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[[File:Pokémon Movies 1-3 Gold Edition PokeCollection.png|thumb|Pokémon: Movies 1-3 Gold Edition]]
Pokémon: Movies 1-3 Gold Edition will be released on DVD and {{wp|Blu-ray}} in Australia and New Zealand on July 5, 2017. This release includes the first three {{bp|Pokémon movie}}s and their corresponding {{bp|Pikachu shorts}}.

This product will include four discs and has {{wp|Digipak|DigiPack}} packaging. The included anime will be the English dub. The DVD release will be {{wp|DVD region code|DVD Region 4}} and the Blu-ray release will be {{wp|Blu-ray Region Code|Blu-ray Region B}}, and both releases are {{wp|PAL}}.

While the DVD release will be broadly available, the Blu-ray release will be exclusive to {{wp|JB Hi-Fi}}. {{bp|PokeCollection}} will hold giveaways of both in the future, although no further details about this have been announced.

Specifically, it includes the movies ''{{bp|M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back}}'', ''{{bp|M02|The Power of One}}'', and ''{{bp|M03|Spell of the Unown: Entei}}''; and the Pikachu shorts ''{{bp|PK01|Pikachu's Vacation}}'', ''{{bp|PK04|Pikachu's Rescue Adventure}}'', and ''{{bp|PK07|Pikachu & Pichu}}''.
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While these Pikachu shorts were included on the out-of-print {{wp|Warner Bros.}}  releases of the first three movies in Australia and New Zealand in the early 2000s, they were not included on {{wp|Beyond Home Entertainment}}'s [[Movies 1, 2, 3 to be released on DVD, Blu-ray in Australia and New Zealand|2015 re-releases]] of these movies.

This marks the first release of ''Pikachu & Pichu'' anywhere since the Japanese version's narrator, {{wp|Noriko Sakai}}, [http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/movies/pm_lord_unknown_tower_entei/lord_unknown_tower_entei_sakai_noriko.html was disgraced] in Japan by a drug scandal in 2009. The scandal resulted in the short not being released in any form for several years, with it notably being the only appropriate short missing from the 2012 Japanese Pokémon movie Blu-ray box set "[[Pikachu the Movie Premium Box 1998-2010 release date announced|Pikachu the Movie Premium Box 1998-2010]]".