WMG / Gravity Falls Objects

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The Journals

There is a Book 4, Book 5, etc.

The owner lost the third book in the middle of writing it, but there is no sign that outright confirms that he died after that. In fact, it's implied that the author(s) is/are still alive. That opens up the possibility of the author writing more volumes after he lost the third book.

• The books seem to be about different things. So far Book 3 has been about the natural phenomena surrounding Gravity Falls, and Book 2 seems to be about curses and magic spells. So it might just be that it ends because that's all the writer put into that book. So it doesn't have to be that he lost it, or stopped writing for some reason.
  • Continuing on, from what we've seen of Book 1, it seems to be solely dedicated to how to operate the Portal.
• Jossed.

There is 6 Books.

The hand in the book cover has 6 fingers. And one of those books might be the one which is literally just a log.

• The six-fingered hand is a fairly common sigil for indicating weirdness. Given that Dipper's book (3) ends abruptly in the middle, implying that the author was forced to abandon it, the existence of further volumes seems unlikely.
  • Unless, as stated lower on the page, it merely marks the point where the author jumped from visible to invisible ink. Dipper hasn't gotten an on-screen chance to check the rest of the pages under black light.
• Jossed.

There are eight journals in Gravity Falls.

The number eight is repeated multiple times through out the series, in the form of the numeral, it being mentioned, the letter H (the eighth letter in the alphabet), and the infinity symbol. We know that multiple volumes of the journals exist, and it seems like owning all of them could be influential to the plot. So it's possible that there could be eight journals, and the ensuing Myth Arc could play out like slightly kid-friendlier version of the Survival Game from Future Diary.

• Then why does volume three cut off in the middle, as though something happened to the journal writer?
  • They could be numbered thematically (with each volume covering a different topic), or belong to different people.
  • It might not be cut off in the middle, especially now that we have proof that some parts of the journals are written in invisible ink.
• Jossed.

There are actually ten books...

... and each of the symbols on the last frame of the opening intro for the show represents the owner (or destined owner for each one).

So far:

• Dipper (tree symbol(confirmed)) has the third volume.
• Stan (glasses(confirmed)) most likely has the first volume.
• Gideon (pentagram) has the second volume.
• Robbie (broken heart or ice bag) has a volume.
• Mabel (shooting star(confirmed)) will receive a volume.
• Soos (question mark(confirmed))has or will receive a volume.
• Grenda (llama) has or will receive a volume.
• Author (original owner of the fez) wrote a volume.
• The Pyramid Man is the controller/author/owner of all the volumes.
  • Am I the only one who remembers that volume 3 cuts off in the middle, implying that something happened to the author before he/she could complete it?
    • No, no you're not. There are only three books. The real question is, who has the first?
    • Who says there's only three?
    • Eh,or each book could be about something different. The third book seems to be about the natural phenomena surrounding Gravity Falls, while the second book seems to be about curses and magic. The third book might end abruptly as that's all the author actually found out while writing the others, if they all have the same author.
  • There is some merit to this idea. If there is more than one author for the books, a theory posed multiple times already, then it's very possible that there are more than three. Also notice in the title sequence Easter egg that Dipper and Gideon's symbols are next to each other. If the symbols are sequential and match up with the numbers of the books, then:
    • 6-fingered-hand symbol has book 1.
    • Stan has 4.
    • Ice Bag symbol has 5.
    • Soos has 6.
    • Etc. etc. From here, it looks like Mabel and Stan will have 2 books each. Unless the llama and glasses stand for characters we aren't aware of yet.
    • Maybe Candy (glasses) and Grenda (llama).
• Jossed. "Journals come in threes".

Each numbered volume is actually a part of one big book.

Basically, whoever wrote the book found some way to split the book into multiple volumes to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.

• Jossed.

The Book is alive.

In the first episode, it was actually trying to warn Dipper that he was facing gnomes rather than zombies.

• Jossed.

Each volume of the book has instructions on making some powerful item.

The one Lil' Gideon has shows how to acquire the amulet that gives psychic abilities. Each volume of the book shows how to make certain items, each one giving a different power. Having every item at once makes the user pretty unstoppable. Powers given by the other items may include invisibility, mind control, and shape shifting.

• Confirmed in as much that the three together have instructions on the portal.

Each volume of the book has a different "topic" on the supernatural.

The one Dipper found features information about supernatural beings. The one Gideon has features instructions on creating magical artifacts, or perhaps instructions on powers and forms of attack. The other book(s), which hasn't/haven't been found yet, follow(s) different topics. This would make it possible for there to be more than three volumes, despite Volume 3 being ominously unfinished.

