Wasnt it sold to the guy who owned Lightning?
In early 2004 the Robot Wars arena was purchased from the television production firm who produce the show (Mentorn) by a company called Robot Arenas Ltd based in the UK. They are an organisation set up by a past competitor of Robot Wars to continue the sport of robot combat in the UK.The Robot Wars arena was sold for scrap in 2005 for £250 by new owners of RAF Newton where the arena was housed. A suit filed against RAF Newton by Robot Arenas Ltd found that RAF Newton had acted reasonably in the matter and owed no compensation to Robot Arenas Ltd.
Quote from: JoeBlo on October 09, 2010, 10:58:59 PMQuote from: Scorpion on October 09, 2010, 02:27:24 PMThe BBC must still have the rights to more series than just extreme 1 surely?Or did they have to buy the rights back from channel 5?In which case why didn't they buy them all?interestingly enough I believe BBC never sold the merchandising rights to RW which was a contributing factor of its cancellation (new network couldn't make anymore money off it)Well that's interesting (assuming it's true ofcourse).Also, does anyone know who owns the arena nowadays, I heard that one of the teams bought it (storm 2 IIRC), but I do know there was some controversy around it, mentorn tried to block the deal I think.
Quote from: Scorpion on October 09, 2010, 02:27:24 PMThe BBC must still have the rights to more series than just extreme 1 surely?Or did they have to buy the rights back from channel 5?In which case why didn't they buy them all?interestingly enough I believe BBC never sold the merchandising rights to RW which was a contributing factor of its cancellation (new network couldn't make anymore money off it)
The BBC must still have the rights to more series than just extreme 1 surely?Or did they have to buy the rights back from channel 5?In which case why didn't they buy them all?
I know a heap of the wood floor panels were sold as collectors items (seen some on ebay from time to time)I dont know if they were old ones or the last ones from the end of S7 though
Quote from: JoeBlo on October 10, 2010, 03:10:51 AMI know a heap of the wood floor panels were sold as collectors items (seen some on ebay from time to time)I dont know if they were old ones or the last ones from the end of S7 thoughStrange, i'm even more confused now than when I started this thread
The original arena is gone forever, thanks to various things:http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Robot_Wars_ArenaThe only bit of it I know still exists is the bit NFX (?) has.The wierd thing is, I was at a RL event in October '09, way after the arena had been destroyed, and I asked Ed Hoppit specifically if they had the arena, and he said that they had.
another thing to throw in the mix is there is more then 1 arena....there was the smaller original one then a larger one...I know for a fact one's floor was divided up into many wooden sheets and sold as collectors items (as mentioned before) but dont know which one, then no doubt the other ended up scrappedbut that could have just been the set ? the arena itself would just be the inner low walls and base holding the floor... not all the polycarb, catchnets or crowsnest's...anyway probably shoudl open a new arena discussion topic.
We also don't know what is meant by "set"Gauntlet perhaps?And it was ed hoppit who had apparently bought the arena to continue using it for robot combat, so if he owns it he wouldn't have found the "set" in the basement and thrown it out!Maybe he owns a different arena?But again if thats the case why haven't we heard more of it?And I know i'm going off topic in my own thread joe, but it is rather puzzlingWe should really have a what the hapened to Robot Wars thread
Story I heard was that the guy from Storm II bought the arena because he liked it so much.
What's wrong with Naryar?
Quote from: NFX on October 10, 2010, 09:34:03 AMStory I heard was that the guy from Storm II bought the arena because he liked it so much.He still turns up to robots live events regularly, if he had bought the robot wars arena I'm sure we'd know about it
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