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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #60 on: April 24, 2014, 07:58:02 AM »
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Robot-Lawn-Mower-Base-motors-with-wheels-Battlebot-Drone-ROV-Rc-mover-KIT-/281318368850?
Sold by the same guy that sold the 12lber Ribbs posted. Not a complete robot but it's many of the parts you'd need.

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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #61 on: April 30, 2014, 12:30:33 AM »
It also last competed in like 2003 so you'd probably have to spend monies to bring it up to date.

I bet one of my robots from 2003 could still tough it out in the arena today. :P
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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #63 on: June 21, 2014, 05:05:03 PM »
one of team tiki's bases!

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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #64 on: August 21, 2014, 10:16:22 PM »
There was a giant lot of mixed RC BattleBots toys and stuff on eBay last night. It was like $43 or something total when I calculated shipping to my zip code. I waited on it last night to see if I really needed it, and I thought it over and since I still use the motors and gearboxes from the BB toys I checked back to splurge on them and they're gone. If someone from GTM bought those, you got a great haul. There was also a Diesector and Biohazard RC in the lot, but they looked like they were missing pieces (all of them did). Bleh. :P
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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #65 on: October 12, 2014, 06:09:02 PM »
Robot Wars Superheayweight Siren is on Ebay. Apparently its owners left it in the shed when they moved away, and it's just been discovered now.  It's local pickup only, so for me, might as well be on the moon, but there's some interest in it, as the bidding's gone up a bit from the asking price of 20 pounds.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Robotwars-competitor-robot/231354999096?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D26264%26meid%3D41dd6b67170c4fe2baaddb6a02c7f1bd%26pid%3D100033%26prg%3D10943%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D231355092983

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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #66 on: October 12, 2014, 06:29:20 PM »
Current bid: 51 pounds

looks like a steal to me.

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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #67 on: October 12, 2014, 06:29:57 PM »
looks like a steal to me.

looks like some steel to me

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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #68 on: October 12, 2014, 06:47:26 PM »
looks like a steal to me.

looks like some steel to me
Someone uprep this man.

Seriously though if I didn't live far away I'd be all over this. (hue)

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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #69 on: October 12, 2014, 07:06:18 PM »
I'm surprised about the amount of bashing in the Robot Wars FB Group. People saying it's junk and outdated.

OF COURSE IT'S OUTDATED BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS RESTORE IT, YOU COMPETED WITH IT OR NOT FFS.

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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #70 on: October 12, 2014, 07:15:27 PM »
that sh** is ill! of course it would get smacked regardless of any refurb done on it but most robot wars bots were rather primitive anyways and a pneumatic spike on a robot that looks like it would rock back and forth on impact backed with a wood saw would need some major work done but hey! half of it is already done for you. how could you complain?

edit dang theres four pages of bots for sale? i have not been looking very hard
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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #71 on: October 13, 2014, 03:00:59 AM »
I live about 2 hours away from Crewe, but I'm not sure if it's worth it. It's a piece of robot combat history, but it's also a pile of junk.

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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #72 on: October 13, 2014, 06:23:39 AM »
I said this when I found it, and I've said this on FB. Here is the same post copied and pasted.

"The best thing to do if you really want, Because there's no way in hell anyone would lug that around the country to display at events.

So best course of action for the buyer is to empty out the insides of valuables then either keep them or sell on... If they work. Take the chassis, weapon and wheels and add new casing, then donate it to John to take around the shows for display... Otherwise it's just a cheap donor that is frankly... Already overpriced. And I'm sure all the other roboteers here will agree with me.

 It's literally a buy, visually restore and donate job for anyone who doesn't work for the Robot Wars company. As Gareth has said. Getting it into competitive form will be a waste of cash, time and money."



And what Leo Van Miert, the owner of Splinter said:

"When I bought Splinter and Hannibal of of Ebay I did so because they were in a condition that you could compete with it with little effort. This is a bunch of metal with a weapon that was not effective in series 2, let alone in modern HW combat. And for display purposes it would take so much time and resources to even make it look presentable that I'd sooner build a new one."

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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #73 on: October 13, 2014, 06:42:17 AM »
seconded HB

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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #74 on: October 13, 2014, 11:07:11 AM »
I'm surprised about the amount of bashing in the Robot Wars FB Group. People saying it's junk and outdated.

OF COURSE IT'S OUTDATED BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS RESTORE IT, YOU COMPETED WITH IT OR NOT FFS.
tbh you live in findland you could compete whit it.

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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #75 on: October 13, 2014, 11:16:32 AM »
I'm surprised about the amount of bashing in the Robot Wars FB Group. People saying it's junk and outdated.

OF COURSE IT'S OUTDATED BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS RESTORE IT, YOU COMPETED WITH IT OR NOT FFS.
tbh you live in findland you could compete whit it.
Not really. Finns compete mostly with featherweights, antweights and fleaweights only. Besides, the bot is in UK and I'm tight on money so no point of bidding on it.

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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #76 on: October 13, 2014, 11:25:11 AM »
I'm surprised about the amount of bashing in the Robot Wars FB Group. People saying it's junk and outdated.

OF COURSE IT'S OUTDATED BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS RESTORE IT, YOU COMPETED WITH IT OR NOT FFS.
. I may not be a builder myself but even I can tell that that restoring that bot would be more expensive time and money wise than building one from scratch.  A proper restoration would mmean replacing practically everything plus deciding on how to lose 17 kilos if you actually want to compete with it.  And the end result it a bot who was neither well known nor good looking nor well built nor anything special at all.  While I don't stand behind their derision of the fans, I do see their frustration in people's willful blindness to these fairly obvious facts.

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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #77 on: October 13, 2014, 12:50:06 PM »
It is kinda ugly, and pretty much unknown.
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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #78 on: October 13, 2014, 10:46:51 PM »
I live about 2 hours away from Crewe, but I'm not sure if it's worth it. It's a piece of robot combat history, but it's also a pile of junk.
can you post a pic? i'm not familiar with it and google won't bring it up
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Re: Bots on Ebay
« Reply #79 on: October 14, 2014, 02:47:00 AM »
I live about 2 hours away from Crewe, but I'm not sure if it's worth it. It's a piece of robot combat history, but it's also a pile of junk.
can you post a pic? i'm not familiar with it and google won't bring it up
The pile of junk we've been talking about ATM? It's a super heavyweight called Siren who's only televised match was during the series 2 grudge match special