• One thing about Dippers copy though. It doesn't just have creatures in it, one page covers a "Cursed Door"... although may the door itself is a creature, who knows.

Book 3 was written in defense against book 2.

In "Little Dipper", Gideon mentions one of the entries in book 2 to be "Zombie attack", while book 3 mentions how to recognize a zombie. It's likely that the author wanted to protect the owner of 3 from such attacks.

• Not to mention that each entry on each creature makes a point on how to defeat it, indicating that the book was at least partially intended to help the reader defend himself.
  • Adding to this, Book 2 has the instructions on how to summon Bill Cipher, while Book 3 has the warning "DO NOT SUMMON AT ALL COSTS" and explains how to go into a person's mind to chase him out.
• Jossed.

Book 3 isn't Half Blank after all.

instead it notes the moment when the author went from visible to invisible ink. Dipper has been writing over the sections that have yet to be revealed.

• Confirmed.

The journals naturally gravitate towards individuals with red noses.

• Stan and Dipper both have possession of journals, and have noses that are a different color from the rest of their face. Old Man McGucket is also implied to be involved somehow, and he also has a red nose (all the bizarre crap he builds? got the designs from a journal. And Bill could've driven him insane). The exception is Gideon, and he loses his journal; the journal saw he had a regular nose and decided to escape.

The books are the records kept by individuals belonging to a secret society

Its been hinted at on this page, but never out right said, so now putting it down. A secret society that Grunkle Stan may or may not be part of (aka he totally is) that is dedicated to at least monitoring, if not out right influencing, for good or for ill, the supernatural element centered in Gravity falls. Membership into the secret society could be passed down through family lines

• Stan's definitely part of a secret society (Remember the boys from the lodge who don't "like" or "trust" him?) But where did the contempt originate?
• Jossed.
• Jossed.

The "Charm" in Dipper's book...

Is a magnifying glass, not really a charm that gives the wearer mystic powers. But it might reveal things not visible to human eyes.

• The magnifying glass part seems incredibly likely; if you're paying attention, the writing in the jacket of the book ("Property of") is clearly visible through the "gem" part of the charm/pendant/whatever. As to what it does, well, there is a trope for that.

They will release real versions of Journals 1 and 2.

Because come on, we need the complete set.

The Journals will somehow eventually end up in the hands of Soos, Wendy, Pacifica, and Robbie

• More specifically, Soos and Wendy will both find Journal 1 (or 2), Pacifica will find Journal 2 (or 1), and Robbie will find Journal 3 (the one with the page about the Undead).
• The irl Journal 3 reveals that all the Journals were thrown into the Bottomless Pit. Therefore they could end up anywhere, in anyone's hands.
• As for why specifically those four characters: they're the ones that, despite being on the Cipher Wheel, hadn't been as important to the plot as the Pines family, Gideon, or McGucket. Perhaps obtaining the Journals will give them more importance...?

The Portal

Stan's secret bunker is a vault of the most precious thing he ever stole.

This blue light was its Power Glow, and it will be MacGuffin at some point. Stan doesn't even know what it is.

Stan's secret room behind the vending machine is actually an apocalypse bunker.

I actually don't believe this one myself, but it was worth putting on here! Plus, information to back it up is found all throughout the episode "Boyz Crazy".

• Jossed

Grunkle Stan is actually trying to prevent a destructive supernatural/alien force from getting out.

The force is kept locked in the bunker behind the vending machine. Grunkle Stan just checks on it on a regular basis. Someone will get into it, either Gideon hoping to control the power or someone else (perhaps Dipper) who mistakenly believes that Grunkle Stan is the bad guy.

• Jossed in the Season 1 finale. It seems that the object in the bunker is searching for something that Grunkle Stan plans to let out willingly.

Next episode, we'll FINALLY find out what the hell is behind that vending machine

The Shack was getting destroyed at the end. It's now or never.

• Stan could just end up telling everybody in a later episode, or time travel could be involved, or go into Stan's memories again, or anything of that nature. This doesn't disprove your theory but it's "not now or never"
  • (Original poster) I guess I just don't think those other options will have as strong of a dramatic effect.
• Confirmed

Theories on what the hell that thing Stan activated at the end of the season is

• A portal to another dimension
• A time machine
• Access to some powerful being
  • A cipher reveals this passage "THE PORTAL WHEN COMPLETED WILL OPEN A GATEWAY TO INFINITE NEW WORLDS AND HERALD A NEW ERA IN MANKIND'S UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE. PLUS, IT WILL PROBABLY GET GIRLS TO START TALKING TO ME FINALLY."
    • Hmmm... I seem to recall someone else in the show creating a massive technological wonder to get attention...
  • Didn't Dipper say that it seemed to be some sort of super weapon?
• Maybe its a portal to the dimension where Bill Cipher resides
• It's a portal to the world of hot old ladies and gold chains for old men where Stan's twin resides.
• The machine in the basement is strongly implied to be some kind of portal. Where it leads to is still unknown.
  • Stan's twin theory confirmed, but Bill Cipher's home theory unfortunately also confirmed.

