This proved to be Bronco and the team's worst season to date, as it lost every single fight and failed to make the post-season tournament with its 0-4 record. Despite the power in the weapon and interchangeable armor pieces, it fell in the quarter-finals again after its electrics to the wheels gave out in its bout against Whiplash.īronco's hero shot during BattleBots: Bounty Hunters.īronco returned for the 2019 season largely unchanged, sporting new rubber wheels and wedgelets on the front of the machine.
Most of the robot's logos - along with the accents on the flipper arm - changed from black to red, though the machine would maintain its plain metal finish. Bronco's launcher this season was stated to be 30% more powerful than in its 2016 appearance. A third configuration - used to counter overhead weapons - also included additional top armor panels along with a set of pwangers, these being modified from the original World Championship I wheelguards. The default pwanger setup was often used against opponents armed with vertical spinners. One included wheel guards on the back wheels only, with another featuring a series of metal pieces on either side, named by Inertia Labs as "pwangers". The chassis remained roughly the same shape, but the robot returned to four-wheel drive with a set of interchangeable armor configurations.
Returning for World Championship III, Bronco once again went through some much-needed modifications. Bronco beat Blacksmith, Chrome Fly, and Razorback before being picked apart by Team RioBotz and Minotaur in the quarter-finals.īronco during World Championship III hero shots. A number of alternative armor configurations were introduced by Inertia Labs to counter different weapon types, including an angled rear wedge for horizontal spinners and a pair of top-mounted guards to protect the main chassis from axe and hammer blows. The redesigned Bronco was longer than the original incarnation and had six wheels instead of four. is seeing their robot flipping around in the air." - Reason Bradley during World Championship II.īronco was a heavyweight robot built by Inertia Labs which competed in the first four BattleBots World Championships, as well as BattleBots: Bounty Hunters.Īs with most Inertia Labs robots, its weapon was a powerful pneumatic flipping arm which boasted almost three times the power of the team's Comedy Central BattleBots superheavyweight champion Toro.īronco was a crowd favorite in the first season, throwing robots out of the BattleBox effortlessly and making it to the semi-finals before being defeated by Tombstone, but in a rather spectacular fashion.īronco during the photoshoots for World Championship II.įor World Championship II, two models of Bronco were built, with the then-latest build designed for handling powerful spinners.
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