Gravity Falls in reality: does the city really exist? Does the city of Gravity Falls really exist? Does the city of Gravity Falls exist in real life?

The animated series Gravity Falls was released back in 2012 and has since gained great popularity. There are currently two seasons, the latest of which began on February 15 this year.
Its main plot revolves around 12-year-old twins Mabel and Dipper Pines, who spend their summer holidays in the small town of Gravity Falls, which is located in Oregon. Its name is translated into Russian as “dangerous fall.” In his area, in the forest and river, there are many strange creatures, and under the water there is a huge, scary head. According to the history of the town, it was founded in 1842 by Sir Lord Quentin Trumble III, after he fell from a cliff on his horse at this place.
From the moment the cartoon appeared on the screen, everyone became terribly interested - does the city of Gravity Falls really exist or is it fiction?
Unfortunately, this is really just another fictional city. It does not actually exist - neither in the state of Oregon, nor anywhere else in the United States in the form in which the filmmakers describe it.

On the other hand, his image combines several different towns of the American outback, similar friends on a friend “like two drops.” After much analysis and reflection, fans of the cartoon came to the conclusion that it at least combined the towns of Vortex and Boring, in the same state of Oregon. There has been a reputation for some kind of paranormality about them for a long time.

The Gravity Falls valley itself does not actually exist either, because it was created during landing spaceship. And a UFO has never landed in this state! Although in the state of Oregon, again, there is one slightly similar place. See for yourself:

So there are a lot of mysteries, of course. But do not forget that this is just a cartoon and it is a figment of the author’s imagination.

After a break of a whole year, Gravity Falls is finally back for its second season! The brainchild of a prodigy Alexa Hirsha includes the supernatural misadventures of the Dipper twins and Mabel Pines who spend their summer vacation with "Uncle" Stan in a fictional town Gravity Falls, Oregon. So far they have encountered many creatures, ranging from hordes of dwarves to elderly ghosts. The cartoon contains parts from The Simpsons, The X-Files and Twin Peaks.

Time caught up with Hirsch and asked about different things Gravity Falls related. A G4SKY We kindly translated their interview for you.

When did you first realize you wanted to make cartoons?

As far as I know, I've always wanted to make cartoons. When I went to CalArts, I was in a class with other weird, like-minded people, some of whom went on to work on shows, like J.G. Guintel is on Regular Show, and Pen Ward is on Adventure Time. We were great friends, nudging each other and laughing a lot. It was a direct transition from inexperienced children watching Disney cartoons to children at heart creating these same cartoons.

What was your favorite cartoon as a child?

The Simpsons! Well, of course The Simpsons, I loved them because they were not limited in their audience. Many children's shows were insular. There was something about The Simpsons...growing up I could tell it was smarter than me. I could tell where there were layers and moments and hidden jokes that I couldn't understand, but I always understood the characters. Great shows have just such layers, for a wide audience, some of which are interesting to children, and some of which are interesting to adults.

You've talked about wanting to create a show for all ages. How did you go about this?

There's one way to do it, you don't have to think about anyone when you're doing the show. The best way to create a great show, it's about creating a show that you love. Trust yourself. Do I think it's funny? Do I like it? And if you like it and think it's funny, then you just have to trust that others will like it too. I may be a very immature adult. I'm kind of an adult-child, so if I like it, then both kids and adults will like it, because I'm somewhere in the middle.

Alex Hirsch drew himself in the style of Gravity Falls

Your show is darker than most other children's shows. Now that you've moved to Disney XD, will the tone of the film remain the same?

We were told the show would be moving to Disney XD mid-season, so there was no coordinated conversation about changing the tone and direction of the series. Although in the second season with general style and we experiment much more with tone than in the first one. The first season introduced us to the characters, introduced us to the mythology, and just tried to be funny and fun as much as possible. In Season 2, we dig much deeper into the mythology and our heroes take many more risks, more intense situations and more menacing villains. As a result, the “conspiracy-something like secret materials-horror stories” line will gain a larger and stronger scope. But we still hope to balance this kind of plot with the traditional Gravity Falls outlandish and funny episodes.

What was the first character you created?

In second grade I drew a face on paper bag, I gave him a cape and called him Super Paper Bagman. My creativity was pretty limited at the time. Luckily, the Super Paper Bag Man went to waste, forcing me to come up with other better ideas.

Who is your favorite hero in Gravity Falls?

