Ever wonder what would happen if you attached some spikes to a wheelchair and made it run into another spike-equipped wheelchair? 
Does the answer even matter? After all, I hear a Plunderstorm is coming...

Robot Wars Series 2 (1999) Heat K: In the darkness of post-nuclear days...

The first time the nation was gripped by metal things hitting each other, occasionally at great speed. How does the now near two-decade old 'First Great War' stack up in the age of HD and phones doing our thinking for us?

Robot Wars Series 1 (1998) Heat A: The Grand Debut

The second set of robots go head to head in one of the more feel-good episodes of the series. Featuring robots from Cambridge University's fierce machine Mortis, to the only lightly-prodding weapon featured so far on the most definitely not remotely mighty Leighbot. Who can come out on top?!

Robot Wars Series 1 (1998) Heat B: Nice Beard... Mortem Mortisi

Also known as the episode where robots played football that one time and it wasn't very good. Featuring a robot with no weapons at all, numerous robots that needn't have bothered with weapons in the first place, and a robot that nearly explodes when nervous, which happens to be a lot. 

Robot Wars Series 1 (1998) Heat C: What You See Is What You Get

It's back! In new and shiny HD. It's time to find out which competitive robotics team make the best sausage rolls. I'll give you a clue: it's Razor.

Robot Wars 2016 Episode 1: So Razer wins... Right?

An audio guide on how to absolutely not stand a chance in the grand final of Robot Wars. 6 tiny robots compete for a chance to be completely destroyed by machines 5 times their size, what an amazing prize! 

Robot Wars Series 1 (1998) Heat D: Back up Matilda! The Featherweights have arrived...

Featuring the classic Cone-Head from Silent Hill along with star of 50s sci-fi B-movie Psychosprout, this episode has one of the oddest line-ups of any heat. 

Robot Wars Series 1 (1998) Heat E: Attack of the Killer Sprout

Also known as that one episode where all the robots start playing Hungry Hungry Hippos and nobody is quite sure why. Ends with a totally fair and completely thrilling Grand Final to decide the very first champion of Robot Wars.

Robot Wars Series 1 (1998) Heat F: Featuring the Bonus Match of the Grand Final

Now offering a whopping 15 episode season, Robot Wars came back for another series bigger and better than before (not that that's a difficult task to begin with). Rob and Benji take a look at the first heat with the debuting Sir Killalot and the all new totally-not-fixed-100%-fair-competition system made specially for this new series!

Robot Wars Series 2 (1999) Heat A: Introducing Sir Killalot, Destroyer of Rules

Featuring less controversy and a considerably more boring trial, series 2 advances another machine to the semi final which is absolutely not fixed no it is not fixed it is a fair competition mate.

Robot Wars Series 2 (1999) Heat B: The birth of the chaotic Leighgend

Third time lucky for series 2 of Robot Wars with the least dodgy episode yet! Four returning robots are joined by 2 newcomers to be systematically annihilated by Mortis. Craig Charles is also there.

Robot Wars Series 2 (1999) Heat C: Return of the Living Mortis

Back with an all new series for 2017! New and old bots are ready and waiting to get involved with all out destruction. This episode features a robot made out of money as well as a machine plucked from a 4 year old's art book. Let's review!

Robot Wars 2017 Heat A: Now With 100% more Jellyfish

How does series two/nine/2017(pt.1) stack up? Already over for another (half) year, it's time to induct some high-performing machines into the prestigious Activate! Hall of Flame. 

Also featuring the Hall of Fame ceremony and other fantastically named awards, such as 'Most Fun'. Because we're creative.

Robot Wars 2017: Full Series Overview, Awards and Hall of Fame

The episode the world has been waiting for. Yes, Elvis has returned. The King is back... again... and he lifts (50kg). How will the mighty Elvis perform against the other big returnee: The Bodyhammer. The highly-upgraded runner up has a new, handle-less, pointed hammer working in conjunction with a deadly flat-piece-of-steel-shaped-into-a-disk-with-sharp-edges-hammer. 

Also, Razer is there.

Robot Wars Series 2 (1999) Heat D: In Flames, Elvis Resurrects.

The first episode of Season X has arrived and rewarded our patience with total mayhem. Sleeping giant Behemoth has risen to the occasion and given us one of the greatest battles of their entire roboteering career and one of the most intense flipper vs flipper matches of all time. A whole new format along with polished presentation makes this one of the most enjoyable episodes we've seen so far.

Series 10 (2017) Heat A: Behemoth's Odyssey

The age old tale that proves no matter how many children you have, the purity of money always wins in the end. Ever wondered what would happen if giant chattering teeth had to fight a mobile battleaxe?! Then go elsewhere because you don't see that in this episode.

