Show notes
- Follow up
- Series 10 reflections
- Whimsy
- Format
- Ryan and Sam make each other sound like dysfunctional hermits
- Editing
- Ratings
- No, not those ratings…
- International specials
- COMPETITOR SPOILERS! Skip to 12 mins to avoid!
- The last set of ‘specials’ and why they sucked
- Series 10 reflections
- LEGO Robot Wars
- An episode. There are many. Watch them. All of them
- Remote controlled LEGO used right
- Almost every weapon type
- Homemade arena
- Higher production values than Robot Wars: Grand Champions
- Remote controlled LEGO used right
- Ryan & Sam’s childhood robot building safari
- Sam wins…with parental help
- LEGO Mindstorms
- Programming a sentry gun
- Editorial note: that’s not proper LEGO and you know it
- Learning to code?
- LEGO Mindstorms’ programming interface
- Scratch
- For context, Sam is a software developer. WHO KNEW?
- Programming a sentry gun
- Creating mechanisms
- Rack and Pinion steering
- Differentials - they’re magic
- ‘Walkers’
- LEGO Mindstorms
- Ryan is a LEGO hipster
- 10 years of building and destroying Robot Wars robots
- Elasticate ALL OF THE MECHANISMS
- 10 years of building and destroying Robot Wars robots
- Meccano
- Sam’s Meccano
finger amputatorbar spinner - Plastic, for safety
- Sam’s Meccano
- Building LEGO from kits
- Saturn V kit
- 1m of phallic, American pride to “display and role-play”
- Why not just buy bricks?
- Big brand crossovers, because LEGO isn’t famous or anything
- LEGO models, or models made of LEGO?
- Saturn V kit
- K’Nex
- Rubbish, but good
- Simple and effective, but fiddly
- Function over form
- An 8 minute argument about whether aesthetics are an engineer’s concern
- Sam wins…with parental help
- An episode. There are many. Watch them. All of them
- Welcome to Tangentsville
- Minorest Star Wars spoilers ever
- The Spinnerproof origins story
- Star Wars ‘Machette’ viewing order
- ‘Correct’ Robot Wars viewing order?
- Mis-remembering Tornado
- Tornado did nothing wrong
- Inquisitor - vanquisher of the mighty Razer
- Ryan tries to remember who won the First World Championships having only started talking about the World Championships as part of a conversation about Razer
- Obsolete audio format.PCX
- The morals of taking LEGO back from a child
- Sam is literally James Bond
- Crushed childhood dreams of entering Robot Wars
- Ryan considers ‘post the year 2000’ to be near the end of Robot Wars
- Scrapheap Challenge
