Joker's April Fools Treasure Hunt Completed

By Josh Tyler: 2008-04-01 23:33:30

People with too much time on their hands have spent the better part of today globe trotting trying to solve the mystery presented by the latest Dark Knight viral site here. Earlier in the day clicking an envelope on the site lead to a series of addresses which Bat-fans across the planet have been tracking down, though the site now redirect to a travel site. But fans were on the ball and now we seem to have answers.

At each address they’ve found special packages placed by the Joker in major cities. Packages were found in places like London, Hong Kong, Paris, Sao Paulo, and of course a lot of different places in the good old US of America. The bags at each location contain a brightly colored bowling ball with a phone number scratched into it. There’s a sample picture of one of the bags there to your right. Empire has even more of them.

According to the guys at Cinematical, if you call the number you’ll told “We know who you are.” That’s where this thing ends. The ClownTravelAgency.com site shows that all the packages have been picked up. Why did you folks go through all this trouble again? The few who managed to get to the bags first got a bowling ball out of it, but otherwise that seems to be it. Meanwhile you can get an even more entertaining phone call by simply going to the new site ClownTravelAgency.com redirects you to here and entering your phone number. No mad scramble to find a pastel bowling ball necessary.

I wonder if in the rush to track down this… whatever it is… someone has managed to confirm that this is actually a Batman promotion? The domain name’s ownership is hidden, I mean couldn’t this all be some awful Coke Zero marketing campaign or something? What if millions of people are handing their contact information over to a massive, multimedia spam conglomerate? Now that sounds like fun to me, as long as I’m not participating. Enjoy your newly enlarged penis’s batfans!

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dave Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 03:18
Wow Josh, you're really holding a grudge against this campaign huh?

JoshT Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 03:21
Grudge? No. I just think it's stupid for people to waste their time obsessing over clues, and racing around town to find useless colored bowling balls for a movie they'll enjoy just as much whether or not they waste hours other time on something so useless and unrewarding.

Obviously it works, because people are participating. But at some point I'd hope that people would figure out there is no pot of gold at the end of these rainbows.

I guess I'm just a wild, unbridled optimist.

Joseph Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 15:31
I'm just mad that there wasn't a new preview involved. This was the perfect opportunity to hype the film some more and they blew it.

Kris Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 15:35
A pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, metaphorically speaking, would be cool, some sort of prize for completing said tasks firsts. Besides just being a bowling ball, it would have been cool if you could crack it open and inside was a ticket to the world premiere in of Dark Knight in Chicago, that would have been cool!

-Kris

John Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 22:43
I wonder if in the rush to track down this… whatever it is… someone has managed to confirm that this is actually a Batman promotion? The domain name’s ownership is hidden, I mean couldn’t this all be some awful Coke Zero marketing campaign or something? What if millions of people are handing their contact information over to a massive, multimedia spam conglomerate? Now that sounds like fun to me, as long as I’m not participating. Enjoy your newly enlarged penis’s batfans!

Get with the program! This has been going on for how long now and you don't think it's really for the movie?

Based on what you've said in the past, it sound like you just dislike everything to do with Nolan's Batman.

Bruce Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 18:15
Why be so pissed off that they came up with a great tie-in that's creating excitement for the movie? And as far as these people wasting time, why do you feel that way? They're getting a cool promotional tie-in that's produced in limited quantities.

John Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 01:43
Because he hates Nolan's Batman. :)

JoshT Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 01:45
JOHN SAYS: Because he hates Nolan's Batman. :)
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The review I gave it says otherwise:

http://www.cinemablend.com/reviews/Batman-Begins-993.html

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BRUCE SAYS: Why be so pissed off that they came up with a great tie-in that's creating excitement for the movie? And as far as these people wasting time, why do you feel that way? They're getting a cool promotional tie-in that's produced in limited quantities.
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What's so great about it? Since when isn't wandering around in search of nothing wasting time? What's this great "promotional tie-in" that everyone is getting??

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