Robot Wars Series 7 Heat M

Competing machines:
Tough as Nails, Panic Attack, Robochicken, Mega Morg, B.O.D., Disco-O-Inferno, Edge Hog, Spin Doctor

[@warhawk3972]

Panic Attack without Kim Davis doesn't feel right

[@acnhsasha3085]

Yeah, when Kim’s Driving that will be easy

[@jamesmitchell8922]

Whilst its sixth wars appearance was flawed.

[@joeandrews7329]

​@@acnhsasha3085he was the only champion to get an item dropped on it in the drop zone. From Joe. X

[@joeandrews7329]

​@@jamesmitchell8922he was the only champion to get an item dropped on it in the drop zone. From Joe. X

[@joecurly3637]

Somehow I immediately had the feeling that Panic Attack wouldn't do so well in battle without Kim Davies.

[@arcengal]

"ARE YOU READY FOR LEGENDARY DRIVING?!" (Kim Davies isn't with the team)

[@joeandrews7329]

Tough As Nails came from Holland. From Joe. X

[@achmed45662]

Poor robochicken so close to a semifinal so close yet so far.

[@Roscoso]

But what a great showing for Robochicken's last run.

[@joeandrews7329]

​@Roscoso he won the extreme 2 tag team episode with bulldog breed. From Joe. X

[@NorrisVaughn]

OK, with the damage, I can see why the judges went for Tough as Nails

[@joeandrews7329]

Tough as nails lost to Scraptosaur in series 2 of the Dutch robot wars. During heat 4 round 1 when it conked out. From Joe. X

[@potterfan392]

Does anyone else notice the relative lack of sound effects during the battles this series? Nice change if that is the case. I prefer the organic sounds of the robots hitting each other, even if the sounds are quieter.

[@joeandrews7329]

Tough As Nails won the heat. From Joe. X

[@ljgarrison6910]

In regards to the FW fight, they know the rules, no point walking out like wet tissue - No mercy!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@danielfennessey]

Robot wars isn't ballet.

[@DoMw94]

The first fight in this episode was the first fight I ever saw in-person!

[@Biadaz]

The entire heat was staged in the same day?

[@DoMw94]

@@Biadaz the recording session I was at was the second of three on the Thursday. During the session we saw the two Heat M melees, then the two Heat L melees, and then the two heat G melees - in that order

[@joecurly3637]

How did the recording of the heats go, and how were the schedules like?

[@DoMw94]

@joecurly3637 not sure about the heat as a whole, but as mentioned in my other reply, I saw six round one melees in what was the second of three recording sessions on the day. My guess is they did all round one heats together, all round two, and then all heat finals, but I wouldn't know for certain

[@joecurly3637]

I'm just curious in wanting to know how the heats were all filmed in order compared to how they were edited. Parts of me do have feelings they filmed the eliminators of about 3 heats to start off with, then filmed the semifinals and heat finals, as opposed to 1 heat at a time.

[@evanwilliams6406]

Probably the best that Robo Chicken has looked, very close to a win.

[@B455PL4Y3R]

i think it won... honestly.

[@evanwilliams6406]

@@B455PL4Y3R Oh, I thought when it was pitted it lost. But since was still moving it got through that heat. If it didn't it would have likely been the other bot that was immobile, B.O.D.

[@therebel4332]

@@B455PL4Y3R We as a viewer dont see the whole bout though only the edited down version. Tough As Nails caused more damage and were still aggressive enough in the first half of the fight,, they then won clearly the 2nd half of the fight.

[@carribob1992]

The first battle can be summed up as "THEY CAME FROM THE WELSH VALLEYS"

[@joeandrews7329]

Yellow machines. From Joe. X

[@tyreesetjjoyner1995]

Panic Attack's triumph return turned into a shock. 2nd time Panic Attack went out in the heats.

