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[META][TRAILHEAD] 1-18-08: Possible new arg/puzzle?
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ariston72
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 		Re: PS
"earthquake"
tinag222 wrote:
On the video trailer - where they're watching the news report at 12:26? I think someone mentioned, also note that the banner under it reads EARTHQUAKE.

Is this a case that the news reporters don't really know what the hell is going on and are reporting crap....

OR

could this be a clue as to part of the event on 1-18 - that it's related to an earthquake in NY on 1-18 they feel is at the root of whatever the roaring sound is?


It said "EARTHQUAKE?", with a question mark. The reporters were reporting on mysterious noises/shaking/power outages, etc., and were simply speculating on the cause.

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tinag222
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I realize that.

My question was whether the "earthquake" being shown at all was only because the reporters were speculating, OR, if that is a clue itself - that whatever is going on with the roar was because of an earthquake at all.

They wouldn't just arbitrarily wonder earthquake over a roar. Something inspired the question of could this be an earthquake? As opposed to loud explosion being from a refinery blowing up shaking the ground, or a plane crash, etc. The roar itself didn't make them wonder earthquake.

And I meant this ingame, from in the experience they're having, by the way. What made them speculate it's an earthquake, is what I am wondering.

Ground shaking isn't the answer - I got that already, inherent in the question.

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SmokeMonstar
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 		Earthquakw
I think your right with the speculation of an earthquake due to the giant, shake, followed by roar and a explosion. The caption of "Earthquake" just leads me to believe that they have no idea what had just occurred and that was the only viable explanation left. I hope it is some sort of foreshadowing or clue of what is to come.

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emanresu
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 		Quake?
I agree, given that it's NY1, my guess is that somebody told their chyron operator to just throw something up there. Hence the "Earthquake?"

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SmokeMonstar
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 		Do we agree then
That this most likely has nothing to do with the speculation of the movie and maybe was just a scene from the movie.

PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:17 pm
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altruismandme
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call
I just called the number from the banner, using the number on the shirt as an 8. It gave me a message "this number is invalid, please try your call again." but it began "8177, 8177, this number is invalid, please try your call again".

Normally I wouldn't have thought anything, but more 8s and 1s?! Or do phones always do this?

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chico8102
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 		Re: theory
Ddeter wrote:
What if Cloverfield is acctually an anagram for the real title of te movie?


if its an anogram then here are then go here and type in cloverfield http://www.wordplays.com/fcgi-bin/wiw.pl

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FREEFALLL666
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 		Ok from the trailer, it appeears that the initial explosion occours at STATEN ISLAND, then when they get outside in the street the SOL head flys through a building and lands in the street. Indicating that something massive is moving North East SLOWLY..

The girls in the photo appear to have been crying by the running makeup which leads me to believe that they will miss Rob and have been upseat by it, Mabee they have heard a noise "roar" and that has snapped them out of their mysery in that frame. They discount it and continue with the party, leading to the next shot where the "daemonic" woman appears then the events of the trailer.

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nightspd
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 		has the Voltron connection been completely ruled out???
The reason I'm asking is...I decided to take a look at http://www.voltronblog.com, checked the page source and found this:

background-image: url(http://www.voltronblog.com/notlost.jpg);

Notice the 'notlost.jpg' filename. Have we not received a 'POSSIBLE' anagram on another site that indicated 'It's Not Godzilla'??

Upon inspection of the image, which looked ODD to say the least, especially for a movie that people KNOW is in development..however has very little details. The image, in fact, is quite large...coming in at 1580 x 1340 Pixels (2.12 MPixels) and 256 colors (8 BitsPerPixel).

Here's the image, I resized it for viewing purposes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59994991@N00/756364747/

Now this is where it gets sorta weird, I took the image and resized/sampled it down to 640x543 (as above)...and it looks like a strange image of Voltron, but all scrambled as if coming through via television static.

BUT that isn't the weird part. I took the image and flipped it to a negative image..and low and behold I found the numbers 20 and 08 at the top near (what I think is) Voltron's head.

Here's the negative image:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59994991@N00/756364763/


Now in it of itself, none of this is very odd given the fact that it has no direct link to our little ARG/movie..however upon inspection of the whois listing for this domain, notice the 'Created On' date:

Registrant:
Brian Reichle
3812 N. Lupine Lane #B
Calabasas, California 91302
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: VOLTRONBLOG.COM
Created on: 04-Jul-07
Expires on: 04-Jul-08
Last Updated on: 04-Jul-07

Administrative Contact:
Reichle, Brian reichleSPLATgmail.com
3812 N. Lupine Lane #B
Calabasas, California 91302
United States
(614) 507-4227

Technical Contact:
Reichle, Brian reichleSPLATgmail.com
3812 N. Lupine Lane #B
Calabasas, California 91302
United States
(614) 507-4227

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.DREAMHOST.COM
NS2.DREAMHOST.COM
NS3.DREAMHOST.COM


Registry Status: clientRenewProhibited
Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Registry Status: clientDeleteProhibited
See Underlying Registry Data
Report Invalid Whois

Coincidence? I'm not sure...I plugged that address into google maps and found nothing really, same for Yahoo maps..they both indicate there is NO N. Lupine Road..only Lupine Road in Calabasas. Yahoo! maps however indicates that that address is a business...LP Distributing, with a phone number of (818) 871-0506, the Area Code/Prefix lining up with Calabases, CA...however, the number listed above, (614) 507-4227 is a Columbus, Ohio number. odd as well.

