective.
I would like to see an arena where the poor sporting "House" bots don't exist. I would NEVER enter a comp where the house gets to shit on you at will with bots that outweigh, out power, and have poor sporting controllers behind them. It would be like if you were in a car race not doing to well and the track feels it can just send out a couple of monster trucks and destroy your car. It's not a competition if a third party, with NO vested interest in the outcome, can come in and alter the out come. POOOOR SPORTSMANSHIP. Somewhere in your show there is an as whole with malice running in his, or her veins.
Series 4 would be an interesting pick. As would 3. 3 would be a LOT of hypnodisc but probably a few others. Or perhaps international ones. World championship or otherwise
My word, the difference between Robot Wars and Battlebots is quite stark. Battlebots seems to be more of a competition, with some room for mercy for a fellow bot, but Robot Wars is akin to the Roman Gladiatorial arena - pure metallic and circuitry based sadism!
Yeah and you can tell the difference in the build and cost of the bots used because of that. But I really enjoy Robot Wars despite that because all we really want to see are bots tearing each other apart.
I started watching Robot Wars many years back. Then Battlebots came on, and the difference was night and day. BB has better showmanship, more varied designs, heavier weight allowances making real armor a thing. Damage inflicted is often better. Just more interesting to my jaded 65 year old American eyes. Just my opinion. But I am glad to see this episode of RW has better damage being done, but there is still a distinct lack of armor and real technology.
This was a massive part of British Pop Culture in the late 90s/early 2000's. We used talk about what went on with Robot Wars on the school play ground when returning to school on the Mondays along with Football and Wrestling.
You have to appreciate the Bigger Brother story. The fact they got absolutely trashed by Hypno Disc and still managed to win, but also the amount of people backstage who ran around to help rebuild them so they could be ready for the Grand Final against Razer was lovely to see. The only downside is we never got to see the fight everyone really wanted - Razer vs Hypno Disc
Razor would of thrashed Hynodisc. Razor was a highly durable, high budget robot. Predict Hypno would of ripped off those side wings, Razor would have stopped the disc spinning, and put into the CPZ, then not give it a chance to spin up again. In the second half of the round when the disc stops, hypno really struggles. Razor Vs Typhoon 2 and Razor Vs Storm 2 would be more interesting.
Bigger Brother is one of my favourite bots. Durable and nippy, and the team had tonnes of personality. I remember watching this fight when it first aired when I was a teenager, and I remember being so sad when Bigger Brother was smashed beyond anything, but imagine my surprise when they dumped Hypnodisc in the pit! Such a superb episode.
It might be great, but it's also overrated - it really wasn't much of a actual "fight", it was Bigger Brother being owned by Hypno until they pitted them. Bigger Brother had no business winning that fight, and Hypno probably would've won the series if that didn't happen. It's my least favourite fight ever cause it breaks my heart so much cause Hypno was my favourite and I detested Bigger Brother.
@@ToastGhost It could have gone either way for sure. If Hypno got them first, they'd probably win, but same goes for Razer. It would've been more unpredictable and interesting than the shitshow that was Razer - Bigger Brother, which was so inevitable the result.
Isn't that the point? The one who had no business winning endured extreme abuse and found a way to pull the win out? That doesn't constitute a great fight?
Yes they won, and no one can take that win away from them, but I just hate the way Hypno-Disk lost. The pit, in my opinion, is a terrible hazard for super heavy weight competitions.
I completely respect that win. Driving, weight, strategy, preparation for and dealing with house mechanisms is all part of the battle and every team knows it, and has every opportunity to utilize them. Bigger brother was literally dismantled and was smart enough to figure out the only way he could win, and that's exactly what smart people do in every fight and any situation.
I remember when Hypnodisc first arrived on Robot Wars. Until then, most of the destruction weapons had been... well.. pretty much useless. Flippers and good driving dominated, with weapons designed to damage doing very little actual damage other than scratches. And then this evil thing came on and literally destroyed the robot it was up against. We were in awe.
Haven't watched a decade. no chainsaws? or dremyls, or buzsaws and spikes all over the armor? a battering ram like said is a terrible range, and slow weapon. but close up where lots of torque and speed turns it's slow heft into an advantage because bashing. and doesn't need particularly good aim then just someone pressing a "smash into next tusday" button.
There was another robot that was incredibly destructive though I forgot the name, it used a flipper that was so incredibly powerful it was the height they could flip a robot into the air with was the destructive thing. It was also incredibly fast and very agile which made it capable of attacking head-on incredibly fast while using it's flipper. There were a couple of robots that were flipped over so fast and powerful it rendered them useless very quickly. If I recall correctly it also took on one of the house robots and caused damage to it.
Razor smashing that poor bot to chunks and then falling into the pit is funny karma. Robot Wars doesn't seem much for sportsmanship but even the commentators were like "Damn!"
