Obscure robots built by famous/well known builders?

[Jamin]

I've noticed that a lot of the builders responsible for well known machines also built robots that either had little success or where entered into less well known competitions. An example being Jonathan Ridder, who not only being known for Ziggo

Also competed in the US Robot Wars in 95, 96, and 97 with a series of featherweight, wedge shaped robots named Ziggy (one of which later sported a saw blade)



He also had a RW 1996 competitor named "Wonderbug"

and later on he also built a rammer named Ziggzagg


EDIT: The Panic Attack team also competed in Battlebots with a flipper named Scallywag

[cephalopod]

Always wanted to see Scallywag in action but never found a video or anything.

[Philippa]

Always wanted to see Scallywag in action but never found a video or anything.

Yeah me too.

[Badnik96]

Yeah, I managed to get its fight summary from the Omega-13 site and I uploaded it to the BattleBots Wiki if anyone is curious.

Also Team Diablo made a lightweight bot called Little Wicked for Season 4.0, but it had to forfeit due to it being overweight.
http://battlebots.wikia.com/wiki/Little_Wicked

[Resetti's Replicas]

Beta from the Killerhurtz/Terrurhurtz guys.  Built for Battlebots but couldn't compete due to ripping up the floor.


Robot the Bruce and Chaos 1 - you can probably figure out who made those


Z, TerMinal frenZy, and The Bat from the frenZy guys.

The Dr Inferno Jr guy built a rather unsuccessful heavyweight called Towering Inferno.

[courthousedoc]

Doom of Babylon built by Todd Mendenhall who also built Panzer/Wrath.

[cephalopod]

Just had a look at the Team Minus Zero site after being interested (loved frenZy) and found they did some awesome looking antweight..

[Jamin]

Beta from the Killerhurtz/Terrurhurtz guys.  Built for Battlebots but couldn't compete due to ripping up the floor.


Robot the Bruce and Chaos 1 - you can probably figure out who made those


Z, TerMinal frenZy, and The Bat from the frenZy guys.

The Dr Inferno Jr guy built a rather unsuccessful heavyweight called Towering Inferno.

If you're referring to this

then you'd be wrong. Z was built off of the Chassis of the 1996 competitor "Killborg" which was entered by a different team. Team Minus Zero, did however, enter an unnamed bot in 1994 and "Cyberknight" in 1995.

[Mr. AS]

i think the firestorm team entered wtih some bot called groundhog back in series 2

[courthousedoc]

Correct and it almost flipped Sir K

[Scrap Daddy]

I wanna say the guys that built Greenspan and the Brawler from rs had other bots but I can't remember

[Badnik96]

I wanna say the guys that built Greenspan and the Brawler from rs had other bots but I can't remember

Jackrabbit, a MW rammer and Mini-G, a mini Greenspan (as the name implies)

[Somebody]

Bardis also had a few other robots that I can't remember right now. IIRC, didn't team minus zero also own tmz.com for their website? Because now its the really big company TMZ, that does lots of celebrity stalking type stuff.

[Jamin]

Bardis also had a few other robots that I can't remember right now. IIRC, didn't team minus zero also own tmz.com for their website? Because now its the really big company TMZ, that does lots of celebrity stalking type stuff.

http://www.mechatroniks.com/
A while ago Patrick Campbell opened up their website on a new domain since it was stolen by the pooparazzi long ago.

[Resetti's Replicas]

did he say if he got any money for it?

[Resetti's Replicas]

Two failed robots from the team that brought you Son of Whyachi and Warrior SKF:


Warrior/Whyatica, built for Robotica Season 3 2, they made it way too fast and uncontrollabe for the competition.
http://www.teamwhyachi.com/warrior.htm



Why-Not, an early Melty Brain Spinner, don't know much about it othe rthna it didn't do ver ywell in Battlebots:
http://www.teamwhyachi.com/warrior.htm

[HurricaneAndrew]

The Dr Inferno Jr guy built a rather unsuccessful heavyweight called Towering Inferno.

Towering Inferno was actually a pretty well-known robot. Although, you are right about the unsuccessful part. InfernoLabs also entered Robotica with a flame thrower bot.

Two failed robots from the team that brought you Son of Whyachi and Warrior SKF:


Warrior, built for Robotica Season 3, they made it way too fast and uncontrollabe for the competition.
http://www.teamwhyachi.com/warrior.htm



Why-Not, an early Melty Brain Spinner, don't know much about it othe rthna it didn't do ver ywell in Battlebots:
http://www.teamwhyachi.com/warrior.htm

Team Whyachi also entered Whyatica into season 2(?) of Robotica.

Edit: Apparently Warrior is just another name of Whyatica, or vice versa.

[freeziez]

The Dr Inferno Jr guy built a rather unsuccessful heavyweight called Towering Inferno.

Towering Inferno was actually a pretty well-known robot. Although, you are right about the unsuccessful part.

[Natef]

I have the episode with Whyatica on VHS.

[courthousedoc]

I have the episode with Whyatica on VHS.

Maybe you can post it up. I haven't seen that episode anywhere.