Cloverfield Monster the Toy

Hasbro has posted pictures of the Cloverfield Monster toy. This thing is very limited edition. And at $100.00 a pop, not easy to get a hold of.

Figures.com has posted a gallery of pictures of the toy.

Features

Cloverfield Monster Features: 70 points of articulation and incredible life-like detail Authentic sound 14” tall 10 parasites Two interchangeable heads Statue of Liberty head accessory Special Cloverfield collector’s edition packaging In conjunction with the launch of the highly anticipated CLOVERFIELD movie release, Hasbro, in a partnership with Bad Robot and Paramount Pictures, has produced a super-articulated and highly detailed limited collector’s edition Cloverfield Monster. The Cloverfield monster is available exclusively through HasbroToyShop.com. Reserve your Cloverfield monster today to have the opportunity to receive it when it ships later this year. Limited quantities are available. Includes 3 “AAA” Batteries. WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD. Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years. Cloverfield TM & © 2008 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.

Slusho Laptop

On CloverfieldClues.com there is a post about a loyal Cloverfield fan, Austin and his spiffy Slusho! Laptop. The lap top was a prize in a Slusho! commercial contest.

JamieandTeddy.com (password: jllovesth)

There are 11 videos (as of 11-21-08) if you start from 1 it pretty much tells a story of this girls boyfriend Teddy, who is working to stop a company called Tagruato Corp, which is a drilling company and gives off a "Umbrella Corp." feel. Anyways, the videos don't tell a whole lot till about the 3rd or 4th in which Teddy sends Jamie a package which she can't open until December 9th.

After a few videos of her basically going "I hate you! you never call" she opens the package early to find a Slusho! hat, a sample of Seabed's Nectar which reads "DO NOT EAT", and message from Teddy which says:

Jamie, listen to me, alright this is not a joke. If you're hearing this before we've spoken, then it means that I've been captured by the company called Tagruato. Ok, TAG-RU-ATO. Now listen. You, this is important. Don't call the authorities. It'll screw everything up. Just sit tight and wait to hear from Randy. He knows to call you. We're on their station ok, and it's like they've found something, or they're making something, but the point is, I can't, I'm not going to be calling you again. You're not gonna hear from me again. I just want you to wait for Randy.. he will explain

[Jamie stops tape]

She gets all pissy and assumes he is lying and cheating. The common viewer gets that something has gone or is going very wrong.

Slusho, is a sub-company of Tagruato.

In video 6, Jamie calls Tagruato asking for Teddy, they have never heard of him.

In video 8, Jamie opens the packge of Seabeds Nectar, sniff it and makes the comment

"Wow, definitely opens my sinuses, that's for sure"

she than taste it,

"Tastes pretty good...Woah, what is this stuff that you sent me? I feel great, I'm gonna go out..."

In videos 9 and 10 she just goes off about hating him. 9 seems a bit more "hyper" which could be from the Nectar but I am unsure.

In video 11, which was released on 1-18-08 it shows her all dressed up. She says:

"I love you haha, I am finally over you and you know what, I feel like a whole new woman and it’s like it’s gonna be the first night of the rest of my life and and Lily is putting this thing together, and I’m gonna go to it and I don’t know why I just soo like I’m like uh the happiest the happiest I’ve ever been in my whole life and I don’t know I have like MASSIVE amounts of energy I’m gonna have MASSIVE amounts of sex with Schneider and it’s just gonna be great and I just think you should say goodbye to these breast (kisses breasts) cause you’re never gonna see them again and look here (slaps butt) I think you’re pathetic."

This is assuming after her eating more of the Nectar, the character "Lilly" is the same person who throws a surprise party for Rob, which is the same party. She is wearing the same dress in this video as she is in the picture on 1-18-08.com, and in the movie it self. At some point the character "Hud" is walking around the party filming stuff and shows Jamie, in the same dress passed out on the couch.

Jamies fate in the movie is unknown.

She also has a myspace: http://www.myspace.com/jamielascano

MySpace

The characters also ALL have there own MySpace, I have links on the side of the page to each single one. I highly suggest you check em out. If you surf all of there MySpaces you will see blog posts, comments and photo comments that help tell the story and round out the characters as "people".

The point of the sites in the first place is to help give clues to how the story works. May work, whatever. The personalties of everyone and just rounds the whole story out. But movie characters with MySpaces are more and more common these days. Oddly enough most of the season one Heroes characters have there own MySpace as well. Slusho! has been seen on Heroes before.

