Terror-Bull (Series 8)

For the competitor in Series 4 and 6, see Terror-Bull

Terror-Bull is a heavyweight robot owned by Team Ballistix, which attempted to enter Series 8-9 of Robot Wars. The robot started life as Leveller 2.

Design
The original design of Terror-Bull was a wedge-shaped robot with a rear-hinged flipper, which also utilised a protective face and spikes. The flipper was powerful, and used bungee cords for retraction, while the robot itself ran on a two-wheel drive. Visually, the robot resembles a bull. Away from its guise as Terror-Bull, the robot is traditionally known as Leveller 2 Mk4.5, which was a seasoned competitor on the live circuit.

Robot Wars Live Events
For information on Terror-Bull’s history on the live circuit as Leveller 2, see the Leveller 2 article.

Aside from Leveller 2, Team Ballistix also competed with a brand-new flipper known as Schu-Bot, resembling Scraptosaur, which remains active today. Schu-Bot is named after Shubert’s Unfinished Symphony, due to the robot's unfinished state. At the Colchester event in 2016, Schu-Bot fell to robots such as Eruption and TR2, but collected a victory over Iron Heart 88.

Outside Robot Wars
"It’s gonna be tremendous"

- James Davies

The third robot from Team Ballistix alongside Terror-Bull and Schu-Bot is Donald Thump, which was publicly revealed through a comedy video released on the Team Ballistix Facebook page, where James Davies dressed up as Donald Trump, and utilised every well-known Trump quote while introducing the robot.

Donald Thump sports a wide, plough-shaped design, with five flat sides. It features a small front wedge, leading into the 16kg vertical spinning bar, driven by a 1kg belt pulley, allowing the weapon to reach speeds of 145mph. The robot is armed in HARDOX, weighing 102kg in total. The robot and its weapon are painted gold, in homage to the U.S. President, Donald Trump, and is decorated with Trump’s eyes, eyebrows, a comedy mouth, and blonde hair made from straw. "It’s a solid gold bar. I use gold, because gold is the hardest metal in the world, guaranteed, okay, guaranteed! Some people think it’s small, but if they say the bar is small, then something else must be small, okay, I guarantee you folks, it’s not an issue!"

- James Davies on Donald Thump’s weapon

Donald Thump made its combat debut at the Extreme Robots event in Manchester, in April 2017. The team intended to run their spinning bar at 125mph, but after the roof of the arena was deemed to be unsafe, Donald Thump could only compete without the use of its weapon. In its first fight, electrical issues caused it to fall to Iron-Awe 5 and the eventual winner of the battle Suspension. Donald Thump then lost its second fight to Big Nipper due to a faulty connector, before battling HIGH-5 and Thor in its final battle. After the same connector led to Donald Thump’s immobilisation, James Davies invited Jason Marston to land repeated axe blows onto his robot, which Donald Thump withstood reasonably well.