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FatherXmas:
7 foot tall rock 'em sock 'em robots.  Telefactoring harness for upper body/arm control.  Hydraulic fluid everywhere.  Oh the unhumanity.  Catch the first episode online now.  Blastr article, Hulu feed (better looking than the stream off of Blastr but has commercials).

Rotten Luck:
I want those parts for the new game!

Oh look Real Steel in real life.  Better story line too lol.

Not sure some of the design choices for the Bots and would been more interesting if the team made or modified there own Bots for themselves.

FatherXmas:

--- Quote from: Rotten Luck on February 21, 2013, 01:35:06 PM ---I want those parts for the new game!

Oh look Real Steel in real life.  Better story line too lol.

Not sure some of the design choices for the Bots and would been more interesting if the team made or modified there own Bots for themselves.

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True, this isn't Battlebots ... or Japan where humanoid robots, albeit smaller ones, are popular among hobbyists.  How many people have the skills or budget to build them.  Now if they had a basic kit a team could be given, 6 months and some guidelines about armor, weapons, weight limits, budget limits for add ons, etc. they could have padded the episodes out a bit with a piece on each bots construction. 

As it is right now we can only hope that they are roughly equivalent and it's up to the skill of the operators as to who wins.

Rotten Luck:
I agree I would have like to see a basic bot kit and have the teams Mod them, using guidelines.  Battlebots was more like Remote control Heavy Metal then Robots.  With the popularity of Chopper and Car building shows having bits of Robot construction/Modification in this show could pad it more.

TimtheEnchanter:

--- Quote from: Rotten Luck on February 21, 2013, 01:35:06 PM ---Not sure some of the design choices for the Bots and would been more interesting if the team made or modified there own Bots for themselves.
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Yeah, that's what I was expecting, was teams who built their own bots. Of course, this now explains the prize. Ever since I first heard about this, I was thinking, "$100,000 won't even cover a fraction of the cost."

My review of the 1st episode...

Well, by the time round 2 started, I started feeling the adrenaline. Considering the reactions of all the teams, I don't know if everyone is going to call me crazy, but Crash was my favorite once they went through the roster. Not so much for the team (I felt so bad for the girl, it was like she'd never played a video game before in here life), but that roll cage looked to me like the best armor for the task these robots were built for.

That said, I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist when it comes to media, ESPECIALLY when it comes to reality shows. I have my doubts about this not being 'scripted'. Considering the team that qualified in last place wound up with what to me seems like the robot that had the best defensive capabilities, that seems a little too convenient. But what really has me wondering is the sparks. I've seen metal clash plenty of times, and the hits that were making the sparks, shouldn't have caused that much. MAYBE if they were hitting something vital, but that didn't seem to be the case. This is leading me to believe that there's pyrotechnics on the robots, and they're rigged to go off at the appropriate time.

Granted, that doesn't really mean its fake. It could just be what they decided to use as a visual trigger to signify a hit worth a lot of points. Like... the judges have remote controls, and when a solid hit is scored, they hit a button to trigger the flare, instead of waving a flag like you'd see in a Karate match.

But I'm not completely turned off by it if it's pre-planned. Either way, it still looks frigging cool.

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