[@joeandrews7329]

His form dipped. From Joe. X

[@182supermario]

You know what they should've done for Extreme, have the Spin Doctor from this version of Robot Wars fight the Spin Doctor of Extreme Warriors to see who is the true Spin Doctor of Robot Wars

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

Better yet, a 3-way melee between those two Spin Doctors plus the Spin Doctor of Series 2 that took Matilda's tusk off

[@supersonic64able]

also throw in spin doctor from king of bots because fuck it why not

[@richard29415]

Oh yeah I love seeing British robots meet American robots!

[@StFidjnr]

20:16 micro mute team is not happy and by the way the house robots treated that robot they have Every right to be 22:40 and that what was left of micro mute

[@davidfearis7335]

I don't think I've ever seen anyone walk-off like that during a fight since Series 1 Heat B Good to see Jayne showing sympathy to them however, if Philippa was there I reckon she would've just rubbed salt & added insult to their injuries!

[@cr10001]

What on earth is the point of letting the house robots completely wreck some poor competitor's robot that has been counted out? I would like to see a half-ton version of Carbide or Aftershock let loose on the house robots and shred them all into tiny twisted pieces of metal.

[@fromfin90]

@@cr10001 sir killalot with its ibeam at the back and weight could probably shrug off a few of your spinners

[@cr-yi7ep]

@@fromfin90 Not if Carbide was scaled up to match Sir Killalot in weight... Scaled-up Firestorm to flip Sir K (which Firestorm has already done, and Sir K has no srimech) and let mega-Carbide loose on the remains. It'd be only fair and the owners of a hundred mangled robots would be dancing with glee.

[@fromfin90]

@@cr-yi7ep only reason Sir K. was op is because his massive weight and tracks, if he was a 'common' size he's be cannon fodder. but i agre and all out megabot war with Sir K klass and Killallot fighting would be entertaining

[@burzaburza2970]

Many well known robots here. I love Panic Attack and Robochicken :D

[@joeandrews7329]

Panic Attack lacked form by series 6-7. From Joe. X

[@carribob1992]

Here comes BOD. Well, after that perfomance. There goes BOD. (Yeah, I made an obscure British Cartoon reference)

[@manichongmao6099]

carribob1992 • 🎵 Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo 🎵 Funnily enough that was the first thing that came into my head too when I saw the name of that particular robot 😂

[@lucifersjurisdiction3636]

We have people choking the chicken on Robot Wars 😂

[@crystalheart9]

Those Welsh boys sure do get excited!

[@joeandrews7329]

Cockiness cost them in round 2. From Joe. X

[@MRR19]

I told the spin doctor he wasn’t in love with you

[@richard29415]

Oh ah, ah ah ah, billa billa bing bang!

[@The_Penguin_City]

I LOVE ROBOCHIKEN ! is an underdog and reminds me.

[@joeandrews7329]

He won the extreme 2 tag team with Bulldog Breed. From Joe. X

[@Lightshock16]

Jeez the Mute Boy’s were so pissed. I would feel sorry for them but tbh you should really be prepared for things like that in Robotic Combat.

[@Groggyracer]

Or have a bot that can actually go in a straight line. 3 years and it loses drive before the fight starts.

[@cjsimpson]

Just a bunch of spoilt brats. Such a pathetic, childish response.

[@cr10001]

One thing to be mangled by a competitor who is the same weight as you. Quite different to be deliberately trashed for no reason whatever by a couple of heavyweights after you've been counted out. That's not combat, that's mindless vandalistic thuggery.

[@richard29415]

@@cjsimpson but it wasn't your robot that got smashed and it wasn't your time or money that was spent! Maybe when something like that happens to you, then you will react the same way.

[@robertstallard7836]

@@richard29415 They knew that the three years work and all the money was for one reason - a three minute session in the arena. Yet after all that time and all that money, all they could come up with was a machine that didn't work. They were failures. Failure has a price.

[@cr10001]

In the second heat, Robochicken was dead lucky that Tough as Nails chose to go after Disco Inferno first, and also that B.O.D. got counted out seconds before Tough as Nails put Robochicken in the pit. It would have been really ironic if B.O.D. had gone through, having basically done nothing.

