Online Petition to bring back robot wars

[Dalek_team]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

A Question : Will spinning weapons be banned?

[mattsdragons]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

Hell no!

[harry hills]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

that would be asuming this petition sucsseds where many others have failed

[mattsdragons]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

very true, its worth a shot though

[jonny]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

even if it is successful the possibility of spinners will depend on what budget the show is given for the arena

[death robotics]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

Then we'll blow stuff up for materials

[mattsdragons]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

bank doors?

[TEAM ENIGMA]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

The original set was only valued at £11,000, although personally I think it would have cost a lot more.

[death robotics]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

bank doors?

gonna need ALOT! of explosives then

[blazerbotics]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

The original arena cost about a 1/3 of a Million pounds to build, so i believe.

[TEAM ENIGMA]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

ok, I remember reading that after it was scraped it was only valued at £11,000, but I have to agree with you, it would have cost a lot more.

[Bodge Job]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

hmmm thats a LOT of money, maybe we should just blackmail a billionair....

[blazerbotics]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

according to a high court judge it was only worth £250!

[psychostorm]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

according to a high court judge it was only worth £250!

£250. What did the scrap merchant do - charge heavily for plastic disposal?
I still say that case should have been appealed. I appreciate that was the last one but still...

Anyway, I've managed to get a peek at BBC comissioning & unless the new series can pull out something special, it won't get made.

If I recall correctly, Ed stated each episode (7th wars) cost 1/2 million pounds.

The BBC, not dependent on ever decreasing advertising revenues, only pays £285K per hour of entertainment footage prime time.
Robot Wars episodes are 45 minutes long.

Getting it back on TV is nice but in the long term, it's a loss leader. Robot Wars needs a more lucrative income stream. Online video may be one such avenue.

[mattsdragons]

Re: Online Petition to bring back robot wars

Tbh, even if it was professional online videos, just some way of getting back properly to the public that can't get to shows