In 200 years' time, society will reflect upon how we, the present-day populace, managed to derive amusement from the evident sufferings of our robotic companions.
I did not know that Mousetrap has an entanglement device in that spring. That is impressive in stopping the blade of S3 till it worked again on its own
The fact alone that Bigger Brother survived the brutality, was able to remain functional and overpower Hypnodisc to pit it, says something about the quality of the machine itself. Any lesser machine would've had its innards strewn across the arena and the chassis in pieces long before Hypnodisc started losing power. Working with what you have to overcome the odds, even with a busted weapon and gashes in the armour that has saved it to that point. Higher speed, agility, drive and grip to overcome the opponent is how they won, after weapons became irrelevant. As long as you can still move, it's never over.
@@RezaTM So? Entirely different show with entirely different rules for the robots... That's literally saying 'hey robots that have a lower weight limit can be beaten by robots that have much higher weights so they have more armor and larger weapons'...
Hypnodisk was never the most destructive Nightmare came along in 1999 and sent frenzy into the air in its debut fight before hypnodisk did anything Hell, even S.L.A.M was more destructive
LOL well a spining thing doing slicing damage on that kind of tool was pretty cool because the lever wasn't as strong as the lift. after it had no lever or hydrolic fluid to lift or flip the...lift thing GG.
The internals of that Big Brother bot was damn impressive to have taken all those hits and still kept moving ! It was almost like watching a typical Protagonist vs Antagonist fight in movies ! Hahahah !
@@sdfilmproductions4193 Yep this. They were requested to reinforce the arena walls because less and less insurance companies were convinced the setup they had was capable of protecting the viewing public well enough should a piece of metal be launched in the direction of the crowd. The same went for the openness of the arena in that time, due to the new battery technologies and the increasing amount of fires started by excessive damage proved to be worrying enough that they were also requested to close of the arena so that harmful gasses could not reach the public anymore, which was a huuuuge investment. I also read once (and I'm not sure if this is actually true) that it became increasingly difficult from teams outside the UK to reach the event due to regulations on battery transportation getting ever more strict and in some cases the teams would be unable to make it in time because their batteries had to be shipped independent of each other, something that, at times for teams from further away in the UK alone could be a problem as well.
It did make a comeback in 2016, the first season was boring, they got it right for the next one but the damage was done. It was aired competing with Blue Planet as well, poor ratings meant it for cancelled. Gutting really because it could've been great.
The fact that Widow's Revenge actually managed to get to the second round heat is something of a miracle I have to be honest, but if they hadn't we wouldn't have gotten that hilarious battle between them an Razor. The Mousetrap / S3 fight was very surprising though, as I counted Mousetrap out right from the start but they did surprising damage, and jammed the disc with the spring. Very entertaining. Never heard of Fluffy but after seeing it it's very impressive. First time I've ever seen 101 be nearly immobilised. I thought those tracks were indestructible, especially considering Hypno-Disc got multiple hits on those tracks and did basically nothing. And of course I can't leave without saying that the Bigger Brother / Hypno-Disc fight was and still is very painful for Hypno-Disc to lose 😢I love Hypno-Disc and just wanted them to win a series but they always got so close and lost in some way. Bigger Brother is still a great robot, though, they're just such a nice, friendly team.
Most destructive robots I’d say from highest to lowest is Razor Hypnodisk Typhoon Typhoon because it rips apart everything Hypnodisk because it just rips holes in armour and breaks weapons And razor because it has extremely satisfying 1 hit kills, that and they regularly rip up robots to the point they are barely living and then goes and hunts the house robots because it can easily do so.
Razer cant penetrate armor, it was made to split wood & plastic, Robots like 259, fluffy, pussycat, Vader, IG88, cyclone, and others were far more destructive Than razer & hypnodisk (typhoon is the most destructive out of the bunch)
I do love the strategy from bigger brother in that final fight, it's similar to some stuff I see in battlebots a lot, where you just try to tank enough hits from a powerful weapon that you can get a hit in, or even make it damage itself
The quality and range of T.V. shows has gotten a lot worse. So has gaming gotten stale. It seems like every TV channel or game publisher is A) Playing it safe sticking to generic categories and B) being lazy, because being lazy is cheaper and easier.
What do you mean? Razer was the Series 5 Champion, Grand Finalist in Series 6 (only lost because Tornado used a dodgy skirting device that shouldn't have been allowed) and won both the World Championships. Razer won everything and had arguably the best win record of any Robot in the show's history
@@ChildOfTheWilderness Tornado's cope cage aside, Razer kept bottling it when it counted. Remember the time they did their stupid celebration dance before actually securing the win and accidentally immobilised themselves?
Razer was a 2 time world champion and a series winner who should have won twice. it has the best victory record in the show's history (40 wins), so I wouldn't exactly say they bottled it very often.
