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4 unusual facts about Robot Wars


FightBox

The show was a replacement for Robot Wars and aired in the same time slot of Fridays at 6.45pm.

Robot Wars: Advanced Destruction

Like in the other games, series presenter Craig Charles does not appear in the game but the commentator, Jonathan Pearce, appears.

Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction

Craig Charles does not appear in the game, even though he had been the presenter of the series since its second series, but the show's commentator, Jonathan Pearce, provides commentary on statistics of the battle, the information relative to the arena and a description of the robots competing.

Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction

Craig Charles does not appear in the game, even though he had been the presenter of the series since its second season, but the commentator, Jonathan Pearce, provides commentary on statistics of the battle, the information relative to the arena and a description of the robots competing.


Bridget Maasland

For a more universal audience, she interviewed the teams in both series of the Dutch version of Robot Wars (the role Phillipa Forrester and, when she was off, Julia Reed and Jayne Middlemiss, had in the main (UK) version of the Robot Combat gameshow).

Luke Toyne

His live event hosting includes public entertainment, corporate networking, media workshops and marketing campaigns including 'Robots Live' - the roadshow tour of Robot Wars, Carphone Warehouse, Virgin and Derren Brown's dating experiment for Trick or Treat on Channel 4.

Mat Irvine

As a Technical Consultant, Irvine worked on shows such as The Sky at Night, Tomorrow's World and, most recently, Robot Wars, on which he was hired as a technical consultant in 1998.

Noel Sharkey

He is best known to the British public for his appearances on television as an expert on robotics; including the BBC 2 television series Robot Wars and Techno Games, and co-hosting Bright Sparks for BBC Northern Ireland.


see also

Super Robot Wars R

As of Super Robot Wars Original Generations, she is voiced by Yuki Masuda.