User blog:CPseries1232/Long post guys: fyi, im no longer adding a limit to whats on my blog post.

Time to analyze the H-E-Double hockeysticks outta this thing. >:D

— Enjoy! (I have WAY too much time on my hands, I love this kind of stuff!) Haha, don’t we all. XDRandom “Volume 3” Notes

-When Dipper first found the electrical box to open the hatch and find the book, the first switch he flipped did not work. If you look closely beforehand, one of two wires leading away from the box is cut. That may be why it didn’t work, rather than the idea I’ve seen floating around that it activated something somewhere else.

HMMMM. But then I wonder what that would do if it functioned right? :O It’s a pretty mysterious contraption. I have to wonder if there’s more of them hidden in the forest…

- On the first page, littered with unintelligible code, you see the numbers “6134512…” at the bottom. They appear on the next page as well.

Not sure if I mentioned this before on the blog. Definitely interesting. I wondered for a bit if it had anything to do with the code Stan uses on the vending machine to enter his little secret… place. But the code he uses is “12356”, so I’m not sure how it could connect entirely. Just a thought. <XD

-On the “floating eyeballs” page it is mentioned that they have no “retinal cord.” I Googled that term, but it rarely comes up, and it does not look to be a widely accepted scientific term.

That just means that they don’t have that chord that comes from the back that-if they were in a head- would attach to the brain. :) It just means they’re not connected to anything, basically. Just eyeballs. I think a retinal chord is that thing that sends brainwaves and information to your eyes to tell them where to look.

-On the bats page, (Check above image) “Desmodus rotundus” is the scientific name of the common vampire bat

That’s the Latin name for it, which the scientific community and zoologist community use for the “Scientific” versions of names. This is pretty common in books about monsters/regular animals and such. :P

-The strange “W”-like symbol that appears several places in the book can be found on the left hand of the gnomes page, inside of the red circle

-On the cursed doors page you can see another eye symbol and the number 13

For some reason I can’t find the 13, but there’s the eye symbol clear as day so I’m probably just not looking hard enough. XD

The number 13 is usually thought of in superstitious terms as the “cursed” number, so it might be there just because…ya know…cursed doors.

But at the same time there are many numbers that seem to reoccur throughout the show, and both 1 and 3 (as well as 13 maybe) do this.

-The “Undead” and “Cursed Door” pages have titles written in cursive, whereas the gnomes, eyeballs, and bats all have thick, chunky capital letters

Huh.

That’s actually really weird. I mean, I get that the pages are supposed to look cool and be stylized and stuff, but if the art team was doing that, they probably would have done more than just two styles, right? Maybe it’s a form of categorization in the book? :O That’s really neat, I never noticed that!

-Also on the Undead page, you can see the eye (with eyelashes) belonging to the dapper pyramid guy from the end of the opening. The book also belongs to the library, you can see in the upper right corner along with what looks like a treasure map

Yup, there’s that little eye.

Bonus: The building in the background of the Gravity Falls poster (“Just West of Weird” is the tagline) isn’t the Mystery Shack, or at least not the one on the show. And, apparently some people didn’t know that Dipper and Mabel are standing on a foot.)

That could possibly just be due to art design changes. I doubt it means anything secretive or anything. It’s a cool little note though. I wonder what the Mystery Shack would have looked like? :D

It’s been a pleasure!

YES IT HAS. Awesome post, thank you! Tags: Gravity Falls Decoding Gravity Falls