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Begin with a standard construction backhoe. Remove front bucket, add controls so the two arms move independently of each other. Attach heavy steel pincers onto ends of arms. Remove rear bucket and replace with jackhammer attachment. Change configuration of back "arm" so that rather than going down
and away from crew compartment, it goes up and over, like the tail on an angry scorpion. Weld thick steel plate around crew compartment so no one gets hurt.
You now have a giant mechanized scorpion capable of grasping and lifting fairly large objects and then pulzerizing them with the jackhammer tail. Build Six. Paint three red, three blue, and let the games begin.
PowerLoader
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Sort of like this? [phlogiston, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
SRL
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[oxen crossing, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
JCB Racing
http://www.experien....uk/Muddy-Fun/BSBM/
[kropotkin, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
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I like. But somebody is going to get hurt. |
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And two teams of football players unleased on each other with only some plastic protecting their heads from caving in aren't? |
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Remove the jackhammer, make it a contest to tip the others over. Much safer, if the drivers are properly strapped in. |
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Which part of this idea made you think it was supposed to be safe? |
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//Which part of this idea made you think it was supposed to be safe// |
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What makes you think any of the ideas here are supposed to be safe? |
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Hey, I'd pay to see it. Definitely an improvement on "Survivor All-Stars". |
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Brings to mind Sigourney Weaver's epic Caterpillar-clad battle with mummy-alien. This would be lots of fun. A tempered steel + from me. |
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*ding*
"Your meatloaf is done!" |
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What, no explosive custard launcher? |
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No attempt to mimic human form ala Alien II. Humans, not RC - this is not SRL. A player is knocked out when his machine can no longer move, not when the operator has been killed. The main targets (which should not be armored) are tires, engine, hydraulics, etc. So there is no real incentive to go after an opposing operator. |
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Maximizing tell a vision audience (revenue) would involve pretaping and staging the event, sort of like professional wrestling. |
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If you think this is unsafe, go find a pacifier. |
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Hey, all I said was, well baked by SRL. Just my humble
opinion. You didn't have to delete my anno. It was not
off topic or abusive. Maybe wrong, but that's no crime.
Don't make a habit of that (anno deletion, especially the
critical ones), if you want to stick around. |
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Please note, I did not mfd this, or even bone it, for that
matter. Just trying to provide some prior art, and let you
and others be the judge. |
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Thx, oxen. That link rocks. |
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Reserve me a blue one. Watch out [humanbean]. |
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I wanna bun humanbean's anno, but I'll just bun the idea instead. Welcome to the bakery. (WTAGIPBAN) |
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Rayford, yeah, especially the videos. The 2x4 launcher
with the volume loud, if you have a subwoofer on your
computer, is pretty cool. |
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For the chaos factor I'd add a paint
sprayer with my rival's colors
loaded. For art a set of flaming
tennis balls on chains to swing
around. Loud speakers with the
voices of opponents mothers tisk
tisking.
I'm not sure I agree with
[robertkidney] on the speed issue.
it could become part of the appeal
the slow movement. like the
deadly miss judgements of David
Brent on "The Office" the slowness
makes
it...just...hurt...that...much...more. |
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A baked good for you me laddie! |
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If you made them remote controlled this would solve the safety problem. But then this would just be giant Robot Wars...... |
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I would definately like to see it, but who is going to throw down $100-250K to build a bot. |
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I keep reading this as ecumenical combat |
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This would make the most bitchin' cage match! Or suit up the drivers as divers and run exhaust and air intake from the surface and do it under water! (Things are always weirder under water) |
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Televise it for charity, of course |
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I think cost could be held reasonably low, under 10k apiece. Buy everything used, and then do the mods yourself. If a backhoe doesn't work too well, no big deal as it is about to be destroyed anyway. Television revenue should cover costs.
Sorry, Ox. Now I know that 'delete' means delete! My bad. |
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"in this corner, our challenger, he put the Docs back in Orthodox and invented the rope-a-pope, Alexei II!"
"And in this corner: weighing in at 131 pounds, he wears the chrome of Rome, our flyweight champion: Pope John Paul II!"
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That's OK, Mungo. Have to learn somehow. By the way,
the re-format option for your hard drive? It means what it
says too. Look out for that one. |
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Fifty quatloos on the red team! |
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See also "Life Stinks", the alright-I-s'pose-but-pisspoor-compared-to-back-when-he-was-really-funny Mel Brooks film, whose finale is a duel between two diggers, Ray Harryhausen-style. |
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