Bloody hell, I have reached the end of my binge of Classic Robot Wars. Its been a fun ride reliving my childhood by watching bots getting turned into metallic corpses whilst working from home during the lockdown. Thanks for uploading the majority of the episodes
It would have been nice for them to just pick the series back up again, did anyone want it rebooted with a new host? I know Craig isn't everyones cup of tea but he's a huge part of Robot Wars.
21:24 “You didn’t take it that well, I didn’t think”. No Craig, when the production team deliberately try and make you lose the UK Championship with a prize of £20000, I don’t imagine anyone would be too pleased.
The final between Storm 2 vs Supernova was messed up. First, the house robots (Refbot) should help Supernova selfright, because in RW it is illegal to use the sidewalls to immobilize a robot (unlike battlebots, otherwise Razer should be counted out in many battles before). Second, Shunt illegally flipped over Storm 2 when Supernova was still in the game. Everything was messed up and it definitely made both teams unhappy.
Storm 2 deserved that punishment from Shunt because if you look in the background at 43:15, you will clearly see Storm 2 trying to attack Shunt.... so they deserved the retaliation... Also love how at 43:35 shut flips Storm 2, then backs off.... then comes straight back with the axe XD.
Supernova was ruled immobilized and Shunt flipped over Storm 2 because Supernova was counted out. Storm 2 has already said the producers asked them if Shunt could stack them against the grinder once Supernova was immobilized.
@@NightHawk12to81 Well in that case the whole thing was fixed (I don't mean Storm beating Supernova, that looked genuine, but Storm getting immobilised) and Craig talking about a narrow judges decision was complete BS since Supernova had had clearly lost at that point. Though they may not have told Craig about it.
43:35 is the reason why Shunt is my favourite house robot.... It can take on ANY robot and push it around.... You could find a real use for Shunt in the real world... like on a building yard or something....
No, Shunt can push a robot thats side facing because it has way less resistance, in reality there are plenty of robots that can out push him since he only has 2 wheels and his drive motors arent strong enough to compensate. He also has no uses in the real world other than chopping wood.
Heat 1 was almost a joke - three barely-mobile bots at the end. Though Supernova's weaponry was certainly effective. Heat 2 was not much better, Crushtacean was the only reliable bot. Heat 3, on the other hand, that was the real thing. Ansgar would have been a serious contender in any other heat, probably the only walking robot that was ever effective. But Tornado and Son of Tornado were impressive, going full tilt at each other for the full duration, Storm was fairly definitely the winner but it could have gone the other way at any moment, and both bots running at full power to the end. That's how you build a robot! I would have liked to see Ansgar in the next heat instead, against Rawbot and Tough as Nails. Would have been a more even match for Ansgar, and would have given Tough as Nails some work to do. Supernova got working properly for their fight against Crushtacean, one good whack of that flywheel was all it needed. Storm is really quite a small robot when you see it facing Tough as Nails. But of course they both weigh the same. When Storm pushed Nails over the pit, I really thought Tough as Nails was suddenly going to get some grip and fly back off the pit and let Storm fall in it, it would have been a really dramatic and ironic reversal. Like the fight with Tornado, I backed up and watched this one twice. The final, Supernova's disc just bounced off the front of Storm2. The impacts probably damaged Supernova as much as they did Storm. Storm 2 were well in control. They deserved their win. But what the hell was bloody Shunt doing, trying to screw with the result? Hard to tell with the crappy TV editing of the video, but it didn't look like Storm were anywhere near the CPZ. The whole series would be better off without the house thugbots stuffing around with it.
Supernova, Crushtacean, Spartacus, Hard, Snake Bite, Ansgar 3, and Tough As Nails qualified for the world championships during the 7th wars special events.
While Storm 2 never succeeded in actually winning Series 7 due to a controversial judges’ decision, winning the Third World Championship somewhat made up for that.
The world championship was basically a glorified friendly tournament, "world" in name only, the robots other than the main 2 here (Tornado and Storm 2) were trash, none of them other than the 2 mentioned would have got out the heats of our UK championship. Basically they tried to beef up the series with silly gimmicks.
@@therebel4332 I dunno, I think Tough As Nails was impressive, Ansgar had some potential, and Supernova could've been good if it didn't have so many problems with reliability. But yeah, most of the robots here were pretty underwhelming.