Chuai Station

There is a post about a the Chuai station blowing up and killing everyone on site off what is the west cost, near NYC. On 1-18-08.com there is picture of men driving away in a boat from the drilling site. This picture was added on roughly 1-7-08.

UPDATE: In the English news report I posted today about this event it shows the same picture but live action. As the station is sinking into the water you hear the same roar we are all used to and giant chunks of what may be the building flying into the air. You can find that report in the YouTube post below this one.

A post from TidoWave.com:

"Do NOT return to The Farm. It’s crawling with agents on Tagruato’s payroll.

It’s a set up!!! All of our members know our goals and motivations are preservation of Mother Earth - NOT mass murder!!! Granted, we’re not upset that Tagruato has one fewer “death station”, but we would NEVER kill to accomplish our goals. This is yet another crime on humanity that Tagruato is trying to push off on the innocent.

And let me be clear: we will not stop until we find our missing brothers and sisters. We can’t give up hope.

Wait for Janice’s picture. Then you’ll know where to meet us. Tagruato’s lies will not go unpunished this time. Something happened to our comrades – and that station - and we’re going to find out - even if we have to go all the way to the top!!!"

So what I think happened is either they where drilling and disturbed some creature that has been sleeping for a long ass time. Or Tagruato blew the station up for some reason. I think they might have been drilling for the Nectar, but I also think they where drilling for the "Nectar" or in other words, told everyone thats what they where doing when they where really doing something else all together. Either situation can support that they disturbed the monster. Maybe the Nectar was its food? Or maybe the Nectar is its "sperm" or something like that. Point is more something went really wrong there and Tagruato blamed TidoWave, weather cause they honestly thought they did, or they where covering something up.

More Chuai Station News Videos - English, Russian, and Japanese

Three more Chuai Station news videos have been found, English, Russian and Japanese!

English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KarNwKx5mGY
Russian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTXQVOs3Kxs
Japanese: http://youtube.com/watch?v=v5Lvl7FORI8

In the English version, you can see a website mentioned - EndOil.org. This site was made in 04, which makes me think there real and not part of the viral campaign. So don't bug em.

Russian Translation:

Celebration of the New Year distracted the society from the accident in the Atlantic Ocean which happened in the end of the past year. A huge drilling platform also known as the Chuai station collapsed into the ocean and sank to the bottom in several hours. The platform located in hunderds of kilometres from the american coast belonged to the japanese corporation Tagruato. At the moment the amount of people on the place of the accident is unknown. This video was got by news agencies from an anonymous source. Experts will have to investigate what exactly this footage shows. But now we know for sure that the collapse of the platform is not a result of enviromental cataclysm. Some moments of the video show that there was skirmish. All parties releated to the incident prefer to keep silence. We may only guess what happened there.

Some informational sources say that at the current moment there are ships of US coastguard but there is not official confirmation on that from the coastguard representatives.

This is the second video shot afterwards. The people on the video might be the only survivors of the catastrophe.
This story has an important aspect for Russia. The Tagruato corporation has 3 drilling platforms in Russia: the Suizei station in the Okhotskoe sea, Kosho in the Chukotskoe sea, and Koan in the East-Siberian sea. The most of the crew on them are russians. Are they safe from such kinds of incidents? We may only guess who could profit from such kind of attack and hope that interests of mysterious criminals won't be applied to russian assets.

Alexander Vasiliev for RNNS.

Japanese translation:

December the 27th, this was the situation on the Chuai maritime platform.
This shocking scene of a group of three to four people at the moment of an attack was caught on a mobile phone camera.

This full details about this event have not come in, the condition is at a standstill but, from a helicopter, a news liaison person filmed it [Chuai station] breaking and falling into the sea. Two Japanese people from Tagruato and five people of unidentified nationality are missing [location unknown].

Today is the first time this event has come to light.

Tagruato denies existence of armed troops on the Chuai platform, yet in this video we can see that these people are wearing Tagruato logos on their clothes. At the end of the video, the lifeboat is fired upon by missiles but no word has been heard from them

The spokesman is just saying that there is no loss of life and the channel is reporting to have received this late.
The families of the missing Japanese people have been notified, etc. The spokesman is saying that this is a difficult situation and that the environmentalist group TIDOWave is known to have been close to the scene.