Series 10 (2017) Heat C: Guest Starring Super Meat Boy

Craziest episode yet? You may even say it's... nuts...2. 
Bonus points to whoever can count how many name variants we use to refer to Androne 4000.

Series 10 (2017) Heat D: A Lesson in Precision Sniping with Nuts 2

The 2nd annual Robot Wars competition brings with it incredible innovation via bots such as The Master, La Machine and Thor. It also features a challenge for the viewers: who can watch the entirety of the superlightweight (featherweight) division without falling asleep?

Robot Wars 1995: Year of the Paint Bucket

Whoever wins... we lose... our minds at how awesome these bots are! The final heat for Season X has some heavy hitters (and not so heavy, gentle nudgers)going head to head in the last chance to make it to the grand final for the honour of being annihilated by Carbide!

Series 10 (2017) Heat E: God of Thunder vs Neutron Star

That's it. The best episode of Robot Wars ever produced.
Now what?... We have to continue this podcast knowing that everything else will pale in comparison. 6/5 Stars would review again.

Series 10 (2017) Grand Final: How to win Robot Wars after already losing Robot Wars

We're back for 2018, and so is Diotoir. The UK take on the Rest of the World (AKA Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal) with nothing but pride on the line. Which is a good thing because if there was money involved here there would probably be a lawsuit.

Robot Wars Goes International

The entire rest of the world are back with a vengeance after being humiliated by the UK. Thank God this time they have the absolute greatest the planet has to offer and are in no way in any kind of disadvantaged position going into this totally fair competition.

Robot Wars (Once Again...) Goes International

Three long months after it finished airing - we're finally looking back at the whole of series 10 with a much more simplified Hall of Fame and awards system because nobody really cared about 90% of the awards we were giving out before anyway... 
To make up the time we've now introduced a Q&A section to the series overview episodes and boy have we got some interesting questions from the world wide robot web!

Q&A Time Plus Robot Wars Series 10 Overview and Hall of Fame

For the first time ever we bring you a double feature to Activate! 
We discuss the cancellation of Robot Wars with YOU, the public, through the magic of Twitter. Do we hate the BBC for axing the wars? No.. but they are dead to us. 
Just in case the subject matter was getting too depressing, we review a classic episode in Series 2 Heat F. Unfortunately for us, this is somehow even worse.

DOUBLE FEATURE: #BringBackRobotWars Special + Series 2 Heat F

For the first time ever we enter a whole new world. 
The debut of Activate! Podcast reviewing BattleBots has finally arrived.
Did we love it? Did we hate it? Did we spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to view it from the UK? The answer to all those questions can be found in the episode and it is 'maybe'.

BattleBots 2018 Episode 1: Let's get right into Fight Night

Featuring a much anticipated main event in which Voodoo Practitioner faces off against the Abominable Snowman, that goes pretty much as one would imagine. 
Guest starring 'Kid', the international champion.

BattleBots 2018 Episode 2: Exactly What You'd Expect if a Human Fought a Giant Himalayan Monster

Racism bad. Crushing children's dreams bad. Fixed results bad. Episode bad. Back to BattleBots next time...

Robot Wars Series 2 (1999) Heat G:  Because Robot Wars Hates Children

This episode features Cassius, the pacifist robot that murders everything. 
We cried when they killed off Sir Killalot. RIP Sir K, all hail king Groundhog.
Also guest starring: Wizard had that screams at you.

Robot Wars Series 2 (1999) Heat H: That One Where a Wizard Plays Football

In this episode of The Twilight Zone, Benji and Rob are trapped on Gamma 9 - The planet where robots fight each other in identical battles, repeating for all eternity.

BattleBots 2018 Episode 3: It Only Takes One Shot

Welcome to the first of infinite episodes of Sir K and friends. This week guest starring Prometheus, who is going to show the world what he's best at - stealing fire and getting all hell for it.

Robot Wars Series 2 (1999) Heat I: The Punishment of Prometheus

They say war cares for no man, woman, or child, and Heat J of Robot Wars Series 2 is here to prove that point. This episode features explosive barrels, a tug-of-war, and a 100% fool-proof self-righting mechanism.

Robot Wars Series 2 (1999) Heat J: Sir Killalot Feeds on the Tears of Children

ACTIVATE! reviews the unique world of classic UK television series Robot Wars. Hear about the wars from the perspective of Rob E. Harmlessly and Benji 'also the Hitman' who grew up tainting their minds with the scraps of once-functioning machines. 

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