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- Jun 29, 2021
Guys we could revive Battlebots in a very simple way, give the bots guns.
BattleBots - IT'S ROBOT FIGHTING TIME (probably spoilers)
- Thread starter Super Collie
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- Jul 30, 2021
Yeah, basically this. They've been stating that they're planning on taping the next season some time in the next 6-8 months for two years now. The goal posts just keep getting moved.
It's strange that they had this whole announcement about Destruct-A-Thon ending... and then less than a month later they turn around and say "actually, ourbad, Destruct-A-Thon is still happening and we're doing the FaceOffs events next month as planned". Was that a ploy for attention or something? Like, claim the show is coming to an end and then turning around with a SIKE and saying it's still running? What happens in the very likely scenario where people only see the first announcement and just assume it's over for good?
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- May 10, 2020
Today I was made aware of a collab between Mark Rober and Dude Perfect(two huge youtube channels). And I found out about it cause Ray Billings uploaded a video about it, since they were doing a robot battle and needed someone to provide them with bots as well as expertise in robot fighting(particularly the safety).
Verdict: it fucking sucked, cause it was scripted and aimed at kiddie demographic. The arena looked too flimsy, but if what Ray says is true, it was just more fakery and all the "dangerous" parts(polycabonate cracking, robot getting flung onto the roof of Mark's booth, etc.) were staged and must've been filmed separately.
Dude Perfect ended up using two of Ray's bots: Stink Eye and Brimstone, that they never called by their names, and hilariously enough, referred to Brimstone, which was brand new, as "decommissioned battlebot". And even though Mark would've been perfectly capable of building a bot of his own, he ended up using Blip that was designed and built by the same guys that made Tantrum. In the video he explains how the flipping mechanism works as if he was the one that designed it, although he does give credit in the description.
So yeah... redditors on the Battlebots sub hated it, but the target demographic seems to have loved it.
Link to reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots...ineer_mark_rober_vs_dude_perfect_feat_blip_5/
Verdict: it fucking sucked, cause it was scripted and aimed at kiddie demographic. The arena looked too flimsy, but if what Ray says is true, it was just more fakery and all the "dangerous" parts(polycabonate cracking, robot getting flung onto the roof of Mark's booth, etc.) were staged and must've been filmed separately.
Dude Perfect ended up using two of Ray's bots: Stink Eye and Brimstone, that they never called by their names, and hilariously enough, referred to Brimstone, which was brand new, as "decommissioned battlebot". And even though Mark would've been perfectly capable of building a bot of his own, he ended up using Blip that was designed and built by the same guys that made Tantrum. In the video he explains how the flipping mechanism works as if he was the one that designed it, although he does give credit in the description.
So yeah... redditors on the Battlebots sub hated it, but the target demographic seems to have loved it.
Link to reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots...ineer_mark_rober_vs_dude_perfect_feat_blip_5/