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Anybody know what Robot Wars I'm thinking of?

posted 17 years ago by ghostdog2041
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When I was a bit younger, I was flipping through the channels, and on SciFi, I caught the very end of something I THINK was called Robot Wars. It was anime, and has this big kind of tank/Jawa vehicle, but it was a huge "ROBOT WARS" title on treads going through the desert. And its stopped, and this little baseball sized metal ball came off, and this dirty old scavenger picks it up, and takes it home. We see in his home that he has a couple little girls, and he gives them the metal ball. It pops open, and it is a music ball, complete with little plastic rotating ballerina! So it's playing this song, and the children are laughing and happy, and for the finale, the ballerina comes off the ball, spins in air, and comes back down. And the kids are laughing, and the dad is smiling. And the ballerina slowly comes back down, and when she touches the ball.... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! The whole place blows up. It was a bomb. SWEET!
Anyway, I caught the very end of that anime as a kid, and I cannot find it anywhere. I think I might have gotten the title on the tank wrong. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

[–] lawrence_mike 17 years ago

I remember seeing this too....it was called "Robot Carnival" --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Carnival

[–] black_derby_80 9 years ago

oh yeah, back when the sci-fi channel wasn't ashamed of nerds being their core audience, and had far less original programming.... and 'saturday anime' was one of the best things they had going. i remember seeing the first couple episodes of 'record of lodoss war', and 'casshan robot hunter'... and a bunch of other cool ovas whose names elude me now. aside from voltron, a cartoon about king arthur (i just about wore out the two or three tapes of that that our local video rental store had when i was a little kid), the battle for planet earth or whatever it was called, and speed racer (which i always hated), i was totally unfamiliar with anime when i started watching that. oh, and maybe a few other things like bubblegum crisis and appleseed...
and i have decided that kids these days are waaay too spoiled these days when it comes to anime, as evidenced by the fact that dreck like naruto and one piece have such a huge following...

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