Lessee here, the weekend is almost over and I still don’t feel rested. Perhaps I got too much sleep. Perhaps the music will get me going.
On Saturday night, I went out with James and saw SWAT. I was pleasantly suprised. SWAT is a good action movie, no more, no less. The movie had the feel of the TV show (which remember watching on TV back in the day) and didn’t go off the deep end in effects or plot. The basic ideas were plausible as opposed to the Bad Boys 2 invasion of Cuba.
At the movie I saw the trailer of Timeline. I read the book it’s based on a while ago. It looks to me like they changed the plot quite a bit. Crichton gets involved with the filming of his novels, so I’m sure it will be fine, but I hope they keep many of the key parts of the book in the movie.
Today, we went to go see Steel Conflict, a robot war event.
I’ve been to a robot fighting event before and knew it could be fun. The event itself was at the Petersen Automotive Museum. An amazing place in itself.
Unlike the last event I went to, this event was outdoors. The sun made it harder to see what was going on inside due to glare, but it was fun nevertheless. People really put a lot into the robots and it’s great to watch them go into battle.
This is my favorite robot. It’s 7 feet in diameter. On the inside you see those red areas. The inside of the robot spins like a washing machine. When another robot goes on top, it starts getting bludgeoned by the spinning bars. Quite impressive when you see the robot shredding the wheels on another robot.
I’ll have to keep an eye on the Robot Fighting League site to see when the next battle is scheduled in LA.
I love Robot competitions, I just wish they were bigger and more destructive. Use projectiles. Use flames and net-traps. I know they have safety restrictions, but they should be able to come up with some sort of “unlimited” category. Hold it in a desert and film it. It’d make great TV entertainment.
This competition allowed flames, but no-one used them.
There was a gasoline power robot that they demoed. It had a spinning blade weapon and looked fearsome. With gas powered robots, they have TONS of energy to get the blade spinning and got it going extremely fast instantly. Batteries powered robts take a while to spin up their weapons since the battery can only supply so many amps at a time.
I would love to see if the gas motor would keep running even if it took a few had hits. Maybe next time.
SWAT – man I’ve got to see that. Memories of turning my hat around and my official SWAT toy M-16 as my best friend Kenny and I argued over who got to be Hondo…
Yeah, gas powered vehicles are awesome. Hook a couple of chainsaws in there and go to town on your foe. The prospect of a punctured gas-tank or compressed air cylinder would make it all the more exciting… 🙂