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Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: HurricaneAndrew on June 10, 2009, 04:27:41 AM: Does anyone else remember the show "Robotica" that was on TLC for a while? I believe it was on the air about the same time that BattleBots was so popular. Seems like it came on right after "Junkyard Wars" on Wednesday nights on TLC.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: JoeBlo on June 10, 2009, 05:15:38 AM: I actually never heard of Robotica until the end of last year, never saw any videos of it either. Robot Wars was the only thing shown here in aus up till about the 5th season then it went (wasn't it the same time BBC sold it ?) and the last few seasons of battlebots on pay TV that I sometimes caught.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: goose on June 10, 2009, 01:39:51 PM: Robotiaca was alright. Was cool how the same bot had to do a bunch of challenges, and fight. The bots were not all that great, though.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: kill343gs on June 10, 2009, 01:42:33 PM: The only thing I remember is Panic Attack getting stuck because it was so wide.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: Reier on June 10, 2009, 01:43:20 PM: Heyyyy....
Goose is back. (Barbie will be pleased.. ;])
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: frezal on June 10, 2009, 01:49:35 PM: Ahmet Zappa was one of the hosts. Quite a good show, though the combat portion was usually a bit lame.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: Weirdo on June 10, 2009, 01:54:02 PM: I saw one episode of Robotica, can't remember the robots involved though.

@Joeblo: BBC sold RW after series six. Here in the UK series seven was shown on Channel Five.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: HurricaneAndrew on June 10, 2009, 02:41:43 PM: Quote from: Weirdo;43544
@Joeblo: BBC sold RW after series six. Here in the UK series seven was shown on Channel Five.

Then wasn't it sold again? It was on TNN here in the states for a while. Mick Foley was the host at that point.

And actually toward the end, it was on Nickelodeon (a cartoon channel) for some reason. I remember because they call Sir Killalot, Sir K.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: goose on June 10, 2009, 02:51:37 PM: Quote from: Jeffery;43543
Ahmet Zappa was one of the hosts. Quite a good show, though the combat portion was usually a bit lame.

thats the bald guys name, I was having a heckofatime remembering what it was and was to lazy to google it. thanks.

those rat thing were lame.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: Weirdo on June 10, 2009, 03:05:06 PM: The Nickelodeon version of RW was a kind of spinoff made for the Nickelodeon channel with american presenters and competitiors and everything, but it was shot in London.

I also believe that another american version of RW was shot in London for America, and thats probably the one hosted by Mick Foley. The British version was always hosted by Craig Charles, except for series one when it was hosted by Jeremy Clarkson.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: frezal on June 10, 2009, 04:13:17 PM: Quote from: goose;43557
thats the bald guys name, I was having a heckofatime remembering what it was and was to lazy to google it. thanks.

those rat thing were lame.

Yeah, he's Frank Zappa's third kid. He's currently working on a new Fraggle Rock movie (writing and producing, I believe).

I forgot about the rats. Those were pretty lame.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: JoeBlo on June 10, 2009, 07:20:19 PM: I thought the RW franchise was sold after series 5 anyway my local broadcaster cut RW part way though series 5

Robot Wars Extreme Warriors was a small series which was a US version with mick foley it featured the UK house robots

Robot Wars: Nickelodeon I believe was still uk but it was censored for younger viewers (killalot had to be k)
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: RFS on June 11, 2009, 01:15:04 AM: I remember Robotica, I do not have season one on VHS, but I have a complete season 2 and most of season 3. Robotica had really low TV ratings, so what TLC did with season 3 was just AIR THE ENTIRE SEASON IN ONE DAY. Unannounced. It pissed me off, I caught what I could but they never re-aired any episodes. I heard about a year ago that Robotica was airing in re-runs on Science Channel, but I haven't seen it pop back up yet.

On a side note Science Channel airs Junkyard Wars every day at noon. <3
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: Weirdo on June 11, 2009, 12:37:37 PM: RW:Nickelodeon was in fact american. I saw a vid of it on youtube a while back and remember it having american presenters and american competitors and everything. But it was shot in the London studio and they did use the origonal house bots. Also, I've never seen it in the UK.