A Norwegian tanker when returning to New York, ran into difficulties and all contact was lost from it.

In the Japanese video, the Tagruato memo is shown in English(?!?!), here is what it says (Thanks to Transparent Blue of Unfiction):

TAGRUATO CORPORATION
PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT

2 January 2008

In the news statement transmitted earlier today, January 2, 2008, for TAGRUATO CORPORATION, the name of one of the missing individuals is Francois Nouvelle, not Francoise Nouvelle as was previously reported. The correct and complete statement follows:

CHUAI DRILLING STATION - TAGRUATO CORPORATION reports that a serious incident took place on one of its deep sea drilling stations, CHUAI DRILLING STATION, located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

A comprehensive internal investigation is underway, but details are limited.

TAGRUATO CORPORATION can confirm that the incident took place between the 26th and 27th of December 2007. No loss of life has been confirmed, but TAGRUATO CORPORATION regrets that a number of TAGRUATO employees and independent contractors who were on the CHUAI DRILLING STATION at the time of the incident are reported missing. Confirmed missing are: Hideaki Sakamoto, Gerhard Ploecker, Tsuneo Matsuhara, Dr. Paul Nightingale, Donald Carter, Francois Nouvelle, Andy Young-Mun. Search operations are in effect and every effort is being made to identify and trace the missing individuals.

A further number of individuals are reported missing, but these reports are unconfirmed at this time. Press-reports are circulating regarding the existance of footage purporting to show the total destruction of CHUAI DRILLING STATION. TAGRUATO CORPORATION has not seen this footage, and cannot comment. However, TAGRUATO CORPORATION can confirm the presence of members from the activist group T.I.D.O. Wave in the vicinity of CHUAI DRILLING STATION. T.I.D.O. Wave is a clandestine group of extremists who have intentionally caused damage to TAGRUATO CORPORATION property in the past, and several of whose members are currently incarcerated.

News Reports on Chuai Station

News reports have surfaced on YouTube talknig about the Chuai Station sinking. They are in German, Italian, Spanish, and French.

Check them out here:

German Chuai News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhH8WQOLOL8

Italian Chuai News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo-SDvU0oio

Spanish Chuai News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqESrOQ8EsE

French Chuai News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0u1Cqs4WC0

Translations:
Spanish Translation:

[START]

This is an amazing story. Three short and highly dramatic scenes have just been disclosed, which seem to be showing the total loss of a rig in the middle of the ocean. The rig seems to be Chouai Station, which lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and sank a few days ago, even though there’s been no official confirmation of the incident.

This is the video, shot from a helicopter which is either approaching or leaving the rig:

[footage]

This rig harbors over 300 workers and scientists. The video seems to show it breaking apart and sinking in a matter of minutes, even though this kind of modern
rigs are designed to keep afloat under the worse circumstances up to 24 hours.

It’s something absolutely extraordinary. Experts are studying this footage and trying to determine the causes of this tragedy. Some sources even suggest the
rig may have suffered some kind of attack.

Tagruato, the Japanese company that runs the rig was forced to appear publicly and make a hasty statement when the footage was disclosed.

Their spokesperson said it has been confirmed that the Tidowave eco group was in the area when the incident took place and he maintains that the group has
infiltrated Tagruato operations in the past causing damage. This footage, shot with a mobile phone on the rig seem to confirm this possibility:

[footage]

Whatever the cause, the violence of this event was registered by the Seismological Institute in Ribadeo (real town on the north-western coast of Spain). The scientists at the institute doubt this kind of effect can be the result of a human-made explosion.

The incredible speed, the scale of the event, and the sheer drama of this incident are clearly shown by this last piece of footage, apparently shot by some crew members of the rig while trying to escape.

[footage]

These are truly shocking images. We have no news about the fate of these people and the person who was behind the camera. We can only hope they could somehow survive. It seems…

[end]

And also, the banner on the bottom of the screen reads "A loss of jobs because of the construction's (loss) is foreseen".