That fight Mousetrap had with s3 must have given birth to some new ideas surely. For example a robot with entire exterior covered in loose strings and thick steel wool foil. So that all robots designed with spinning weapons get jammed and entangled with the stings and steel wool and render the weapon useles. While for itself the robot can have just good protected tires and extremely high torque motors solely for pushing double its weight. Then every fight use the Pit to push the opponents in to win just like Big brother did.
Yeah, unfortunately as good of a fight that Mousetrap put up, S3 just did more damage. Despite Mousetrap dealing some damage to the blade housing and tangling up the blade for a little while, S3 just did more external overall damage.
There are a couple of others which I think could have been snuck in there. Sir Chromalot vs Rohog Firestorm 3 vs Bee-Capitator Gemini vs Ruf Ruf Dougal Behemoth vs Supernova Razer vs Big Nipper Razer vs S3
Sir Chromalot Vs Rohog, Behemoth Vs Supernova, Major Tom Vs Kliptonite, Wild Thing Vs Trouble 'n' Strife and Firestorm Vs Bee-Capitator were all considered yeah. There's definitely more good destruction fights, but felt these were the standouts especially from competitor involvement in the damage.
Whenever i see clips of robot wars it takes me back to when after i finished highschool id go to my grandparents and sit down with a cup of tea and some biscuits and always watch either robot wars, storage hunter or fast and loud
Only problem with Hypnodisc was it had pissy little wheels and a weak chassis. Every time they lost a battle, it was because they'd taken a hit to the wheels, or a heavy blow that buckled the axles. They fixed their original weakness with a self-right mechanism, but if they'd stuck that weapon onto a more solid chassis, something akin to the squat wheelbase and chunky wheels of Chaos 2, or something like Panic Attack, they would have either destroyed any robot within seconds, or managed at least to last a whole round without getting immobilised because of a design fault.
They have rules for how the robots are built. You can't just have everything the best possible... or it's op. The point is if your allowed a strong weapon/body/wheels etc but you have to trade off with weaker other parts. Or you can not have such a strong weapon or body and be more well rounded. This is why the house robots are op, they dont have to follow the entry requirements
@@user-tw8dl2jh2x Simply not true, there's weight limits (you cannot build a 2 ton robot tank), weapons limits (no more >50KG spinning blades, no explosives/projectile weapons and so on), type limits (no flying main robots) and size limits. There is not a rule to balance robots like you said, how would such a rule even be possible? If your weapon is 90% good then your armor can only be 10% good but you can also have a 'gooder' battery?... The only rule there is that you choose what robot you build, as long as it doesn't shoot bullets, throw grenades or spray mustard gas you are the one who chooses what you build for a chassis, weaponry and so on.
@@someguy4915 There is a rule, it's the weight limit and other rules you mentioned systematically don't allow you to have too many or severely overpowered weapons or components. You tried to disagree with me but in doing so you stated the actual evidence that I was talking about, the rules are made for this reason. I was using a strong body/wheels simply as an example of what you may have to trade-off if you follow all the entry rules you stated. I didnt actually say or claim that there was infact a specific rule for this, just a layman's example without the need to do in depth like you have about such a simple statement.
@@user-tw8dl2jh2x Don't try to change your words now, you stated there was a rule that required robots to have weaker parts to balance, which is just not true, you claim it was just a simple statement and yet you still messed it up. Want to be a jerk about it, fine but at least get it right next time buddy.
@@someguy4915 I haven't changed my words, as I've said I adequately explained in albeit extreme layman's terms what you have said, there's nothing you can say to prove that wrong because it's fact, I'm sorry if your upset but its not my problem, you shouldn't take such things to heart.
After that thrashing from HD you can completely understand why Atomic in Series 7 had a 2nd flipper attachment that was designed for horizontal spinners. S3 doesn't get enough praise for me, they quickly became one of my favourite robots after all the battles in their heat (especially their encounter with Mousetrap) and their snatch weapon was so formidable. Suprised that Wild Thing vs Trouble and Strife was not included here, I thought that was a brutal affair as well even though the fight itself was short. Fluffy had their reliability been better they easily would have made the Semi Final heck maybe even the Grand Final.
All these high tech robots would lose against low tech. A bot with a crane arm and a rare earth magnet on the end of the arm would simply lift up the other bot and drop it in the pit. A switchable permanent magnet 🧲 Is the way to go. Why no one has thought of using magnetism to win is interesting.
Rather interesting that Battle Bots are slightly faster and more powerful versions of Robot Wars. Other than that, the weaponry and design hasn’t changed much.
Watching this compared to Battlebots now, it's obvious that things have moved on massively. But you have to remember that most of these robots were bit from bits of electric wheelchairs, power tools and scrap metal. The fact that robots like Hypnodisk, Razor, Chaos etc were as good as they were is a real feat of engineering and ingenuit.
