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Re: robotica on TLC
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 7 Apr 2001 00:31:44 GMT
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> In lugnet.robotics, Dean Hystad writes:
> > > I'm also a HUGE fan of that other British series "Scrapheap" (known as
> > > "Junkyard Wars" here in the USA - because...em...well)...a bunch of guys
> > > are dumped in the middle of a massive junkyard with the task of building
> > > some maniac machine in 8 hours from only the scrap laying around them.
> > > Two teams do this - and at the end the contraptions they build compete
> > > in some way.
My 6 year-old daughter and I enjoy a nice big bowl of popcorn each Monday
night while we watch Junkyard Wars.
I have heard that Junkyard Wars will be moving to California. Has anyone
else heard that rumor. Also, I notice that they are looking for ideas.
Maybe we should all visit the web site and suggest that we would like to see
an autonomous robot that does "blank." Then we could see if TLC could
actually have someone create a real robot for display on TV. Think they
could seed the junkyard with Mindstorm parts?
Steven
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 | | Re: Junkyard Wars (Was Re: robotica on TLC)
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| (...) They already showed a handful of episodes with all-American teams - although it wasn't entirely clear where they'd done the filming. It *looked* like they might have flown everyone to UK to save the cost of rebuilding the set. (...) Dunno - (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: robotica on TLC
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| (...) I'm also a big fan of Junkyard Wars, they give my Rock Raiders figs someone to emulate. I think most of the seeding is done for safety reasons; I wouldn't want to be anywhere near someone trying to make their own rocket fuels/motors. Also, in (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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