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ACTIVATE! reviews the unique world of classic UK television series Robot Wars. Hear about the wars from the perspective of Rob E. Harmlessly and Benji 'also the Hitman' who grew up tainting their minds with the scraps of once-functioning machines.
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For the first time ever we enter a whole new world. The debut of Activate! Podcast reviewing BattleBots has finally arrived.Did we love it? Did we hate it? Did we spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to view it from the UK? The answer to all those questions can be found in the episode and it is 'maybe'.…
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For the first time ever we bring you a double feature to Activate! We discuss the cancellation of Robot Wars with YOU, the public, through the magic of Twitter. Do we hate the BBC for axing the wars? No.. but they are dead to us. Just in case the subject matter was getting too depressing, we review a classic episode in Series 2 Heat F. Unfortunatel…
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Three long months after it finished airing - we're finally looking back at the whole of series 10 with a much more simplified Hall of Fame and awards system because nobody really cared about 90% of the awards we were giving out before anyway... To make up the time we've now introduced a Q&A section to the series overview episodes and boy have we go…
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Whoever wins... we lose... our minds at how awesome these bots are! The final heat for Season X has some heavy hitters (and not so heavy, gentle nudgers)going head to head in the last chance to make it to the grand final for the honour of being annihilated by Carbide!Por Activate! The Robot Wars Podcast
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The first episode of Season X has arrived and rewarded our patience with total mayhem. Sleeping giant Behemoth has risen to the occasion and given us one of the greatest battles of their entire roboteering career and one of the most intense flipper vs flipper matches of all time. A whole new format along with polished presentation makes this one of…
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Beware! A presence haunts the arena this night and takes possession of numerous bots, well... mainly Shunt, and does a pretty Shunt job of it too. Featuring the return of Killertron (now in offensively fluorescent orange) and the very first King of the Castle event (aka Sumo in hard mode).Por Activate! The Robot Wars Podcast
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The episode the world has been waiting for. Yes, Elvis has returned. The King is back... again... and he lifts (50kg). How will the mighty Elvis perform against the other big returnee: The Bodyhammer. The highly-upgraded runner up has a new, handle-less, pointed hammer working in conjunction with a deadly flat-piece-of-steel-shaped-into-a-disk-with…
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How does series two/nine/2017(pt.1) stack up? Already over for another (half) year, it's time to induct some high-performing machines into the prestigious Activate! Hall of Flame. Also featuring the Hall of Fame ceremony and other fantastically named awards, such as 'Most Fun'. Because we're creative.…
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Now offering a whopping 15 episode season, Robot Wars came back for another series bigger and better than before (not that that's a difficult task to begin with). Rob and Benji take a look at the first heat with the debuting Sir Killalot and the all new totally-not-fixed-100%-fair-competition system made specially for this new series!…
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Robot Wars 2016, the big return... is no longer a part of the present or future. It's over, it's done, war is over (for a year). Rob and Benji take a look at the series as a whole and give out a number of awards, including the coveted John Cena Never Give Up Award all the bots were brutally fighting for this year!…
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The penultimate episode of the new series has arrived and we now discover who our finalists are (with the exception of the Thor. Sorry, I meant 'wildcard' ;) ;) ). Possibly the most controversial episode of the series so far, Rob and Benji try to make sense of the insanity before them. Also Pulsar is scary sound. Big loud scary sound.…
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Finally we can be thankful that the production team installed a camera onto the ISS, with all the robots finding their way into orbit this episode. Known as 'Heat D for Death', half of the robots this episode claim to have some of the most powerful bot-weapons in the world... let's see how they do.Por Activate! The Robot Wars Podcast
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Also known as the episode where robots played football that one time and it wasn't very good. Featuring a robot with no weapons at all, numerous robots that needn't have bothered with weapons in the first place, and a robot that nearly explodes when nervous, which happens to be a lot.Por Activate! The Robot Wars Podcast
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The second set of robots go head to head in one of the more feel-good episodes of the series. Featuring robots from Cambridge University's fierce machine Mortis, to the only lightly-prodding weapon featured so far on the most definitely not remotely mighty Leighbot. Who can come out on top?!Por Activate! The Robot Wars Podcast
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