![]() ![]() 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. Something that not even the Axolotl can get.Statue of Bill Cipher was found in a Reedsport, Oregon forest. OR maybe Bill somehow struck a deal with the Axolotl, and in return for his safety, Bill gives the fish-lizard. I think the former is much more possible, but a trend with Gravity Falls is that almost nothing is as it seems (except for the gnomes who need a queen, that part was pretty straightforward).Īs for revoking the Axolotl's name *shrugs*, who knows if the big fish-lizard will listen to him? Bill committed crimes against the multiverse, and the Axolotl might rule that it wouldn't be a good idea to resurrect him (honestly, I'd have to agree, but it would still make some really great fanfiction!). During that time, he did one of two things:ġ) Was actually permanently erased, only to be resurrected by the Axolotl at a later time, orĢ) Was somehow imprinted into Stan's mind by the ray, and only partially revived when Stan regained his memories. See, Bill was eradicated from Stan's mind, along with the rest of Stan's memories. This means that Bill is still alive, but he is no longer a triangle, and he now lives in a different time. The next clue is, "One way to absolve his crime. Well, Bill did invoke the Axolotl's name when he was dying. "Sixty degrees that come in threes.Watches from within birch trees. It is when Dipper and Mabel meat the Axolotl.ĭipper asks the Axolotl if Bill is still alive, and the Axolotl responds with, In the book "Dipper and Mabel and the Curse of the Time Pirates' Treasure!" (a non-canon book), there is one bit that Alex Hirsch himself said was canon. His dying message was, "A-X-O-L-O-T-L, my time has come to burn! I invoke the ancient power that I may return!" ![]()
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