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Easter egg: On the 'Additional Special Features' on the second features screen press right on your control to highlight Gabrielle's necklace. Press select now and you will have the chance to view another special effects featurette.

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Easter egg: When accessing the directors' commentary, press right and you will find a 2nd commentary by different people.

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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: Insert Disc 2 into your DVD player. When you reach the main menu and "Action Sequences" is highlighted, click the right button. You will see a bus enclosed in a square. When you click it, it shows an alternate scene for the final bus explosion that may have been for the in-flight movie. DVD Version: 2002 Special Edition (includes extra disc).

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Easter egg: This Easter Egg is on the second page on the Extras DVD. At the bottom of the page, between the Setup and More buttons, a crown pops up. Clicking on it brings up the Easter Egg. It is called Monster Cam (it shows the scene underground in the How, when the Narnians come up and surprise the Telmarines). There is a camera put in one of the minotaur's heads.

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Easter egg: In the Special Edition DVD (with the white slipcover), in the Imaging Station, if you go to the top of the stack of the videotapes and hit the right arrow button, the TV screen changes to say, "They mostly come at night. Mostly." Hit "enter" to see a trailer for "Aliens," a movie James Cameron directed.

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Easter egg: On the Basic Instinct Deluxe Edition DVD, go to the main menu and click on Special Features. At the Special Features menu, scroll down and then to the right to highlight the icepick. Clicking on it gives you Sharon Stone's screen tests of 3 scenes in the movie.

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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: Region 2, disc 2 of The Mummy Returns there is a 'mummification featurette'. To get to it you must highlight and enter Egyptology 201, then enter 'In depth Look at Mummification' section and press right twice to highlight a scorpion. Press enter to see the featurette.

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Easter egg: On the Collector's Edition Series DVD, go to the Bonus Material menu. Click on the More button, then scroll down to highlight the brown box and press Enter. M. Night Shyamalan will show you a clip of another horror movie he made.

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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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Easter egg: On the Special Edition version, go to page three of the special features, go to 'main menu' then hit left, and you can highlight the knife that Jennifer holds. The easter egg reveals a selection of stills from the movie.

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Easter egg: On the first page of the "special features" menu, you will notice a blank space in the middle between "more" and "main menu" on the very bottom of the page. If you got to the main menu button and then go once to the left, a series of numbers like the ones Ben Kingsley draws in the movie will appear where that blank space is. If you select it, it is a short interview with a Taoist master about the "third eye" principle.

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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: From the disc's main menu, go to the 'Special Features' section. On each of the three Special Features menus that are in this section a hidden feature can be found. On the first page, highlight 'G'ed up' and then press the 'Right' arrow to highlight Cameron Diaz's mid section. Press 'Enter' now and you will see a 20 second montage clip of the girls. On the second page of the 'Special Features,' highlight 'Wired Angels' and then press the 'Left' arrow key on your remote control. This will highlight a box on Bosley's chest and pressing 'Enter' now will give you some behind-the-scenes footage featuring Drew Barrymore as she's having a plaster cast made of her face. The third Easter Egg can be found on the third 'Special Features' page. Highlight the arrow pointing left on the menu screen and then press the 'Right' arrow key on your remote control. This will highlight another box, which will give you access to short behind-the-scenes sequence, including a more than passable impression of Christopher Walken by Sam Rockwell.

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Easter egg: On the Special Features Disc, in "The Movie" menu under "Features," at the bottom, on the left, click on the curly part of the decoration so it's highlighted. It shows a cast/crew sing-a-long for the song "The Phantom of the Opera."

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Easter egg: From the Special Features menu, highlight the word FEATURES and then press LEFT. One of the markers in the picture to the left will turn blue. Press ENTER to see video of an avalanche that occurred during filming.

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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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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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