(hurriedly looking around junkyard for materials to bodge up a balls shield, preferably with a lot of welding)
We taped a whole bunch of JYW a few weeks ago when they had the marathon, and taped another three eps last night. I love that show 
Hahaha! My favorite part last night was when Bowser was welding his lame-ass BACKWARDS leaf-spring football thrower (why the hell didn’t anyone use a ballista/catapult??!!), the narrator says, “Here we see Bowsah, God of Welding” BWahahaha! I laughed my ass off. Man, I never woulda believed they could drive that van across those pipes. I thought for sure they were going into the drink.
All three episodes were great. I wouldn’t mind getting on the show on bodging some of my own creations up…
Actually, after watching last night’s shows, I think I’ll have to take the boys to the junkyard and make a go cart.
How long did this run Tuesday? I was out and set my VCR for 1/2 hour, but the show appears to have still been running…hope they replay Sat this season too.
AAAHHH!!! We just watched that episode on tape, but our tape ran out just as they were crossing the water on the way back!!! Who won? We’re guessing the guys in the van, but we don’t know for sure 
They ran 3 one-hour episodes back to back on Tuesday. Next week, they’ll have 2, starting at 9.
The Brothers in Arms (the Army guys, with the sergeant telling the colonel and 2 majors what to do) won the bridging-machine competition - they got the truck back across the pipes with only a little worry about their alignment being off. The Mothers of Invention seemed to have the better concept, but lost because the ground was soft and their bicycle wheels dug in. Pluse, they had to help dear old Mum across the ladder.
Bowser wasn’t entirely wrong about the leaf springs on the rugby-ball launcher; the Filth really had trouble getting any draw at all. He should have listened to his assigned expert and understood that a long, smooth acceleration gets to a higher speed than a short, sharp one for a given amount of energy.
Amazing coincidence, finding that compressor, huh?
Check out http://www.the-nerds.org for info on the token US team, and lots of good links.
About as much of a coincidence as the team that built the blimp just happening across acres of mylar in the trunk of a car.
Along with the “coincidence” of the team finding the air compressor. They actually showed Robert Llewyn, the host (I’m sure I misspelled his name) showing one of the team’s some pipe for their windmill. So they probably do help them out a bit anyway.
ROBOTWARS! ROBOTWARS! ROBOTWARS!
Much better in every way. Battlebots is a poor man’s/woman’s brainless substitute.
Okay, I’ll admit I watch–but with the sound off!!
Then maybe you can explain how KillerHurtz could win Robot Wars, but get it’s Limey aluminium bum kicked on BattleBots?
When/where is this on in the US?
Only via the magic of Web streaming video so far.
Nay, RobotWars is also on the local pbs affiliate here in Austin TX. I’ve also seen it in Houston, and I bet it shows elsewhere too.
I wonder if there will ever be any bot that isn’t a modified ram that’ll actually win a match. I’m getting tired of the simple ram bot types.
Yeah, that snake was damn cool, too bad it sucked on the field.
And the Buddy one, Jesus H Christ, it must be one of the lamest bots ever.
Yeah, PBS is the place for RobotWars–hosted, by the way, by the guy from Red Dwarf–character name (Dave?) and real name (Craig?) just went completely out of my head while I was typing. I need a Red Dwarf fix! Anyway, RobotWars just wrapped up the season in Seattle, I hope they bring it back, I’m giving a special year-end contribution with a thanks for showing it–every bit of support helps.
RobotWars has a lot less talk and hype, and more battles where things actually happen. Plus, they have obstacle course type rounds, so the design and driving factors into the win more than brute force–although brute force is still a force to be reckoned with–parts of the robots do fly off with satisfying regularity. Besides hazards like the killers saws, RobotWars has ‘house robots’ who attack either contestant who gets too close to them, or that the contestants have to best to move on to the next round. But the final round is contestant against contestant, with only minor participation from the house robots.