Why Stan wants that huge gateway thing in the finale opened.

I believe Stan wants that thing opened so bad because all the mysterious creatures and artifacts in Gravity Falls escaped the portal the first time the three books were brought together, possibly by Stan. Stan wants the portal opened because he wants to send all the mysterious things back.

• Alternatively, someone he loves got trapped on the other side.
  • Confirmed

Stan wants to open a portal to another universe to...

• ... Find something that will stop Bill Cipher. A cryptogram in Dipper's book suggests that the device at the end of season 1 is some kind of portal. Stan wants to open in so he can go into other worlds and get a way to stop Bill Cipher.

The Blind Eye reveals the truth of The Portal

. The message of The Blind Eye hints to the true nature of the portal. Bill Cipher lied to Stan about what is on the other side of the portal, and has just tricked him into unleashing a great evil

• Things have become more interesting with the reveal of the author's first intial, F. Whose's name comes to mind from the town? Fiddleford H. McGucket. Not to mention according to a clue from the game, it says that he knows. it doesn't elaborate, but it does make the mystery more intriguing.
• Part Confirmed and part Jossed. McGucket didn't write the books, but he was an ally to whomever did.

All the strange things in Gravity Falls are there because of the portal

.A code in the book does suggest that the large device at the end of the season finale is a portal. The strange things in Gravity Falls are just that: strange. Indicating that they don't appear in many other places on Earth. And all the strange things there came out from the portal while it was open.

• Jossed: The creatures do come from another dimension, but they were coming out of a naturally occurring rift long before Ford and McGucket built the more stable portal.

Blendin Blandin was trying to prevent Stan from getting journal #2

(Take a close look when Stan drives up to the crashed robot. He's there.) Whatever that thing Stan activated was, it causes BAD things to happen. Things like what Bill warned us about. Blandin is trying to stop whatever it is from coming to pass.

The Portal is a gate to The Multiverse.

Partially because a cup, pen, and notepad that flew into the portal ended up in Western Animation/Rick&Morty. What Stan wants with it is currently a riddle.

Gold causes the machine to malfunction.

Stan tells Robbie to bury their gold. Bill tells Gideon to buy gold. Bill obviously doesn't want Stan to succeed in freeing his brother, the Author.

The Symbol Wheel

Symbols around the eye of providence from the opening are some kind of occult symbols stuck in Gravity Falls residents' subconscious

So they put it on their clothes. Several Mabel's sweaters has symbols (star, llama) - in "Headhunters" she was knitting, so she could've made them herself, or whoever made them is also affected. There's also a tree from Dipper's hat and broken heart from one of teenagers' shirt. It may be coats of arms of families who ruled Gravity Falls earlier. And tree from Dipper's hat could be meant to be pine, so Pines could be one of such families.

• To add some weight to this theory - Double Dipper featured cloning machine (well, copying machine) that recreated anything, except the tree from Dipper's hat. Which probably means symbol is indeed special.
  • Actually, Dipper was wearing a bow tie when he copied himself, which didn't transfer to any of the copies either.
  • Well, couldn't it mean that the bow tie is somehow some sort of symbol?
• Mabel wore the sweater with the star in the opening sequence and pilot, so she would have obtained it before coming to Gravity Falls.
• In Dreamscapers, Bill specifically refers to Dipper, Mable and Soos as Pine Tree, shooting star and question mark.

The circle with the pictures is magic and changes from time to time.

It may change depending on who is reading it, or whoever fits the requirement for getting into the circle. If a person alters their appearance in a way that changes the symbol, the symbol on the circle will also change.

The Symbols in the Diary don't represent people.

Something occurred to this troper when re-watching the scenes with Bill Cipher. Given Bill's flat appearance and the implication that he's somehow watching through the images him dotted around Gravity Falls are we to take that he's some sort of living image? It's pretty easy to imagine Bill as some kind of Eldritch Abomination that exists wherever his likeness does but here's the Fridge Horror part: What if the symbols surrounding Bill in the diary don't refer to various people in Gravity Falls as in the accepted fanon after all? When Bill greets "Pine Tree", "Shooting Star" and "Question Mark", what if he wasn't actually referring to the people wearing those symbols but to the symbols themselves?! Could there be another 10 creatures like Bill lurking around?!

