Tron 2 Viral: Flynn Lives! Countdown Ends At 9:30pm On Thursday
By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2009 2:00 pm EST
The following comes from /Film reader Benjamin O:
Hi!
I just spent a while compiling the 4 animated gifs into code, and found out that they use a simple substitution cipher for the symbols, the symbols that are available translate to:
œ = h
æ = t
© = m
å = l
Ø = e
¶ = a
§ = d
Ω = s
÷ = y
Δ = p
Σ = c
x = x
¢ = b
≥ = o
≈ = n
√ = r
Π = i
≤ = v
and there’s one other that I can’t read. When you translate all the symbols, the html code that results shows a table and a list of coordinates. I attached the html file I made. Unfortunately, there must be one more gif floating around somewhere because it’s incomplete. You can still figure out most of it, though. I attached the html file I made.
Following the coordinates going first down, then right gives: “Flynn Lives.”
2,4 3,5 1,1 5,4 3,2 4,1 1,4 3,3 1,2 5,2
Update from editor Peter Sciretta:
The website FlynnLives.com explains that genius visionary programer Kevin Flynn is not dead like everyone thinks.
The website gives a timeline:
Genius, Visionary, Modern Hero. That is Kevin Flynn. He came into our lives and showed us the limitless possibilities of the future. And then, all of a sudden, he “disappeared.” Some people believed he died. We don’t. We know that Kevin Flynn Lives. We’re not crazy, we’re not obssessed, we’re not lunatics. We simply have followed the facts wherever they lead. And the facts tell us that Kevin Flynn Lives. We are here for Kevin. Nobody can make us stop believing that he is out there, that he’s waiting for us, and that he will return when the time is right.
c/o Flynn Lives Organization
PO Box # 236
611 K Street #B
San Diego, CA 92101
Which is the same address on the post mark on the FedEx package I received this morning. As I noted in my previous post, the address is right near the San Diego Convention Center.
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Its possible that the Flynn Lives Organization wants us to meet up at that address at 9:30pm on Thursday night for the next step of the viral. Is it possible that Flynn’s arcade has reopened in San Diego?
Update #3: /Film reader Seth K and FirstShowing both noticed that a website exists at HomeOfTron.com, which was a slogan on the back side of the Flynn’s arcade token I received in the mail.
Home of Tron is website dedicated Flynn”s Arcade, which was opened on June 3rd 1981, and closed a decade later on January 15th 1990. Apparently the arcade ended with a bang: “Hundreds of Tron-heads lined up around the block for a chance to participate in the biggest tournament ever… playing on the original machine that started a nationwide craze!”
