Robot Wars Lightning - First Single Fight - Higher Quality

Heat D of the 7th (final) Wars. Filmed Aug 28th 2003. First aired Nov 23rd 2003. We (Lightning) were in with the heat seed 13 Black, the 7th seed I think. Also with us were The Alien and Herbinator. Lightning introduced the little alien figures made by make-up artist Nigel Booth. If the show had continued, plan was to make these animatronic for next year. The alien was our mascot. Watch as one of the robots is immobilised on the side wall in 11 seconds. By the end only one robot has not been stopped. But two go through. Which two? MCPS 5965. IAC 14136. www.calvertfilm.fsnet.co.uk Content owner Sunset & Vine.

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[mattsdragons]

Brilliant battle, would be great to see lightning back in the arena again as you attended the 2011 champs as a static but it appeared all the internals are there, just need some new batteries and a change in radio frequency :)

[Calvertfilm]

@mattsdragons Yes you are correct. That is all it needs. But it does also need a couple of owners that want to do the circuit again, and for the moment the team has other things it is doing (not robot related). But who knows what the future may bring?

[iMacG4Guy]

I love Lighting! Lovely machine!

[Calvertfilm]

@iMacG4Guy Thank you for that :-)

[SeriousGamer2009]

@Calvertfilm Don't we all? =) Bigger brither stopped that though... =(

[Calvertfilm]

@SeriousGamer2009 C2 is better driven though. It would be a good fight. I have driven C2 and it is such a well balenced machine too, years ahead of its time in series 3. But Gravity has the stronger flipper. It would be an exciting fight. I wanna see Hypnodisc v Razor.

[SeriousGamer2009]

Wow, lightning dominated o_O never really appreciated this robot much before, mainly coz my favourite robots are spinners and storm 2, but that's some fine engineering there =)

[SeriousGamer2009]

@nooloo3000 Gravity would annihilate chaos 2 in seconds.

[Calvertfilm]

@thekingofcoolness1 We won it actually. All the other 3 robots were immobilised at some point. But the first two to be immobilised got knocked out. Hence one of them crept in by the skin of its teeth.

[thekingofcoolness1]

cool...you tied your very first fight