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Definitely worthy of its own thread. There have been many "leaks" in the past, but this one is incredibly well made if it's actually fake. It's getting a ton of attention. A guy (accidentally?) leaked the entire roster through the final character art through Snapchat. The info checks out with his LinkedIn information -- he could be a person with this kind of promotional material. Furthermore, making all of this art from scratch would be an immense amount of work for a fake, even moreso than the infamous Rayman "leak".
Quoting the top info from the OT. Read from top to bottom~
Yeah!!! I found a much cleaner image
I want to BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!
I've put together three of the banners, including the leaked one, so we can compare and contrast:
Top: Current, Post-Isabelle Banner
Middle: Leak
Bottom: E3 Banner
- Luigi, Sheik and the Mii Fighters have been moved considerably. Luigi is now near the middle, left of Ken, all of the Mii Fighters are to the top right of Mewtwo, and I dunno where Sheik is.
- Jigglypuff is shifted slightly up, next to Geno, and you can see her full art.
- This is the first time we've seen Greninja's full tongue I think.
- Isaac is standing on some weird green... stuff? I assume it's meant to be Psyenergy?
- Inkling is now actually looking at someone, thanks to Mach Rider.
OP HERE: Just wanted to clarify that The Grinch is not part of the leaked roster lol, it's just more unrelated-to-Smash evidence that this is legit.
I decided to look into the part of the leak that might be overlooked - The Grinch. It's in the background in a couple of spots.
Universal Studios, which is distributing the film, is not listed as part of the company's references, though that's not saying too much since the movie's merchandising could be handled by a third party, like Hasbro, which is listed. Their site also still has a 2010 copyright so who knows how up-to-date it is.
Another Grinch oddity - the ornament (?) with the dog is based on this promotional art but with one major difference - the Grinch is facing the other way. As in, the ornament folds over, and there's a front and back face. I can't find a single render of The Grinch's back, although admittedly I'm not spending my Wednesday morning looking at that many Grinch images. But if such a thing isn't freely available, and this is fake, then the faker decided to also mock up The Grinch renders of all things.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, The Grinch's cinema run in France begins on November 28th. It makes sense that it'd be in the same batch as Smash, given their release proximity.
I made an image with the guy's name edited out for privacy concerns:
(img above first posted by Dark Cloud)
EDIT: THIS IMAGE IS A SCREENSHOT OF A SNAPCHAT VIDEO THAT HAS THEN BEEN ZOOMED IN. Obviously it's going to be blurry!
The leak reveals the following characters:
- Shadow
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Isaac
- Ken
- Mach Rider
- Geno
- Chorus Kids
Shadow and Ken are likely to be echoes of Sonic and Ryu respectively.
I wanted to know what all the characters look like, so I googled them all.
Shadow the Hedgehog
Banjo Kazooie
Isaac from Golden Sun
Ken from Street Fighter
Mach Rider
Geno from Mario RPG
Chorus Kids from Rhythm Heaven
For those curious what this would look like on the CSS:
Why people find the story legitimate:
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UPDATE: The company that the accidental leaker worked for has been confirmed to be real and working with Bandai Namco.
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ANOTHER UPDATE:
Also some more #teamreal stuff:
Another set of comparison images I put together, this time looking at the empty battlefield which, AFAIK, hasn't popped up anywhere before without characters on top. The top image is the earliest and emptiest banner (doesn't even have Ridley), the bottom image is the latest.
Every cloud and light source is identical, from what I can tell. Not only that but...
The blue crystals behind Villager's net and Ivysaur are also seemingly the same distance apart. I didn't even know they were there until I did this comparison and tried to track 'em down.
So yes, the leaker could have just painted this entire Battlefield themselves, but they sure nailed every aspect of it, even when its all smudged up like this.
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A THIRD UPDATE: As you know from one of the quotes above, The Grinch has been used as a piece of evidence that this is legit. However, some users have commented that it's hard to see that the Grinch artwork really isn't the same art as what's already seen on the official movie poster, so two members have explained it more thoroughly:
Side by side and mirrored, to give the full impression. You can see the lighter green face and his nose on the "bottom".
The ornament is meant to be folded over, so the Grinch's face is on one side, and the dog w/ back is on the other.
I made this quick comparison. Maybe this could be added to the OP to accompany Rotobit's explaination?
I used the dog, and the Grinch's chin on the left poster as reference points. Not only is the Grinch's head lower, you also can't see his eyes, nose and mouth. Besides, it doesn't seem to have the lowest tuft of hair or a cutout line for that, so it's almost 100% a flipped image of the poster on the left (that doesn't explain the difference in height, but he's probably carrying something else than the dog on the front).
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UPDATE #4: The leaker no longer works for the company we thought he worked for...
...but he's now working at a similar nearby company, lol.
We still in this ride.
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UPDATE NUMERO 5: Internet Detectives are going way too far, but this is some mild fuel for #teamreal
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UPDATE NUMBER SAD: People are 50/50 on Liam, some are saying he's been legit this year while others are pointing out that he's been devastatingly wrong and full of misinformation in the past. He also stole information from a different tweeter yesterday and claimed it as coming from his own source. Furthermore, this could be either misinformation or a straight up lie by the leaker, but if what Liam is saying is true, then this is really fucked up that an innocent person got involved in this and I hope people won't send hateful messages to the person if this supposed leak turns out to be fake.
(OP edited this into an image as the maximum number of media has been hit)
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