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Easter egg: The secret code for the penguins game is sushi.

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Easter egg: There's a short documentary on the DVD about the subliminal message cartoon that triggers River. To get to it, put the cursor on play on the main screen. From there, push the left button once. Now the cursor will be on the right side of the screen in the middle (up and down). Press enter.

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Easter egg: In the main menu, on "play movie", press the numbers 09-23 on the remote as a short cut to other Arrdman classics.

keith summers

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Easter egg: 3 easter eggs on German edition (G-41088-ST-FSK): one concept shot of objects, two fully rendered but dumped scenes. Elements of these scenes have been used in the final movie, but at another time and place. 1) go up in the main menu to highlight 2) go up in special features -> activities (Extras > Spiel mit!) 3) go left in the language selection.

ichabod

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Easter egg: On the 2-Disc Director's Cut DVD (Region One), if you can complete the entire trivia game (which includes around 50 or so questions, some of which are extremely hard), you are able to view a hidden video.

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Easter egg: There is an Observation Test where you will be shown clips from the film and you must answer the questions correctly to access deleted scenes. Here are the answers: 1 - A: 0Y02 USH 2 - C: 13 3 - C: 327 4 - A: Lunatic Response Unit 5 - B: Jesus Is Coming - Look Busy.

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Easter egg: On the three-disc special edition, there are 3 hidden features. On Disc 2, enter the 'Production' menu, then highlight main menu and press right to highlight a hidden symbol. On the same disc, in 'Pre-Production', go into 'Prep', highlight 'Safe Cracking School' and press right. On Disc 3, go to the fourth page of 'Visual Effects', highlight 'CGI Propane Tank' and press right.

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Easter egg: To see a mini documentary on 360 effects, go to the dream world menu and look for a red pill. Highlight it and press enter.

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Easter egg: On the 2-disc Collectors Edition, go to the second page of the "Bonus Features" and highlight "Evolution of a Golden City". Press the left arrow button on the remote twice and a small figurehead will appear on the lower left corner of the doorway. Press the "Enter" button and enjoy.

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Easter egg: This can be accessed on either the rated or unrated version. At the main menu, go to Setup. At the setup screen, keep pressing down until you highlight "Ask Frank". Click on it to see an extra deleted scene.

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Easter egg: On the main DVD menu screen, when play is highlighted, press up. You will highlight one of the crystals. Press enter, and it will take you to a screen with a bunch of different character's faces. Press enter on any of them, it will give you a soundbite from that character. Also, you can highlight the two crystals on the bottom of that page that are on either side of the main menu option that will give you two other soundbites. On the main menu screen, you can't seem to highlight the other crystal. I don't know why.

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Easter egg: If you have the Child's Play DVD with Chucky slightly turned and with a scrunched, evil expression, and while holding a knife, go to the bonus features and on the first "page" (Chucky looking down at Andy), press "right" on your remote. Chucky's eyes should turn red, and if you press "enter", you'll get a very brief, animated version of Chucky saying "I'm the original designer toy."

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Easter egg: Access the Cast & Crew page from the Special Features menu, when the cursor is selected on the Features button, bottom right, press left to select a strange missile looking button. This opens a page that gives a password for accessing parts of the Three Kings website.

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Easter egg: Not sure ifs it on the Standard DVD as well, but on HD-DVD on the 2nd disk, when you highlight 'Our World' and press left on the remote, Megatron's head pops up to the right and by pressing enter you view the DVD's credits.

Carl Missouri

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Easter egg: In the deluxe widescreen dvd, go to deleted scenes and keep pressing down until the reaper's face is highlighted and press enter.

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Easter egg: This in the normal DVD version of Zoolander. Go to the second page of the special features menu. Then highlight the feature that is right above the Mugatu symbol. Hit right. It will take you to the walk off rehearsals.

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Easter egg: In the "Unrated Version", if you go to the extras menu, go all the way down to where it says "Main Menu". There will be a circle to the right of that. Push the right, but another small circle will be highlighted within the picture. It will show you what they did when they cut off the eyebrow of Jason Biggs.

Chris Skoglund

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Easter egg: In the 2nd disc, go into the Humans Only door. When all the doors in the vault have stopped and have all been activated by Boo's laugh, hit left to highlight DVD Credits, and you'll view them when you hit enter.

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Easter egg: On the Main Menu, go up on the 'Play Movie' option on the Hot Fuzz logo. When selected, it will show an out-take of Simon Pegg jumping over the garden fences.

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