I loved Dead Metal. Never thought it was the most dangerous alone, but great as a teammate for the other House Robots, cause when it's grabbed you; you don't escape.
I am so happy to see all these videos. Thanks for the uploads!. The last version of Dead metal was my favourite robot overall with Killalot a close second and Sgt Bash, Matilda and Shunt all sharing equal 3rd.
I love how there is a gas pressure guage sat right at the front of dead metal... wierdly cool little detail. Chris doesn't mention this but dead metal is able to raise and lower it's chassis height. I think this was added around series 5? I dont think the new version of dead metal was able to do that.
He was about to do it in Extreme 1, in the battles were they filmed it at Earls Court. I remember him raising up, when he placed Plunderbird 5 on the floor flipper, during the House Robot Rebellion.
Dead metal for robot wars series 8-10 been changed most noticibly the petrol or USA gasoline saw been changed to a more powerful electric driven saw but the blade shield been eliminated from the saw in series 8-10
I wonder... If the show had gone on long enough, do you think they would've cooked up a house bot that could actually cut a contestant robot completely in half?
I wonder if the robots have a bit of character to them. I can totally see Dead Metal as that one friend who's a psychopath and their favorite weapon is a saw...just imagine :/ Dead Metal: Hey look, another robot...I'm gonna turn'em into scrap. Hahahahaha! >:D (revs his Sawblade as he runs over) Me: Jeez, calm down...the match didn't even start yet. :/
I think there are some official bios for the house robots floating around; I forgot where they popped up from, either the old book or the old website. Dead Metal's official bio is that he's a bot from the future and was designed to wipe out life on other planets. But yeah, a humanized dead metal could possibly be a cross between a psychopath and a heavy metal bastard.
I always thought it looked the coolest but to be honest it never did any damage - the saw doesnt come down with enough force/pressure and when the house robots did the tug of war dead metal was pretty shit
Dead Metal's saw operated at 3,000 rpm. It disconnected itself in extreme 2 when Rick and Bigger Brother fought in the minor meltdown episode!. From Joe. X
