WMG / Gravity Falls Real Life

Theories about the production of the show in real life.

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Alex Hirsch

Alex Hirsch reads TV Tropes

See the above theory about Gideon being a living puppet? Bill joked about it.

• Actually, a lot of theories here got a Shout-Out in that episode. Like Soos being Stan's stepson ("I love Soos like a son") and the one about him being the Big Bad (Bill poses as Soos to find the door) and all the guessing over what's behind the freaking vending machine.
  • The writers for Phineas and Ferb read TVTropes, too. It's a bit of a stretch, but maybe they're the ones who told him about it? Then again, I don't know if they've actually met before...
  • The sneak peek for "Gideon Rises" shows a picture of Stan in a devil costume (he says it was taken out of context) which is probably a joke about the "Stan=Satan" theory
    • That picture was taken out of context!

The writers are tropers.

The previews for "Society of the Blindeye" give the question of the identity of the Author. Among the options are some ideas from this very page - Gideon, Mc Guckett, Dipper's future self.

• Either that, or this is a big coincidence.

Alex Hirsch is purposefully adding WMGs to throw us off and/or spreading fan theories after there were no surprises in Season 1

Last season, several of these guesses were confirmed (like Stan having book 1 and Blendin being a time traveler) were confirmed, so Alex Hirsch has been messing with us. We know he faked the Old Man McGucket screenshot, and it seems like he purposefully didn't reveal Robbie's last name to build suspense. Hence, I believe that Stan having a twin was made up after Hirsch realized that his other drawings of Young Stan looked different. (Even if Stan does have a long-lost twin, he probably is/wasn't named Stanley)

• What if Alex added that WMG? What if Alex added this reply? He's inside our heads!
  • If we learned anything from the faked leak, its that Alex Hirsch is a lying liar who lies. TRUST NO ONE!!!

Hirsh is helping bring about the apocalypse.

This isn't a serious WMG, but let's pretend for a moment, shall we?

In the AMA, not only was it implied that Bill was possessing Alex, but he also claimed that images of him gave him power and allowed him to peer into our world.

Now imagine that you are a dream demon trying to spread your image everywhere to take over the world. Why not make a deal with a young cartoonist? You provide great ideas and a network willing to produce his cartoon, he gives you exposure and a fandom willing to draw hundreds of images of you (and also occasional use of his body). And no one will ever realize that the coming apocalypse is coming to them.

Because it's just a cartoon.

• To add even more fuel to the flames, with the story of his defeat in the Gravity Falls dimension out, he now has Alex goading young fans into finding his statue in the hopes of bringing himself back.

• Well, if the multiple dreams that the fandom has about Bill Cipher says anything... (Including yours truly.)

Alex Hirsch is markmak.

If not that, then the two will meet each other some day.

• Jossed. Mark Mak is from Hong Kong.

Adaptations

The series will have a movie and/or end with The Movie (if there ever is one)

• Just because it can? Maybe the movie would become canon somehow in the cartoon.

Gravity Falls will have a console video game.

And it will be a point and click adventure game. Because that genre would suit Gravity Falls perfectly.

• Or maybe it'll be a first person game, and you play as Dipper and Mabel at the start, then you get to unlock a whole load of characters later. Also, Mabel has her Grappling Hook, as an ability of some sort.
• And it will probably be in the adventure/action or fighting genre.
• If it ever happens than Fight Fighters must be a minigame.
• Or maybe Dipper and Mabel will appear in Disney Infinity.
  • Confirmed! Or at least hinted at.

Disneyland will make a Gravity Falls ride.

Perhaps the most inevitable thing of all. Most likely it will be relegated to California Adventures due to not exactly fitting the "Disneyland Experience", but there's seriously no reason not to:

• Fits right in between the Woodland area of the park and the Airfield (Not to step on any toes, but I'd be ok with it replacing Goofy's Air school. Not worth a 40-minute wait. Not at all.)
• Comes with a built-in gift shop a la the one and only Mystery Shack that the ride could empty out into like The Hollywood Tower.
• Could borrow elements from several other rides:
  • Flashlight-mounted to carts that reflect on parts of the ride, complete with Midway-Mania style "Sleuth-score" for finding hidden stuff inside the ride.
  • Shout outs to the Haunted Mansion, Tower of Terror and other rides: extendable forest walkway/line divider with Bigfoot tracks, intentionally faulty elevator room that jams about a foot short from expected height, Plank leading into/out of the Mystery Shack that triggers the "S" in Shack to fall forward on a drawbridge-like hinge, the like.
• And best of all: A three-story drop from the attic (yeah, it's mostly a haunted house) to the basement that no one riding the ride first time around will expect. Preceded by a shrieky witch's ghost.
• All in all, the most thrilling ride Disney's built in years.
• If they make a version for Walt Disney World, they could put it in the Magic Kingdom's Fronteirland or Liberty Square.
  • If they put it in Disney World, it's much more likely to go into Hollywood studios, which is where attractions based off of more recent movies and TV shows go for the most part.
• How about it would be a American version of "Mystic Manor" from "Hong Kong Disneyland" but with a Gravity Falls theme... replace Mystic Manor with the Mystery Shack, Lord Henry Mystic with Grunkle Stan Pines, and instead of Albert playing with the music box which makes everything in Mystic Manor come to life, it would be Mabel playing with the music box which makes everything in Mystery Shack come to life while Dipper tries to undo the music box's magic, oh and either use Gideon or the Gremoblin to replace the monkey king near the end of the ride. I kinda got the idea from how Gravity Falls is a pretty good disney series and because it would be the opposite of Tokyo Disneysea's version of "Tower of Terror" because in America and France it had a Twilight Zone theme... well the Oriental Land Company didn't want to pay Disney and CBS to use the Twilight Zone name and because not many people in Japan are fans of the Twilight Zone despite the movie and the 80's series was released there. Plus having a Audio-Animatronic Grunkle Stan would make Alex Hirsh's dream come true.

