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Can someone tell me about where the Anagrams for like the 'not godzilla' thing came from?

**Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:46 pm

zackdts · Kilroy Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 1

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**Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:51 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:52 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:01 pm

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It does say 'in theaters'

**Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:03 pm

tinag222

Athens - http://www.circa1978.com/catch/ehwr/ here's a trailer link for easier access. It does clearly show "in theaters 1-18-01" and - for Lola who asked - the significance to it is that a date resolves to the url for the site that was there waiting, complete with visitor tracker, for people to get there. Plus, the site's been up 4 months and nothing is there but the photos. That's not a case of neglect....they've had tons of time to put up a site, even one that had a little more meat than this. It's cryptic for a reason.

You have to consider that at face value as a marketing ploy, they took a large risk that it would be glazed over...the average person isn't going to come up with the inclination to wonder if a date is actually a hidden url. The movie wasn't even titled.

What made this work is that the people behind it already knew and had secured the fact that tons of people at Transformers opening night were already "arg" primed - they'd been all over the sectorseven.org stuff leading to the Transformers and would be 100% more likely to figure out the clues that others would miss....and that would kick it off.

I can't say for sure obviously but I strongly suspect that's the reason for the whois information being the same, with the addition of someone with names from Abrams' Lost show/game, as well as the placement of the trailer immediately before the movie itself. So far, from what I have read and seen, there doesn't seem to be an actual connection to Albert Pike or masons or any of that stuff in either the S7 game or 1-18 trailer...but the "arg people" were behind S7 and apparently behind 1-18, so it's likely that this is more than a viral marketing ploy in and of itself.

Obyj---

All that you pointed to specifically regards the Ethan Haas site and game. But the reason for dismissing it as related to 1-18 is valid - even in the stuff you pointed to, nowhere could you produce a link that tied it directly to 1-18. It was all stuff that could easily fit into EH ONLY.

Obyj34 · Greenhorn Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 7

I just think we need to keep our eyes on both and see where they lead, I don't know if they will intertwine, but they definitely both have destinations, too much money has been put into each for them not to.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:08 pm

ag1498 · Guest

Viacom/Youtube/Randomness

**Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:09 pm

AthensDawgs · Greenhorn Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 5

tinag -Thanks for the link. I've been looking for a place to watch this thing pretty much since I saw it at the theatre. So that is the release date. I think it also may be more than just the release date.

I agree with a lot of what you say, except the part about this being a huge gamble. Viral marketing and ARGs are popping up everywhere these days, and there are people out there (represented well on this forum) that look for them in everything. It is true that your average person would not even think to type in 1-18-08 as a URL, however the common ARG'er isn't your average person. All it takes is one guy to figure out it's a url, then post it, then it spreads like wildfire.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:17 pm

tinag222

I'm a working writer and I'm currently writing a mini-series in which Las Vegas is destroyed.

Yaaay! Finally somebody's laying to waste some other city besides NY!

Being that you're going to give it to Vegas, would that be on the side of nukes gone wild or religious prophecy gone wild? Or "other"? I know why NY usually gets it....but those two are the only ones that come to mind when I think about Vegas getting it. Just curious is all Razz

Atehns - well you are making my point....shorter even Laughing

I want to add this, speaking of viral marketing vs arg and noting the difference. One is a hype builder, the other is actually a game. If 1-18 was strictly set up this same way as a VM ploy, and as some articles point out, the simple question the trailer provoked is the lit fuse, they took a huge risk that it'd bomb. There's nothing on the site. It's got no content other than the 2 photos, or one depending on when ya first saw it. What would happen with the average person unfamiliar with args/games is they'd either go in to the hole via searching for Abrams/Bad Robot and end up with a link to the site, or they might type the date in, not looking for a url but to see what this date might be attached to, and find the site up top that way.

They'd pull up this page that has nothing but one/two photos. They'd drag them around a few times, click stuff to change which one's on top. Possibly figure out they could make the copies and discover the rotation. Otherwise, after about 10 seconds of dragging the picture around, getting no information, they're gonna hit the X button and chalk it up as pointless, or at best, not ready yet...and leave wondering.

And get easily distracted by anything else with more momentum - same way this worked out here when Ethan Haas was tossed in. It was moving, emails were being answered, there was interaction and videos so people are there "doing" something because there's nothing to "do" on the 1-18 site. It amounts to a puff of curiosity that burns out since "what about it?"

If they were relying on it as a VM, it'll be short lived and surely won't make enough momentum just off this so far to last til January of 08.

The whois link is what suggest game, as well as the fact the release date is a *hidden* url, and a primed audience was in place because of the S7 game for Transformers. But the same problem is on the table. 1-18 is either static, or there is more to the pictures than we've worked out, and we've not really focused on it much because of the EH stuff in the way.

Visitor counter means they wanna see who's coming and they'll be able to see where they're coming from. I don't think the site was neglected. They had 4 months to add 2 pictures....one was there waiting on the ones who found it because of the trailer....and 2 days later, a second one was added. They're paying attention.

But unless we're missing something with just what's there now, they need to throw us a bone here pretty soon or else it'll turn into the bomb and keel over a people are deadended and get distracted by other stuff, even if it's EH. If they wait a few days and add something else that's just as cryptic, it would be settled it's game, not viral marketing, and hopefully it'll pick up momentum here.

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**Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:26 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:29 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

You forgot "When Aliens Attack"
Independence Day and Mars Attacks come to mind.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:32 pm

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