In the penultimate episode of our first season, we introduced this villainous, mischievous triangle. He's a pyramid with one eye and a bow tie named Bill Cipher. We planned it at the beginning of the season, that it could be fun, similar character have DC with their Mister Mxyzptlk, a kind of idiot who can just show up and ruin all the plans of the main characters. It's fun for me to create the most sinister, Illuminati-like symbol with Mr. Peanut's hands and throw it into the structure of the show and see how it all fits together. They sent me a lot of letters and photos on Twitter, people are getting tattoos with him! It's hilarious when your favorite character is also liked by the children of America.

Dipper and Mabel are based on you and your sister, are there other characters in the show based on relatives or acquaintances?

Handyman Zus was 100% inspired by a college friend of mine named Jesus. He is friendly, welcoming and very strange. He's the kind of guy who gets stuck in the gravity of college even after graduation, he tries to help everyone. I definitely wanted to add a character like this to my series.

The reason why Mabel has a pet pig named Waddles is because my sister always dreamed of having a pet pig when we were growing up. She wanted to make a pig shrine in her room.

You personally voiced two characters: Zus and Uncle Stan. What was your inspiration for creating these voices?

The inspiration for these voices came primarily from the people we were based on. Great Uncle Stan was based on my grandfather Stan on my father's side, whom I didn't know very well. But he was a big, gruff guy who wore a gold chain and a gold watch and valued every cent. As far as I remember, he spoke in such a rough voice in a lower register. However, while the character was inspired by my Grandpa Stan, his voice was inspired by my other Grandpa Bill. Every time I see him at Thanksgiving he always says, “Roll out the red carpet, Mr. Hollywood has finally decided to pay us a visit.” So I was heavily influenced by his voice and the way he spoke.

Zus was inspired by my friend Jesus. His manner of speech cannot be completely copied correctly. It's hard to describe, but I still copied some elements and used them for Zus.

The ugly truth is that my entire summer vacation was surprisingly boring. Dipper's Adventures is mostly a list of things I've dreamed of doing. When I was a child, I spent those long, long summer holidays at my great-aunt's cabin in the woods. She said: “And so, three hours of reading!” and locked us in a room with a large window. It was so dull that I imagined beating dwarves or fighting aliens or looking for the Loch Ness monster. With this series I have a chance to make my dreams come true, at least on screen.

Do you have advice for people who want to make their own TV series?

It's all about the characters. No matter what your series looks like, no matter its concept, no matter famous actors in voice acting, regardless of budget or otherwise, it’s all secondary. Your heroes should come first. They're funny? Are their personalities well established? Do they interact with each other? All this must be taken into account. And my main super-advice for any series creator is to write what you know and look back at your own life. I think the most successful element about the characters in Gravity Falls is that they are all taken from images real people, I write about myself and my sister, about my cartoonish grandfather with elements of a great deal of humor. If you can copy the characters from the people around you and put them into a series, then it will be much better than if you focus on “how can I make characters with complex mythologies.” In the end, this is why people love such living heroes with whom they can associate themselves, and this is the most important thing.

Do you have ideas that you would never add to the show?

For each episode, there are at least 10 fully fleshed out development concepts that were rejected and discarded for being too stupid or too serious.

What's the hardest part about running your show?

This is creating consistent quality content over 20 episodes when you are a producer, screenwriter, director, designer and voice actor. All this together. When you're in college, you can create one cartoon a year or even throughout your entire studies, you have a lot of time to dot all the i's and make sure everything is as you need it. When you're on TV, you work more like an assembly line. Not all episodes are A+, but I try to keep track of every detail as much as possible.

Good day!

Friends, I don’t know about you, but I love cartoons. It doesn't matter whether it's a full-length cartoon or an animated series. It doesn’t even matter what kind of audience it is intended for: the little ones or adults. The main thing is that it should be interesting to me in some way. So I looked through a lot of them.

And if with full-length animated films everything is clear - they can be for both adults and children, and for both at the same time, but with animated series the situation is different. Each of them is aimed at its own age category. But! There is one animated series (in fact, there may be more, but I have only seen one so far) that can be described as “family.” It can be watched by children (not very small ones, of course), teenagers adore it and it is interesting for adults. And it's called Gravity Falls.

What is Gravity Falls?

This is an American animated series released by Disney in 2012. The series takes place in the American town of Gravity Falls, where two twins, brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines, come to visit their “great-uncle” for the summer holidays.

At first, our heroes are not at all delighted with the fact that they will have to spend the whole summer in the American outback, periodically helping a crooked uncle in a store for tourists. However, then it turns out that the town of Gravity Falls is not so simple, and the twins will encounter amazing things! Literally, amazing and mystical.

