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A Rough Idea for the Monster Shape and Size
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das boorge
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CloverfieldClues.com wrote:
Here is the super-sized scan of the poster.



You can see the trees better here.


I'd never noticed that fireball lookin' thing in the clouds to the right of the destruction path before. I assume that's been previously noted though.

I don't know how many clues can be gained from a poster that has the SoL looking like it was struck less than a second before the picture was taken, what with the debris flying straight up and all. One of the buildings on the left seems to have debris flying off it still as well.

However, the buildings not being destroyed right to the ground seems to point to a tail rather than a fat ass and thighs I'd say...

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 		Actually, I'm guessing that the artist did not see the monster, but was instead shown the trailer and told something like "OK, man, we need a poster showing the recent aftermath of a big monster moving through the water towards lower Manhattan after ripping the head off of the Statue of Liberty. This thing is huge, as big as a skyscraper, with big ol' claws. Show some damaged buildings and smoke and stuff where it's made a path into the city. Imagine a giant 500 foot tall grizzly bear came crashing into New York. We want a realistic, kind of post-apocalyptic feel, with a view of the damaged Statue. Got it? Great! OK, knock us out!"

The artist probably sketched out a few concepts, they picked one they liked and had him flesh it out. It's just my guess, of course, but I'm thinking they would probably avoid revealing the monster to any more people than they absolutely had to. I'm betting that to this day, the actors couldn't describe the monster's appearance to save their lives.

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DougBThree wrote:
I'm betting that to this day, the actors couldn't describe the monster's appearance to save their lives.

Hard to describe what you are supposed to see when your character is already dead, and you therefore aren't physically in a scene with it. Laughing

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e2c wrote:
could u upload the full scan for me? maybe rapidshare or so? I would like to print it n put some up.

thanks


I'm not sure what you mean by "full scan"... are you asking for a scan of the entire poster? Unfortunately, the whole thing will not fit in my scanner. The pic above is the largest size I can scan at one time.

Might I suggest eBay?

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 		But..
Euchre wrote:
We have a few things to give us an idea how large the monster might be.
First off is the Statue of Liberty.
The Statue of Liberty is 305 feet, 1 inch tall.
It appears to easily be as tall as that, more likely MUCH taller.
The lines you see on most of the buildings represent floors. floors are basically the same height on any given building, so we should be able to calculate a fairly decent approximation of it's total height from the evidence at hand. That also allows us a decent reference for the size of it's 'hands' and/or claws.


What if the monster could climb up the statue?

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 		If you look at the tallest building that is damaged, the claw marks definitely look like the monster was reaching up to strike it (as opposed to the building right before that with the lower claw mark which is angled downward). This would likely mean the monster is shorter than that tall skyscraper, short enough the it had to swing upward to strike the upper part of the building.

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Euchre
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 		Re: But..
Feef wrote:
Euchre wrote:
We have a few things to give us an idea how large the monster might be.
First off is the Statue of Liberty.
The Statue of Liberty is 305 feet, 1 inch tall.
It appears to easily be as tall as that, more likely MUCH taller.
The lines you see on most of the buildings represent floors. floors are basically the same height on any given building, so we should be able to calculate a fairly decent approximation of it's total height from the evidence at hand. That also allows us a decent reference for the size of it's 'hands' and/or claws.


What if the monster could climb up the statue?

Considering the size of the swath cut by it's claws, that sucker would have some HUGE hands. Because it's clearly a downward swath, the monster is almost certainly greater than the ~305 feet the SoL is.
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Matt Horvath
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 		I might be wrong
I might be wrong, but I was discussing about the image and sound with a friend and he remembered a monster called Gamera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamera ... It lives in the water... it has a 'wide bottom'... There is also a cloud formation in the poster, in the upper right corner, right in front of the statue's torch, that resemble a head thing, could it be a clue? what do you think about it?

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Matt Horvath wrote:
I might be wrong, but I was discussing about the image and sound with a friend and he remembered a monster called Gamera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamera ... It lives in the water... it has a 'wide bottom'... There is also a cloud formation in the poster, in the upper right corner, right in front of the statue's torch, that resemble a head thing, could it be a clue? what do you think about it?

Hi Matt. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be Gamera in particular, as Paramount does not own the rights to Gamera, and an awesome new movie called Gamera the Brave was actually just released last year to re-vamp the whole Gamera franchise. That being said, there was speculation that the monster might be a turtle, as mirroring the poster resulted in an image that looked Gamera-ish, as can be seen here. I'm not exactly sure what the final verdict on the turtle theory was, but I think it's too cool looking to be ruled out entirely. Hope this helps.

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Matt Horvath
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 		now that I'm reading more about this, I think the Gamera thing can be ruled out because JJ Abrams said the monster is original, but seeing that thread about the mirrored image makes me wonder a lot!

Matt

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Matt Horvath wrote:
now that I'm reading more about this, I think the Gamera thing can be ruled out because JJ Abrams said the monster is original, but seeing that thread about the mirrored image makes me wonder a lot!

Matt

Well, Cloverfieldclues.com noticed in this thread:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21391&highlight=tortuga

that Tagruato (the Corp.) anagrams to A TORTUGA (turtle in Spanish) so you could be on the right track. Frankly, I'm not ruling anything out....even a giant, flying, plasma-shooting, cold-fearing turtle. Cool

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