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gizthegunslinger:

Here are some interesting tips from Hirsch’s press-conference he held on Big Fest Russia on 16 April:

1. It was his first press-conference after GF’s finale.
2. He said that Dipper’s real name is… not Michael & it’s definitely not Mabel (though he loved the idea a lot). And it’s probably not Bill… but at that point Alex was acting quite evasive, so who knows.
3. Alex said, that all those 30 years Ford spent in the over dimension he was learning how to survive & trying to create weapons which will help him in his mission: destroy Bill Cipher. Bill’s agents were searching for him & there were leaflets with Ford’s portrait everywhere saying: “WANTED! Dead or alive. Reward guaranteed”. This leaflet will be in Journal 3.
4. If grunkle Stan is a criminal in our dimension, then Ford is the criminal in many others. During the 30 years of straying in other dimensions Ford gained lots of friends & foes.
5. There was an idea to make Dipper & Bill friends at first (during the “Sock Opera”). Bill befriended Dipper saying him that he was the tutor of many great minds & that Dipper was the chosen one. They even had flight as ghosts over Gravity Falls. But later Bill would betray Dipper.
6. Grunkle Stan is disappointed by the lack of bears in Russia. He didn’t fight any yet.
7. There was an idea for a mini episode with Mabel, where she would explain how to deal with… death. She had a pet caterpillar which was eaten by a bird & so Mabel is explaining how to go through loss. But Disney said: there is no way this gonna happen!
8. There was a plot during Weirdmageddon where Dipper clones number 3 & 4, after they got to know that Pines tweens are coming back home, decided to kidnap Dipper & replace him in real life.
9. Alex asked us if we would be interested in “Gravity Falls” comics. Of course we yelled: “YES!!!” So he said that he wants to talk to Disney about GF comics series.
10. First Bill was just Bill. But unfortunately “Bill” was already a trademark. So they thought of calling him Bill Black. But there is one real person called Bill Black in America, so this won’t gonna happen too. Happily there is no one called Bill Cipher in USA.
11. Bill came from the dimension where he was treated badly & he can’t return back anymore.
12. Alex mentioned “Rick and Morty” saying something like: “They can shoot the man in the face, but we can’t do the same thing in Gravity Falls”. But now he is working on a new project which might have all these possibilities. (He also said in Morty’s voce: “Oh-oh my god, Rick! You… you shoot him in the face!”).
13. At first there was a plan to use eight and a half president of America in Weirdmageddon, but they didn’t have enough time.
14. There was a scene with Bill Cipher helping Stanley Kubrick to film the moon landing. It was cut because of the time lack.

> 4. If grunkle Stan is a criminal in our dimension, then Ford is the criminal in many others. During the 30 years of straying in other dimensions Ford gained lots of friends & foes.

I hope this is an allusion to the crossover Rick and Morty.