Fans utilized social media outlets such as Twitter, Tumblr, Periscope, and Reddit to communicate and share their findings. He also asked fans to be careful and to avoid trespassing and/or vandalism, since most of the clues' locations were in public areas. Hirsch also posted the rules of the hunt on Twitter, which clarified that the hunt was an unofficial self-made tribute, unaffiliated with any company, including the Walt Disney Company, which owns the rights to Gravity Falls. The top left corner of the image is ripped off. Above the banner is a diagram of architectural plans for the location of the first clue. ![]() Above the statue is a banner with some numbers that when decoded with the A1Z26 Cipher spells "PINES". Between the paragraphs is the Bill Cipher statue surrounded by various trees with branches and knots. The image featured two paragraphs of coded riddles with a few red letters mixed in. When decoded, the aforementioned hashtag translates to "#CIPHERHUNT". Both Hirsch and the show's team did not talk about the presence of a statue in the months following the show's end until Jwhen Hirsch tweeted "Are you guys ready?" and began the hunt with a tweet containing the words "Let the games begin #FLSKHUKXQW" and an image that contained several cryptograms and clues. The Hunt Starting phase įans of Gravity Falls started speculating that a real-life statue of Bill Cipher exists somewhere in the world based on the end of the series' final episode, which contained both the brief clip of the Bill Cipher statue and an encoded riddle hinting at the presence of buried treasure "deep within the woods" and a statue "beyond the rusty gates". After the finale aired on Disney XD on February 15, 2016, Hirsch took a trip to a couple of conventions and vacation spots and he would secretly leave behind a clue for the hunt at every place he visited. They then drove the statue up to Reedsport, installed the statue in the ground, and recorded a few seconds of footage of the statue to insert into the end of Gravity Falls' series finale, " Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls". Hirsch then took a trip to Reedsport, Oregon and found a woman who was willing to let him install a statue on her property that people would hunt for. They rubbed glue with seeds in it on the statue, so that it would start to grow moss and look like it had been in the woods for years. Hirsch got a friend of a friend of his, Fon Davis, a prop fabricator for movies and a judge on the ABC robot combat game show BattleBots, to design and build a statue of Bill Cipher out of plexiglass, as it's made to withstand the elements. Worrel designed a spreadsheet of all of the locations that would be used in the hunt. Hirsch recruited the show's art director Ian Worrel to assist him with planning out the hunt. ![]() He very quickly came up with the idea of sending fans on a worldwide treasure hunt for a real life Bill Cipher statue. As Gravity Falls is a show about mystery, Hirsch wanted to give fans one final mystery that no one was expecting and that no show had ever done before. In the Gravity Falls behind the scenes documentary One Crazy Summer, which was included as a special feature in the Gravity Falls: The Complete Series collector's edition DVD box set released by Shout! Factory, series creator Alex Hirsch discussed the origins of the Cipher Hunt. The statue was later taken by local authorities due to a property dispute and was temporarily displayed at Bicentennial Park in Reedsport, before it was relocated permanently to Confusion Hill, a roadside attraction in Piercy, California. The Cipher Hunt began on Jin Saint Petersburg, Russia, and concluded on Augin a forest in Reedsport, Oregon, where the statue was found. The hunt involved retrieving and decoding clues hidden in various locations worldwide. The goal was to find the real-life statue of the series' antagonist Bill Cipher, which was briefly glimpsed at the end of the series finale. The Cipher Hunt was an alternate reality game and international scavenger hunt created by animator and voice actor Alex Hirsch based on his animated series Gravity Falls. It was later removed and temporarily placed at Reedsport's Bicentennial Park, before being permanently relocated to Confusion Hill in Piercy, California. Statue of Bill Cipher was found in a Reedsport, Oregon forest.
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