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This article is about the Robot Wars Club-exclusive VHS serving as a preview of American Robot Wars 1996. For other uses, see American Robot Wars (disambiguation).

"Although Robot Wars is now a hit television show, the sport began life as a live spectator event in San Francisco five years ago. The robotic highlights featured in this video took place during the 1996 Finals. So sit back, smell the oil, feel the ground tremble, and enjoy the mechanical mayhem of American Robot Wars!"
Philippa Forrester's introduction to the 1996 US Championship highlights

American Robot Wars Final 1996 was a short video that could be obtained upon joining the Robot Wars Club from 1998 as part of the initial membership pack. Featuring voiceover narrations by Philippa Forrester, and with a running time of around 8 minutes, it served as a preview of the full 50-minute video American Robot Wars 1996, as well as an introduction to the then newly-premiered UK version of Robot Wars.

The video concludes with the 1995 UK Open Competition Heavyweight Final between Thor and The Master, which was also featured in Heat D of Robot Wars: The First Wars and the end of the First Great War video. Unlike other versions of the battle featured in official Robot Wars media, this retains the original audio and commentary from the event, the latter mostly provided by Dominik Diamond. Part of the accompanying audio mix includes Air Liquide's "Der Laeufur" as battle music,[1] the track offering a distinctively different style to the televised show's battle themes.[2][3]

Starting from 2000, Club membership packs would instead include the video Robot Wars: A History of the Third Wars.

A mail-in offer, exclusive to club members for the full 50-minute video at a special club members price, was included with the video and promoted in Forrester's voiceovers.

Highlights (1996 US Championship)[]

Highlight clips of the following 1996 US Championship battles were featured:

Heavyweight[]

Middleweight[]

Lightweight[]

Featherweight[]

Grudge Matches[]

Video[]

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