When it comes to DVD releases, I always try to keep my eyes open for potential double dips. When a popular movie is released with no bonus material whatsoever, you know it’s a prime candidate to receive a special edition soon afterward. But for some movies, there just aren’t any warning signs, and when that new version gets announced, you can’t help but feel a bit cheated. This week Universal announced a new 3-Disc Collector’s Edition for Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz, due to hit stores only a few months after the original disc was released. I knew that the HD-DVD version of the movie was loaded with extra stuff that the standard DVD didn’t have, but somehow I didn’t expect another version so soon.

Here are the specs:

Disc 1: Main Feature
- Audio Commentary with Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright
- Audio Commentary with The Sandford Police Service – Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kevin Eldon & Olivia Colman
- Audio Commentary with The Sandford Village People – Kenneth Cranham, Timothy Dalton, Paul Freeman & Edward Woodwar
- Audio Feature Commentary with The Real Fuzz – Any Leafe & Nick Eckland
- Audio Commentary with Edgar Wright & Guest
- Outtakes
- Storyboards
- Fuzz-O-Meter (Trivia Track)
- Inadmissible: Deleted Scenes
- Danny’s Notebook
- Hot Funk
- Trailers and TV Spots

Disc 2: Extra Features
- We Made Hot Fuzz
- Art Department
- Friends & Family
- Cranks, Cranes & Controlled Chaos
- Here Come the Fuzz
- Return to Sandford
- Edgar & Simon’s Flip Chart
- Simon Muggs
- Sergeant Fisher’s Perfect Sunday
- Plot Holes
- Special Effects: Before & After
- Video Blogs
- Poster Gallery
- Photo Gallery
- AM Blam: Making ‘Dead Right’
- Dead Right (1993)
- Edgar Wright Director’s Commentary on Dead Right
- Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Commentary on Dead Right

Disc 3: Extra Features
- The Extended Fuzzball Rally
- Video Blogs

Well, if you don’t have access to an HD-DVD player, this is one hell of a package. (Apparently Wal-Mart also had an exclusive release of Hot Fuzz that came with a second disc containing much of this extra stuff too.) The most interesting thing is “Dead Right”, a 40 minute film directed by Edgar Wright when he was a teenager, that served as the inspiration for Hot Fuzz. The 3rd disc in this release does seem a bit sketchy though, and I question whether it’s actually necessary. The Hot Fuzz Collector’s Edition hits stores on November 27th.

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