The 4-hour and 9-minute pay-per-view event broadcast this time last month from Philadelphia and was headlined by the first-ever women’s Royal Rumble Match and the WWE debut of Ronda Rousey. That was of course joined by the traditional men’s Royal Rumble Match, a Universal Championship Triple Threat Match, a WWE Championship 2-on-1 Handicap Match, and more!
Royal Rumble 2018 will be presented as a 2-disc DVD set in order to fit everything in; its content listing will include the 6 main card matches, Home Video extras that cover the Kickoff Show matches, while inside the physical packaging will be a free Topps trading card of John Cena.
This will be the first WWE DVD that prominently features the logo of Warner Bros., the domestic Home Video distributor of WWE content on its packaging, as reported earlier this month. The logo can be seen on the back cover, discs and spine. Also new is a symbol on the back of the box that appears to suggest this release is region free so in theory could be playable worldwide.
Let’s take a closer look! Thanks goes out to WDN reader “JayJayRock206” for sharing the pics.
Synopsis…
Welcome to WWE’s over-the-top-rope free-for-all known as ROYAL RUMBLE. For the first time ever in WWE history, both men and women compete in Royal Rumble Matches, with the winners receiving a World Championship opportunity at WrestleMania!
Universal Champion Brock Lesnar faces Kane and Braun Strowman in a battle of behemoths. And AJ Styles defends the WWE Championship against Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn in a Handicap Match. Plus, more!
IT’S MORE RUMBLE THAN EVER!
Special Features…
Extras will be included on the second disc of the Royal Rumble DVD, as we’ve broken down below.
Since blu-rays are no longer being produced in North America, except Mania, why wouldn’t Freemantle start making their blu-rays region free? This way people won’t have to buy a region free player and anyone can buy them and play them on any player. Plus it’s more income for Freemantle.
Warner releases, specifically Blu-rays are always region free. If Warner was in charge of WWE Blu-ray releases in the UK they 100% would have been region free like all their other titles.
Its interesting that WWE DVDs are region free now as they were always region locked.
UK is still locked to region 2 (region B for Blu-ray) as Freemantle are the licensee. You still would need a region-free player.
If your television can handle NTSC then yeah WWE DVDs from US should work worldwide. I think televisions sold outside North America can handle both NTSC and PAL, whereas in North America only NTSC works if playing PAL discs you get that weird framerate issue because they are in 50Hz instead and televisions can handle 60Hz in NA.
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My TV here in the UK still distorts the picture of Region 0 NTSC DVDs a tad although it does play them, so I’ll stick to the PAL versions.
Since blu-rays are no longer being produced in North America, except Mania, why wouldn’t Freemantle start making their blu-rays region free? This way people won’t have to buy a region free player and anyone can buy them and play them on any player. Plus it’s more income for Freemantle.
I hope that it is going to be this DVD set without the holes to show the white colour of the sleeve of the WWE Royal Rumble 2018 DVD Set in the UK
i know this question has been asked but never got a answer. But is wwe gonna do a road to wrestlemaina walmart dvd sale this year ??
Warner releases, specifically Blu-rays are always region free. If Warner was in charge of WWE Blu-ray releases in the UK they 100% would have been region free like all their other titles.
Its interesting that WWE DVDs are region free now as they were always region locked.
Does this mean can order WWE DVD’s now from USA and UK, but can play them on region 4 DVD player?
UK is still locked to region 2 (region B for Blu-ray) as Freemantle are the licensee. You still would need a region-free player.
If your television can handle NTSC then yeah WWE DVDs from US should work worldwide. I think televisions sold outside North America can handle both NTSC and PAL, whereas in North America only NTSC works if playing PAL discs you get that weird framerate issue because they are in 50Hz instead and televisions can handle 60Hz in NA.
I’m pre-ordering this at ‘www.walmart.com’ tomorrow night.
Is there a Walmart exclusive this time, like the fat head for Survivor Series?
UHH, NO.