TOTM Mar 2023 A tribute to KSP1, welcome to KSP2, and an easter egg hunt...

[Vexillar]

As we're on the final countdown to the KSP EA launch, here's a little movie to pass the time.

It's also by way of thankyou to all those involved in KSP so far.

There are twelve easter eggs hidden - though some may be very easy to find, others will need a little more searching(or else be so obscure no-one will get them). There may also be things I hadn't intended... so apologies if you spot something I hadn't intended or realised...

The first reply to mention each one will be considered a winner... but please don't spam the forum 'cos not only will it annoy everyone (especially the moderators), but I won't be able to wade through the replies.

Did someone say prizes? Ah - hadn't thought it through that far. Perhaps I can award a badge to each winner.

But whatever, enjoy!

 

Answers will be posted when KSP2 launches.

[thundershield]

At 2:27 I see something cylindrical in the top left corner landed on the Mun.  Not entirely sure what it is, as there isn't enough detail, but my best guess  would be the crashed spaceship from the main menu screen, but I could totally be wrong.

[Vexillar]

9 hours ago, thundershield said:

At 2:27

You have sharp eyes! I had to run the original screen grabs back to work out what that was - sadly it's a rock (it's just visible to the right of the arch at 2:43) .

But I wish I'd thought of putting the Title Screen wreck in there though - so you qualify for a bonus award,

[Nazalassa]

Here are my guesses (potential spoilers ahead):

Spoiler

At 1:34, I don't think Mun has a surface area of 5.027 m².
At 3:19, I think there's a "Crater Crawler" right behind the administration building.
At 6:31, I saw white pixels on the top-left.
At 9:43, I think there is something on top of the VAB.

I saw other interesting details, like the launch tower or the Kerbals walking when the newspapers are shown, but I don't think these are easter eggs.

[Vexillar]

7 hours ago, Nazalassa said:

Here are my guesses

Congrats! You got one. But I won't say which yet...

[Gargamel]

@Vexillar your thread is alive again. 

[Vexillar]

(Thanks @Gargamel)

Congratulations to the winners @thundershield and @Nazalassa! They each win a badge for their forum signatures, plus an exclusive Easter-Egg digital art print.

Here are the twelve "official" easter eggs:

00:37    Mun is referred to as "The Mün" with an umlaut, as it was in earlier versions
02:45    "Kerbalkind" is in BADA55 green.
02:49    A reference to Arthur C Clark's quote: "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
03:11    The newspaper reports that clouds don't exist - just a hoax.
03:11    Very hard to spot, but in the space-filling pseudo-latin, the bottom line, next to the picture is (poor) latin for "Are the aliens living here presently?"
03:11    The alien planets are depicted as a photograph of some glass marbles (payoff for this at 08:00 below).
03:19    There is a cratercrawler parked behind the admin building.
04:49    The digital countdown clock is very large and surprisingly  mechanical (as was the NASA clock at Cape Kennedy-  ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GEO2_ilce0 ).
05:57    When the countdown clock fails, the display cycles rapidly  through 02:24:23, 24:02:23, 23:02:24 (the US, UK, international formats of the launch date of KSP2 EA).
06:54    "Again!!" - a call-out to ShadowZone.
07:12    During the end credits, the background game morphs from version 0.13.3 to 1.8.1
08:00    The credit for the newspaper picture at 03:11 reveals it is called "Blue Marbles" - referencing the famous picture of Earth from space (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble).
09:44   Check Your Staging meme

And some bonus eggs:
03:00   The daily newspaper edition is 2844, representing the 2844 (Earth) days between the KSP 1.0 release and 8th Feb 2023, which is when the Video should have been posted.
03:11   The newspaper considers Clouds more important than extra-Kerbolar planets.
03:19   Two kerbals have levitated onto the admin building roof.
03:30   "Space is Big" - reference to Douglas Adams in the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy: "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
03:30   "You're Going to Need a Bigger Rocket": Jaws meme, but also referencing much larger craft possible in KSP2.
06:10   Two ships launch, instead of one.
07:31   "Superkerbalisation" recalls the Supermarionation logotype used by Gerry Anderson/AP Films.

 

OK - now back to playing KSP 2...