User:SpaceManiac888/Lists

Being a Robot Wars fan for most of my life, it is probably natural to have thoughts and opinions about the show. Hence, I have created a subpage to detail my top lists and my detailed thoughts about one of my favourite TV shows of all time.

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This section is dedicated to talking about Robot Wars in general, rather than a top list of anything.

TX-108 vs Hypno-Disc
This Wild Card Warrior battle has been subject to a lot of controversy amongst this wiki, especially when it was time to do Series 5 Audited on the forums. You see, it appears that the main reason TX-108 was voted in (as well as being voted to beat Immortalis) was because it defeated Hypno-Disc. Although this is true, it was not offically a clean win, as Hypno-Disc suffered a malfunction which was not caused by its opponent. Overall, I'm afraid that in my opinion, TX-108 cannot be voted to win a battle in The Arena on the sole reason that it "beat" Hypno-Disc. That's not to say people will however; TX-108 is quite underrated in my opinion and can defeat decent robots.

Now I am sure that if you are a casual fan reading this, you may be wondering why you have never heard of this battle until now. Well the battle did happen, but it was never aired on television. It appeared that everyone, from the Hypno-Disc team, to Mentorn, to possibly the audience, were unhappy with this fluke and wanted a rematch. Because TX-108 could not be repaired in time, a rematch never occured. The producers concluded that the battle was too brief (at only thirty seconds), too boring and too similar to another Hypno-Disc battle (vs Nasty Warrior), for it to be shown on television. My view however, is that Hypno-Disc needed to look strong in order to sell additonal merchandise, tickets and TV ratings (after all, it, Chaos 2 and Razer were the three biggest draws at this point). Airing losses to robots like TX-108 would cost the BBC tons of money and that is probably why they would rather air the entire horrible Plunderbird 5 vs Mega Morg battle instead. To be honest, I think this was a good decision.

For both Robot Wars and Lost Media fans, this battle remains as one of Robot Wars' most coverted pieces (along with the unaired MTV Pilot). I no doubt would like to see this battle, no matter how bad it is. It does look unlikely that it will be found however, but stranger things have happened.