A large contingent of Robot Wars US regulars sympathized with Thorpe, and refused to have any more dealings with Robot Wars, leading to the 19 Robot Wars US events being cancelled. In 1997, legal disputes between Thorpe and his principle sponsor Profile Records reached critical mass, resulting in Profile licensing Robot Wars to the BBC in the United Kingdom without Thorpe on board. The brainchild of Lucasfilms toy designer Marc Thorpe, Robot Wars attracted builders from all over the United States, and as far away as France, to build fighting robots and battle them in a San Francisco warehouse. The competition is set to be held from March 31st - April 9th 2018 with the episodes airing May 10th on Discovery and reruns airing on Science.īattleBots stemmed from the original robot combat franchise Robot Wars. In February of 2018 discovery channel officially renewed battlebots for a third season. On July 5, 2017, the Science Channel picked up the re-run rights for the ABC Battlebots episodes which started on July 12, 2017. The logo used for ABC's advertisements of the show. The season aired on ABC during the summer of that year and was renewed for a second season that ran for 10 episodes.
The latter five competitions were aired on Comedy Central, and colloquially referred to as "Season 1.0" through "5.0." Prior to that were two unaired competitions, the first held in Long Beach, which was recorded for the "BattleBots Beginnings" VHS tape/DVD, and the second held in Las Vegas and available on Pay-Per-View, but later on this competition was available on DVD as well.īattleBots was revived in 2015 as a 6-episode television series, and it was filmed in San Francisco on a tight schedule. The logo used for the ABC Reboot TV series.īattleBots was an American competition show that ran from 1999 to 2002. The franchise's original logo used in most televised airings of the show before the reboot.
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