Happysin[/url]":ekebz0gr]I disagree that it was because they were better-engineered, they were simple built to a different spec. Robot Wars had house robots to deal with, and as I recall, Robot ...

In 1979, Thorpe started working at Industrial Light and Magic/Lucasfilm as a model maker and animatronic designer. He helped make visual effects for the “Star Wars” sequel “The Empire ...

The first law of robotics is to watch the season 3 premiere of "Foundation" before reading further. Spoilers ahead. Much like Denis Villeneuve's "Dune," AppleTV+'s "Foundation" takes a science fiction ...

Marc Thorpe, the 'Star Wars' visual effects artist who created the Robot Wars concept in the early 1990s, died Nov. 24 of Parkinson’s. He was 77.

Marc Thorpe, ‘Star Wars’ VFX Artist and Mastermind Behind Robot Wars, Dies at 77. He also worked on the first three ‘Indiana Jones’ movies and ‘Poltergeist’ before staging his first ...