• Possibly jossed in Sock Opera, as Bill refers to Dipper as Pine Tree in a statement clearly directed to Dipper himself.
• The AMA by Alex Hirsch as Bill implies he has (or had) a family whom we may have caught a glimpse of in "The Last Mabelcorn".

Bill's circle.

This is just a theory of what the symbols on Bill's circle represent.

• Pine tree - Dipper; Confirmed
• Shooting star - Mabel; Confirmed
• Question mark - Soos; Confirmed
• Pac-man symbol - Stan; It is on his hat after all.
• Pentagram - Gideon; This is the symbol that's on his Tent of Telepathy.
• Bag of ice - Wendy; She does have a cool personality and her first major episode took place in a convenience store.
  • Don't forget the ice at the fair and the cooler on the roof!
• Stitched heart - Robbie; This symbol does appear on his sweat shirt.
• Six fingered hand - The author of the books; It's obviously him, since the symbol is on the books, we just don't know who he is.
• Llama - Wendy's dad or some one equally tough; Larry King's head did say llamas were nature's greatest warriors, so it would have to be someone powerful.
  • Maybe Grenda could be the llama...
  • It could be Gompers the goat. See theories below.
  • Wax Larry King is a strong candidate for this one. The llama on the wheel is mirror-reversed from the one on Mabel's sweater. Mabel was holding the sweater up to the mirror when Wax Larry endorsed it, thus identifying himself with that version of the image. Expect to see more of Larry in the next season.
  • Lebam, a mirror doppelganger of Mabel created by Gideon from a sample of her hair (and her llama hair sweater). There is considerable evidence for the existence of this character. See theories by "The Sqoou" on You Tube.
  • Pacifica. We've only seen the sweater, but not anyone wearing it. If Mabel and Pacifica do eventually become friends, maybe Mabel will reward her with the sweater for doing something brave?
    • As of Northwest Mansion Mystery this is looking more plausible, especially with the picture of a llama hidden in one of the paintings in the manor. Link
    • Pacifica's boots from "Irrational Treasure" look like they may be made from llama fur.
• Glasses - I dunno, maybe Blubs; He's the only character with sunglasses. Blendin could also be an option since his goggles cover his eyes.
  • ...and Candy could be the glasses.
  • I'd like to point out that when Gideon summoned Bill to go into Stan's mind, there was a little arrow pointing at the glasses.
    • That was a big X over his eyes, basically symbolizing "Kill Stan."
    • Well yes, on the picture in the middle of the summoning circle the glasses on Stan's face where crossed out, but what the other troper was referring to is probably the fact that Gideon's book on summoning Bill had an arrow pointing to the glasses symbol in the circle.
  • There is currently a popular fan theory (with a surprising amount of evidence) that Grunkle Stan has a twin brother, and that the glasses represent said brother.
  • The glasses look like they have a frame line on top but not the bottom, like the Stan they disturbed when time-traveling (and the glasses in the secret room with the carpet). It could be the hypothetical twin of Stan.
  • Since Stan wears the glasses when younger, the glasses could mean him and the symbol on the fez could mean someone else. Stan does mention "other people" from the lodge.
  • It could be McGucket. He had glasses when he was younger, and now he has those green ones from the Society of the Blind Eye.

• Or alternatively:
  • Tree: Dipper (on his cap)
  • Shooting Star: Mabel (on one of her sweaters and the bubble Bill imprisoned her in)
  • Question Mark: Soos (on his shirt)
  • Fish/Pac-Man/whatever: Stan (on his fez)
  • Bag of ice: Wendy (see above)
  • Six-fingered Hand: Ford - well, it is his hand.
  • Pentagram: Gideon - the symbol on his Tent of Telepathy
  • Stitched Heart: Robbie (on his sweat shirt)
  • Llama: Pacifica (see above) - also, seeing that Mabel has a sweater with a llama on it looking in the opposite reaction than the one on the wheel, I'm guessing, Pacifica is going to wear it - considering that the wardrobe in her size in the Mystery Shack during Weirdmageddon is limited to Mabel's stuff, it's possible that she'd put it on - probably inside-out for whatever reason- when she needs a wardrobe change, hence the llama looks in the opposite direction.
  • Glasses: Ghost-Eyes: no, seriously. First, the glasses in the wheel only match with the ones worn by Pa Duskerton (from the Dusk 2 Dawn convenience store way back in Season 1); though, since he passed on, the glasses in the wheel probably don't refer to him directly; second, notice how of the 5 characters we actually see going inside one of Bill's madness bubbles, he is one of the 4 to emerge from them without being driven completely insane - and the other 3 Dipper, Wendy, Gideon are already on this list. And no, I have no idea where he could have gotten them from (probably raided the convenience store or whatever).

