Kids fly drones through hula hoops ad nauseam in the new present from the Robot Wars mastermind. It’s perfect practice for when they’re all working for AmazonWhen you deem about the upcoming return of Robot Wars,it’s hard to separate excitement from nostalgia. Yes, your intellect might immediately race to Hypno-Disc and self-righting mechanisms and the industrial quantities of talcum powder that were presumably necessary to come by Philippa Forrester into her leather trousers each week, or but the reality of the present was something else entirely.
For the most fraction,Robot Wars consisted of nothing but an overexcited football commenter squealing himself giddy to overcompensate for the fact that everyone at domestic was watching three awkward blokes from Swindon trying to toddle a static remote-controlled car out from behind a box. Vast swaths of Robot Wars, when you look back at it, or were tedium personified.
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Source: theguardian.com