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[BraveMax]

[TRAILHEAD] Transformers ARG?

[Yamato]

interesting, though it seems a little late for an ARG based on the second transformers movie, i'm definitely looking into this.

the code, as evidenced on the tfw2005.com forums, doesn't appear to be related to the login information on the site found - instead, when decoded, it is used to unlock content in the "battle for the allspark" online game.

what i'm more curious about is this site that was found - it seems like there's more that we need, possibly for the login, but if everything from the trailer has been found already, then i suppose we just wait?

[thebruce]

it could be a squatter... it's not an anonymous registration, so it may be that someone caught the url and nabbed it right quick.

[Yamato]

the registration info dates back to may 9th 2008, and was last updated in early march of this year, so this definitely was not a last minute thing.

also, i did some digging on the name "matthew cohan", and imdb.com lists him with some work on previous films by michael bay and was also a producer on some other of bay's films, his most recent being the 2007 transformers movie. however, imdb.com does not list him in the credits of the transformers 2 movie page.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

I'd think that if the producers didn't have control of the domain in question, they'd never include it in a trailer.

[Darkcoffeejazz]

The odd thing is I JUST saw a commercial for transformers 2, and was like "hmm i wonder if anything is on the internetz arg related".
Lo and behold I saw this thread. LOL.

Message I get for a bad password is this:

This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.


Credentials? I don't remember that. But I don't exactly go to password sites all the time, either.

Whatever. Where there's a username/password, there's always a way in.
Perhaps we'll be seeing that way in sometime in the near future.

[BraveMax]

Well - it's definitely asking for a username AND password. There are a LOT of glyphs in the trailer, but so far they all seem related to the online game. And they all seem to translate into numbers.

Anyone catch anything in the rest of the trailer?

[Nighthawk]

[thebruce]

Well, it has happened before - a url that no one thought to register snapped up by a squatter. Just sayin'...

The login is a standard secure login - IF it's IG, I'd assume the site isn't ready yet as typically that's what one might do - lock down the entire site with a secure login. I'm not sold the login is part of the campaign.

[Nighthawk]

If it's not a studio sanctioned site, it would be really freakin' stupid of Paramount to not secure the domain and make it free game to a squatter.

[thebruce]

Yes, Nighthawk it would... anyhow, with the connection of the registrant's name to all this, I'm less inclined to think it's a squatter. I still think it's just not ready yet though, not a password to determine

[Nighthawk]

Every trailer I've found online has it, but I can't find any trailers that were "leaked" from the day prior to official release. So I'm not sure myself whether it was visible in the theater version I saw.

I'm hoping it wasn't there, 'cause if it was I couldn't live with myself for missing it.

[Yamato]

a commenter on this blog mentioned he got a hold of matthew cohan, and here's what was said:

[intersect]

awesome,
time to bookmark the site and check back every other hour day week...ish

[Yamato]

(edited due to my confusion and later realization )

i was reading up on more about this site and i came across the "shoot for the edit forums" (which is the official michael bay forum, apparently) and there was a discussion going on about this site. what i found very interesting was what one poster posted: