HoTS Collectors Edition

I honestly love Blizzard CE's and will likely get this one too.

Anyone who knows how Blizzard usually does these knows there will be:
An Art book
A soundtrack
Behind the scenes DVD of the game
In-Game goodies, I'm guessing special models for the Ultralisk or Broodlord. Oh and the portraits.
WoW in-game stuff, maybe an Ultralisk or Broodlord pet for WoW

So what I'm wondering is what do you think will be in it?

I think that for similarities sake they will put in a personal item for Kerrigan, much like they did with Raynor's dog tags. I'm honestly not sure what they'll use for this, perhaps there will be something in HoTS that she will pick up. As it stands right now they could put in her glasses from her ghost costume, but Blizzard will usually choose to make there goodies have a use, much like the Raynor USB.

I doubt that this one will have a comic book in it like the last one. I am leaning towards adding in a mouse pad, which is an idea borrowed from the WoW CE's.

So what are your ideas?

Below is a list of the contents of the Wings of Liberty CE:
The Art of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, a 176-page book featuring artwork from the game

An exclusive 2GB USB flash drive replica of Jim Raynor's dog tag, which comes preloaded with the original StarCraft and the StarCraft: Brood War expansion set

A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, cinematics with director's commentary, and more

The official StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty soundtrack CD, containing 14 epic tracks from the game along with exclusive bonus tracks

StarCraft comic book issue #0, a prequel to the comic series

A World of Warcraft mini Thor in-game pet that can be applied to all World of Warcraft characters on a single Battle.net account

Exclusive Battle.net downloadable content, including special portraits for your Battle.net profile, decals to customize your units in-game, and a visually unique version of the terran Thor unit

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Wargable United States. June 08 2011 10:04. Posts 106

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An ultralisk mount in WoW.
haha in all seriousness though it will probably be pretty awesome. I hope the music for HotS is awesome. They should go back to something sounding more similar to SC and BW... oh and they should fit in the "radio free zerg" song somewhere :D

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edc United States. June 08 2011 10:09. Posts 665

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Welcome to TL!

I think I would totally buy a Collector's Edition, though I think I should save my money for Legacy of the Void.

Also, are the StarCraft comic books out there right now? I never saw it anywhere.

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BurningSera United Kingdom. June 08 2011 10:11. Posts 5189

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give me a hydra plushy and ill be the happiest man on earth :DDD

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Mikilatov United States. June 08 2011 10:14. Posts 3896

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On June 08 2011 10:11 BurningSera wrote:
give me a hydra plushy and ill be the happiest man on earth :DDD

Heh, I doubt this would ever happen, but plushies would be so awesome for collector's editions... It'd be like getting those awesome harvest moon plushies with preorders.

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Noxie United States. June 08 2011 10:15. Posts 2175

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Anything with more concept art is honestly worth it.. the drawings are so amazing.

Crackensan United States. June 08 2011 10:15. Posts 479

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This will be the last SC2 CE I would get, only because I'm Zerg. You'd have to include something stupid awesome in the Legacy of the Void CE to get me to buy that.

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2WeaK Canada. June 08 2011 10:16. Posts 534

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I've been buying Collector's Edition from Blizzard since SC2/WotLK, I love them, totally worth the extra money. I personally love the CE thor skin, I think it looks amazing.

TheFunk United States. June 08 2011 10:20. Posts 5

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I didn't get the WoL but since I'm zerg, I'll have to get the HotS one. I really hope they have a cool upgraded unit like how collector's edition buyers got the cool Thor with the wings. Maybe an ultra with more spikes and general badassery?

Gescom Canada. June 08 2011 10:30. Posts 2748

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Torte de Lini Canada. June 08 2011 10:32. Posts 27004

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I don't know if I'll buy this CE with the knowledge that another expansion is coming out right after.
Just feels like a waste of money, even though I play Zerg and I want a special in-game unit.

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Highways Australia. June 08 2011 10:38. Posts 5733

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Got WoL collectors edition and will be collecting the CE for the next two expansions as well.

I would like some Zerg figurines and plushies.

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Firepaw292 Canada. June 08 2011 10:38. Posts 124

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On June 08 2011 10:04 Wargable wrote:
An ultralisk mount in WoW.
haha in all seriousness though it will probably be pretty awesome. I hope the music for HotS is awesome. They should go back to something sounding more similar to SC and BW... oh and they should fit in the "radio free zerg" song somewhere :D

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ultralisk mount in wow would be amazing and id buy the CE for that alone

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kethers United States. June 08 2011 10:40. Posts 451

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On June 08 2011 10:04 Wargable wrote:
An ultralisk mount in WoW.

If they do that, I'll have to play WoW again just so I can ride around on it.

Hikari June 08 2011 10:42. Posts 1784

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I used to buy the collector's edition for games - but over time the box just ends up in the basement and a lot of the extra goodies in the pack are set aside (ie: the behind the scenes/music discs I never touched). Standard edition for me.

I expect a kerrigan model, zergling/zerg crest keychain.
In game unit-wise, unless blizzard has some awesome new units - I think a special ultralisk (with extra blades?) would represent.

Kinetik_Inferno June 08 2011 10:48. Posts 1419

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I didn't buy the original SCII CE because I deemed it a rip-off. Worst mistake in a while. That Night Elf Banshee portrait is freaking amazing, and I really, really want the other stuff. I will DEFINITELY buy the CE for HotS

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Nagisama Canada. June 08 2011 11:23. Posts 1861

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Dammit, I read this thinking it was the contents of the HoTS collector's edition =(. Anyhoo, I play Terran so I don't think I'll be getting HoTS CE.

That said, I was extremely disappointed that the WoL CE did NOT contain a Raynor notepad. Like WTF? it was in the regular edition but not the CE, therefore, I am probably going to buy the regular edition for HoTS for hopefully an HoTS notepad!

Unless of course there's something absolutely awesome for the HoTS CE.

edit: I absolutely love the WoL CE's Thor model, so hopefully they will put something like that for HoTS for Zerg, but probably still won't get it since I don't main race Zerg and will rarely ever see that unit.

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Archerofaiur United States. June 08 2011 11:29. Posts 4057

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Baneling Plushy!

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Saanth United States. June 08 2011 12:42. Posts 2

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On June 08 2011 10:09 edc.initiative wrote:
Welcome to TL!

I think I would totally buy a Collector's Edition, though I think I should save my money for Legacy of the Void.

Also, are the StarCraft comic books out there right now? I never saw it anywhere.

Thanks for the welcome!

Yeah I haven't seen any other than the one in my CE. The book is pretty well drawn and is centered on the War Pigs (The mercenary marines in the story mode)

I will admit that I'm a bit of a digital goodie whore, I bought the Blizzcon stream for the pet they gave in WoW. And to watch the matches they had going, but mostly for the pet.

I am hoping for some bad ass looking portraits in this one too, just like the Night Elf Banshee or the Diablo Marine.

Hopefully something with infested Kerrigan but that'll probably be a Hard or Brutal campaign achievement.

I was thinking something like this for the Ultralisk skin.

Also maybe a pre-infested Kerrigan skin for ghosts, BUT this must be in addition to a zerg bonus. It would be way too unfair to always give terran the bonuses.

Also +1 to the plushie idea. I want a 2 foot long zergling with metabolic wings.

da_head Canada. June 08 2011 12:43. Posts 3125

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ill also be getting the collectors edition because.....

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