Maybe i'm just reaching at straws..but it does look interesting nonetheless.

(moderator fixed embedded image tags to make them clickable -- catherwood)

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madeillegal
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 		i'm not plugging this site or anything but i couldn't figure out how to post the pictures linked here
http://community.livejournal.com/011808/

we covered one of these but not both

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nightspd
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 		I found a link to a review of the Voltron motion picture script...here's some KEY plot points that parallel what we know about JJ Abrams flick:

"Here is the setup: The Drules have invaded Earth and kicked our ass in the ONE DAY WAR. Humanity has gone underground. New York has been decimated and our story opens on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Drule invasion. Think about it, Earth was conquered by an Alien race in 24 hours."

"The Robeast emits a high-pitched industrial roar and swings its head low over the street. It swipes at the soldiers with its enormous talons as if they were in the way of what it's really looking for…"

Description of the events match that which were provided by Van and Ethan Haas. Description of the Robeast matches that of the creature thought to be in the City. Someone said they heard a Lion.

http://latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=65

Am i still reaching???

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madeillegal
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 		http://www.criticalgamers.com/archives/pictures/LionVoltron.11.15.06.jpg

=/ i'll be PISSED if this is voltron

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meph
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 		Description of the events match that which were provided by Van and Ethan Haas. Description of the Robeast matches that of the creature thought to be in the City. Someone said they heard a Lion.

http://latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=65

Am i still reaching???[/quote]

"It's Alive" not "It's a lion"... Was put through a clean up utility and definitely said alive. Already covered here.

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tinag222
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 		looks like it
Yeah, considering it's been cleared up that the guy says it's alive, not it's a lion - but it did sound like he said lion. Gotta listen closer and you'll make it out.

But mostly because from the link you provided:

http://latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=65 - on this page, go a little deeper to the View Film Preview link http://latinoreview.com/filmpreview.php?id=949 and you get 'review not available'

so try the link that says Exclusive Look at voltron under movie headings

http://latinoreview.com/news.php?id=2203



and you see pretty clearly that....voltron imovie is a cartoon.

And 1-18 is real people in NY.

Not voltron. Least not the movie about it - no connection...no matter how ya slice it. They don't have enough imagination to be able to link this movie with the 1-18 trailer. In fact, you couldn't even tie this to the Ethan stuff....not even by way of cool flash puzzles.

For the record, look for in game ties ins, but I still wager there aren't gonna be any because Ethan isn't likely related to 1-18 either way. It seems more like whoever is doing Ethan either gamejacked the hype (telling somebody originally it 'might' be related to start the round robin thing - or they discovered it got caught up in the 1-18 hype and they're milking it for all it's worth since it's getting airplay which would be what a PM wanted....and he's stealing limelight while it's a hot question.

If you focus entirely on th Ethan thing, and whoever's behind it doesn't just make up shit to keep this question going for their own gain, then at some point in that game/story there will be a legitimate bridge, one that is valid and NOT just conveniently handed over that ties them together.

Likewise, those who are focusing only on 1-18 will - through following just that trail, be naturally and logically "led" to Ethan and it will tie in.

But trying to speculate backstories on how they tie in, when nobody knows for sure just yet what's up with 1-18 - as in whether it's a game or not, that is - is not evidence, proof, or even worthy of consideration. It's a waste of time. It's not been confirmed for sure 1-18 even IS any game or ARG and before anybody on this trail even had time to dig into it too far, suddenly somebody jumps into the thread saying they believe Ethan is related and a search shows countless sites saying the same thing - this MIGHT BE related....but there's no ORIGINAL source for HOW it's related if it is....and if it was, we'd all have rooted out that original source, we'd have found the bridge and it would make sense.

The only things we have really that SUGGEST 1-18 is an arg or some form of it is that 1-18-08 turned out to be a hidden url and the whois information provided clues to argishness going on....if not a direct crosslink I'll point out again:

sectorseven.org - the arg for Transformers registered to Albert Pike (who is long past dead)

AND

1-18-08.com - registered to Henry Kelvin with tech/admin contact being ALBERT PIKE

and someone pointed out Henry and Kelvin are the names of two characters in the LOST series, which was created BY the same person, JJ Abrams, who is shown in the trailer as producer - and LOST had its own ARG. That S7 played a strong role in the Transformers movie and was the game itself, and that the trailer was aired immediately before the Transformers movie, that is a glaring link that the people behind BOTH ARE THE SAME, or at least in collaboration. Since BOTH the Transformers movie AND Abrams have been established to be well versed in the ARG, that link in and of itself strongly suggests 1-18-08 is likely going to be an ARG of some sort too. This MIGHT mean that the mystery trailer ultimately is linked to the Transformers, or S7...but then again, that could just be a clue that the same PMs are behind EACH one...and if so, then it's likely a game....

SUGGESTS IT, not necessarily confirms it.

If Ethan was part of it, there would be some link from the 1-18 side, or will be at some point, that leads naturally and logically to Ethans end of the world resistance from the future or whatever that's about. WHOIS for Ethan leads *away* from the above clues, not toward, not narrowing a gap here. Even the whois info has zero possible relativity to the above.

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 		Again, they say "It's alive!" and not "It's a lion." That Voltron stuff was dropped with reason!
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