It's not the judges you should be blaming. The scoring system puts more weight on damage, and they judges weren't allowed to personally inspect for damage because Typhoon 2 internally was a wreck.
In the storm mellee Pearce manages to say we've waited for storm 2 and tornado to meet for a long time, (they'd just met in series 7), said tornado won series 7 (errr....) And said storm 2 was the one with the interchangeable weapon. The fight was so boring you'd think he'd have time to look at his notes and get things right!
@@mikeywest2007 It was all filmed after on the same day as the final of series 7 I think. Typhoon had to pull out because of to many repairs needed to be redone after their final with Storm 2.
D.A.R - *Could HAVE, but yes you're right, I'd have loved to have seen it last another couple of years, I just don't think the viewing figures ere high enough when it went over to channel 5 from the BBC.
Again i'm really grateful that you've re uploaded the 7th wars and uploaded the other 3, out of interest I know you're starting on the 6th wars but do you have all of Series 2 and Extreme 2.
Extreme 2 is a yes, while I have part of Series 2. Basically, I have up to Heat F - which was the point Challenge ended their last broadcast schedule of Series 2 - as well as other latter heats that Challenge showed around 2014 time. Hopefully, by the time Extreme 2 is uploaded, Challenge will be showing Series 2 again so I can guarantee a full upload of that series too.
Belgium's Bot in World Championship 2: Philipper, an elegant fish-shaped flipper who managed to take out the US champion and survive to a JD against future UK champion. Belgium's Bot in World Championship 3: Hard, a bare-bones flipper that broke quickly.
In reality, Spartacus were immobiled first before Supernova. The judges would've intervened if the Refbot counted out Supernova because this robot was better than the other two.
The series wasn't over yet, though. It wasn't just the UK Championship it consisted of, but the Annihilator, All-Stars and Third World Championship as well. New seedings were given in the _next_ series, though obviously after this they stopped doing that.
Also, Russia was represented by Weber in the second of the two World Series episodes at the end of Series 10; the last ever episode of Robot Wars to date, in fact. And the closest they've ever had to a Japanese competitor was the Japanese team member Natsuko Hori who was with King B Remix in Series 8. I don't know why no Korean competitor ever entered.
I think tornado deserved to beat storm 2 in the heat. He was doing more of the work in the beginning and pushed storm into sea metal. Storm got the better of him in the last 10 seconds but I didn’t think that was enough
So Tornado pushed Storm 2 into "sea metal" - big deal. It's not like Tornado then put that damage on Storm 2's top, which additionally was superficial only. Storm 2 on the other hand got offense of its own in BEFORE adding more in the last ten seconds. And Storm 2's offense had greater impact overall, including turning Tornado over to where the latter's wedge was useless, therefore it was right for Storm 2 to get the win.
@@thisbambibites So... others wouldn't have had a shot at becoming the World Champion if Razer was there? Sure, Razer would've been very tough to beat, but others still would've had a shot.
Nope. The robot was retired after the team weren’t on the same page anymore, based on their exit from the European Championship in Extreme 2. Still, it’s not like Razer had anything more to accomplish by then. To this day it remains the most successful fighting robot of all.
You know competitors from Dutch and German Robot Wars competitors fought in Series 7. Other then Spartacus, It would've been nice if other US bots from Extreme Warriors competed in that series.
Oh i forgot about the hypocritical "Typhoon 2 withdrew due to technical problems." bullshit. Yeah they had problems all right. THEIR WEAPON STOPPED WORKING IN THE GRAND FINAL AND THE FUCKING PRODUCERS LET THEM FIX IT ROBBING STORM 2 OF THEIR RIGHTFUL TROPHY. Jesus christ am i glad no other series of this nor Battlebots shows so much favouritism (or in this case, disdain for storm 2)
And? This is a fighting competition, not professional wrestling. If you want entertainment first, watch the latter. In robotic combat, competition comes first.
Spartacus got shredded and its bodywork fell off. And it never did the slightest damage to either other bot. In what universe does that count as 'winning'?
Bloody hell, I have reached the end of my binge of Classic Robot Wars. Its been a fun ride reliving my childhood by watching bots getting turned into metallic corpses whilst working from home during the lockdown.
Thanks for uploading the majority of the episodes
Same took me a whole year to finish but was worth every second
It would have been nice for them to just pick the series back up again, did anyone want it rebooted with a new host? I know Craig isn't everyones cup of tea but he's a huge part of Robot Wars.
