-The title First One To Die Loses is taken from Hot Shots: Part Deux when Lloyd Bridges, about to fight Saddam Hussein, declares “First one to die loses Saddam”  

-The newspaper Flash is reading in the opening shot of the film is the SDWO (St. Donats Weekly Observer) student newspaper.  

-Part II was shot on June 10th 2002 and was edited entirely in camera.

-The gap between making Part I and Part II is the biggest of any of the FOTDL movies. 

-The hooded top Flash wears in Part II is the same top Ice Phoenix wears at the end of Part V. There has been much speculation as to what this might mean.

-Filming was abandoned for the day, not because the crew had all the shots they wanted, but because Wil Rees wandered off to see his girlfriend.  

-Originally there was a titlecard after the film which declared Part III to be The Final Fight. This was deleted when the team decided to make Part IV. 

-Anna Grace is uncredited as Black Widow’s stunt double for the horse sequence.

-The fire scene in The Don’s segment of the film was an unsuccessful attempt to create an explosion.

-The ‘Blew’ in ‘Mad Dog Blew’ is a reference to a character in S4C’s children’s programme Parablu which Harri Grace’s mum wrote.

-No one knows why The Don isn’t wearing any shoes.

-The two Black Mambas in the forest scene were both played by Harri Grace.  

-The name Demolition Dan comes from the 1996 Dufia film Jaws 5. When Dan successfully blows up the shark, Reg tells him “You did it Dan. Demolition Dan.”

-Demolition Dan’s “Come on QPR!” war-cry was an ad-lib by actor Dan Mendelssohn.

-Three people play The Heathen in Part V. Rob Clarke, Harri Grace and Reg Noyes.

-Nick Leffler was originally going to play a bad guy in the film. He was due to be “No Fear” Nick “The Nick” Nicholson in a mountain-boarding sequence. He doesn't know this.

-Despite fighting each other in the film, Harri Grace and Rory McGrath have never met. 

-Rory has said that his favourite part of Part V is the Demolition Dan sequence.

-Part VI is the first FOTDL movie to have a sub-title (Escape from Castle Phoenix) and is also the first movie to acknowledge the names of the lead characters Flash Del Montay and Ice Phoenix.

-Chris Jones (ID Cymru) was originally going to play The Chef.

-Ben Sherman’s scream as he falls from the Watchtower is that of 004 in The Living Daylights.

-29 Black Mambas chase Flash up the Watchtower. These were played by a total of 3 actors (Ben Milne, Joe Rowson and Harri Grace).

-The fight between The Grop and Flash produced the most injuries of any fight scene in FOTDL history.  

-Production bags in the background and the tripod leaning against the log-cabin can all be spotted in the background of The Grop sequence.

-The sound of The Grop being stabbed is that of a Bic biro being stabbed into a potato, slowed down.

-Dan Mendelssohn plays the Black Mamba who falls off the roof of the car. The fall was real and was caught on camera from inside the car.  

Part VII is the longest FOTDL movie to date, coming in at a staggering 21 minutes and 4 frames.

Harri Grace started to get worried when, during post-production, Reg Noyes informed him that the film was currently 11 minutes long … and there was still no fighting.

Part VII would be the final FOTDL movie to be shot on the famous Panasonic DS-150B that filmed Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Censored, and Beat It. As fate would have it, the camera ended up being broken in Livno, Bosnia.

Actor Joe Rowson came up with ‘Flashback’ as the film’s subtitle. He is a genius.

Originally there were meant to be a number of characters who refused The Heathen’s proposal. In the end there was only one: Dowser.

The aerial shots in the film’s opening sequence were shot by Dan Mendelssohn from a helicopter in 2002. The FOTDL team managed to catch the helicopter landing and the footage was used in Part III.

Due to ever-busying lives, the FOTDL team had a 3-day window in which to film all of the film’s main action making Part VII the most gruelling shoot to date. The final day’s shoot consisted of 28 plot points/scenes.

A scene of No-Pants Mamba sneaking out from behind a bush once the fighting had stopped was filmed and was to be added after the credit sequence but was cut at the last minute.

Part VII sees Dufia Films’ veteran actor Tom Rees (Jaws 5, ID Cymru) make his FOTDL debut.

Mad Dog Blew (Part IV) actor Rhos Davies gave director Reg Noyes his blessing to be replaced by Tom Rees, saying simply “Yeah, he’s hard enough.”

Actor Joost van der Zwan took a day off work and drove from London to West Wales for one day just to take part in the movie. When asked what excuse he gave his boss, Joost replied “I told him I was going to Wales to star in an
action movie.” Dedication.

The parachuting Mambas sequence was devised when a Hercules plane passed over as the team were shooting The Don’s fight sequence.

Bangers were used to get the effects of the Don’s bullet’s hitting the ground.

The dead body The Don walks away from when we first see him is played by Harri Grace.

Another stunt-dummy was produced for the scene where the Mamba is hoisted into the tree. Named Hugo Boss and made by Harri Grace, this dummy, like Ben Sherman in Part VI, doubled for a Mamba played by Joe Rowson.

The scream of the Mamba Flash shoots as he runs on to the front lawn and the scream of The Doctor as he is shot in the back are both Wilhelm’s Scream, Hollywood most famous sound-effect.

Part VII was the first time that pre-recorded music was not used. Harri Grace and Wil Grace composed and recorded all the music themselves.