Newly crowned “Robot Wars” Champions, Team Apollo, will be fighting it out live in Burgess Hill, along with many of the stars that have appeared on BBC2’s smash hit show, at Robots Live!
Robots Live returns to the Triangle Leisure Centre on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd April 2017, for the 11th year, as part of their UK tour. Joining Apollo will be other famous faces from the new and old series of Robot Wars, including; TR2, Eruption, Gabriel and Behemoth. They will all be battling to be crowned the Robots Live Champion.
Joining the competitors in the arena will be Robots Live very own “House Robots”. Keeping control of the 110kg heavyweights, will be “Goliath”, weighing in at around 1,000kg and standing five feet tall, he is capable of rolling over a car with his powerful crushing arm and tracked drive. Alongside him will be “BattleAxe”, she weighs in at 130kg and looks after the 13.6kg featherweight robots.
As well as the combat machines, the show also features unique robot boxers! Standing nearly six feet tall, these mechanical monsters will go toe-to-toe in a pneumatically powered fist fight! During the shows you might also get a glimpse of some of the other crazy and famous TV and movie robots, with a Dalek almost certain to interrupt the show at some point!
All of the action is housed safely in a purpose built 6,000kg arena. The arena is equipped with its own array of weapons including; The Pit, floor flipper and two massive hammers which are controlled by the audience!
Dave Young, captain of Team Apollo says “After winning the new series of Robot Wars, we can’t wait to get in the arena again and fight in front of a live audience at Robots Live!. Not only does it give the fans a chance to see the action up close, it gives us another house robot to attack!”.
There will be three action packed shows over the weekend, Shows are at 6pm on Saturday 1st April and 12pm & 3.30pm on Sunday 2nd April. Tickets cost; Child £14, Adult £16 and a Family (2+2) £50 and are available online from www.robotslive.co.uk and in person from the Triangle Leisure Centre or by phone on 0844 870 0000. VIP tickets are available online, but are very limited.