RW Extreme Warriors was what I was on about an american RW series, I just couldn't remember the name. It was also shot in London.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: S.T.C. on June 12, 2009, 05:12:19 PM: Quote from: RadioFSoftware;43684
I remember Robotica, I do not have season one on VHS, but I have a complete season 2 and most of season 3. Robotica had really low TV ratings, so what TLC did with season 3 was just AIR THE ENTIRE SEASON IN ONE DAY. Unannounced. It pissed me off, I caught what I could but they never re-aired any episodes. I heard about a year ago that Robotica was airing in re-runs on Science Channel, but I haven't seen it pop back up yet.

On a side note Science Channel airs Junkyard Wars every day at noon. <3

I remember that lol,I taped the whole 3rd season,but someone taped over the first tape :(
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: Natef on June 14, 2009, 08:54:14 AM: Robotica was great!
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: JoeCB1991 on June 14, 2009, 11:35:11 AM: Quote from: Weirdo;43736
RW:Nickelodeon was in fact american. I saw a vid of it on youtube a while back and remember it having american presenters and american competitors and everything. But it was shot in the London studio and they did use the origonal house bots. Also, I've never seen it in the UK.

RW Extreme Warriors was what I was on about an american RW series, I just couldn't remember the name. It was also shot in London.

I think I saw the one with Mick Foley, and a lot of the bots in there were terrible. I also saw one that I think was Season 4 of Robot Wars with Craig replaced with some wrestler chick.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: Weirdo on June 14, 2009, 12:58:54 PM: @JoeCB1991: Interesting, do you remember any bots that were in it?
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: moonbear on June 15, 2009, 04:42:48 PM: I recall a bot called Armorgeddon, or something like that. Had a vaccum pump and a seal so it could stick itself to the ground and become nearly immovable. Very cool design.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: S.T.C. on June 15, 2009, 08:36:42 PM: yah,sadly he lost in the finals in the gauntlet against Ill-Tempered Mutt which was also a cool design.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: Reier on June 15, 2009, 09:31:28 PM: And the others I remember were Botzilla, Flexy-Flyer (Which was in BB under a different name which I can't remember), Debbot, and the Killa Gorilla (which was also in BB called Silverback). And some rendom bot in a trailer called Shenanagins or howevber you spell it.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: R1885 on June 15, 2009, 09:44:03 PM: Pro-Am
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: S.T.C. on June 17, 2009, 09:26:21 PM: I remember Ultra Violence,now that bot was destructive
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: Natef on June 18, 2009, 01:45:07 PM: I remember the Wizard of Sawz, that was a cool bot.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: RFS on June 18, 2009, 06:42:40 PM: Quote from: Reier;44479
And the others I remember were Botzilla, Flexy-Flyer (Which was in BB under a different name which I can't remember), Debbot, and the Killa Gorilla (which was also in BB called Silverback). And some rendom bot in a trailer called Shenanagins or howevber you spell it.

Shannonagains (spelled like that because the guy's kid was named Shannon and they were using her truck "again"... I think) was the one made from the Power Wheels truck. It was armed to the teeth with all sorts of things that made me get all giddy inside but it never worked properly and lost. :(
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: S.T.C. on June 18, 2009, 06:56:26 PM: atleast it won the gauntlet,he lost cause he got stuck in the sand,Mechacidal Maniac was an awsome design but I rlly didn't think of it as a fighting bot,I also never considered InterVerter as a fighting bot either.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: lloopp D lloopp on November 13, 2009, 11:46:51 AM: Quote from: frezal;43543
Ahmet Zappa was one of the hosts. Quite a good show, though the combat portion was usually a bit lame.

I only saw one fight on YT and it was 4 seconds long.The bots were Da Claw and Juggerbot.
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: Jonzu95 on November 13, 2009, 05:07:22 PM: Nice(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/65018Bump.jpg)
Title: Remember Robotica?
Post by: hypnodisc7 on November 13, 2009, 08:31:36 PM: I remember when panzer mk 1 ran through the gauntlet at pretty much "light speed" in season 1. It was amazing! I miss this show! :(