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Easter egg: On the 2nd disc go to storyboards. Go to the 2nd page and select rhino fight under Deleted Sequences. Press up once to select the rhino and press enter. This will get you to a section called What Happened to the Rhino.

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Easter egg: On Die Hard Ultimate Edition disc 2(special features) the menu is themed around the Nakatomi building roof, and the highlighted option has roof lights lit up. Press up to highlight secret lights, and press enter to see an explosion.

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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation picture

Easter egg: On the Extras menu, you will see a list of extras, some thunder, and the close-up of a dragon. As soon as you get to the extras menu, immediately press left on the directional pad on your DVD remote. The dragon's eye is now highlighted like any other text. Click on the dragon's eye, and the mini-game, Save Kitana, will open. When you win the game, you will see a scene of Lui Kang defeating Baraka, Sheeva, and rescuing Kitana.

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Easter egg: On Disc 2, go to "Below Deck," "Scene Index," then go to page 2. Highlight "Pirate Ships," and press left to highlight the skeleton's ring. Press Enter for the Japanese "Pirates" trailer.

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Easter egg: In the special features menu, press right to select Jet Li's kneepad. Hit enter to see another special features movie.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King picture

Easter egg: There are two on the Special Edition DVD. On either disk, scroll to the end of the chapter selection page and press down once more on the bottom one to highlight a hidden ring icon. Press enter to view: Disc 1, a gag interview with Dom Monaghan and Elijah Wood. Disc 2: the MTV movie awards spoof interview with Peter Jackson, Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughan.

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Easter egg: On the "Bonus Disk", press the down button and a "Code Of The Fraternity" menu option will appear. Press the Select/Enter button and enter the code "01010111" (binary code for "W") to watch a behind-the-scene video.

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Easter egg: Go to the "bonus features" menu, then select the "cast and crew" menu. On the second page of this menu, highlight "Peter Berg" and hit left once to view an interview with The Rock.

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Easter egg: Go to the first page of the "special features" menu. Once there, highlight any one of the special features on the page and press right once to see a short clip of how the filmming crew put on make-up.

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Easter egg: On Disc 2, highlight "According to plan", press Left twice. This should highlight a leaf. Press OK to watch how the food was made for the entire film crew.

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Easter egg: Insert disc 2. Choose image database. Choose Locations and Sets. Go through the images until you come to the one with Halle Berry coming out of the water (number 12, but it differs). Press up on your remote. You now have a Halle Barry menu. You can now see Halle Berry come up out of the water from different camera angles.

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Easter egg: On the two-disc Collector's Edition, on Disc 2, under the "Star Trek Universe" sub menu, use the arrow keys to go "Right" from the Jerry Goldsmith tribute and you will see a Borg node turn from Green to Red. If you click it, a short film about Ethan Phillips, who plays the uncredited maitre d' in the holodeck scene. He also played Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager.

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Easter egg: On the Full Throttle DVD, there are six Easter eggs that I have managed to find so far, but I think there is one more. The Easter eggs refer to the normal widescreen DVD. 1. Go to the commentaries screen (Linked from the Special Features Page) and highlight Special Features at the bottom. Press right, right, down, down and Drew Barrymore hat should be highlighted with a white line. If you press action (X on PS2 controller) you should see a short film of McG and two stunt doubles, plus some behind the scenes footage of Madison and Cameron's entrance into the LA Theatre. 2. On page 1 of special features, select the Angel Vision Trivia Track option. When you get to the screen giving you the option of turning trivia track on and off, highlight special features and press down, left, left. Cameron Diaz's earring should be highlighted with a pink or white line. Pressing Action should reveal a short film of McG and Christine Birch discussing the game plan for the publicity of the film. 3. On page 1 of the Featurettes (Linked from the Special Features page), highlight Special Features at the bottom. Press left, left, down, down and Bosley's bow tie should be highlighted with a pink line. Pressing action should play a clip of McG and Aldolfo Martinez-Perez showing the storyboards and comparisons for Natalie's cowbirth scene in the "Three very different women" part of the introduction to the girls at the beginning of the movie. 4. Go to screen 2 of Featurettes (Linked from the Special Features page) and highlight Special Features. Pressing right, right, down should highlight the champagne bottle with a pink line. Pressing action will show a short film of McG and Tricia Ronten talking about the script supervision for the film. 5. On page 2 of Special Features, highlight Main Menu at the bottom. Press down, down, up, right, right will cause pink halos to appear over the girls' heads. Pressing action will show a shortish film of McG and Matt Sweeny looking at a hydraulic rotator for Madison Lee's cobra (The stunt one of course). It contains some behind the scene footage of the making of the fight in the car between Cameron and Demi, and also some that was in the Full Throttle featurette. 6.Again go to screen 2 of Special Features and again highlight Main Menu. Press up, up, down, down, left should make Cameron Diaz's missing right earring be highlighted with a pink line. Pressing action should trigger a short clip of McG asking Mark Cotane how he got into the biz.

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Easter egg: On disc 2, go to the Skynet Database (answer to the question is "Brewster") and select the first Information Stream "Human Archive Intelligence". You'll then have a list of profiles to access showing. To find the Easter egg you must go on John Connor's profile or Kate Brewster's profile. After opening the profile, characteristics of the character will start. Just as this happens, push the right button followed by the up button. A red square will be circled around the clip on the top right hand side of the screen. As this is happening, push play and you will see a behind the scenes clip of the actor or actress' time on set (depending which profile you access). If you access John Connor's profile you will see a clip of Nick Stahl's time on set as John Connor. If you access Kate Brewster's profile you will see a clip of Claire Danes' time on set as Kate Brewster.

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Easter egg: While in the extra features menu navigate through the options until the white star is highlighted. Click on this to reveal a hidden extra with Vince Vaughn.

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe picture

Easter egg: On the main page press up, and the little lion picture will become highlighted. Press enter to watch a short complation of shots panning around the Narnian landscapes, while the harmonious instumental music plays.

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Easter egg: Widescreen DVD Unrated R1: In Special Features, go to the second page with Burt Reynolds' picture. Move down to Main Menu and press up. His ring will highlight and you will see a short film featuring dummies as Bo & Luke.

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Easter egg: Go to the second page of the Special Features, select "6th Street Bridge.", press right twice and down twice. This will highlight Samuel L. Jackson's cap. Press OK and you will be taken to the S.W.A.T team and crew playing golf.

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Easter egg: In the two disc set, Disc 2 (Special Features), at the main menu select The Human Factor. Once you are in that part go down to Domestic Destruction, push the right button on the remote and a little icon of the Decepticons will appear. It shows a blooper during one of the big scenes.

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Easter egg: On the second disc of the Special Edition DVD, scroll all the way upwards. You will see a track list and be able to hear samples from the soundtrack.

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