My Fav was Hypno Disk one of the best not to win a championship. But it was clunky to drive. If they could have perfected the driving they would have won a championship. That is what cost them in the end. But was glad the dad and his 2 kids won. :D
I think that Razer as a design and destructibility is always one of my highest vote robots. It is beautiful in design and the team were well organised. Experienced team and so on. Battlebots comparison, yes there are more dangerous robots out there but Razer is so elegant in craftsmanship!
Many a machine have had their best and most destructive fights covered on this channel, but what about the carnage contained within an individual series? In this video, some of the most brutal fights of Series 5 are covered.
Which series, machines or types of battle montage videos would you like to see next? Let me know down below.
Series 1 because I’m cruel
Thanks for doing this, whenever I want to unwind and get nostalgic I watch some of these.
Most chaotic tournament melees (excluding Annihilator competitions)? The opening heat melees and the loser's melees of days past were generally fun to watch from both a damaging and a tactical perspective.
I would like to see an arena where the poor sporting "House" bots don't exist. I would NEVER enter a comp where the house gets to shit on you at will with bots that outweigh, out power, and have poor sporting controllers behind them. It would be like if you were in a car race not doing to well and the track feels it can just send out a couple of monster trucks and destroy your car. It's not a competition if a third party, with NO vested interest in the outcome, can come in and alter the out come. POOOOR SPORTSMANSHIP. Somewhere in your show there is an as whole with malice running in his, or her veins.
Series 4 would be an interesting pick. As would 3. 3 would be a LOT of hypnodisc but probably a few others.
Or perhaps international ones. World championship or otherwise
My word, the difference between Robot Wars and Battlebots is quite stark. Battlebots seems to be more of a competition, with some room for mercy for a fellow bot, but Robot Wars is akin to the Roman Gladiatorial arena - pure metallic and circuitry based sadism!
And I love em both
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This is so much cooler. Blade Runner flames.....S3 House Robot.... just awesome.
Yeah and you can tell the difference in the build and cost of the bots used because of that. But I really enjoy Robot Wars despite that because all we really want to see are bots tearing each other apart.
I started watching Robot Wars many years back. Then Battlebots came on, and the difference was night and day. BB has better showmanship, more varied designs, heavier weight allowances making real armor a thing. Damage inflicted is often better. Just more interesting to my jaded 65 year old American eyes. Just my opinion.
But I am glad to see this episode of RW has better damage being done, but there is still a distinct lack of armor and real technology.
This was a massive part of British Pop Culture in the late 90s/early 2000's. We used talk about what went on with Robot Wars on the school play ground when returning to school on the Mondays along with Football and Wrestling.
You have to appreciate the Bigger Brother story. The fact they got absolutely trashed by Hypno Disc and still managed to win, but also the amount of people backstage who ran around to help rebuild them so they could be ready for the Grand Final against Razer was lovely to see.
The only downside is we never got to see the fight everyone really wanted - Razer vs Hypno Disc
Razor would of thrashed Hynodisc. Razor was a highly durable, high budget robot. Predict Hypno would of ripped off those side wings, Razor would have stopped the disc spinning, and put into the CPZ, then not give it a chance to spin up again. In the second half of the round when the disc stops, hypno really struggles. Razor Vs Typhoon 2 and Razor Vs Storm 2 would be more interesting.
I think the team bosses of Razer and Hypno Disc signed a gentleman's agreement not to fight each other or something like that.
Bigger Brother is one of my favourite bots. Durable and nippy, and the team had tonnes of personality.
I remember watching this fight when it first aired when I was a teenager, and I remember being so sad when Bigger Brother was smashed beyond anything, but imagine my surprise when they dumped Hypnodisc in the pit! Such a superb episode.
Enya song? 😂
Razer driving into the pit after such a merciless victory always makes me chuckle.
🤣 windows error sound came to my mind when i saw razer gone in it.
*”Xbox Controller not detected. You need a controller to play this game”*
He chased his victims into hell to continue the punishment.
That pit claimed a lot of winners even the house bots
BumbleBot could have beat him into the pit.
Hypnodisk vs Bigger Brother will always be one of the best fights ever to grace this sport on any show or in any tournament.
Their strat was great
Reduce hypnodisk spinning disk speed by clashing with the most armored side and just outlast them
It might be great, but it's also overrated - it really wasn't much of a actual "fight", it was Bigger Brother being owned by Hypno until they pitted them. Bigger Brother had no business winning that fight, and Hypno probably would've won the series if that didn't happen.
It's my least favourite fight ever cause it breaks my heart so much cause Hypno was my favourite and I detested Bigger Brother.
@@Giratina70 I doubt Hypno with its kinda awkward drive would have been able to stop Razer
@@ToastGhost It could have gone either way for sure. If Hypno got them first, they'd probably win, but same goes for Razer.
