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Newspaper Article
Channel surfing: Collars up for war
2000
Overview
In the Grand Final eliminators for Robot Wars (BBC2), Chance II with its flipping ramp was pitted against Firestorm with its flipping arm. `Flipping' was used descriptively here. In the other eliminator, Hypno-Disc, with its 600rpm rotating wheel and unpleasant spikes, confronted Steg-O-Saw-Us, with suggestive knobbles along its back and a thumping dinosaur's tail powered, I believe, by a lawnmower engine. Robot Wars is a very strange spectacle, rather like WWF wrestling meets Young Scientist of the Year, or Operation Desert Storm meets county-level table tennis. The film-maker Nanni Moretti once dramatised the history of the Italian communist party as a game of water polo. Robot Wars is of the same stamp, the hostility of the western male sublimated into something less troubling, something that can be knocked up in the garage and then unleashed like a screaming id on wheels.
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Guardian News & Media Limited
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