Final episode of the original show and half of the machines refuse to work. Ed Hoppit's face in the thumbnail shows my reaction lol
Rawbot 1 of them. From Joe. X
Did everyone miss Craig's joke "What a turnip the Swede's are out"
Dunk him Dave Benson Phillips!. From Joe. X
21:24 “You didn’t take it that well, I didn’t think”.
No Craig, when the production team deliberately try and make you lose the UK Championship with a prize of £20000, I don’t imagine anyone would be too pleased.
Then he tried to buy a part he didn't need purely so another team couldn't have it and therefor couldn't compete.
@@KINGLADUDU Because it was the team he lost to all those years ago, he's not totally in the right but still
Its not really very important compared to Trump being robbed of the presidency though is it
@@metalbat8414 He wasn't right _at all_ to con the opposing team, when it was the officials that conned him all those years ago and not Team Typhoon.
The final between Storm 2 vs Supernova was messed up. First, the house robots (Refbot) should help Supernova selfright, because in RW it is illegal to use the sidewalls to immobilize a robot (unlike battlebots, otherwise Razer should be counted out in many battles before). Second, Shunt illegally flipped over Storm 2 when Supernova was still in the game. Everything was messed up and it definitely made both teams unhappy.
Storm 2 deserved that punishment from Shunt because if you look in the background at 43:15, you will clearly see Storm 2 trying to attack Shunt.... so they deserved the retaliation... Also love how at 43:35 shut flips Storm 2, then backs off.... then comes straight back with the axe XD.
Supernova was ruled immobilized and Shunt flipped over Storm 2 because Supernova was counted out. Storm 2 has already said the producers asked them if Shunt could stack them against the grinder once Supernova was immobilized.
@@NightHawk12to81 Well in that case the whole thing was fixed (I don't mean Storm beating Supernova, that looked genuine, but Storm getting immobilised) and Craig talking about a narrow judges decision was complete BS since Supernova had had clearly lost at that point. Though they may not have told Craig about it.
Should of asked for a rematch
This is another reason why the house bots are a bad idea.
The final episode of the good ol' Robot Wars. The 8th wars came after 11 long years.
And that's Series 7 properly done!
Heat A of Series 6 will be uploaded *this Friday*
NJGW my reviews start soon also
Series 6 hype! You're a hero for doing all this.
Did you upload Heat N of series 4 yet?
Unfortunately, H2 - who last had the rights to Series 4 - have not broadcast the episodes in ages, so I'm unable to re-record that episode yet
forzatoby those reviews you gave up on?
The thumb nail "yeah it's about this big, but my robot makes up for it"
43:35 is the reason why Shunt is my favourite house robot.... It can take on ANY robot and push it around.... You could find a real use for Shunt in the real world... like on a building yard or something....
No, Shunt can push a robot thats side facing because it has way less resistance, in reality there are plenty of robots that can out push him since he only has 2 wheels and his drive motors arent strong enough to compensate. He also has no uses in the real world other than chopping wood.
Heat 1 was almost a joke - three barely-mobile bots at the end. Though Supernova's weaponry was certainly effective.
Heat 2 was not much better, Crushtacean was the only reliable bot.
Heat 3, on the other hand, that was the real thing. Ansgar would have been a serious contender in any other heat, probably the only walking robot that was ever effective. But Tornado and Son of Tornado were impressive, going full tilt at each other for the full duration, Storm was fairly definitely the winner but it could have gone the other way at any moment, and both bots running at full power to the end. That's how you build a robot!
I would have liked to see Ansgar in the next heat instead, against Rawbot and Tough as Nails. Would have been a more even match for Ansgar, and would have given Tough as Nails some work to do.
Supernova got working properly for their fight against Crushtacean, one good whack of that flywheel was all it needed.
Storm is really quite a small robot when you see it facing Tough as Nails. But of course they both weigh the same. When Storm pushed Nails over the pit, I really thought Tough as Nails was suddenly going to get some grip and fly back off the pit and let Storm fall in it, it would have been a really dramatic and ironic reversal. Like the fight with Tornado, I backed up and watched this one twice.
The final, Supernova's disc just bounced off the front of Storm2. The impacts probably damaged Supernova as much as they did Storm. Storm 2 were well in control. They deserved their win. But what the hell was bloody Shunt doing, trying to screw with the result? Hard to tell with the crappy TV editing of the video, but it didn't look like Storm were anywhere near the CPZ. The whole series would be better off without the house thugbots stuffing around with it.
