Rolling Thunder 2

Rolling Thunder 2 was an American box shaped super heavyweight robot that failed to appear for the Third Wars Super heavyweight side competition.

Rolling Thunder 2 was set to make an appearance in the Third Wars, along with other super heavyweights, to compete in the side Super heavyweight competition. However, after More Panda Monium had injured a crew member the event was cancelled causing all the super heavyweight robots to fail qualifications.

Rolling Thunder 2 armour was a mixture of 9.5mm and 5mm Lexan with Aluminium Diamond plate top cover. It was also an invertible machine as it was mainly based on King Buxton. The team claimed it was to make the robot more reliable than most of the machines that competed in the previous Wars. "The design was the result of extensive study of the televised series I and II robot wars shows and a study of what other competitors were thinking and doing on the many web sites on the net. We concluded that we should concentrate on reliability, ease of control and power rather than on a super weapon system. It seemed that few robots were eliminated by being destroyed by their opponents but the vast majority because they either broke down, were hard to control or had insufficient power to resist being pushed about into the house robots or down a pit."

- The Team's website

Series Record

 * Series 1-2: Did not enter
 * Series 3: Failed to qualify for the Superheavyweight competition
 * Series 4-2016: Did not enter

External Link

 * http://web.archive.org/web/20010804232936/http://free.prohosting.com/~rolling/index.html