Bill is in the Wheel

That's not a drawing of Bill surrounded by the symbols; that's actually Bill trapped within the wheel (probably in an endless loop of summonings); also, it does kinda look like he's falling down a Bottomless Pit with the brim made of bricks having the symbols on it, all from aerial view.

The combined cipher in Sock Opera foreshadows the next Wham Episode.

At the end of Sock Opera, we get a combined cipher that states:

NO PUPPET STRINGS CAN HOLD ME DOWN
SO PATIENTLY I WATCH THIS TOWN
ABNORMAL SOON WILL BE THE NORM
ENJOY THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM

Why is this important? The first three episodes of Season 2 had combined ciphers told in a rhyming couplet once translated. This, however, is doubled in length into one four-line stanza.After Sock Opera, the next episode is Soos and the Real Girl, which is mostly monster of the week. Then comes the next episode, Little Gift Shop of Horrors, a three shorts-styled episode. Two episodes with no big impact..."the calm before the storm". What is the next episode? Society of the Blind Eye.

The cipher was doubled in length to signify two episodes serving as breathers before the next big event.

The Characters associated with bill's symbols are the characters undergoing character development in season 2

The development in all of the minor characters are setting them up for a greater roll latter on.

Each of the people with a mark on the wheel will "become" that object at some point

It started with the innocuous joke moment in "Boss Mable" where Soos dressed up in a question mark costume. Then further down the line Dipper get turned into a wooden statue in "Northwest Manor Noir" Pine tree anyone? and last but not least, for a brief sec in "Not What He Seems" when Mable lets go of the button and floats up in front of the portal shes back lit in a way that makes her look like a star. This trend will continue in some not obvious way with each person represented on the wheel.

The symbols on the wheel represent people who have made or will make a deal with Bill at some point.

From tumblr.

The symbols are meant to represent a moment of personal growth in each corresponding character's life.

Pretty much taking this straight from Douglas MacKrell's video, but it's pretty much to place it on the table at for discussion. The High Exhaled Big Fish based his theory primarily on the show's partial status as a Coming of Age Story, guessing that each symbol may be linked to their character by an event of personal growth.

• Question Mark: Soos - When Grunkle Stan handed Soos the question mark staff shirt, Soos made the decision to move on from disappointment his Disappeared Dad left him and take Stan on as his new father figure.
• Ice Bag: Wendy - Wendy is initially shown with a habit of making fun of her friends. But when Dipper fesses up about only being 12 and performing the "lamby lamb dance," she resists the temptation to blurt out his embarrassing secrets, and instead plays it cool.
• Fez symbol: Unknown - It's clear from "A Tale of Two Stans" that the fez was just a prop Stan used and may have belonged to someone else. Douglas makes the WMG that the symbol is connected to Shermy Pines, "but what do YOU think?"
• Pine Tree: Dipper - Already confirmed to be this, the symbol may have been connected to him when he and Mabel expected a boring summer in Gravity Falls, got more than they bargained for, and decided to stick around despite the sudden reveal of the town's weirdness.
• Star: Bud Gleeful - The star may not represent Gideon himself—who showed no character growth whatseover—but Bud, who may have been connected to the symbol when he wished on a star for a child—and got Gideon, but still.
• Six-fingered Hand: Ford - Ford is connected to the symbol based on his own six-fingered hand when he creates it himself, because it's the moment he finally decides what to dedicate the rest of his life to—a huge decision to make.
• Llama: Pacifica - The llama motif appears during "Northwest Mansion Mystery" in the very room where Pacifica discovers what horrible people her whole family has been. It was there that she made the very mature decision not to let her family's legacy dictate who she is.
• Shooting Star: Mabel - See Pine Tree: Dipper
• Stitched Heart: Robbie - After spending a large portion of the series mourning his break-up with Wendy, Robbie finally moves on (with a little "help" from Mabel) and begins dating Tambry instead. At the end of the episode, he symbolically shows Mabel the stitched heart symbol on his shirt as he thanks her for helping to mend his heart.
• Glasses: Stan - After making years of rash and/or selfish decisions, Stan winds up accidentally sending Ford into another dimension through his machine. Stan doesn't have his brother's brains and has no idea how to work the portal. But as he clutches the spare glasses his brother dropped, he made a very selfless decision to bring his brother back whatever it took.

The symbols on the code wheel represent the people who can stop Bill Cipher.

Bill's been trying to play them off each other in subtle ways (especially "Pine Tree" and "Shooting Star"), but if they united they could (somehow) stop Bill. Gideon might have been willing to make a deal with Bill to get what he wants, but when he sees how Bill screwed him over he's going to enter an Enemy Mine with Dipper, or in the extreme case do a Heel–Face Turn, to save the world from Bill's "Weirdmageddon".