Crushtacean was 2nd in the commonwealth carnage in extreme 2. From Joe. X
Supernova, Crushtacean, Spartacus, Hard, Snake Bite, Ansgar 3, and Tough As Nails qualified for the world championships during the 7th wars special events.
Ansgar was a German saint. From Joe. X
While Storm 2 never succeeded in actually winning Series 7 due to a controversial judges’ decision, winning the Third World Championship somewhat made up for that.
True but the main wars was offering a £20,000 Cash Prize, did they get anything like that by winning the Third World Championship
The world championship was basically a glorified friendly tournament, "world" in name only, the robots other than the main 2 here (Tornado and Storm 2) were trash, none of them other than the 2 mentioned would have got out the heats of our UK championship. Basically they tried to beef up the series with silly gimmicks.
@@therebel4332 I dunno, I think Tough As Nails was impressive, Ansgar had some potential, and Supernova could've been good if it didn't have so many problems with reliability. But yeah, most of the robots here were pretty underwhelming.
It's not the judges you should be blaming. The scoring system puts more weight on damage, and they judges weren't allowed to personally inspect for damage because Typhoon 2 internally was a wreck.
Mmm no, the Series Championship was far way more important (and Storm fucking deserved it)
Storm 2 won it for GB. The soccer world cup is the world championship!. From Joe. X
Probably the second most dissapointing international event
The most disappointing international event of all I thought was the UK VS the World show number two.
In the storm mellee Pearce manages to say we've waited for storm 2 and tornado to meet for a long time, (they'd just met in series 7), said tornado won series 7 (errr....)
And said storm 2 was the one with the interchangeable weapon.
The fight was so boring you'd think he'd have time to look at his notes and get things right!
im gonna guess this was done before Series 7
@@mikeywest2007 It was all filmed after on the same day as the final of series 7 I think. Typhoon had to pull out because of to many repairs needed to be redone after their final with Storm 2.
And in 2016 the show was robot wars brought back and series 8 came along
while it's sad robot wars ended let's be honest the show was very tired and needed a break
Eeehhhh, I think if the producers for this series didn't cause problems it easily could of lasted at least one more season/series.
D.A.R - *Could HAVE, but yes you're right, I'd have loved to have seen it last another couple of years, I just don't think the viewing figures ere high enough when it went over to channel 5 from the BBC.
The producers ruined it with politics
The scheduling for the show kept jumping all over the place, which caused me to miss many episodes.
It was getting more interesting as the robots evolved and the style of games changed. Should have carried on
Again i'm really grateful that you've re uploaded the 7th wars and uploaded the other 3, out of interest I know you're starting on the 6th wars but do you have all of Series 2 and Extreme 2.
Extreme 2 is a yes, while I have part of Series 2. Basically, I have up to Heat F - which was the point Challenge ended their last broadcast schedule of Series 2 - as well as other latter heats that Challenge showed around 2014 time. Hopefully, by the time Extreme 2 is uploaded, Challenge will be showing Series 2 again so I can guarantee a full upload of that series too.
I wonder why Craig never interviewed the woman of the Storm 2 team. Not only in this episode.
That last battle was BS...
Belgium's Bot in World Championship 2: Philipper, an elegant fish-shaped flipper who managed to take out the US champion and survive to a JD against future UK champion.
Belgium's Bot in World Championship 3: Hard, a bare-bones flipper that broke quickly.
He died in the arena. From Joe. X
Some of the crowd were booing at Storm 2 this time around.
Was this the last time we saw Sgt Bash?
20 Years since this is the last of the series. As in fact the last of the original series.
Pulveriser was the 2nd Dutch wars winner. From Joe. X
@@joeandrews7329 Can you tell me the first Dutch Winner?
@@user-et3rv8lz8w Slicer. From Joe. X
For some reason it should be finale of the Robot Wars finale.
In reality, Spartacus were immobiled first before Supernova. The judges would've intervened if the Refbot counted out Supernova because this robot was better than the other two.
I disagree with refbot counting supernova. Spartacus was moving on one side only before supernova stopped
Blame rebfbot's old age
Which one? Refbot Senior or Refbot Junior?
Supernova: I didn’t hear a bell!
