Iron Man 2 Possible ARG/Viral Campaign

[Heretic]

What I'm saying is, you're expecting, no, need it to be on the same level of The Dark Knights, right? Maybe they don't give a **** about a viral and was just looking for a way to release the trailer a little more unusually.

I bet you were all sorts of torn up inside when the teaser didn't have the Jokers handwriting all over it.

I dont need it to be as good as The Dark Knights. For the record, I didnt participate AT ALL in TDK viral. I didnt care enough to...freaking bowling balls and what have you...but this just seemed lazy. Either bring the goods r dont bother. they should have just suprised us with the trailer in front of Avatar or something...

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Did you mention the fourth picture at latino Review when you initially claimed credit for unlocking the trailer?

If not, how long was it from the time you spotted the picture that no one else had seen until you informed us of the picture?

Im just trying to clear the air for others who may think that the thing was rigged since a partner in the viral solved it. Other sites are likely to cry fowl over this.

Wait, so you're bashing the creator of this very site for going out of his way to help us?

Hold on, I think I can arrange a standing ovation.

 

[SuperHeroHype]

Did you mention the fourth picture at latino Review when you initially claimed credit for unlocking the trailer?

If not, how long was it from the time you spotted the picture that no one else had seen until you informed us of the picture?

Im just trying to clear the air for others who may think that the thing was rigged since a partner in the viral solved it. Other sites are likely to cry fowl over this.

A "partner in the viral"? Paramount sent me an image and said it was a "clue," and ask me to post it, that's it. I'm not sure how that makes us a partner.

Paramount and Latino Review both tweeted that the fourth clue was up on their site. Are you accusing me of knowing what was on the fourth clue before it was posted? Because I didn't know.

By the time I had input the code on the site the clock had already started counting down and it made no sense to mention the fourth clue on SHH and instead alert fans straight to the countdown site and then trailer.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I would have rather had the countdown info than the goddamn clue.

 

[Heretic]

Well, with all due respect...Hype was a part of this viral. You were sent information that no one else had and asked to distribute it. That is a fair representation of what happened.

I'm not really accusing anything. I just think that everyone with an open mind would look at the situation...a viral campaign that few people were excited over was solved by one of the distributors of the clues, before most people even knew all of the clues were available...it appears kind of...iffy. It's unfortunate that no one else seems to have seen the final clue before you solved the puzzle...and for the record...the 1969 thing was on the final clue, and that is something that interests us all so we are glad to know about the picture even though the mystery was solved before any of us saw it. Its a new mystery about 1969.

 

[Heretic]

Back to the subject:

1969 seems an odd year to be obsessed with. In fact, it kind of obliterates my theory of Captain America, Crimson Dynamo and father Stark in WW2. The Vietnam war was going on in 1969, which doesnt seem an appropriate timeframe for either Crimson Dynamo or captain America.

The Soviets were involved with a lot of space missions that year...not sure how that would play into anything...they may just invent some new history to draw on so looking back at 1969 would be useless.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Yes, I hope 1969 has some significance. Maybe the year Howard Stark invented the arc?

Edit: Iron Man

STANE : We built that thing to shut the hippies up...We haven't had a break through in that in what, 30 years?

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Back to the subject:


The Soviets were involved with a lot of space missions that year...not sure how that would play into anything...they may just invent some new history to draw on so looking back at 1969 would be useless.

in Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Vanko was a Russian scientist that suffered an accident while in the orbit of the sun, a solar flare engulfed him while he was in the Crimson Dynamo suit. He survived and came back to find the people who left him for dead.

 

[Heretic]

We landed on the moon that year...

The Nobel Prize for Literature went to Sam Beckett, so maybe it's a clue for a Quantum Leap crossover.

Jennifer Aniston was born that year, so possibly thats a clue that some major tragedy that will ruin the film will occur.

Okay...I have nothing...I'm going with your idea about the arc reactor.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

What?! IT'S DAMN GOOD. if you didn't live in OK, I'd drive there and call you to DUEL.

 

[Heretic]

in Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Vanko was a Russian scientist that suffered an accident while in the orbit of the sun, a solar flare engulfed him while he was in the Crimson Dynamo suit. He survived and came back to find the people who left him for dead.

I like.

In 1969, the Russians had the Soyuz 5 in space for some reason. That mission had the first spacewalk from one ship to another (Soyuz 4). Soyuz 5 also is known for having a really bad landing, its parachutes failing and all kinds of nonsense and the cosmonaut was injured in the hard landing.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

The thing is, he had no connection to Stark at all, Tony just went at him and started attacking him (he got his ass kicked though).

 

[Heretic]

that line about the hippies is in Iron Man?? 1969 was a hippie year...sounds like a winner to me. thats the year it was invented/Crimson Dynamo got Starked.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

that line about the hippies is in Iron Man?? 1969 was a hippie year...sounds like a winner to me. thats the year it was invented/Crimson Dynamo got Starked.

I did the math, 2008-30=1978.

 

[Heretic]

In 1978 there were no hippies.

Stane must have been just using a round number guess...Im happy with it being invented in 1969 to shut up the hippies

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Howard Stark worked on the Manhattan Project in WW2, he also worked on the SSS, and the Arc.

 

[Heretic]

So he was doing stuff for the military in the 40s and then 25 years later or so there was the 1969 incident, and somewhere the arc reactor fits in...still sounds like the arc reactor is the 1969 event.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Yeah, I Am The Bat showed a picture of blue prints with Howard Stark and Anton Vanko (or Ivan?)

 

[louiebling$]

For the record, I had no idea that Latino Review was going to put up a fourth clue, nor was I aware that there was a website that would "launch" the trailer. Right after I saw the fourth clue at Latino Review, I put the four highlighted words together and tried different URL's. When I found the site it asked me to put in a four digit code, which is found on Latino Review's clue. I was pretty surprised that I got there first, to be honest, and I would have handed this to another fan gladly. I was not aware that my name would be posted at Apple. In the end, you all got to see the trailer as soon as possible, so it seems like a win for you guys.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

While I doubt this is anything important, it's been bugging me.

What the hell does that say?

"Stark-...."???

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Stark-Government Contract gains?

lolwhat?

 

[Aesop Rocks]

You know the Germans make good stuff!

 

[kedrell]

Redd, is this you?

 

[kedrell]

Probably just means that Stark has defense contracts with multiple nations.

It was mentioned in the one article that Stark Enterprises has contracts with over 30 nations, perhaps Germany is one of them.

Yeah though federal law probably limits those nations to ones that are U.S. allies.

 

[Heretic]

That didnt stop them from selling to terrorists in the last movie.