He called it "Big Lebowski 2: Little Dude" and it stars Seth Green. Do you think he's being serious?

Obviously you do. No, it's not a real sequel.

:lol: that was off the top of my head but it sounds completely like what some executives in Hollywood would do if the Coen Bros. had nothing to do with it.

Sorry, I don't know how to post links yet, still new here. But using the new link put up from dvdpricesearch.com, the Best Buy site lists the Gift Set as including a deck of cards, coasters and a shammy towel (i saw this listed in the web page title bar at the top of the screen). Looking forward to more details, although I really don't need any more cards or coasters, would have prefered a toe or a bowling ball bag.

Big Lebowski (Coasters, Cards & Shammy Towel) - DVD... interesting.

This is Universal, so expect the over the top gift set. I do love the Scarface and Schindler's List gift sets.

Well shit, i will have to double dip on this for sure. Gift set for me, probably.

what the hell do coasters, cards and a shammy towel have to do with The Big Lebowski? couldn't the gifts at least have something to do with the actual film?

Coasters for your white russian while you watch the movie.

Shammy towel to rub your bowling ball.

Not sure about cards? haven't seen the movie in awhile.

I think a Little Lebowski Urban Acheiver's T-shirt would have been cool. I've seen those on eBay, nice.

Exactly. Didn't take all that much thinking to come up with that. All in all, pretty lackluster. They could have done something more unique than that. How about an audio single of Hotel California from the movie? Autographed by a member of the band? A CCR cassette tape? Fake toe(already mentioned)? A VHS tape of the fake porno in the film? or something like these shirts.

For fun:
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true fans of The Dude don't use coasters, man! ;)

a shammy towel to rub the bowling ball.. okay, but i'd rather get one of these:

http://growabrain.typepad.com/photos...owski_bowl.gif

a deck of cards, with Lebowski motifs might be neat, but it still doesn't really tie the DVD together. why not get a mini-poster of Nixon bowling, or a MouseRug..?

As big of a fan of this film as I am, after reading what is included (though, the shammy towel sounds sweet) I may hold off on this gift set. I have my doubts, and I agree, drink coasters are indeed un-dude-like, man. I would have liked it better if they included some other things, but still, I most likely, uh, may buy it man.

As I've said before, I'm curious about the actual disc contents. Although everyone says that the Coen Bros abhor special features, The Man Who Wasn't There had a commentary, some deleted scenes, and a featurette (if I remember correctly). Barton Fink had deleted scenes (did Miller's Crossing? I'm at work and can't check). Therefore, it seems likely that we'll get at least some deleted scenes (if any exist), perhaps a commentary (their commentary for TMWWT was decent), and the aforementioned Lebowski Fest featurette.

Now an Over the Top Gift Set would be sweet. It could come with professional arm-wrestling grips and a cap you can reverse for power.

What matters most is what is on this release. All the special features and what may have you. I complained about the gift set, but it's the coming dvd from Universal that is the real reason why we will all buy the gift set or just the dvd. Not the shammy, not the playing cards, or the drink coasters. Will Universal make this a dvd to truly own for fans of this film!

As a fan, the specs when released, should be very interesting, indeed!

There are Playing Card sets out there now, they were sent to the press to advertise the film and are very rare :) so I guess they may well be them sets or similar.

Still depends on what they do with the dvd still :D

My favorite Coen brothers tie-in is definitely the "Fargo" snow globe with the tree-shredder.

The closest we could get for Lebowski would be (apologies to previous posts who mentioned some of these):

- The set is a beat-up duffle bag
- A fake toe is inside
- White Russian recipe
- cancelled check for 97 cents (or whatever the milk cost)
- A small rug replica
- The Nixon bowling poster
- "Are you a Lebowski Achiever"? mirror

Id like to read little Larrys essay and maybe the album cover of AUTOBAHN or an alternate audio track on the DVD of bowling sounds.

the Swedish DVD for the film has a White Russian recipe as a bonus feature. i can't imagine they'll ever include that on an American DVD.

as for a small rug.. well, it's not a replica, but MouseRugs are pretty close: mouserug.com

the Nixon bowling poster can be bought at lebowskifest.com

the mirror.. i know there's a person that makes these and sells them.. they usually pop up on eBay every now and then.

Should come with a Creedence tape.

I sure hope they don't forget the Kenneth Loring commentary like on Blood Simple.

from davis dvd

The Big Lebowski

Universal has still to issue full specs for The Big Lebowski: Collector's Edition disc we broke last week. However, we can tell you what goodies are going to be included with the Collector's Edition Gift Box. For $49.98 you'll get a set of "Big Lebowski" coasters (for White Russians, natch), playing cards and a shammy towel. For that much money, a better gift set should have included a ferret, a ringer of dirty undies and an actual toe.

What do you mean two release of the film? Isn't it only out once before?

Some more info from www.dvdtimes.co.uk
Universal Studios Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The Big Lebowski Collector's Edition for 18th October 2005. The Coen Bros. 1998 comedy classic starring Jeff Bridges as The Dude receives the special edition treatment from Universal this holiday season.

The all-new collector's edition release will be available in separate Widescreen and Full Screen editions priced at $19.98 SRP each, and boasts new bonus features and digitally remastered picture and sound.

Features include:
English and French DD5.1 Surround
Spanish DD2.0 Stereo
English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles
Jeff Bridges' Photography
Making of The Big Lebowski
Production Notes

Available for a limited time only is the Achiever’s Edition Gift Set that packages the Widescreen CE together with The Big Lebowski Bowling Shammy Towel, 4 Collectible Coasters that include photos and quotable lines from the movie, and 8 Exclusive Photo Cards from Jeff Bridges’ personal collection. Retail for the Gift Set is $49.98 SRP.

Also available for a limited time only is The Coen Brothers Collection released the same day packaging together the new Widescreen Collector's Edition of The Big Lebowski with Widescreen editions of Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn't There and Intolerable Cruelty. Retail is $39.98 SRP.

You can see menues at that site as well. I really hope we get a little more extras than that!:whofart:
maybe all the extras havn't been anounced yet, but where is dts and that feature the bits talked about from that lebowski convention?

A bit underwhelmed, but I am still going to buy it. Hopefully more extras pop up soon.