Frightmare

"We looked at a lot of other machines both from the UK and America and like Hypno-disc, Nightmare, Mauler to name but a few. These machines had a wonderful weapon that could smash the hell out of most other machines but they all had various weaknesses and obviously there was no point in copying one of those directly. So we decided to use a spinning weapon since these were the most dramatic and had the most potential for total carnage."

- The team on Frightmare's design

Frightmare was a robot, built by a family team, that failed to qualify for both the Fifth Wars and the Sixth Wars.

The Frightmare team had originally created Frightmare MK 1 which fought in the Fifth wars qualifier. It was up against Armadrillo where its weapon failed to work, however, Armadrillo brokedown during the fight resulting in Frightmare winning. Two days later they were told that they failed to qualify. "Oh dear, got the dreaded call today. We have not been chosen for the show. We are OUT. I have to say that judging a robot by one 4 minute bout is not going to show best performance I think it much fairer to have a knockout qualifying tournament but that's life I suppose"

- Frightmare team upon failing qualification

Two more days later, the team decided to get working on Frightmare Mk2. This time the design was going to be similar to the design of Milly-Ann Bug where there would be two bodies attached to each other. During the finishing touches of making Frightmare Mk 2 the team attempted to use the scap parts from Frightmare Mk 1 to make a second robot called Blade. Frightmare Mk 2 and Blade failed qualification for the Sixth Wars under unknown circumstances.