What ever happened to the Robot Wars House Bots?

[HurricaneAndrew]

"The Pit" always pissed me off in the American Robot Wars.

Everyone always went apesh** chanting "PIT! PIT! PIT!" so they would get to see the pyrotechnic effects when a robot was put in it, but it couldn't have consisted of more than a gram of black powder...

Robot Wars always seemed to be more about showmanship than the actual combat.

Actually... Were the house bots in the American versions the same actual robots as the European series? I know they had the same names and looked the same.

[Mr. AS]

weeee im sir k im just going to pick you up and spin you around a little doing little to no damage then just drop you in the pit

On the flipside, you had WASP and Vortex Inducer   

they had sh** for armor, im pretty sure dropping a feather on them would completely smash their internals

[Mecha]

"The Pit" always pissed me off in the American Robot Wars.

Everyone always went apesh** chanting "PIT! PIT! PIT!" so they would get to see the pyrotechnic effects when a robot was put in it, but it couldn't have consisted of more than a gram of black powder...

LOL

[SKBT]

"The Pit" always pissed me off in the American Robot Wars.

Everyone always went apesh** chanting "PIT! PIT! PIT!" so they would get to see the pyrotechnic effects when a robot was put in it, but it couldn't have consisted of more than a gram of black powder...

Robot Wars always seemed to be more about showmanship than the actual combat.

Actually... Were the house bots in the American versions the same actual robots as the European series? I know they had the same names and looked the same.

Robot Wars was the WWE of robot combat. The whole idea that you had to audition to compete and the number of robots that didn't work and were of low build quality prove it.

It was also rigged and scripted. The producers had the power to choose who would win. The heats were hand picked based on entertainment value of each bot and how famous a bot was. They could also intervene with the house robots or arena. There were also cases of builders (revolutionist) being told to run at 1/2 power so that it wouldn't damage the housebots.

The robots in both American and British robot wars were the same.

[Jonzu95]

Sir Killalot was always my favourite House Robot.

[Ducky]

Bump!

Was at the Barnsley Robot Wars Live Event today and I had chance to speak to John Findlay in the interval regarding the original House Robots, here's what he had to say:
John "We think we know where they are, it's currently a legal battle to obtain them, two of them (didn't have chance to ask which) have been in Las Vegas" (I assume with some rich memorabilia collector or something like that!)
Me "ahh wow making some headway then!"
John "well yeah"
Sounds a bit promising at least compared to our previous news! Puzzling that its a legal battle when they own the rights! I assume the people that have them don't want to give them up or something.

[Badnik96]

And now I have a mental image of Mr. Psycho moonlighting as a slot machine. Thanks for that.

[G.K.]

Refbot dealing out blackjack...

[Jaydee99]

I was at Barnsley too today!!! I'm sure they're kept with the builder where they should be, may have to check it again though...

[cephalopod]

I imagine the battle is probably less legal and more monetary...

[RedAce]

Damn. Now I wish I was in Barnsley right now. I mean, it's Vegas with the House Robots. What more can I ask for?

[090901]

Puzzling that its a legal battle when they own the rights! I assume the people that have them don't want to give them up or something.

Well if someone paid money for them after the show ended I doubt they would want to give them up.

[Badnik96]

Sgt. Bash and the original Matilda were found earlier this month. Not entirely sure where.

[cephalopod]

Picture was taken early last year :P

[The Red Blur]

Well, if anyone sees wheely big cheese going cheap, please tell me. I need it.

[cephalopod]

Hahahahahah the current owner has outwardly said even though they won't do anything with it, they refuse to sell to someone who will. Even if they did, define cheap :P

[Resetti's Replicas]

Sgt. Bash and the original Matilda were found earlier this month. Not entirely sure where.

. Most likely just the shells.  Chris Reynolds the house bot handler said that their partswere camnibalized for other projects.

[The Red Blur]

Hahahahahah the current owner has outwardly said even though they won't do anything with it, they refuse to sell to someone who will. Even if they did, define cheap :P

Hmm... Define cheap... Well, I'll give him a pot noodle, if you think that'd cover it. Without hot water, obviously, I'm not that generous.

[Scorpio]

https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=18594.0
There's a good chance we'll be seeing them again.

Actually, most of them do (only Sir Killalot and Mr. Psycho don't - they'd qualify for the proposed experimental class from the ill-fated Battlebots 6.0), but again they're all a bit small for the Super-Heavyweight class, weighing in at a little above 220 Lbs. They would have trouble against bots like Diesector, Toro, New Cruelty, Atomic Wedgie, etc.

On that note, if the House bots DO come back to TV, I'd like to see them become proper SHWs. Hell, by current Battlebots standards, Shunt and one other House Bot (I forget whether it was Bash or Dead Metal) are legit HWs - though probably not entirely competitive.