It was quite the adventure going to Robot Ruckus at the Orlando Maker Faire and getting to meet so many of my favorite Battlebots teams and builders, including some I have been corresponding with for a while.
I had my RotatoR pants on!
Here I am with Victor Soto, the engineer and driver of RotatoR, the Tombstone slayer!
And then there's Witch Doctor, runner up for the Giant Nut in 2019!
I'm holding a piece of Whiplash that Witch Doctor removed!
Enter the Kraken!!
Mammoth... it is a monster of a robot for sure!
Let's get Bombshell to the bot-medic!
Can I drive Hypershock?
Killer Parakeet doesn't realize that Captain Shrederator makes for a poor merry-go-round substitute...
Killer Parakeet doesn't believe in voodoo even if he's from a magical world...
Killer Parakeet made a friend!
Spin it to win it with Captain Shrederator!
One of the guys from Deep Six who does a lot of the behind-the-scenes work...
It's Matt Spurk, the pirate behind Kraken!
Here I am with Arren Hill, the brains behind Tantrum and its unorthodox punching spinner.
End Game plus Bloodsport - It was a blast seeing them compete with something other than a high kinetic energy spinner.
None other than.... Ray Billings... the man behind killer robots such as Tombstone and Last Rites.
Sub-Zero, the under-rated flipper!
Team Mammoth! One of the first teams I started corresponding with and I finally got to finally meet th em in person!
The very first builder I ever corresponded with - Earl Pancoast III of Bale Spear. While Bale Spear didn't show up on the Discovery series, he did show up in the Science series and in some of the un-aired fights last year.
Another builder I corresponded with early on - Craig Danby, formerly of Predator, Foxic, and Foxtrot, but now with Slambot.
And here I am playing with voodoo magic with none other than Andrea Gellatly of Witch Doctor!
And of course, I had to get a picture with Dustin Esswein, the brains behind Deep Six!
Killer Parakeet and I still had to get one with Axe Backwards, plow flavored!
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