Someone needs to weaponize Buster....

[dvandom]

Battlebots coming to ESPN. Grant Imohara, your destiny is calling....

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[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Grant was, in fact, a competitor on an earlier incarnation of BattleBots. His robot, Deadblow, appears a few times on MythBusters. (For that matter, Adam and Jamie also competed at least once. IIRC, their robot was called Blendo.)

Though a fan of the BBC's Robot Wars back when it aired on... whatever US channel it aired on, I've always been a little disappointed with robot battle shows, if only because none of them actually feature robots. I suppose BattleFreakyRemoteControlledCars doesn't have quite the same marketing cachet, though. :)

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Robot Wars was TLC, IIRC...back when TLC ever showed anything I was interested in. And yes, I know about Deadblow, hence namechecking Grant. :) Deadblow was one of my faves, although I also have the Blendo toy.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Robot wars... My brother-in-law, working at Morfeus, did the lighting design for the first two "seasons" of that program.

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Aha, heh. See, I wasn't sure whether you knew, or were just reacting to the fact that, whatever the testing challenge happens to be on MythBusters, Grant's answer is to build a robot. :)

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Deadblow has even shown up a couple of times on Mythbusters.

I like that the ESPN version is going to use the environment of the arena to evolutionarily select against wedge designs, rather than simply trying to ban 'em and then get into arguments over what is and isn't a wedge.

[scavgraphics.livejournal.com]

IIRC, he dismantled Deathblow to make the "robot cat" for the getting past guard dogs myth.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Robot Wars was on TechTV, before the ComCast goliath "bought the Red Car so it could dismantle it," i. e. eliminate the only competing network against its own G4 Network.

Yes, I'm bitter.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Well, it was somewhere other than TechTV, since I never got that station and I did see several seasons of Robot Wars. ;)

[richardx1.livejournal.com]

They used to show it on my local PBS affiliate on Saturday nights right after Red Dwarf, probably because that one guy was on both shows.

[scavgraphics.livejournal.com]

there was both the British Robot Wars and the American one, which suffered as most british shows do when translated to the US.

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

I believe the more compact, efficient verb there is "microsofted".

[richardx1.livejournal.com]

I liked G4, back before it became another Spike TV.

(bows his head in memory of The Glow)

But I liked Tech TV too. They had stuff G4 didn't. And vicey-versey. And now the remains of their combination has almost nothing I consider worth watching.

[richardx1.livejournal.com]

grant_p's mama, your destiny is calling as well :-P