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** And then of course you have the various "anniversary" collector's editions, each with their own artwork. The 35th anniversary edition was famous for being illustrated by then-unknown Alan Lee.

** Tolkien also re-released ''[[The Hobbit]]'' with revised and extended description of Gollum's cave, since Bilbo [[Orwellian Retcon|"lied"]] about how he came to possess the ring; the original version actually contradicts the premise of LOTR, since Gollum simply gives the Ring to Bilbo and leads him out of the cave.

* ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' was re-released for the film in a complete collection with new material detailing what Will and Lyra did, will do, or might do, depending on how canon you take it.

* The Easton Press produces fine leather-bound collector editions of books. These are specially made for book collectors and come in landmark series like ''The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written'', ''Library of the Presidents'' and ''Great Books of the 20th Century''

 

 

 

* For the DVD releases of the new ''[[Doctor Who]]'' series, three or four episodes at a time are released on '[[Vanilla Edition|vanilla]]' DVDs with no extras just a month or so after broadcast, with full series DVDs with lots of extras being saved for later.

* [[Working Designs]] used to make a living doing this. ''[[Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Complete|Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete]]'' for instance, was not strictly a special edition since there was no [[Vanilla Edition]], but it came with a soundtrack, little character stands, a cloth map of the game's world, and even a wearable replica of the game's endgame [[MacGuffin]]. Those who pre-ordered the game also got a Ghaleon punching puppet.

** Another deluxe game set from [[Working Designs]], ''Growlanser Generations'', came with a keychain, a wearable replica of the two game's jewelry-based weapon system, and a steel men's watch. They never skimped on quality.

* The ''[[Baldur's Gate]] 2'' Collector's Edition was released with an extra, bonus merchant available in game, with a second bonus merchant available to those who pre-ordered from the Interplay store or certain retailers. Files enabling both merchants for all players soon became available on the internet, and were eventually included in a patch.

* ''[[BioShock (series)]]'' has a special "Collector's Edition" which includes a special case, a "making of" DVD and a Big Daddy figurine. Interestingly both the decision of having a Collector's Edition in the first place as well as what it contained, was decided by fan feedback.