It would've been more unpredictable and interesting than the shitshow that was Razer - Bigger Brother, which was so inevitable the result.
Isn't that the point? The one who had no business winning endured extreme abuse and found a way to pull the win out? That doesn't constitute a great fight?
Let's face it: Bigger Brother=Courage... Even after being severely damaged Bigger Brother kept fighting... AND WON!
Yes they won, and no one can take that win away from them, but I just hate the way
Hypno-Disk lost. The pit, in my opinion, is a terrible hazard for super heavy weight competitions.
I hate big brother
A machine cannot possess courage
@@crazy-qo8pz it’s an analogy
I completely respect that win. Driving, weight, strategy, preparation for and dealing with house mechanisms is all part of the battle and every team knows it, and has every opportunity to utilize them. Bigger brother was literally dismantled and was smart enough to figure out the only way he could win, and that's exactly what smart people do in every fight and any situation.
The sound of Hypnodisc whirring up from the weight of the flywheel was scary
That evil "Whhrroooooooooo..." is the sound of pure mechanical wickedness
I remember when Hypnodisc first arrived on Robot Wars. Until then, most of the destruction weapons had been... well.. pretty much useless. Flippers and good driving dominated, with weapons designed to damage doing very little actual damage other than scratches. And then this evil thing came on and literally destroyed the robot it was up against. We were in awe.
Haven't watched a decade. no chainsaws? or dremyls, or buzsaws and spikes all over the armor? a battering ram like said is a terrible range, and slow weapon. but close up where lots of torque and speed turns it's slow heft into an advantage because bashing. and doesn't need particularly good aim then just someone pressing a "smash into next tusday" button.
259 was a monster as well with the vertical disc (might have been the first iirc)
There was another robot that was incredibly destructive though I forgot the name, it used a flipper that was so incredibly powerful it was the height they could flip a robot into the air with was the destructive thing. It was also incredibly fast and very agile which made it capable of attacking head-on incredibly fast while using it's flipper. There were a couple of robots that were flipped over so fast and powerful it rendered them useless very quickly. If I recall correctly it also took on one of the house robots and caused damage to it.
@@Dutch3DMaster wheely big cheese
We expected it to suck bc of the shape of the disc
Razor smashing that poor bot to chunks and then falling into the pit is funny karma. Robot Wars doesn't seem much for sportsmanship but even the commentators were like "Damn!"
Hypnodisk would if won that last fight if the big brother driver wasnt so aggressive and determined to survive. What a show!
As much as I love Bigger Brother, seeing Hypnodisc lose that fight still hurts my soul to this day
Hypnodisc was one of the greats.
bless the little girl who couldn't watch her robot win.. pure innocence it's something all adults lack made me smile
In 200 years' time, society will reflect upon how we, the present-day populace, managed to derive amusement from the evident sufferings of our robotic companions.
That was always the controversial aspect of this show.
I did not know that Mousetrap has an entanglement device in that spring. That is impressive in stopping the blade of S3 till it worked again on its own
Iirc it was meant to be either a spring to help snap the trap or a way to trigger the mousetrap automatically i forget which
yeah the american version (bot battles) said no more of that.
This is way better than the Battle Bots format. More brutality and less dragged out shouting and yelling by the hosts.
Honestly, this was exactly as thrilling as I remember when watching it as a kid. Incredible show- I really miss it!
Same same!
I do too
I can imagine a show like this in the future with AI bots.
The fact alone that Bigger Brother survived the brutality, was able to remain functional and overpower Hypnodisc to pit it, says something about the quality of the machine itself. Any lesser machine would've had its innards strewn across the arena and the chassis in pieces long before Hypnodisc started losing power.
Working with what you have to overcome the odds, even with a busted weapon and gashes in the armour that has saved it to that point. Higher speed, agility, drive and grip to overcome the opponent is how they won, after weapons became irrelevant. As long as you can still move, it's never over.
Razor is just so lethal. Always enjoy seeing him and hypno.
lmao this show so bad compared to battle bots any of these robots would legit get shredded in battle bots
@@RezaTM So? Entirely different show with entirely different rules for the robots... That's literally saying 'hey robots that have a lower weight limit can be beaten by robots that have much higher weights so they have more armor and larger weapons'...
@@someguy4915 still bro u gotta admit battle bots is more destructive in everyway
@@RezaTMshut up
@@RezaTM "You call that an apple? You gotta admit this melon would be a much bigger apple if you put it in the apple contest"
Legendary series. Hypnodisc was definitely the most destructive robot ever built
I would agree until Carbide came onto the scene! I think their destructive blade did more damage, huge love for Hypnodisc tho!
