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[SPEC] Super 8 creature size and appearance speculation
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 		 [SPEC] Super 8 creature size and appearance speculation
Tried searching to see if someone has started this yet and could only find a similar thread within the Cloverfield game. Apologies if I overlooked it.

This isn't relevant, at least not yet, to the ARG but it struck me that until now I have unconsciously formed an idea as to what the "creature" looks like without having any real clues. So I decided to start thinking of what we can tell so far.

1. Able to fit inside a train car with enough room to pummel the door (unless it is telekinetic pummeling)

2. Based on the impacts on the door it seems to have at least two arms. This is very speculative however as it might not even have arms.


That's where I am at so far. I know at this point there is hardly anything to go on but, what do you think?

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If this has already been started please lock Razz


[Edit] Tagged (though your tagging was beautiful) - Mikeyj

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 		As long as it's a lion and it's huge I will be happy.

ETA: I am curious why the two methods of getting the door off. The wheel turns while something is banging it from the inside...is that two things or one thing with an indecision problem?


Then again, what about some sort of transformation like the Hulk...the thing starts out normally trying to open the door via the wheel but the transforming is happening and growing larger, causing the banging?


I don't know. I would like to know what that part's about though.
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 		Could it be Voltron shaped?

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 		Watching the trailer, you can see it moving around behind the rivet holes, as it tries to bang it's way out of the rail car.

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 		hmmm
well if it was a robot may that just on piece and the other pieces ar in the other crashed compartments

lol its the iron giant


or gentic testing on a peron with alien dna that they found?

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 		See I assume greys are in the film and the creature isnt a grey tho.So i hadnt thought much about it but something the gov added alien dna to is a good concept.Because I still dont think greys are the bad guys most likely.
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 		just dont
I wanna think about very possibility

the government could have found alien dna .....for the hell of it lets say captain coop did

they could have tried to fuze it with a person...or robot or an animal....w/e
and thats what there transporting....it was human and starting mutating

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 		Re: just dont
kikyo226 wrote:
it was human and starting mutating


All I can think of now is Splice.

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 		Well, technically we don't know that its a living being at all. I like to think that it is but who knows, really. It could be mechanical, biological, pure energy, extra-dimentional...or a barely substantial black smoke monster. All we know is that it's an "it" and whatever "it" is, it can smash through steel doors.

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 		Very true.Good point.
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 		More than Grays in the Car?
While this may not be the most accurate source of reference, one person on the Super 8 Facebook fan page mentioned this might be about aliens and children with advanced telekinetic powers.

If this were true... what if a child tried the telekinetic way out of the train car first, removing the rivets and turning the handle. Their method didn't open the door so its friend decided to use brute force?

If that were the case, i'd imagine the alien/creature to be fairly large (not Clovie size) but large enough to make that imprint on the train door with what looked like a fist or knuckles.


~marj ^_^

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 		Ohhh, government....must you always tinker and meddle where you have no business tinkering and meddling? You're like a retarded 8 year old with a lighter and kerosene.

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 		Im going to have to stick up for 8 year olds due to retarded adults out there who should know better lol. Smile
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 		Re: More than Grays in the Car?
ladywyntir wrote:


If this were true... what if a child tried the telekinetic way out of the train car first, removing the rivets and turning the handle. Their method didn't open the door so its friend decided to use brute force?

~marj ^_^



Oh no! It's Escape to Witch Mountain 2 and The Rock is in the train! Razz
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Here is some info as to the average size of a train boxcar:

length: 60' 9"
Width: 9' 6"
interior height: 13' 1"
Interior volume: ~7580 cu. ft
empty weight: 79,500 lbs
max allowable weight with load: 286,000 lbs
max cargo weight: 206,500 lbs (103.25 tons) per "car load"

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 		When I first was the trailer, seeing the "JJ ABRAMS" title, I was totally thinking a baby cloverfield or something when I saw the train getting dents knocked in it form the interior.

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