[@joeandrews7329]

Bod was flipped by Robochicken, and was counted out before the chicken was pitted. From Joe. X

[@carribob1992]

Who'd thought that in a heat that had Panic Attack and Disco Inferno would end up having a heat final that: A: Didn't have either of those 2. And (Spoiler Alert) B: Had Robochicken in it.

[@joeandrews7329]

The 2 met in 1 of the extreme 2 annihilators!. From Joe. X

[@madcinder257]

Got rid of that gold shell, yellow Panic Attack is best Panic Attack

[@joeandrews7329]

Not really!. From Joe. X

[@madcinder257]

@@joeandrews7329 it's the one that won a series of Robot Wars, so I think that makes it pretty clear.

[@shoulderBirb]

i think the final was great. if robochicken had retained enough gas, they would have been able to flip nails out of the arena, but they had no chance of damaging them. 7/10

[@joeandrews7329]

Tough As Nails was invertible however. From Joe. X

[@deadeye_john]

17:57 Squirtle the Pokémon? Is that you?

[@259forever]

Tough as Nails

[@joeandrews7329]

Holland he came from. From Joe. X

[@joeandrews7329]

Tough as nails won the heat. From Joe. X

[@joeandrews7329]

Bulldog Breed edged him out in the semi-finals. From Joe. X

[@burzaburza2970]

18:20 Holy crap that was fast!

[@joeandrews7329]

Tough As Nails was awesome. From Joe. X

[@burzaburza2970]

Morg's team again have no idea what to do, but somehow they go through xD

[@joeandrews7329]

Robochicken beat him in round 2. From Joe. X

[@Frosty_tha_Snowman]

I can see why the Mute guys were upset.. lol of all the times for Killalot to put a bot into Matildas spinner, it was their featherweight bot.. which got completely ripped apart

[@stevedimmock930]

One thing I thought was better about the 2010s series was that there was less house robot filler once a battle was won, which meant they didn't needlessly destroy robots. Probably a sign of changing attitudes

[@Frosty_tha_Snowman]

@@stevedimmock930 yeah that's about the only thing though, unfortunately. The house robot design improvements were nice too, though. Instead of bringing Razer back to compete, they should have made it a house robot, in my opinion. Also should have made a hammer saw (like Sawblaze has) for Killalots arm instead of the drill. Although, that would be destructive... also, I think Matilda randomly decimating robots (namely Thor) with her spinner made up for the time they didn't spend destroying them at the end. But yeah, the times have changed. I've always liked and not liked the house robots at the same time.

[@burzaburza2970]

Sometimes i don't understand producers. Look at that heat, so many great robots and then you have heats like K, L or the on with Ming Seeded... there is like 6-7 better robots than Ming :S. Yeah yeach match two champions in just 2nd round

[@stevedimmock930]

The only truly awful bot in this episode was Spin Doctor really (which IMO is one of the worst bots in RW history, it never worked and had obvious design flaws). BOD didn't look good either but could have maybe gone further in an easier heat

[@Frosty_tha_Snowman]

Why does Craig Charles sound so unenthused in this episode? He sounds like he just got the news they won't be coming back next year :/

[@PelemusMcSoy]

His throat could be hurting. I've noticed he sometimes looked pained after shouting for the crowd.

[@joecurly3637]

I thought he was losing his own voice too, but this is what happens when the producers of the show wanted it to appeal more towards kids.

[@patrickrowe3650]

Robot chicken should have won!

[@therebel4332]

Tough As Nails was a decent bot on second viewing.. appreciate certain bots more now and Tough As Nails was one that didnt get that at the time. The Dutch were all decent this series esp Gravity as well.

[@joeandrews7329]

Both tough as nails and gravity were semi-finalists in series 7 of robot wars representing Holland. From Joe. X

[@-Gunnarsson-]

haha spindoctor wasnt designed to stand upright

[@johnn278]

Grabbing other robots and just putting them down the pit = BORING

[@BarryWallace-se8lz]

But effective.

[@johnn278]

@@BarryWallace-se8lz Yes effective but boring

[@BarryWallace-se8lz]

@@johnn278 That is your opinion, I find it very entertaining.