• Seemingly confirmed by the events of "Weirdmageddon": Gideon does seem to turn against Bill when he realizes his desperation to "claim" her is what drove her away in the first place. Furthermore, none of the characters agreed to be represented on the wheel (including Dipper, Stanley, Stanford, Soos, and Wendy) are seen being affected by the "weirdness waves", which seems to suggest some resistance to Bill's powers. Bill was able to turn Ford into a statue, but it required direct application of his reality-warping powers. And given Bill put Mabel in a Tailor-Made Prison on the far side of town, he doesn't want her in particular getting out...
• Confirmed in "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls": The symbols are part of a prophecy/magic ritual that can potentially banish/destroy Bill Cipher. Unfortunately, Stanford and Stanley's bickering breaks the circle before they can finish, and they're forced to come up with another way to stop Bill when he interrupts the ceremony.

The Symbol Wheel is a double-edged sword.

In Dipper and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Non-Stop Fun, Bill Cipher can be seen merged together with all of the symbols on the Bill Cipher Wheel. That's where this theory comes into mind. The heroes will be under the impression that the Wheel is a way to stop Bill. But, when they do fight him, Bill will merge himself with the heroes, who will turn into the Wheel's symbols and thus, Bill gains just enough power to break the barrier that confined him and his posse to Gravity Falls. As the heroes on the wheel will risk getting K.O'd in the process, some or all of them will meet up with Bill's society and family deep within the Dreamscape. They would provide knowledge about Bill Cipher, his gang, and their actual disadvantages. Therefore, the Pines will finally know what Bill is actually weak to, and then use it against him, once they successfully break free of his grasp. The Wheel will then be used against Bill, using his weakness to put an end to Bill's reign of madness and repair the rift for good.

Blendin Blandin is behind the Wheel

When Bill killed Time Baby and the Time Police Blendin escaped and then disappeared, and the audience never sees him again. Well someone on Tumblr suggested that he must have been the one to paint the prophecy Ford found (Seriously I can't remember who originally did that post and now can't find them, so if you know where that post is please post the link so they can get credit, thanks). To elaborate on that idea further: Blendin first jumps forward in time to see if there even is a way to stop Bill, and in doing so comes across Gravity Falls after the twins leave. While there he hears an exaggerated version of events (Maybe Robbie's bragging that he helped save the world, or Preston Northwest trying to salvage the family name playing up Pacifica's involvement) so Blandin finds out how important the Wheel is, who's in it, and how Ford new about it in the first place. So Blendin goes back in time and leaves the Wheel Prophesy, then goes back to Glass Shard Beach to sabotage Fords science fair project so he and his brother end up in Gravity Falls, then he goes back again to make sure that Gideon gets exposed so he doesn't keep the Mystery Shack before Stan can open the Portal (Gideon had those spy cams going the whole time, and Stan's hearing aid only picked them up when they got kicked out of the shack. Coincidence?) all to make sure the right player were in place to make the Wheell work like he was told it should.

The characters represented by the symbols on the Wheel (as seen in Weirdmageddon Part 3) will always be associated with those symbols no matter what

So Dipper will still be Pine Tree and Wendy will still be Ice Bag even after they swapped their hats, Mabel will still be Shooting Star even when she's wearing the llama sweater, Soos will still be Question Mark and Stan will still be the Fish symbol even though Soos is now the one wearing the fez and Melody's the one wearing the question mark T-shirt, and so on.

Certain symbols can also represent different people.

Since Ford himself the symbols needn't be literal and McGucket himself decided he represented the glasses. Here are a few of my theories which symbols could represent more than one person and who they could represent.

• The pine tree: Manly Dan, as a lumberjack he works with trees and the woods in Gravity Falls are full of pines.
• The Tent of Telepathy star: Bud Gleeful, if he isn't the legal owner of the place, then at least a good part of his income comes from it.
• The lama: Wax Larry King. After all, two of his limited number of lines mention lama's and he reappeared during Weirdmaggedon.
• The glasses: Most of the other symbols point to some artikel of clothing or physical attribute. Ford as the obvious representatieve of the six fingered hand is out, same with Grunkle Stan and the symbol on his fez. That leaves two glasses wearing characters who played a somewhat important role in the series, namely Candy and Quentin. There is also Toby Determined who wears that style of glasses, making him plausibile as well.

Other

The machine in the tree is a Reality Warper device.

Once activated, it made Dipper's deepest dream come true. For all we know, Dipper's an Agent Mulder.

The Cryptogram does not mean anything.