This series has it all:

• gnomes, unicorns, zombies and other inhabitants of nearby forests;

  villains, both from real and parallel worlds;

  cute teenage crushes;

  touching family stories;

  real friendship;

  a lot of riddles;

  adventure, of course.

And all this is seasoned with a good dose of humor. Without vulgarities and excesses. And plus to everything, the series is cool and pleasantly drawn.

Main characters

Dipper Pines (Mason "Dipper" Pines)

Mabel Pines

Stanley Pines "Grunkle Stan"

Soos Ramirez

Wendy Corduroy

Stanford Pines "Grunkle Ford"

Gravity Falls is one of the most popular animated series recent years, he has an army of fans and dozens of different awards. I won’t talk about it in detail here, because it’s better to watch this cartoon (I watched it twice ^_^), and plus, there’s a good article on Wikipedia.

Now I would like to raise 5 top questions related to this series:

1. Will there be a 3rd season?
2. Who created this animated series?
3. Does Gravity Falls exist?
4. Where is Gravity Falls?
5. Where can I buy Dipper's diary?

Let's start with the most painful one.

Gravity Falls season 3

Millions of fans around the world were, to say “very much” is an understatement, upset that this project was canceled after two seasons. Yes, I was upset too. Yes, I also want a third season =)

The creators openly stated that Gravity Falls was not planned as a long-running series, and that two seasons was enough. However, rumors that there will be a third part are still circulating. There is a lot of gossip, and the most interesting thing is that if you ask Google to watch “Gravity Falls Season 3”, it will find it for you. But, this is either a lure of unscrupulous sites that push both the first and second seasons under the sauce of the third season, or videos made by fans of the series.

However, “let’s go back to our sheep” main question After all, it remains open: will there be a season No. 3 or not? Friends, it will happen! I don’t know what it will be called, season 3 or new adventures of Dipper and Mabel, but there will be a continuation. This was reported by Alex Hirsch on Twitter last July:

The Gravity Falls Graphic Novel is OFFICIALLY announced! New tales! Unsettling monsters! The death of your headcanons!

The Gravity Falls graphic novel is OFFICIALLY announced! New stories! Exciting monsters! End of your fantasies!

In other words, there will be new adventures, but in the format, roughly speaking, of a comic book. I don’t like comics, so this news doesn’t make me hot or cold =) But the fans can rejoice. Now all that remains is to wait for Alex to finish drawing it.

It’s clear that many people worked on the animated series:

Directors: John Aoshima, Aaron Springer, Joe Pitt, Rob Renzetti, Matt Braley, Steven Sandoval, Sunil Hull

Producers: Alex Hirsch (executive producer), Tobias Conan Trost, Brian Doell, Suzanne Olson, Rob Renzetti

Writers: Alex Hirsch, Michael Rianda, Tim McKeon, Ori Wallington

Composer: Brad Brick

Studio: Disney Television Animation

...Dipper & Mabel, the imaginary cartoon babies who live in my brain

... Dipper and Mabel, imaginary cartoon children living in my brain

It was Hirsch who created the basic concept of the entire series, by the way, in an 11-minute student video, which the Disney studio liked. This is how Gravity Falls began.

By the way, if you love Gravity Falls and still haven't followed Hirsch on Twitter, then it's in vain. I’m not a fan of the series, but I subscribe to the cartoonist, he sometimes gives out funny tweets =)

Well, seriously, where else will you be one of the first to see Stanble? A? That's the same!

Stanbel is here to give you nightmares

Stanble is here to give you nightmares

In general, if you want to subscribe - twitter.com/_AlexHirsch

Friends, as much as you might like it, this city is completely fictional, but with features real cities USA. In general, I think you noticed that there is a lot of fiction in Gravity Falls (well, except for gnomes and unicorns, of course =)).

But now we're talking about the town. What do we know about him from the plot of the cartoon?

Gravity Falls (Gravity Falls, which is a little closer to the original spelling) was founded by the 8.5th President of the United States Quentin Trembley in 1872 in the valley of the same name in Oregon. But let's go in order:

1. Since ancient times, the valley (which would later be called Gravity Falls) was inhabited by aborigines, however indigenous people left these places because their shaman predicted that the End of the World would happen here (Weirdmageddon);
2. Then gold miners came there, who, by the way, nicknamed this place “cursed land.” I think it's clear why =)
3. Then, Trembley found himself on this “cursed land”, who, after another unsuccessful horse ride, decided to organize the Gravity Falls settlement in these parts;
4. At first, Gravity Falls was a small village that flourished during the “gold rush” and then the “flannel rush”. But there is an end to everything - the gold miners soon left these places, as they were all scared away by the dinosaurs living in the mines;
5. In the mid-19th century, the city's population increased dramatically;
6. These days, Gravity Falls is a sleepy town in the forests of Oregon.

