Best sci-fi movie easter eggs of all time

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Easter egg: This applies to the three-disc Blue Ray Combo Pack release. In Disc 2 with all the bonus features press left on "Making of Iron Man 2" and move down to "Building a Legacy." Press left there to highlight the bottom part of the menu panel. Press OK, to get a brief behind the scenes sneak peak into the Thor movie, directed by Kenneth Branagh.

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Easter egg: From the main menu go to Special features, you will see the options Commentary, Yearbook & Trailers. Press DOWN once more and a white horse type logo appears on the top right of the screen. Select that and you get the music video to Rob Zombie's song "Never gonna stop".

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Easter egg: On the main menu screen, go down to scene selection and go to the right. A small circle will appear on one of the gauges. Press enter and you get a little drawing sequence.

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Easter egg: On the main menu, scroll down to special features. Press right on the remote and the Timeclock on the hand will light up. Press select to see an explanation of how the Timeclocks work.

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Easter egg: On the 2003 Warner Brothers release of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, From MAIN MENU, select SPECIAL FEATURES. From HARRISON & BRADBURY; AN UNFATHOMABLE FRIENDSHIP, left click, male star's collar will be highlighted, press Select, a short feature on ARMATURES will play.

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Easter egg: On the "Special Features" menu, go to the bottom and select "More" to bring up the second menu. While on this menu, press Right on the remote to light up the small Bender icon. Press Enter to see the producers' hand-drawn charts of how the different timelines intermix and are resolved.

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Easter egg: On the widescreen DVD at the main menu click on the symbol in the middle for an alternate main menu.

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Easter egg: On disc one highlight the outtakes and press left twice. Spidey's eyes will turn yellow. Press enter and you will be shown a clip about the outtake music.

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Easter egg: Go to the Main menu, then to Special features. On the Special Features page highlight the little "New Line Cinema" logo, to open a page of credits.

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Easter egg: The 2012 Warner Brothers release of The Valley of Gwangi. From the Main Menu, select Special Features, From Return to the Valley, right click, the Allosaurus' head will be highlighted, press select, a short film entitled Gwangi And Vanessa will play.

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Easter egg: Go to Special Features. Go to the next screen via the More option. Hit up arrow until a ball becomes highlighted. Select the ball and you will see a picture of the crew and a girl give a long scream.

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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 the opening menu for the full screen version DVD, you have two options, to either Convert or Fight. The Easter Egg is available on both options. If you chose Convert and after the menu loads press the up arrow, you will highlight a part of the pedestal where Riddick stands in the movie. The scene available is a behind the scenes look between Riddick and the Lord Marshal. The scene is also available if you chose the Fight option; you just have to press the left arrow and highlight one of the knives to watch the same scene.

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Easter egg: To find out interesting facts about spiders on the DVD, do this. Wait on a menu for a bit, until the spiders stop moving, then move the cursor up and onto the spider and press select. This will bring up facts about the spider.

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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: 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 Deluxe Edition DVD, go to previews and there should be a couple movies listed below. Press down till you highlight Special Features and then press the right button twice and the dog's eyes should light up. Press enter and you'll get the "Zombie testers" modeling various make up designs for zombies in the movie. This can also be seen in the Special Edition DVD but under the Special Features.

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Easter egg: At the main menu go up once and a medium sized red splat will be highlighted. Select this for a trailer of Deep Blue Sea.

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