[@johnn278]

@@BarryWallace-se8lz It's Robot wars not robot rugby

[@tyreesetjjoyner1995]

2nd time panic attack went out in the heats. Series 6: Terrorhurtz. Series 7: Tough As Nails.

[@burzaburza2970]

Yeah but they had 2x opponents they should meet in semifinals, not just in the heats...

[@therebel4332]

@@burzaburza2970 Shows how competitive it got by this point. Bots were coming in unseeded that would have been winning the thing in series 3 and 4. This was the time to introduce limits and resrictions to keep it like this as it was fantastic competition. Instead they increased the limits and you end up with spinning domination in 8 bot competitions 😩.

[@burzaburza2970]

ROBOCHICKEN ROBBED!!!!!!!!

[@soultiger9119]

Here's an idea, for full body spinners why don't they take a look at some of the top tier attack type Beyblade and design a weapon around the body like say a rage Longinus robot

[@therebel4332]

I think spinners should have been limited or be limited. Its far to stupid nowadays because their unbeatable so the solution is to restrict them to 2000 rpm and not allow certain designs.

[@madcowlive1081]

need to get that reverse switch, to switch ur controls so u can drive normally. forgot who in battlebots did that.

[@cr10001]

Is JP actually watching the fights he's commenting about? Panic Attack's forks broke at 27:16 - which was crucial to the fight - and it took JP a full half minute to notice.

[@alexwilliams5819]

I thought him wondering if the forks were ok at 28:24 was worse tbh. Yeah because pushing them up was going to magically fix them wasn’t it?

[@Damaged7]

Have you seen the monitor he uses to watch the match? Its surprising he can see anything.

[@jamesmitchell8922]

So unfair of Tough as Nails to dump Disco Inferno in the pit so early.

[@TheLegoBattlebotsLab]

How’s that unfair?

[@jamesmitchell8922]

@@TheLegoBattlebotsLab Disco Inferno only just started to cause destruction to the other robots as Tough as Nails pressed the pit release far too early.

[@TheLegoBattlebotsLab]

@@jamesmitchell8922 Well I mean he can if he wants it’s his Strategy plus Tough As Nails is a respected team I can see what your saying though.

[@PelemusMcSoy]

Watching the first battle, a question dawned on me: What are the most effective axe robots? I can't recall seeing any do serious damage.

[@TheLaurelCrown]

Killerhurtz/Terrorhurtz, X-Terminator and Dominator 2 were the most competent

[@joeandrews7329]

​@@TheLaurelCrownterrorhurtz mashed the 2nd wars king in the series 6 heat I final. From Joe. X

[@The_Penguin_City]

Pobre máquinas, yo jamás entraría a ese concurso, no me parece justo que los robots "de casa" intervengan y destruyan a los participantes. Mala política de espectáculo, aunque me dá gusto cuando algún concursante destruye a los robots "de casa".

[@petertaylor4980]

Te gustaría más la versión estadounidense, Battlebots, pues no tiene robots de la casa.

[@Votesaxon07Reviews]

First televised appearance of Craig Danby.

[@andersonhill3484]

Stephen McCulla I thought Craig first appeared with Anto in Extreme 1?

[@benh8312]

32:54 LMAO

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

I think these events could do without the house robots. Allowing them to trash the competitors robots is senseless. There is nothing to gain from it.

[@therebel4332]

But it added to the need of being a good driver which is a skill,, stay away or drive the opposition into the cpzd. And they all knew what they were signing up for. What I liked about this show is a few of them didnt mind being the cannon fodder for entertainment purposes,, ie grannys revenge types. They brought he show back in the 2010s and there were only 8 or so competing bots, all of them serious competitors with boring personalities. Tornados team (esp the captain) were mardy but it added to the fact you loved it when they lost it was funny hearing him whinge lol.

[@alexeyfedorov9333]

Привет всем

[@burzaburza2970]

Jesus Bash GTFO 29:00

[@davidjatt3251]

you dont have to have "funny" thuimbnails every time it gets pretty tedious

[@NegaX99]

says you. i cant have enough of em