Hypnodisk was never the most destructive
Nightmare came along in 1999 and sent frenzy into the air in its debut fight before hypnodisk did anything
Hell, even S.L.A.M was more destructive
Fluffy is the grand parent of Carbide
That Atomic v Hypno Disc fight... my toes still curl at those hits. It was doing so well until it wasn't!!
LOL well a spining thing doing slicing damage on that kind of tool was pretty cool because the lever wasn't as strong as the lift. after it had no lever or hydrolic fluid to lift or flip the...lift thing GG.
Murdering sick freak!
If this show was around when I was a kid I would have been obsessed. Probably would have built one.
It was around in the 90s
@@707josh I’m old.
It was awesome watching this as a kid
I was absolutely obsessed with Robot Wars as a kid. I was lucky enough to be taken to watch one of the shows live and it was absolutely incredible
The internals of that Big Brother bot was damn impressive to have taken all those hits and still kept moving ! It was almost like watching a typical Protagonist vs Antagonist fight in movies ! Hahahah !
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They had double backup circuits
Battle bots: good sport bro that was a good fight
Robot Wars: HEEEYEEEYYAAAAHHHH!!! BLOW THAT B**** UP!!!, SHOOT IT! SHOOOOT IIIIIT
This is why you shouldn't underestimate the spinning disc. Series 5 was incredible for this.
the announcer should be applauded for the high energy commentary
This show really needs to make a comeback.
I heard they couldn't get insurance after the damage the spinners did to the arena....Health and safety were worried someone would get hurt.
Instead we have to incur slow brain damage from the shit they pipe out now 😔
@@sdfilmproductions4193 Yep this. They were requested to reinforce the arena walls because less and less insurance companies were convinced the setup they had was capable of protecting the viewing public well enough should a piece of metal be launched in the direction of the crowd.
The same went for the openness of the arena in that time, due to the new battery technologies and the increasing amount of fires started by excessive damage proved to be worrying enough that they were also requested to close of the arena so that harmful gasses could not reach the public anymore, which was a huuuuge investment.
I also read once (and I'm not sure if this is actually true) that it became increasingly difficult from teams outside the UK to reach the event due to regulations on battery transportation getting ever more strict and in some cases the teams would be unable to make it in time because their batteries had to be shipped independent of each other, something that, at times for teams from further away in the UK alone could be a problem as well.
It did make a comeback in 2016, the first season was boring, they got it right for the next one but the damage was done. It was aired competing with Blue Planet as well, poor ratings meant it for cancelled. Gutting really because it could've been great.
Fluffy was a savage in this series
watching something you put so much work into get absolutely wrecked for giggles probably sucks pretty bad lol.
Hah! The last battle was like watching Rocky Balboa miraculously come back from the brink of losing to win the fight. lol That was cool.
The fact that Widow's Revenge actually managed to get to the second round heat is something of a miracle I have to be honest, but if they hadn't we wouldn't have gotten that hilarious battle between them an Razor. The Mousetrap / S3 fight was very surprising though, as I counted Mousetrap out right from the start but they did surprising damage, and jammed the disc with the spring. Very entertaining. Never heard of Fluffy but after seeing it it's very impressive. First time I've ever seen 101 be nearly immobilised. I thought those tracks were indestructible, especially considering Hypno-Disc got multiple hits on those tracks and did basically nothing.
And of course I can't leave without saying that the Bigger Brother / Hypno-Disc fight was and still is very painful for Hypno-Disc to lose 😢I love Hypno-Disc and just wanted them to win a series but they always got so close and lost in some way. Bigger Brother is still a great robot, though, they're just such a nice, friendly team.
Most destructive robots I’d say from highest to lowest is
Razor
Hypnodisk
Typhoon
Typhoon because it rips apart everything
Hypnodisk because it just rips holes in armour and breaks weapons
And razor because it has extremely satisfying 1 hit kills, that and they regularly rip up robots to the point they are barely living and then goes and hunts the house robots because it can easily do so.
Razer cant penetrate armor, it was made to split wood & plastic,
Robots like 259, fluffy, pussycat, Vader, IG88, cyclone, and others were far more destructive Than razer & hypnodisk (typhoon is the most destructive out of the bunch)
I do love the strategy from bigger brother in that final fight, it's similar to some stuff I see in battlebots a lot, where you just try to tank enough hits from a powerful weapon that you can get a hit in, or even make it damage itself
This makes me realise that TV has gotten very boring nowdays. Used to smash Robot wars and 50/50, anyone remember that?
The quality and range of T.V. shows has gotten a lot worse. So has gaming gotten stale. It seems like every TV channel or game publisher is A) Playing it safe sticking to generic categories and B) being lazy, because being lazy is cheaper and easier.
Razers weapon was beyond anything seen on robot wars. Truly one off the best
I saw sir kila lot in real life , its big ! And loud 🤣
It's so weird how engaging and fun this is to watch.