The writer of the book was one of the first few people Stan managed to con into the Mystery Shack. The cryptogram, "STAN IS NOT WHAT HE SEEMS" was just the writer suspecting that there was nothing important in the shack, whether he though Stan was distracting him or was just a con man is unknown.

• Jossed.

The amulets have different abilities.

Assuming every volume has an amulet with it, and every volume is different. The amulets were likely placed away separately because when combined they might be too powerful.

The first machine's switch did something else.

The machine Dipper found in the tree had two switches. He flicked the first one on and off, but that did nothing. The second one opened the trapdoor. So the question is, what did the first one do?

The President's Key will be a Chekhov's Gun.

Again, inevitable.

• It will be how Dipper gets into Stan's secret vending machine bunker.
• Jossed.

The baseballs Stan bought for the Mystery Fair were cursed.

• Let's face it: this wouldn't be the first time Stan bought (or "bought") a bunch of cursed objects out of cheapness. In this case, the baseballs had a sentient desire to cause as much injury as possible when thrown, and could adjust their own ricochets accordingly. Dipper's super-complicated ploy at the end basically worked because it confused the hell out of the curse, forcing it to change trajectories so many times it could no longer keep up with who was the most "ideal" target.

The magic mailbox wasn't omniscient.

It claimed that the world would end in 3012. However Blendin Blandin comes from the year 207012.

• Maybe it meant that the world as we know it would end in 3012. Some kind of apocalyptic event might happen which will end civilization, but life on the planet will continue, until it eventually evolves into the world we saw in 207012.
• Maybe the mailbox is right due to the Earth being older. The year 207012 happened in the past due to true chronology, then after that Atlantis-esque-futuristic society collapsed time recording started again making both the 207012 and the 3012 predictions true. (See also Library of Alexandria.)
  • But I thought that 207012 was stated to be a future year in the show?
    • it could be a Star Wars Future/past situation.
    • In The Inconveniencing Mable's dream that mentions not to trust Grunkle Stan gives another clue she says 'The future's in the past! Onwards Aoshima!' who's to say the trance the candy put her in didn't impart on her some 5th dimensional wisdom?

"Straight Blanchin'" is about being trapped in a mansion and slowly starving to death.

The rapper and at least one girl are going pale (blanching) from lack of sunlight, and (mad from hunger) they're eating their own pants in order to stave off the inevitability of cannibalism.

"Straight Blanchin'" is about memory erasing.

The rapper is associated with the Blind Eye Society, and "blanchin'" indicates brain "bleaching" or something akin to erasing memories. He may be the author of the journals.

• But the Society of the Blind Eye isn't located in a mansion...

Straight Blanchin is a hypnotizing song like the one Robbie played for Wendy.

Soos was about to eat his own pants without questioning the lyrics. But he could just be easily susceptible to suggestion.

The Sev'ral Times song asking "Girl, why you acting so cray-cray?" ...

... is inspired by their favorite talk show host — the one from "Fight Fighters".

• Or she's a fan of Sev'ral Times, and her catch phrase is just a Shout-Out to them.

In "Carpet Diem", the body-swapped characters' Voices Are Mental only to us, the viewers.

That explains why everyone else doesn't notice that Dipper and Mabel are part of a "Freaky Friday" Flip.

• But if that were so, how could Soos talk while in a pig body?
  • It was either that or pig subtitles.
  • Obviously, Waddles is just that special. He is a Gravity Falls pig, after all.

Gravity Falls Public Access Television uses low-level hypnotism in all it's programming.

That's why most people trail off speaking while watching it, and seem instantly enthralled by the current program. (as seen in Dipper's Guide to the unexplained. and the film The Duchess Approves.)

The laptop will be fixed up again.

After Bill Cipher possessed Dipper's body, he broke the laptop by throwing it on the ground and stomped on it. It's highly possible that there are some spare parts that could be salvaged, like the main hard drive. If so, Dipper might have another chance to figure out the laptop's secrets.

• But that doesn't bridge the issue of the password-induced data erasure.
  • Confirmed, at the end of Northwest Mansion Mystery It is shown that Old Man McGucket fixed the laptop

The password for the laptop...

• It was BLINDEYE. Think about it... Search for the Blind Eye and we know its an order of some sort hinted to appear in the show...
  • The password entry field is eight characters long, too.
  • Lending extra credence to this theory The laptop and the secret organization known as "The Blind Eye" were made by the same man. One Fiddleford McGucket
• It was STANOWAR. We know the laptop was found in Ford's bunker. When he had nowhere and no one else to turn to, he chose to call Stan. If he still cared about him enough to trust him, he could possibly have set the password after the boat of their childhood dream.

