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  1. Echoax

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    Anyone remember this. It was awesome, shunt was the best house bot. I remember when his axe went into hypodisc's weapon and just stopped it dead. That was awesome. I never understood why people like the pit so much though. I like the fire more.
     
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    I remember hearing about this show as a kid, but I never got to see it because I never watched much TV. I just youtubed some clips from it and I am uberpissed that I did not see it. Where the heck did this show go?!
     
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    I dunno, it should be brought back. Fighting robots are cool no matter what age you are.

    Totally look up shunt and nightmare.
     
    #3 Echoax, Dec 12, 2012
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    You mean the show where they build robotic vehicles and have them kill each other? I used to catch it on G4 years ago, but I never see it anymore. Loved it as a kid.
     
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    now that brings back memories, I loved that show!

    If I remember correctly hypno-disk was one of the better robots, I quite liked it
     
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    Till shunt drove an axe through his disk. That was still awesome.
     
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    who was the one with the huge platform that flipped robots on their backs? that one was awesome
     
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    That could be a ton of them. A lot of bots had flippers and only Matilda and biohazard come to mind right now. I don't think that's who your looking for though.

    you remember what the bot looked like?
     
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    I gotta check what this robot war is all about.
     
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    It was shaped like a ramp, and half the top of the body flipped any robot that rode onto it if I remember correctly the flipping part had bright yellow arrows painted on it
     
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    Man, I use to watch that show. Not a whole lot but enough for me to enjoy it. I total forgot about that show.
     
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    All glory to the Hypnodisc. That robot was best robot.

    EDIT: Simon, you're thinking of Firestorm I believe.
     
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    I used to watch this all the time with my grandpa, we still have all the old episodes on VHS somewhere.
    There's a very funny picture of me when I was 4 - I went to see Robot Wars live in Glasgow, and there were obviously the pit girls, or whatever they were called. Imagine a small, overly excited child standing between two women with... assets.
    Chaos 2. That is all.
    I have the teams signatures somewhere in a robot wars programme thing. And I still have my membership card for the site that no longer exists. :c
     
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    I loooved it! If i remember right it came on TV every Sunday here!

    WOuld love to see this show again =)
     
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    It still airs on a channel called Dave, but there's usually so much Top Gear you dont notice it.

    One thing I must add: Robot Wars = Craig Charles = Red Dwarf = Awesome.
     
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    I dont think i get this Channel =/
     
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    :( I should stream the old episodes I have on VHS at some point - that could be a good laugh!
     
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    Was that the show on Comedy Central? Or was that Battle Bots?

    Either way, I loved that show!
     
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    Probably something else on CC... Though Red Dwarf was on there for a small amount of time, I believe.
     
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    Oh yes, I see. Robot Wars was 1998 to 2004 on BBC Two, Channel 5, and TNN.

    BattleBots, the one I remember, ran from 2000 to 2002.

    I had a lot of laughs from BattleBots, but it was on a smaller cage-style match arena than Robot Wars was.
     
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