Are Rocket Poppeteers the New Slusho?
“You can’t drink just six!” Everyone remembers Slusho from the Cloverfield days (right?). Well, it looks like we now have our new Slusho for J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 movie – Rocket Poppeteers. Sometime last week after the first trailer for Super 8 hit in front of Iron Man 2, an interesting new viral site was discovered at scariestthingieversaw.com. The site would connect to a server that eventually displayed a countdown timer that would connect with some files. After the timer ran out a few days ago, our friends at MovieViral.com discovered a newspaper article with an ad for Rocket Poppeteers popsicles and a new website for them, too. Before we get into the meat of this viral update, since they seem to have discovered some interesting little hints in the newspaper article, I might as well give you guys the link: RocketPoppeteers.com. The actual article on the second page mainly talks about President John F. Kennedy’s “Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test