The President's Key's supposed powers are a sham

We only ever see the president's key open a single lock; that of Grunkle Stan's stocks. Except those stocks were part of a festival celebrating the founding of Gravity Falls. If they really went for historical accuracy, they might have actually been the stocks. And who would logically be carrying around one of the keys for the town stocks? The guy in charge of course; Quentin Trembley III.

Smile Dip is tainted with some sort of hallucinogen.

It's not *supposed* to cause hallucinations, but something got into the machines used to produce the last batch sent to the United States. The FDA banned it because of the oversight.

The burning tree does not mean literally burning a "tree".

From Northwest Mansion Noir we see a tapestry depicting a burning tree and Bill, and during the Bill AMA he says something along the lines of having to "make like a pine tree and burn to the ground" when he's about to leave. While this can be interpreted as Bill planning on doing something really bad to Dipper or using him as a sacrifice, the burning of the tree can be entirely symbolic.The pine tree symbol is on Dipper's hat, which is used to hide the birthmark on his forehead. The same birthmark that spawned his nickname. We don't know Dipper's real name; his real name is hidden behind his nickname. Therefore, his birthmark could symbolize his secrets or things he's hiding, and he's using his hat (the pine tree) to cover (hide) his secrets.Meaning that the burning of the pine tree could mean not a literal burning of a "tree" but a removal of cover to expose the secrets or true nature of something.

Soos' infinite pizza slice is a Chekhov's Gun.

This is Gravity Falls, after all. Everything has a purpose.My guess is that Soos will challenge Bill (who's still using Dipper's body) to a pizza-eating contest - if Soos finishes his slice first, then Bill must leave Dipper, that sort of thing. However, Soos hands Bill the infinite pizza slice, who frustratedly tries to eat it but can never finish, while Soos devours a normal pizza slice in three seconds, thus freeing Dipper.

• That would be especially challenging since Bill doesn't have a mouth.

The other switch on the machine in the tree activates a retinal scanner.

Note that the diagram of the machine drawn in the journal has an eye drawn in invisible ink on the small screen. Dipper just flipped the switch a few times and nothing happened. Given the eye on the drawing, the author may have designed his bunker to open by holding the switch and peering into the small screen for it to scan his eye. The branch Wendy struck to open the bunker in "Into the Bunker" may have just been a (much harder to activate) emergency backup activation mechanism.

The mind-switching carpet was not invented by Stanford

It was Bill's creation. We find it in Stanford's secret room, implying he invented it, but it seems to have no connection to his work. How would the ability to switch bodies help his research? But he allowed Bill free access to his body, and it's possible that he was not always aware of what was being done with his body when Bill was in control; if it works like when Dipper was possessed, Stanford might not even have been present, just sticking around the Mindscape while Bill did God knows what. Why would Bill want the carpet? Because from what we've seen, he can only possess someone by making a deal with them, but the carpet can switch any two minds, willing or not. All he would have to do is possess Stanford, trick a victim onto the carpet, and then he could enter any body he wanted. Any number of the residents of Gravity Falls might have been Bill's puppets at some point. And of course, the Society of the Blind Eye offers the standard explanation for why no one remembers such a thing occurring.

The alien superglue is a Chekhov's Gun and will somehow be used to patch up the actual rift itself.

The drawing in the journal depicting the glue sticking a planet split in two back together may have been foreshadowing the fact that the glue will stick back together their own splitting world.

Soos's infinite pizza will return.

It will help the heroes survive in the post-weirdmageddon wasteland, as it might have already helped Soos become a folk tale hero: a story about a man walking the wasteland helping out where and as he can, and giving away free pizza to people is an instant legend, just add a campfire, and hungry folk.

The owls are not what they seem.

Aside from the Twin Peaks reference, owls are everywhere in Gravity Falls - clocks, statues (e.g. in front of the museum), cereal boxes, ...

Stan photocopying journal number 3 in Scary-Oke will be a Chekhov's Gun.

Bill burned the journals in Weirdmageddon Part 1 to get rid of anything that might give someone a clue as to how to defeat him for good. However, Stan will remember he photocopied the third journal, and retrieve the papers from Ford's lab. When Dipper reads them, he will find the way to defeat Bill and end Weirdmageddon. This will motivate him to form an army with the Weirdmageddon survivors to fight Bill.

The amber that the dinosaurs are preserved in has magic, life-preserving properties.

That's why they can still be alive after millions of years. Also, Trembley used some of it as an ingredient in the peanut brittle he used to preserve himself, which is why it worked.

Bill made the laptop have a password entry limit.

It seems odd for Dipper to try (presumably) hundreds of passwords before the laptop finally decides that’s been enough attempts. Instead, Bill made that happen, since he got tired of waiting for Dipper to naturally want to make a deal. The threat of data erasure was the push Dipper needed.

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