Other

The photos in the credits sequence will change for Season 2 to feature villains for that season's episodes.

The "Adam WarRock Gravity Falls Theme" will be featured in the show at some point.

Alex Hirsch knows that it exists and claims to have liked it.

An ambitious six-season story arc has been planned.

Each season will cover one summer. This will mirror the six years the author of the Books spent researching Gravity Falls.

• Kinda sorta jossed since Word of God says the first three seasons will deal with the first summer.

The DVD covers for complete seasons will be designed to look like the journals

Wouldn't that be pretty cool?

• Yes, yes it would.
  • Sort of confirmed, the first six episodes are coming out on DVD some time in the next month or so. The package includes the DVD, a Gravity Falls poster...and Book 3.

Robbie and Tambry getting together was a direct Take That! to DunGwen.

• A punk and a goth, becoming a couple and making everyone angry by its very existence.

The animation for the next episode's theme song will change for said episode

Since the last episode revealed Stan's brother and Alex indicated that the next episode will be a Whole Episode Flashback, the theme song animation with change accordingly, showing the two Stans in place of Dipper and Mabel, maybe younger McGucket in place of Stan, and everything in sepia.

• For the most part, jossed. However, the opening credits do change in one regard: the photo montage now includes a picture of Ford holding Journal #1.

Somewhere in the Real Oregon, near where Gravity Falls would be, the defeated, statue form of Bill is waiting.

• Dipper's final speech and the message on the bus seems to imply something is out there. And if the last few seconds of the show indicate anything, it's a statue of Bill.
  • I want to believe.
• The hunt is on! The first clue is in Russia, and it has been found. Next stop, Japan!
• The most recent clue leads to Ochre Court in Newport, Rhode Island, but some of the nuns there have already found the clue and removed it as they thought it was grafitti. Salve Regina University, where the court is found, is working to find the lost clue. Alex has promised to get things back on track despite the setback. Fellow fans, the hunt will continue!!
  • My friends, it has been found! It is located in Reedsport, Oregon, for anyone who wants to see it in all its glory.

Bill's Villain Song was cut because it couldn't logically fit anywhere in Weirdmaggedon: Part 1.

• If it had been placed in the cold open, it would have moved certain parts of the plot along too fast, such as Bill turning all of the townsfolk into statues, (turning Durland into one was probably fit in because it was only one person) and it also would have taken up most of the cold opening itself. Put it in the scene where the journals are burnt, and certain lines wouldn't make sense because the events they described would have ready happened. Bill doesn't show up again in the actual episode after that, so the song couldn't be put in the episode after that scene. In short, while the song is good (although YMMV in that regard), it couldn't be put into the appropriate episode without not making chronological sense and/or messing with the established plotline.

There will eventually be a Christmas Episode Special

It will take place after the show and be centered around the end of the Maya Long Count (21st December 2012). Since the Grunkles are no longer in Gravity Falls, the episode could easily take place anywhere else - and since the 2012 scare originated with the Maya, what about Mexico - or more specifically, Yucatan? Soos, being Mexican, would provide a connection explaining the location - he could be visiting his grandfather or some other relative and invite the kids.

As for what exactly will happen, it could involve some Mesoamerican monsters, possibly the return of Bill, and maybe Mabel and Dipper somehow channeling the spirits of the Maya Hero Twins.

The instance of Fridge Horror originating from the tie in game was a minor spat of Armed with Canon where someone who agreed with Ford wanted to make it canon in the most literal way possible.

• It's just such an overtly horrible thing to put as findable lore in a charming if unambitious basic puzzle game that had love for the show if not much in resources put into it that it leaves me guessing. Like the rest of the licensed game the detail in question feels very true to the source material but this is a bit regarding something that has pretty significantly divided the opinion of fanbase and its way more unambiguously accusatory in tone than anything the show ever says about the twin's connection. And you get it from Grunkle Stan, who most people who would pick up this sort of game are going to want to talk to the most!

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