User:Prodworthy

Hi I'm Prodworthy. (My Father used to sometimes call me Prodworthy for some reason when I was younger, I believe the word/name is from an old film). I've finally decided to improve my page!

A Little Info About Me

 * I'm a student
 * I'm from England
 * I joined this Wiki on May 14th 2009
 * My favourite series of Robot Wars was Series Three, as it was the first series I ever saw.
 * Some of my hobbies are making movies, playing the keyboard, playing Snooker, Pool and Darts, and of course, watching Robot Wars! (Both series of Extreme are on Dave at the moment).

How I Got Into Robot Wars
Way back when, I'm not sure when, I was off sick from school one day when my father phoned me from work about a programme he thought I might like. "There's a programme on, on one of the Discovery channels. It's about robots fighting eachother". I found the programme and I was instantly hooked. It was a repeat of Robot Wars: The Third Wars. So I watched the rest of the series and loved it.

But then after that I didn't really see that much of Robot Wars, much to my disappointment. But in the meantime I collected some of the pullbacks and my father and I made an arena and one or two others to go with them. One thing that I always remember was one day when I was at a local shop, there was one solitary Robot Wars Pullback on the the shelf, Firestorm. I hadn't got Firestorm, but I hadn't got any money with me either. Of course when I went back armed with money a few days later it wasn't there. I got all of the House Robots but I never did get some of the best competitors Chaos 2, Hypno-Disk, Wheely Big Cheese, Pussycat etc. I had to make them myself out of wood or Lego, grr! I also purchased the Ultimate Warrior Collection DVDs, and later Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction for Playstation 2 and Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction for PC.

I remember at around this time I attended a Roaming Robots event at Altrincham (In the North West), where I remember seeing Crushtacean and other robots. I also clearly remember purchasing a minature, radio-controlled Mighty Mouse, and narrowly missing out on winning a radio-controlled Growler. There was a competition at the end of the show, and they would award prizes to the people who correctly answered the questions. There was a question, "What powers the flippers on Robot Wars". I put my hand up, and they asked me, I simply said "gas", but they wanted something more specific. The worst thing was the fact that I knew it was CO2, what a fool I was!

However, later I was very excited to hear that there was going to be a new series of Robot Wars on Channel Five, it would be the first series that I had watched that wasn't a repeat. I managed to watch most of Series 7, despite it being on at strange times. I remember after the series thinking "I can't wait untill the next series of Robot Wars is on", but of course it never came. About a year later I realised that it wasn't going to be on again, I was devastated. After that still I kept up watching any repeats that were occasionally on, such as Series 4 on Bravo 2.

Nearly a couple of years ago now, (that long ago?!) I stumbled across this Wiki when I was finding out info on the series I had missed. I made a few edits before signing up, and I'm definately glad I did as it is a great community here and it is brilliant to see that there are other people who still love this classic programmme!

Robots I like
The House Robots always were and still are my favourite robots in Robot Wars. Sir Killalot was always my firm favourite. However, in the past couple of years I began to like the other House Robots a lot more. My opinions on the House Robots;

Sir Killalot- Currently my favourite House Robot. Mainly because he looks so cool and I always liked his name and the way he picked up robots and spun them around. Personally I think he looked best in Series 3 as the rear exoskeleton looked best then. Although he didn't have the nicer, bigger claw of course.
 * Killalot_weld-dor_king_buxton.JPG

Matilda- I always maintained, and still do maintain that Matilda looked best in her pre Extreme 1 incarnation. Mainly because, (I think) the chainsaw looked nicer than the flywheel at the back. Hey, the chainsaw looked like a tail! But of course the flywheel was much more destructive and effective.
 * Demolisher_SAT'arn_matilda.JPG

I liked the introduction of Mr. Psycho and Growler, but not Cassius Chrome. He would have been a very good competitor but not a House Robot. I think they were best off with the eight House Robots they already had.
 * PsychoandGrowler.jpg

I wouldn't really say I have a favourite competitor robot but these are some that I like;

Chaos 2- An unusual but nice design. It seemed to be plagued with problems in later series. The team also seemed like a nice bunch.
 * Chaos2.jpg

Personally I think Hypno-Disk was the best robot not to win the title. They deserved to. As I nearly always do think with robots Hypno-Disk looked best in series three. It looked lower, and I think better without the spikes on top. Again, the team seemed like nice people.
 * Hypno-Disc.JPG

A very clever robot, very effective at pirching robots on top of himself and dimping them in the Pit. A great driver in the form of Kim Davies. I think that Panic Attack looked best in series five. The team again seemed like nice people.
 * PanicAttack.jpg

Great looking and a powerful flipper. Unfortunate that it never really did that well and that he didn't return in later wars. I used to play as him a lot in Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction.
 * Wheelybigcheese.JPG

A great design, and another powerful flipper. Personally I think it looked best in series four. Too bad they had to have the holes in the pincers though.
 * Thermidor2.jpg

I know that Crasha Gnasha didn't do very well but it was a great design. They should have entered in another series. I even made a Lego bot based on Crasha Gnasha, and it turned out very well. It had side self-righting fins and the head could be used to self-right it if it fell on it's back.
 * Crasha_gnasha.jpg

Robots I'm Not Sure About
Here are some robots I'm not sure about. I don't hate them by any means, I just don't like them as much as others.

Typhoon- I know that it was well designed and that it won The Seventh Wars. But I didn't like the fact that they entered about four seperate robots that all looked essentially the same. That's just showing off.
 * Typhoon_cadet.JPG

Tornado- Another controversial one. I don't hate Tornado, it is ok. In fact I quite liked it but the thing that put me off it a bit was the anti-Razer frame thing. I personally think that it was cheating, and the fact that it couldn't fit in the Pit with the frame on.
 * Tornadowithblade.PNG

What Am I Up To
I will hopefully, if I remember, update here as to what I am up to on the Wiki. I haven't made many edits since I first signed up, but hopefully I should be able to find some time this year.


 * 12th January 2011- Uploading images and making articles for the fictional robots in Robot Wars Extreme Destruction.
 * 13th January 2011- Starting work on a new line of articles about how real-life competitors (and House Robots) appeared in the various Robot Wars games.