Meggamouse

Meggamouse is a robot which competed in Series 9 of Robot Wars. Although it was entered by a team of newcomers to the show, the robot was built by Trevor Wright, who still owns the robot. Wright designed the robot to be the successor to Series 7 Heat Finalist Mighty Mouse.

Design
Like its predecessor Mighty Mouse, Meggamouse is built for speed, running on a two-wheel drive. It is one of the smallest robots in the series, with its longest side only measuring 80cm. The robot’s appearance takes on the head of a mouse, including a nose on its weapon, a full-pressure flipper. The flipper, which retracts using bungee cords and can lift 300kg, functions as the robot’s self-righting mechanism, although Meggamouse generally rolls over when flipped. Its high speed comes at the cost of being comparatively lightweight at 96kg individually, and its wheels are exposed at the sides.

Meggamouse is also accompanied by an orange minibot called Charles, which is wedge-shaped in design, and intends to trap other robots for Meggamouse to then attack, or to serve as a distraction. It weighs 9kg.

Series 9
Meggamouse will compete in Episode 5.

Results

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Series Record
NOTE: This series record incorporates the record of builder Trevor Wright, as Meggamouse’s televised team were newcomers to Robot Wars

Robot Wars Live Events
Meggamouse competed in the first live event of the new Robot Wars at Barnsley in February 2013. Meggamouse has been a regular competitor at live events since, albeit with limited success outside of Tag Team matches.

Meggamouse participated in the Robot Wars World Championship 2015 in Colchester, where it fought Iron-Awe 7, Nuts, and Weird mAlice. Meggamouse started well, repeatedly flipping Nuts while Iron-Awe 7 threw Weird mAlice out of the arena, but unfortunately, Meggamouse drove into the pit and eliminated itself in the first round.

Meggamouse made its 2016 debut at the first show in Manchester, where it outlasted Kill-E-Crank-E, which pitted itself, but Meggamouse was pitted by Crushtacean after a close match. At the Guildford event in June, Meggamouse achieved its personal best, placing third at the event, which was won by Ripper. Along the way, Meggamouse defeated Beast, threw Stinger out of the arena, and won against Behemoth in the third-place play-off to earn this title.

Outside Robot Wars
In 2012, Meggamouse placed fourth overall in the Roaming Robots Winter Tour, which was won overall by Ripper.

Away from the Robot Wars live events, Meggamouse also competes at Robots Live! events. In the UK Championship in 2016, Meggamouse threw Ka-Pow! out of the arena to win its first-round battle.