Robot Wars: The First World Championship was the video release of The First World Championship, released initially on VHS on 13 March 2000, but also later on DVD on 10 January 2005. With a length of 70 minutes, this video featured all fourteen matches of the First World Championship that were recorded shortly after the end of the Third Wars.
The original VHS cover/case was designed by Michael Currie while he worked at an advertising agency called Eye II Eye (was part of the Triangle Group) in London. It was later adjusted to the DVD format (by unknown). The design and print production was very tricky due to the metallic rainbow paper material, but came out better than expected.
Nowadays the VHS release is moderately common upon eBay listings, although the DVD release is much harder to find. Also note that the DVD release included no special features.
The VHS release was also available as part of the Robot Wars: Special Edition Double Pack box set.
The video was also released on video in the Scandinavian region (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) by PAN Vision in 2004. In Swedish the video was titled Robot Wars: Det Första Världsmästerskapet and in Finnish it was titled Robot Wars: Ensimmäinen Maailmanmestaruus. Other than different cover art the only other change is the addition of Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish subtitles.
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- Two advertisements were included on the VHS release, these being a trailer for the 1998 film Small Soldiers and an advert for Ribena.[1]
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