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[gimlet]

So... I found something. Accidentally. Again.

I'm not entirely sure what it means. I keep ending up with more questions, not answers... Actually, maybe that feels exactly right for a JJ Abrams production.

Well, you know how a few pages back somebody made a joke about Google being in on this? We laughed, it was sillly, hilarious, right? Couldn't possibly be true? Well, there have been some odd things happening with Google and this movie.

I just woke up and clicked on the link in a Reddit post updating this movie's cast listing, but what caught my eye was not the cast.

valencia 2016 cast

So, in the little slider bar of related movies "people also search for" wedged between Star Trek and Star wars was an totally obscure old Troma B movie called Nightbeast. The interesting thing about Nightbeast is that the box art looks so incredibly similar to Cannibal Airlines I was startled.

http://www.avclub.com/article/don-dohlers-nightbeast-gave-jj-abrams-his-start-sc-228575

Interestingly, there are only two stills on Rotten Tomatoes for this movie right now. A closeup of MEW and John Gallagher holding up Cannibal Airlines.

And it seems Cannibal Airlines might actually be a little easter egg referencing JJ's first big break.

The same kind of big break he is right in the midst of giving to Dan Casey and Dan Trachtenberg.

There are also getting to be a number of similarities between the real companies referenced by this movie. - Swamp Pop, Troma, White Mountain Puzzles - all fiercely independant, American owned, operated and manufacturing companies.

Just like Cloverfield is the American monster movie.

This is increasingly seeming like a meta political statement by someone who's at the point in his career where he can afford to make one.

[kosmopol]

Oh, that's confusing and interesting!
Indeed, that's an ironic allusion to the whole entertainment industry in the US.

I'm feeling myself right now so:
https://vine.co/v/eulZOlZz0Dp
(note the capture)

Btw. (Very Meta), Music seems to be very present in the Abrams Family. I am since yesterday huge fan by Gracie Abrams with her powerful voice and amazing music.

[Nickknack]

Hey, long time on-and-off lurker here, decided now was the time to stop lurking and start participating.

I know there has already been a handful of people voicing that they don't believe there is an ARG at this point, and I think I agree with them. I don't want to add another negative post that doesn't further the game, but I thought I would add a thought I had about how maybe not having a game makes sense in the context of the narrative. Most of the the previous ARG took place in relative real time to the movie, so as we participated we were actively working our way through essentially the prologue to the movie. Based on the trailer for 10CL I think it's a safe assumption that this movie takes place either during or after the events of the original Cloverfield. Would it make sense for characters to be uploading things to social media and clandestine organizations to be hiding clues on the web?

I think it's an interesting idea to think about, but here is hoping that this Tagruato business turns out to be something in the coming days!

[OmegaLimit]

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[Falco]

http://missingteddyhanssen.blogspot.com/

im headed to work but the old missingteddyhanssen page has hella names and email addresses i had completely forgotten about. John Garretie, Ai Watanabe...Alyse Hanssen also mentions a usgx website she needed help figuring out the password to...Did we ever figure that out 8 years ago?

[Pixiestix]

Sent off a second email to Tag from a different email account, since it is now Feb. If it was all automated, then the date should just change automatically.

Did anyone ever get an email back from SP? I'm kinda annoyed by that - if they didn't want a bombardment of emails from us guppies, they shouldn't have stuck their toes into the pond.

[kosmopol]

[AeroMechanic07]

[tether]

[kosmopol]

Hey Tether, thank you, nice to see you again. (thank you for co-revealing password back to the 2008 in CloverfieldClues )

I found that the page is offline
http://www.usgx8810b467233px.com/access.htm

Dead end?

[tether]

Thanks Kosmopol. That was pure luck on my end, let me assure you

I'm curious if a new employee of the month will email Pixie back?

[kosmopol]

[bermudalife]

[kosmopol]

Oh yes, at Cloverfield times was "page refreshing" my most frequent action )

Respective TedHanssen, I have a hypothesis. It was (along with usgx) a Cloverfield DVD marketing story which hasn't really any development. Sure, we came to the hidden files, which were also partly on DVD. But there weren't much more development, it was cheapily done (compared to the Blockbuster ARG Cloverfield).

As a sidenote, it was used by Gamejackers or Fanfiction writers for further development in 500rads, which party destroyed my trust to this blog.

500rads would be nice spinoff, if it wouldn't be so hysterical and pathetic. Far away from Lovecroftean subliminality of Cloverfield ARG contents.

[bermudalife]