Author Topic: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 8/24/2014)  (Read 11017 times)

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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #40 on: July 29, 2014, 10:47:48 AM »
Another great read from you RFS, very informative and funny, also Since I have never had a piece of battlebots merchandise, comparing them to our mini bots from first glance I'd say their actually better xD

Lemon, I agree with most of the statements on that review, but was that all of them? Could've sworn there was more. Iirc there was 30 odd

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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #41 on: July 29, 2014, 11:39:54 AM »
Lemon, I agree with most of the statements on that review, but was that all of them? Could've sworn there was more. Iirc there was 30 odd
There were more minibots, but these are the only ones I own.
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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #42 on: July 29, 2014, 02:19:23 PM »
He was talk about the bb ones

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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #43 on: July 29, 2014, 03:35:58 PM »
There was a total of 50. I know because I have the checklist card that came with each pack :V

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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #44 on: July 29, 2014, 03:42:33 PM »
He was talk about the bb ones
Who is 'he'? If you're talking about Natster, then the fact he addressed that part of his post to me suggests he was talking about the RW ones. He wouldn't have asked me about the battlebots ones.
For the record, according to the RW wiki there were 21 total.
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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #45 on: July 29, 2014, 03:55:04 PM »
i was referring to rfs. my bad, should've been more specific

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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #46 on: July 29, 2014, 03:57:05 PM »
Ahh I see which post you meant now. No worries
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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #47 on: July 29, 2014, 03:57:35 PM »
Lemon, I agree with most of the statements on that review, but was that all of them? Could've sworn there was more. Iirc there was 30 odd
There were more minibots, but these are the only ones I own.
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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #48 on: July 29, 2014, 10:11:38 PM »
i was referring to rfs. my bad, should've been more specific

There were 50 in the BattleBots set. I own 28 of them, so more than half. As far as I know there are no known owners of any of the 8 finalists (except for the user here who had Ziggo as a kid) and none of the chromebots are accounted for sadly. My article was only about my favorites and some reflections on the ones I owned since I can't have a hands-on look at the ones that I sadly don't own. I've been trying to track them down but they are very rare so I opted to write my article only owning 28 of 50.

Ugh, camera problems meant I only just got the pictures I said I would take. Still, here they finally are. There were more minibots, but these are the only ones I own.
I've also given my personal opinion on every minibot since I don't have a fancy website of my own to put them on :P



These are fantastic! I can see where the exaggerated/cutesy geometry might be a bit distracting but overall I'd say they're superior to the BB ones in terms of paint/decal quality and mold.
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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #49 on: July 29, 2014, 11:50:34 PM »
RE: BB Minibots:
I had Snowflake and Hamanuptra


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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #50 on: July 30, 2014, 12:14:08 AM »
You mean Frostbite right? Snowflake wasnt a minbot.

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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #51 on: July 30, 2014, 07:44:32 PM »
A friend of mine gave those out at his brithday party in 2002.  I really should've asked where he got them from because I never saw them in the local toy stores.  I got Frenzy and Hammerhead.

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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #52 on: July 31, 2014, 12:03:28 AM »
You mean Frostbite right? Snowflake wasnt a minbot.

thats what i meant yeah


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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #53 on: August 11, 2014, 02:03:10 AM »
Right now (as in recently) I am putting together an article about McDonald's BattleBots toys. It's been taking me a while because I've had to go out of my way to procure some ridiculously expensive hardware to put this feature together. The fact that I worked ~60 hours last week is also totally not an excuse or a cop-out. Promise.  :gawe:

This new article is essentially "done", I just have to take all of the pictures for it. I only post a handful of pictures but as you saw with the .RAR file I provided from the MiniBots article, I take way more than I need. Makes for a nice Tumblr post afterward.

I've also been tracking traffic to my site over the past month or so and most of it is coming from GTM. So, thank you. Now I just need to hope Google does its thing and brings in some decent search traffic or else I'm boned with this project and doomed to a life of writing only about BattleBots. I reviewed some sh**ty candy Lego things last week. You should go check that out if you like copious amounts of autism jokes and commentary on candies based upon things kids choke to death on.
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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #54 on: August 11, 2014, 02:50:28 AM »
I still have a couple of those McDonalds toys. Overkill and Ankle Biter.
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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #55 on: August 11, 2014, 08:39:48 AM »
I do have some McDonalds toys as well, I don't have them all, but I was close.


Also, these articles are pretty cool to read. Keep up the good work man!

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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #56 on: August 11, 2014, 10:58:54 AM »
Ive got mechadon, diesector, ankle biter, mac attack, and ginsu

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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #57 on: August 11, 2014, 11:11:06 AM »
I have them all. Somehow
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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #58 on: August 11, 2014, 11:27:39 AM »
I too have every McDonalds BB toy.

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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 7/22/2014)
« Reply #59 on: August 11, 2014, 10:50:04 PM »
I had to buy a whole new set for the purposes of this article. You'll see why, though.

Also strangely I had to buy the set all NIB because it was cheaper that way. I shed a single tear as I tore all of these decade+ old mint condition toys open.
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