Sri Lankan. From Joe. X
One last fight of this Original series. 41:55
They should make the floor white so the robots and parts that fly off pop more
Shame Typhoon 2 wasn't around when we need them.
Their defining moment 45:20
Storm 2 are not seeded 16 anymore. They're runners-up in the 7th wars.
The series wasn't over yet, though. It wasn't just the UK Championship it consisted of, but the Annihilator, All-Stars and Third World Championship as well. New seedings were given in the _next_ series, though obviously after this they stopped doing that.
Hey how come we don't see any fighting robots from the continent Asia, like Russia or Korea or China or Japan?
China have only recently got into the robot combat scene. I'd recommend checking out King of Bots if you haven't already.
Also, Russia was represented by Weber in the second of the two World Series episodes at the end of Series 10; the last ever episode of Robot Wars to date, in fact. And the closest they've ever had to a Japanese competitor was the Japanese team member Natsuko Hori who was with King B Remix in Series 8. I don't know why no Korean competitor ever entered.
Tell me I did not hear Craig Charles say " What a turnip, the Swedes are out" at 23:40
I think tornado deserved to beat storm 2 in the heat. He was doing more of the work in the beginning and pushed storm into sea metal. Storm got the better of him in the last 10 seconds but I didn’t think that was enough
So Tornado pushed Storm 2 into "sea metal" - big deal. It's not like Tornado then put that damage on Storm 2's top, which additionally was superficial only. Storm 2 on the other hand got offense of its own in BEFORE adding more in the last ten seconds. And Storm 2's offense had greater impact overall, including turning Tornado over to where the latter's wedge was useless, therefore it was right for Storm 2 to get the win.
Feel like spinners are the best robots
And yet only won 2 wars, flippers have won the most
The ways shunt stayed in the way of storm 2, making him look immobile pisses me off. Storm could have used its lifter to self right.
45:20 Redemption
Such a shame razer didn't defend there title
They had retired by the end of Extreme II. To be honest I think it was nice to give other robots a shot at becoming World Champion!
@@thisbambibites So... others wouldn't have had a shot at becoming the World Champion if Razer was there? Sure, Razer would've been very tough to beat, but others still would've had a shot.
@Ryan O'Donovan They would have had some chance, however what I meant here is that we were GUARANTEED a new world champion.
And no razer in the third world championship
Nope. The robot was retired after the team weren’t on the same page anymore, based on their exit from the European Championship in Extreme 2. Still, it’s not like Razer had anything more to accomplish by then. To this day it remains the most successful fighting robot of all.
You know competitors from Dutch and German Robot Wars competitors fought in Series 7. Other then Spartacus, It would've been nice if other US bots from Extreme Warriors competed in that series.
No chance of it happening however. From Joe. X
@@joeandrews7329 Why won't you go away!
@@joeandrews7329 Why won't you go away!
@@joeandrews7329 Why won't you go away!
@@joeandrews7329 why won't you go away?!
Chaos 2 and Typhoon 2 failed to win the world championship.
@AdrianYoungs81 I agree. Chaos 2 just committed suicide when they're trying to push Mastiff into the pit.
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From... sorry, where did you say, Stuart?
Ohio
Jayne appeared in parts 3 and 4. She should've been removed.
Snakebite isnt "Razer like" its a straight up dollarstore rip-off
15:52 Sixteen seed xD?
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Oh i forgot about the hypocritical "Typhoon 2 withdrew due to technical problems." bullshit.
Yeah they had problems all right. THEIR WEAPON STOPPED WORKING IN THE GRAND FINAL AND THE FUCKING PRODUCERS LET THEM FIX IT ROBBING STORM 2 OF THEIR RIGHTFUL TROPHY. Jesus christ am i glad no other series of this nor Battlebots shows so much favouritism (or in this case, disdain for storm 2)
I am glad Tornado are gone. The cheats
On look it's tough as nails straight away opening the pit and dumping the opponent in, VERY VERY BORING
And? This is a fighting competition, not professional wrestling. If you want entertainment first, watch the latter. In robotic combat, competition comes first.
@@ryanodonovan9497 Nah, I want to see panels and bolts flying, not some fat half naked hicks throwing eachother about tah
Bull shit. Spartacus Won that round. 🇺🇸😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Spartacus got shredded and its bodywork fell off. And it never did the slightest damage to either other bot. In what universe does that count as 'winning'?
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