German translation:

About 1300 km from the coast of New York 3 days ago a drilling did sink for unknown reasons. recently we got dramatic pictures from the collapse of the platform by international news agencies. (man screams stuff i can't understand) The videos show the sinking of Inexplicable reasons which is also for experts hard to understand. at the moment of the disaster 355 workers were on board. the Chuai platform was opened in September 2007 and is one of the biggest drilling in the world. It is operated by the big Japanese company Tagruato which has it's headquarters in Tokyo. The high advanced drilling system was planned by the company Zwichau Engineering in Leipzig (Leipzig is an East-German town) under the leadership of the graduated engineer Dominik Möltken. we asked him if the collapse could be caused by a construction mistake. Dominik Möltken:"from structural reasons there are no evidences that a failure of the basic structure or of one of the security systems could cause such a catastrophe. this is just impossible. this is physically not possible."

Although the videos are of very poor quality it seems as you can notice a gun fire from the platform. In the past, Tagruato was already accused to have a big private army and experts investigate. At the moment if the escape-behavior of the crew is caused by a para-military attack.

Actual news report that people were killed, but Tagruato's spokesman denies that. Yet it is unclear if Germans were on board.

Italian Translation:

"Environmental disaster in the Atlantic ocean."

The Chuai station, the petrol platform of the Japan's technological colossus Tagruato, would be exploded on December 27th in a mysterious way.

Only today, after a week, there are some info/news about the fact, even if the whole thing remains behind a curtain of mystery.

The images which are you watching, have been made during the disaster and the causes of the accident remains unknown.

The Tagruato, in a official note gave to the Japanese media, talks about an accident happened to a company's platform and point the finger against the eco-terrorist group TIDO, that in the past would have already made some damages on the platform.

But a curtain of mystery seems to cover the event: some international media are showing images made probably with a cell-phone by a Tagruato worker.
You can see men with white and red clothes which are running away from something that we can't understand what it is.

From some American sources, it seems that at the moment of the disaster , the seismographers of the East-coast have recorded big and strange signals.
This confirms that something unknown could be the cause of the disaster.

On the Tagruato press note we can also read that the workers of the platform are all saved and alive.

This is only the last bad thing that happened to this Tagruato's platform: in fact the platform have been alway the target of various eco-groups.

Now, the work to understand what caused the end of the platform, will be really hard for the detectives."

French Translation:
New informations on the Chuai station, the platform that sinked last Friday off the shores of NY. Images where obtained this morning at the redaction office, but we can't identify the source.

[video]

So you can see it. The images are bad and there is panic. then we can see an armed commando. And look carefully on the shoulder off the armed men, you can see the Tagruato's logo.

A spokeman confirmed that an incident occured, explosions happened on chuai, but there is no wounded person, he stated. He then accuse tido activists to be at the origin of the catastrophe. After seeing the video, the spokeman stated that 7 person are missing, but deny that those images where taken on Chuai.

The activists accused by Tagruato, belongs to an ecologic radical organization from France. We must say that interrogations are formulated against the giant mining corporation in the US. Some associations have filed legal procedures to obtain cessation of mining activity on Chuai.

Mme Leclerc's part.

The situation is unbearable for the families. Listen to the mother of a young engineer that worked on the platform. She does not have any news from her son. " I don't know what hapenned, I don't know anything, I'm not alone in this situation. Having no news of your child is unbearable. No one informing us, I don't know if he's alive, if he's lost or if we are looking for him. The media have nothing to say about this. I don't know, it's total blackout here."

Many questions remains to be answered. Tagruato have opened an internal investigation on the drama, but we have no details since the group refuse to communicate further to the press. We are ignoring if there are victims, Tagruato speak of seven persons lost, we remind you that 355 persons worked on chuai, some of them have been evacuated but how many we don't know.

The Whistler Blower

Back in Aug 07 when people where ordering things from the Slusho! web site they where getting Newspaper clippings in there order as far as any was ever able to tell he had no clues. In November with peoples Slusho! orders they relived a torn up Tagruato Corp memo.

Translation:

You obtain, the batten

---

{TO:} Level 1 Temporary Provision Staff Member
{FROM:} Judgement Council
{SUBJECT: Trusting Those Out of Our Sight
{DATE:}11/24/2007

---

Effective Immediately!

Over the next few days, because of the incident that took place, starting now all letters to the outside will first
pass through our communication center, or they will not go out. Level 1 Personnel? They will remain where they are,
making certain to read the message from start to finish. (How will they know it is authentic, this message that is
dispatched everywhere? When it is inscribed by the ?.)

In addition, working hard/employment rusted overtime? As for the employees, they will be made to wait in their
appointed lodging facility until told otherwise.

