# Are DVD easter eggs defunct?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 4, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dvd-easter-eggs-defunct/495335 "2009-05-04T20:49:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dvd-easter-eggs-defunct/495335/1 "2009-05-04T20:49:08Z")

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The “easter-eggs” I’m referring to are the scenes/footage/outtakes that are hidden in the DVD menu screens. The last ones I remember were from the LOTR extended DVDs where in some of the menus you could scroll left or right and a hidden icon would appear to reveal MTV gollum footage.  
Do they not put these in DVDs anymore?  
Even the old popular website “[dvdeastereggs.com](http://dvdeastereggs.com)” looks to be rarely updated.

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**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dvd-easter-eggs-defunct/495335/2 "2009-05-04T22:19:13Z")

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There are easter eggs in the \*Ratatouille \*DVD … but I don’t know if you consider that “recent.”

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**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dvd-easter-eggs-defunct/495335/3 "2009-05-04T23:11:56Z")

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There is one in the fourth Futurama movie, just released a few weeks ago. so no, they aren’t dead. They just depend on producers and programmers willing to put in a little extra effort to create something that only the obsessive (or those who will look for the info on the Net) will ever see.

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dvd-easter-eggs-defunct/495335/4 "2009-05-04T23:42:10Z")

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Do [Blu Ray easter eggs](http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/eastereggs.html) count?