Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition: Difference between revisions

** Disney ''does'' play the trope straighter than most with the Disney Vault, keeping their movies rotating in and out of circulation constantly. So yeah, that movie heading into the Vault will be back... but not until enough kids have been born who've never gotten to see the movie and whose parents can be counted on to buy it for them. If you want to buy it in the mean time, better find someone who stocked up on copies and hasn't sold them all yet, because they're legitimately not making any more for now.

*** Keep in mind any movie that's in "the vault" can probably be bought at an online retailer any time you want. Gotta love a company that resorts to fearmongering (buy it now or you won't have a chance for years!) to sell DVDs.

* Almost anything released by the [[Criterion Collection]] counts as a Limited Collector's Edition. Films ranging from ''[[Armageddon]]'' all the way to masterpieces like ''[[The Seven Samurai]]'' and ''[[The Last Emperor]]'' have received extravagant presentations, some sets even spanning three or four discs. This dates all the way back to the laserdisc era, when Criterion pioneered the "Special Edition" releases of classic films like ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'' and ''[[Citizen Kane]]''. Some Criterion laserdisc releases (like ''[[The Fisher King]]'' and ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', for example) have contained extras that have never been ported to the DVD format. Another great example is the Criterion set for Terry Gilliam's ''[[Brazil (film)|Brazil]]'', which has ''three'' different cuts of the movie just to drive home the suckness of [[Executive Meddling]].

** The Criterion releases of the classic Danielle Darrieux [[Period Piece]] ''The Earrings of Madame de...'' and the sci-fi film ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'' included hard copies (paperback) of the novels they were based on.

* ''[[Lord of the Rings]]: The Battle for Middle Earth 2'' was released in this way. One of the extras is a palette swap of a regular unit.

* 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.

** The Sequel got this treatment too. With a Vanilla (Game only), "Rapture" (Game with 90-page Art Book, though was only released in Europe, Australia and New Zealand) and Special (Game, 164-page hardcover artbook, Soundtrack CD, Vinyl LP of the first games soundtrack and 3 mini-posters) flavors. The Rapture and Special editions where limited to a single production run too.

* The special three-disc edition of ''[[Metal Gear]] Solid 3: Subsistence'' came with a disc with the game on, a disc with an online game and [[Embedded Precursor|revised versions of the first two MSX2 games on it]], and a standard DVD with all the cutscenes and gameplay segments laced together into a ridiculously long spy movie.