> > > The best example of this would be, in my opinion, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Extended DVD. Yeah, it was $70 when it came out, but it had over 30 min. added to the movie itself and many hours more added to the extras.
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> > If you have a SAM's club they sell the special editions much cheaper.
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> > I hate to know someone spend sooo much money when they could have saved twenty or thirty dollars.
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> Actually, because it's Lord of the Rings there were actually *two* Extended Editions: one retailed for about $30 (and could be found for about $20), while there was also a gift set that included a bunch of extra fanboy stuff and went for about $70.
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> If Sam's Club was selling the gift set (with the bookends and stuff) for $20 or $30 less than $70, then that was a really, really good price.
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> Stephen

The Fellowship of the Ring set we bought came in a big box with the four disk set. It did NOT include any bookends or movie tickets. It was around fifty dollars I think.

Mrs Grishny