I could never understand why Razer couldn't ever win the entire competition... It's simply flawless
It’s called reliably
What do you mean?
Razer was the Series 5 Champion, Grand Finalist in Series 6 (only lost because Tornado used a dodgy skirting device that shouldn't have been allowed) and won both the World Championships.
Razer won everything and had arguably the best win record of any Robot in the show's history
@@ChildOfTheWilderness Tornado's cope cage aside, Razer kept bottling it when it counted. Remember the time they did their stupid celebration dance before actually securing the win and accidentally immobilised themselves?
Razer was a 2 time world champion and a series winner who should have won twice. it has the best victory record in the show's history (40 wins), so I wouldn't exactly say they bottled it very often.
Ref bot was always the OG! Loved this show as a kid!
7:48 AMAZICAL TACTICAL CUTENESS!!! Never has there been more sagely battle analysis.
Robot wars over Battlebots. Its not even close
My brother used to watch this back in the day. Don't know why I randomly remembered this show.
That fight Mousetrap had with s3 must have given birth to some new ideas surely.
For example a robot with entire exterior covered in loose strings and thick steel wool foil. So that all robots designed with spinning weapons get jammed and entangled with the stings and steel wool and render the weapon useles.
While for itself the robot can have just good protected tires and extremely high torque motors solely for pushing double its weight.
Then every fight use the Pit to push the opponents in to win just like Big brother did.
Mousetrap really didn't deserve that but guess the damage factor critically went against them.
Yeah, unfortunately as good of a fight that Mousetrap put up, S3 just did more damage. Despite Mousetrap dealing some damage to the blade housing and tangling up the blade for a little while, S3 just did more external overall damage.
The arena bots that exist only to fuck up the robots post match are the best part.
An amazikle tactically cute video.
Fluffy is like the grandfather of Carbide
They parade around the body... like savages. RIP Atomic 😢
Nostalgia, my childhood was great!
Plunderbird is the robot everyone loves to hate.
Why was this cancelled? Bring it back!
0:43 Kid in white Tshirt bottom row giving us the middle finger lads.
There are a couple of others which I think could have been snuck in there.
Sir Chromalot vs Rohog
Firestorm 3 vs Bee-Capitator
Gemini vs Ruf Ruf Dougal
Behemoth vs Supernova
Razer vs Big Nipper
Razer vs S3
Sir Chromalot Vs Rohog, Behemoth Vs Supernova, Major Tom Vs Kliptonite, Wild Thing Vs Trouble 'n' Strife and Firestorm Vs Bee-Capitator were all considered yeah. There's definitely more good destruction fights, but felt these were the standouts especially from competitor involvement in the damage.
Bulldog Breed Vs Juggernaut 2? Fell apart during the fight near enough.
Poor atomic, such a cute little bot, but cute doesn't win battles. I wish I could see hypnodisc verses razor. Would be an epic battle
I love watching the House robots pummel the losing bot after each match ends
Whenever i see clips of robot wars it takes me back to when after i finished highschool id go to my grandparents and sit down with a cup of tea and some biscuits and always watch either robot wars, storage hunter or fast and loud
Only problem with Hypnodisc was it had pissy little wheels and a weak chassis.
Every time they lost a battle, it was because they'd taken a hit to the wheels, or a heavy blow that buckled the axles.
They fixed their original weakness with a self-right mechanism, but if they'd stuck that weapon onto a more solid chassis, something akin to the squat wheelbase and chunky wheels of Chaos 2, or something like Panic Attack, they would have either destroyed any robot within seconds, or managed at least to last a whole round without getting immobilised because of a design fault.
They have rules for how the robots are built. You can't just have everything the best possible... or it's op.
The point is if your allowed a strong weapon/body/wheels etc but you have to trade off with weaker other parts. Or you can not have such a strong weapon or body and be more well rounded.
This is why the house robots are op, they dont have to follow the entry requirements
@@user-tw8dl2jh2x Simply not true, there's weight limits (you cannot build a 2 ton robot tank), weapons limits (no more >50KG spinning blades, no explosives/projectile weapons and so on), type limits (no flying main robots) and size limits.
There is not a rule to balance robots like you said, how would such a rule even be possible?
If your weapon is 90% good then your armor can only be 10% good but you can also have a 'gooder' battery?...
The only rule there is that you choose what robot you build, as long as it doesn't shoot bullets, throw grenades or spray mustard gas you are the one who chooses what you build for a chassis, weaponry and so on.
@@someguy4915 There is a rule, it's the weight limit and other rules you mentioned systematically don't allow you to have too many or severely overpowered weapons or components.
You tried to disagree with me but in doing so you stated the actual evidence that I was talking about, the rules are made for this reason.
I was using a strong body/wheels simply as an example of what you may have to trade-off if you follow all the entry rules you stated. I didnt actually say or claim that there was infact a specific rule for this, just a layman's example without the need to do in depth like you have about such a simple statement.
