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NickyTea
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TakeMeToTomorrowland.com

Can't say for sure that this is the start of the next TOMORROWLAND ARG (After "The Optimist" in summer 2013) but there is a classic countdown clock, which phases into randomly cycling digits intermittently:

https://takemetotomorrowland.com/

Looks like when the countdown goes random, it's loading a separate .gif into each number slot:


1st number:
https://takemetotomorrowland.com/clock/images/num_00s.gif

2nd number:
https://takemetotomorrowland.com/clock/images/num_01ms.gif

3rd number: https://takemetotomorrowland.com/clock/images/num_01m.gif

4th number:
https://takemetotomorrowland.com/clock/images/num_00m.gif

5th number:
https://takemetotomorrowland.com/clock/images/num_01s.gif

6th number:
https://takemetotomorrowland.com/clock/images/num_00s.gif

7th number:
https://takemetotomorrowland.com/clock/images/num_01ms.gif

8th number:
https://takemetotomorrowland.com/clock/images/num_00ms.gif

Looks like each is counting down at different speeds to appear random ... EXCEPT the third digit, which only goes from 9 to 6.

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automaton
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I assume it's counting down to the Superbowl ad/trailer. Disney uploaded a teaser for it a few hours ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1zSuujDTdY

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NickyTea
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automaton wrote:
I assume it's counting down to the Superbowl ad/trailer. Disney uploaded a teaser for it a few hours ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1zSuujDTdY


Oh, no question about the countdown part, I was just speculating that perhaps the "random" phases between the countdown segments had some kind of significance. (Long shot, I know.)

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Coraline
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I signed up for email updates a few hours ago. Hopefully something comes of it!
I've been excited for this movie since I heard about it. Very Happy

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Bob904
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takemetotomorrowland.com

Hi Gang,

While playing around on the website, I noticed some things:

1. If you click on the weird symbol to the left of "THE FUTURE AWAITS", it changes to the name Jules Verne. Click on Verne's name and it takes you to a specific page in one of his books.

2. Go back to the website and click the weird graphic again and the name changes to Gustave Eiffel. Click the name and it takes you elsewhere.

3. Repeat this two more times for Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla.

Obviously this means something and it shows a ton of information on each one of these. Maybe someone could capture this info and post it on here to decipher? What does it all mean, exactly?

P.S. Also, I stumbled across a Twitter handle of @StopPlusUltra which seems to be connected. Check it out!

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automaton
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I haven't visited the site in awhile. Nice catch(es)!

It seems as if The Optimist is making a come back, but Disney usually claim their ARG assets in the footer somewhere. There doesn't seem to be any studio branding on the STOP PLUS ULTRA sites. I'm sure it's in-game, but it does suggest things may be more covert from now on.

All the old Optimist content isn't around anymore which is disconcerting.

I guess we can call these Stop Plus Ultra people The Pessimists? Very Happy

Some links from the site:

A prequel book and comic, Before Tomorrowland, written by Brad Bird, Damon Lindlelof, Jeff Jenson and Jonathan Case.

Unlisted video (archived video from The Optimist ARG): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz-Op1oC7hE

Edit: Aw it's looking more and more like the work of a fan rather than anything connected to Disney. I knew something was suspicious! Ah well.

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Sam G
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Stop Plus Ultra

http://www.stopplusultra.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XffhTuqNqPo

Jeff Jensen who co-wrote this posted the youtube on his facebook page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_QnHowli3Y

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Distraction
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The WHOIS on Stopplusultra is

Domain Name: STOPPLUSULTRA.COM
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 48
Whois Server: whois.enom.com
Referral URL: http://www.enom.com
Name Server: NS1.BLUEHOST.COM
Name Server: NS2.BLUEHOST.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 15-feb-2015
Creation Date: 15-feb-2015
Expiration Date: 15-feb-2016

Suggests that this is OOG. However, the names on the main site ( Verne, Eiffel, tesla, Edison....when you click on the Plus Ultra logo) what do they have in common? Besides being brainiacs..

The pages for each

Tesla directs to https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19151011&id=AYsfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OkkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6099,3309895&hl=en

Einstein directs to http://www.google.com/patents/US589168

Eiffel directs to https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/tour-eiffel

Verne directs to https://takemetotomorrowland.com/verne.html

I tend to think there's some sort of connection and possibly a clue, but I could be wrong.
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automaton
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Together with Walt they're part of Plus Ultra, as uncovered in the original Optimist ARG. The in-game blog has been taken down but the Stop Plus Ultra site has a brief overview of the discovery: http://www.stopplusultra.com/?page_id=30

I want to say that this is all OOG, but has anyone seen this photo or pin before? It's new to me. Maybe it's from the Tomorrowland app but it isn't on Android so I can't check.



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Distraction
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I havent seen it, but I also have android too...Tineye brought up nothing too

for those interested...tons of pretty pictures here

http://www.stopplusultra.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/
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BubbleBoy
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Apparently there is going to be a meet-up/rally at the Anaheim Convention Center on April 4th at 10:00.

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automaton
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Hopefully we'll find out whether this is all official or not Razz

New prop that doesn't seem to have been seen before:

http://i2.wp.com/www.stopplusultra.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/FurtherBeyondComic.jpg

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BubbleBoy
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I purchased the book because: 1) I like swag, and 2) the product description mentioned "puzzles". It doesn't ship until later this week though. Sad

Considering the top right corner of the comic book has the "Plus Ultra" logo on it, seems a bit much for fan created content.

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BubbleBoy
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So small recap of the days events as far as I can tell:

Everyone arrived at the designated area at the convention. They were given some swag in the form of signs. On the back these signs was a code. The code led them to http://www.stopplusultra.com/con/

This led them to a box containing a tape recorder which had a recording that they then listened to.

They are all now on their way to Starbucks to get ready to upload what they found.

So far, so good.

Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=G_jlLW6QIak

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docwho2100
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thanks, is there a place people are chatting about this (IRC or such)?

BubbleBoy wrote:
So small recap of the days events as far as I can tell:

Everyone arrived at the designated area at the convention. They were given some swag in the form of signs. On the back these signs was a code. The code led them to http://www.stopplusultra.com/con/

This led them to a box containing a tape recorder which had a recording that they then listened to.

They are all now on their way to Starbucks to get ready to upload what they found.

So far, so good.

Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=G_jlLW6QIak


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