If one witnesses an act of misconduct, and neglects to report it to the Council, Chuai's department bureau will enforce
principles and regard it as a violation. There will be no exceptions.

On top of that there was a hand written note, which reads:

American, The Chuai station hides a dark secret. Good people are going missing. Expect further communication in the near future. - the Whistle Blower

Hmmm can we say juicy?

UPDATE: I bought a Slusho! shirt after the movies release. I got a confirmation email almost right after I finished the order. After a month of not getting my short or my credit card getting charged I sent this email:

I ordred a Slusho! Shirt on Jan 21st, and I still don't have it. Heck, the charge hasn't even gone through yet. Whats going on?

This was sent on Feb 2, on Feb 11th I got this reply

Slusho! apologizes for the delay. Your order has been processed, but due to backorders in several products, has not been shipped yet. Your order will be shipped as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and for shopping with Slusho!

I think it was about a week after that I got the shirt. I did not get any memos or anything like that but my invoice says "N/A" on price of the shirt and my credit card was never charged. So I got the shirt for free.

On Dec 18, 2007 the owner of the CloverfieldClues.com blog received a memo from the Whistle Blower. If you read the article you can click onto a picture that has a translation of the memo, its a financial statement for the third quarter of 2007, with a table of the profits from each drilling station. Chuai is not on there.


Not to long after this emails where popping into peoples inboxes who had signed up for updates on the Slusho! site. However, they where not cold drink related. Screen shots of sonar images from a Tagruato computer where in the email. If you look close you can see the shape of the monster in the water. The theory is the monster is moving from the Chaui station to NYC. The screen shots are from 12-18-07, one month before the movies release.

Tagruato Corp site hackings

On around Nov 24, 2007 the Tagruato site was hacked.

The title was changed to "TAGRUATO IS DESTROYING OUR OCEANS", and the regular picture of Ganu Yoshida has been graffiti-ed - adding devil horns to Ganu, a tidal wave destroying a city, and various sea life.

Interestingly, the wave and sea animals all have roman numerals hidden on them, and the sea animals have hidden words indicating type of animal it is:

1. Tanner Crab
2. Irukandji Jellyfish
3. Dumbo Octopus
4. Ogre fish
5. The Wave, which is similar to Hokusai's "Great Wave Off Kanagawa"
   

Two days later on the 26th the site was mostly restored saying "Under Construction" in Japanese. By the end of that day the site had been fully restored. On Nov 28th 2007 the site was hacked again with the same exact hack and was restored with in the same day. The clues of this hack where since than solved by many Cloverfield fans.

If you recall, five items were numbered in the hacked picture. Taking the first letter of each four, and adding it to wave gives you the address of the new site. T.I.D.O. Wave. With in days the flood gates had opened and tons of fans where making either "I am so excited for the movie!" posts or posts that very much related to the point of the site. Which meant at that point, the comments could not really be trusted. Not with out serious thinking anyways.

Tagruato Corp drilling sites

Station	Location	Date Opened	Workforce	EU.R.R.
Jimmu Station	Inland Sea	Fri, Jun 14, 1991	176	5.4 billion
Suizei Station	Sea of Okhotsk	Fri, Sep 4, 1992	114	2.1 billion
Annei Station	Ionian Basin	Fri, Sep 11, 1992	124	2.2 billion
Itoku Station	Java Trench	Fri, Sep 18, 1992	91	1.5 billion
Kosho Station	Chukchi Sea	Sat, Feb 25, 1995	76	0.690 billion
Koan Station	East Siberian Sea	Sat, Feb 25, 1995	107	3.3 billion
Korei Station	Greenland Sea	Sat, Feb 25, 1995	88	1.7 billion
Kogen Station	Weddell Sea	Sat, Feb 25, 1995	197	8 billion
Kaika Station	Puerto Rico Trench	Sat, Feb 25, 1995	62	0.3 billion
Sujin Station	Diamantina Trench	Sat, Nov 7, 1998	314	17 billion
Suinin Station	Mariana Trench	Tue, Jan 30, 2001	273	13 billion
Keiko Station	South Sandwich Trench	Sat, May 17, 2003	207	9 billion
Seimu Station	Eurasia Basin	Tue, Mar 15, 2005	281	15 billion
Chuai Station	Mid-Atlantic Ridge	Opening September 2007	355	in development