@@user-tw8dl2jh2x Don't try to change your words now, you stated there was a rule that required robots to have weaker parts to balance, which is just not true, you claim it was just a simple statement and yet you still messed it up.
Want to be a jerk about it, fine but at least get it right next time buddy.
@@someguy4915 I haven't changed my words, as I've said I adequately explained in albeit extreme layman's terms what you have said, there's nothing you can say to prove that wrong because it's fact, I'm sorry if your upset but its not my problem, you shouldn't take such things to heart.
After that thrashing from HD you can completely understand why Atomic in Series 7 had a 2nd flipper attachment that was designed for horizontal spinners.
S3 doesn't get enough praise for me, they quickly became one of my favourite robots after all the battles in their heat (especially their encounter with Mousetrap) and their snatch weapon was so formidable.
Suprised that Wild Thing vs Trouble and Strife was not included here, I thought that was a brutal affair as well even though the fight itself was short.
Fluffy had their reliability been better they easily would have made the Semi Final heck maybe even the Grand Final.
All these high tech robots would lose against low tech. A bot with a crane arm and a rare earth magnet on the end of the arm would simply lift up the other bot and drop it in the pit. A switchable permanent magnet 🧲 Is the way to go. Why no one has thought of using magnetism to win is interesting.
Miss this show ❤️
Rather interesting that Battle Bots are slightly faster and more powerful versions of Robot Wars. Other than that, the weaponry and design hasn’t changed much.
I love when Jonathan points out which robot heavier, because 0.6 kilograms really matter. :D
Wow! The house robots really gave 0 f*cks!
Watching this compared to Battlebots now, it's obvious that things have moved on massively. But you have to remember that most of these robots were bit from bits of electric wheelchairs, power tools and scrap metal. The fact that robots like Hypnodisk, Razor, Chaos etc were as good as they were is a real feat of engineering and ingenuit.
Pussycat: 9-lives, Bitch!
Bigger Brother: Pfft! Amature!
Didn't expect to see Lister in the least bit.
This was just miles better than the reboot was.
In the finals big brother realy went "This one's FOR HIM!"
I need to see Razor Vs Hypnodisc.
That dude wasn’t using the mic at all and that just made me laugh 😂😂
Who else enjoyed the sidemen vid that much your here now
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hypno-disc, the original blade spinner...
No that goes to blendo, mauler, and the mulcher
That last fight was... well. Brutal 😳😳
Wow, they had house robots too. That's awesome. Maybe they can use them in Battle Bots seeing as this show hasn't been updated since 2016.
I remember seeing the house robots in person on display. terrifying, especially for 12 yr old me
The last one was so awesome, looked like they were defeated but got the win in the end
Bigger brother was amazing even when all hope was lost they pulled through
My Fav was Hypno Disk one of the best not to win a championship. But it was clunky to drive. If they could have perfected the driving they would have won a championship. That is what cost them in the end. But was glad the dad and his 2 kids won. :D
Hypno-Disc was the first bot I saw that actually destroyed its opponents
7:43 AMAZICLE TACTICAL CUTENESS
Lmao what? Craig Charles was a good host. I miss old school robot wars, much more brutal
Google doesn't even think that's English lol
Hope we will see rematch between Hypnodisk vs Bigger Brother... The war between the 2 was really epic.
Didn’t razor become a house robot?
I think that Razer as a design and destructibility is always one of my highest vote robots. It is beautiful in design and the team were well organised. Experienced team and so on. Battlebots comparison, yes there are more dangerous robots out there but Razer is so elegant in craftsmanship!
That's what I call an upset at the end and that's why I love this stuff
1:57 That guy was so hype let's goo 😂🔥
He had £100 on hypnodisk
I remember watching these as a kid, still amazing now I'm old and remember everything In black and white
Robot wars needs to return, so much good tv from the early 00s
BB vs hypno gave me chills
Hypno disc was unbeatable for ages and destroyed plenty.
Ages?
It never won a season
I totally forgot this series had those cool boss bots lol
Mom: Can we have Battlebots?
We have Battlebots at home.
Battlebots at home:
This is the original version battlebots and the newest this has been out for decades and recently died down battlebots actually copied robot wars
Hypnodisk. Legend of the Arena, along with Robot the Bruce, Razorbeak and Chaos II.
And on that day Ellie learnt to "never celebrate too early"
oh god, my toy my memory my childhood, bless.
Now Razor…how the hell did you fall in the hole?! 😂😂😂😂
Some robots do absolutely no damage lol
Here's looking at you ref bot 🤣🤣🤣
The WWE of battle bots 😂😂😂😂
Series 5 took place in 2001. These were amazing robots for their time, but would get destroyed by any of the recent robots from the past 5 years.
Sir Killalot auditions for Ferrari