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 How long has Slusho been sold in Japan IG?

[Dr. Awkward]

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[Finch]

[brettoniasam]

My theory on Hawk's post about drinking Slusho already, when it's not supposed to be in America yet:

...Hawk is a bum.

If you read through his Myspace page, pretty soon you realize that he's an unemployed, undereducated bum who leeches off his girlfriend (Lil) and his brother (Rob). I strongly suspect that when Rob moved from Minneapolis to New York, Hawk just "tagged along," and probably doesn't pay rent or do his fair share of housecleaning, yadda yadda yadda.

Anyhoo. If Rob works in Slusho's marketing department (a pretty good probability), then he likely receives a lot of promotional material -- T-shirts, free Slusho samples, what have you.

And Hawk, being the leech he is, "borrows" all of that from his brother.

[The Internet]

To me it seems that all of the myspace stuff is happening in real time in relation to the movie coming out next year so my guess is that an advert for slusho (if one ever comes out) will happen soon. The clue that an advert is coming/is around will probably come either from the new site or from rob on myspace.


I personally don't think the Slusho turns people into the creatures, i think the deep sea drilling off the coast of America is the cause for the monsters appearance. Closer to the opening of the movie we might even get signs that something weird/bad is happening near/at the site of the drilling. *fingers crossed*

[Melampus]

Apart from this ARG - we can call it that now, right? - the thing that sets this monster-movie apart from all others is the hyper-realistic, hand-held camera approach. The trailer is amazing because it seems like it could really be happening. That's the 'catch' or 'hook' or 'twist' or WHATEVER for this movie.

NOW, I know there's that stuff in the Slusho History about Noriko being/becoming a whale, but the idea that drinking seven or more Slusho's (or any amount of Slusho! for that matter) will turn a 5-6 ft. tall, 150-200 lb. human being into a creature with the biomass of, say, a blue whale - something big enough to rip off the SOL's head and toss it down Manhattan... this idea is not in any way, shape, or form, "realistic." In fact, without knowing anything about 'biophysics' I can still say, pretty darn confidently, that such a transformation would be impossible. Only at Hogwarts could something like that happen. Think about it: what conceivable biological processes could account for such a transformation? Even if, for the sake of argument, it was an alien nano-parasite that could intelligently manipulate human DNA or some such, where is all the biomass going to come from? The person would have to eat and eat and eat... so, maybe it's Noriko, since she's been missing and could have been out there in the ocean just eating this whole time. Even in that case, though, it would still defy biology and physics in a way that's not even remotely "realistic."

Instead, a much more plausible explanation would be that the monster has always been around and we just didn't know about it, ala BLOOP. Targuato just pissed it off by disrupting its habitat or its food supply, etc. That works. For a movie as 'realistic' as this one seems to be, the Bloop idea is FAR more likely than Slusho-turning-people-into-monsters.

OR, the monster was specifically designed/created in a lab and set loose on NYC, ala The Watchmen. That could also work, I suppose.

[Finch]

The Watchmen had nothing to do wtih a monster, they weren't that kind of superheros. In fact they weren't even "super" heros (other than Docter Manhatten). But the rest of what you said I agree with 110%.

[Melampus]

Didn't Ozymandius et. al. teleport a big-ass 'monster' into NYC at the end of The Watchmen? That's all I meant by referencing it. I know it wasn't a real monster in the story, but it was meant to be... wasn't it? (I haven't read it in a while). Hurm...

[W-Three]

Returning to whether or not slusho is available in the US, I sent a message to Hawk (he hasn't read it yet) saying I didn't know it was available in the US and how did he get his hands on it. Hoping the answer (if I get one) might answer some questions.

My geuss is, he gets slusho from an outside source, like if Teddy worked for slusho. I'm pretty sure that Rob doesn't work for slusho yet.

[Finch]

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My point about the availability of Slusho in Japan is that since it has been referred to as the second biggest drink in the Asian market, that would be solid evidence to debunk the slusho=mutant-people theory.

... because if that theory was correct, Asia would already be going through some chaos way before the events of the movie hits, and the IG characters / websites would most likely reflect such events.

Just sayin'

[W-Three]

Yeh, I think that the slusho-turn-people-into-mutants theory is completely out of the question. Its possible it acts like catnip to the monster though.

[Melampus]

Agreed, agreed, and agreed (to the last 3 posts).

I thought The Watchmen references on myspace could be a hint that some LOST related group is behind the whole thing (for the same general reasons that Ozy and his crew had in the Watchmen).

And, yeah, the fact that many, many people in Japan have already experienced the joy that is Slusho means that Slusho doesn't turn people into monsters.

That also has some relevance to the Slusho-as-monster-catnip theory. Given that Slusho has already saturated Japan, wouldn't the monster attack Tokyo instead of NYC? But, then, it's a big world, and maybe NYC is just closer to the monster's 'home' - so, that theory could still work.

[Dr. Awkward]