But this is all in the Universe invented by Hirsch and Co., and what about real life? As I said, in reality there is no such city in Oregon. Moreover, it doesn’t exist in the USA at all, and the scriptwriters themselves say that the town has no prototype. But there is something similar:

the landscapes of the fictional city are very similar to those of Oregon;

the plot of the cartoon says that a UFO landed in the forests near Gravity Falls; in reality, “flying saucers” were also seen in Oregon;

some fans still believe that the real place The Oregon Vortex is a kind of prototype of Gravity Falls;

There is also an opinion that the fictional town is copied from the real settlements of Vortex and Boring (both of them, by the way, are anomalous zones).

One way or another, you can guess and look for coincidences as much as you like, but only the screenwriters know the truth.

Diary of Gravity Falls in Russian

And finally, last question: where to buy Dipper's diary (in Russian), as well as Graffiti Falls coloring books and, of course, comics (graphic novels).

Friends, I went shopping, of course, online stores and checked the prices. Therefore, I can confidently say that there is a diary, comics, coloring books, stickers, etc.:

on Ozone;

in Read-city;

in the Labyrinth.

In general, Ozone has everything (and I’m not just talking about the cartoon), but this store is still a little expensive. But I’ll give links to the remaining two (I myself used their services and was satisfied). Look there for yourself and choose what you need.

* Diary of Gravity Falls, for me, great gift! And the price is very pleasant, for such, in part, even a souvenir book. I will definitely buy it, but in German =)

1. The name Gravity Falls literally translates as “gravity falls,” perhaps a reference to the paranormal nature of the area.
2. This animated series is the leader in the number of mysteries in the episodes. Each of them contains some kind of secret: encrypted messages that can be found in the form of graffiti on the walls, pieces of paper on the table, paintings, and so on. Take the hallucinatory puppy Mabel, who says, backwards and forwards, “You shouldn’t trust Stan.”
3. The number of “Easter eggs” in the cartoon is also phenomenal. There are references to books, games, films and much more.
4. Some of the episodes in the lives of the main characters are copied from the biography of Alex Hirsch and his sister Ariel, who became the prototype for little Mabel.
5. And Zus Ramirez was based on Alex's friend.

The beginning of the series (video excerpt)

Now I will slowly wrap up, but before I say goodbye completely, I want to attach here a piece of the first episode of the first season, so to speak, for reference =)

That's all for now, see you again, friends.

In this article you will learn:

"Gravity Falls" is an animated television series produced by Disney. The animated series at first glance seems to be for children, but after a few episodes it becomes clear that adults will also find a lot of interesting things here. Inimitable humor, many references to popular culture, high-quality animation and, of course, an incredible amount of riddles and secrets - this is why the animated series is loved by thousands of fans around the world.

The plot of the work revolves around two main characters - children named Dipper and Mabel. Parents send the twins on summer vacation to their great-uncle named , in the town of Gravity Falls in Oregon. The city itself and the surrounding area contain great amount anomalous phenomena and creatures, and riddles and secrets accompany the heroes all the time.

The history of the founding of Gravity Falls

Gravity Falls is a small town in the vastness of the United States of America, or more precisely, somewhere in the middle of Oregon.
The settlement is no different from hundreds of similar ones throughout the country, except that it is here that all the anomalous events in the United States (if not the whole world) are concentrated.

The true founder of Gravity Falls It is reliably known that the city was founded by Quentin Trembley.

This extravagant man is famous for being the eighth and a half President of the United States. Eight and a half, because the very fact of Quentin’s existence was hidden by the country’s authorities. And this is due to the fact that the president was incredibly stupid.

Thus, the city of Gravity Falls itself was founded by Trembley at a time when the hapless president was riding a horse. Backwards. Naturally, this style led to a fall - from a rather high hill. He named the place where Quentin Trembley landed Gravity Falls (literally “gravitational fall”, “fall from gravity”). The head of the United States of America was unpleasantly surprised by another prank of the eighth and a half president, so he hid the very fact of the founding of the city. For posterity, Nathaniel Northwest became the founding father of Gravity Falls.

, who laid the foundation for the Northwest family - the rich people of the city. Nathaniel's descendant is also his great-great-great-granddaughter Pacifica, one of Mabel's main rivals.

Characters

The main attraction of Gravity Falls is the Mystery Shack.- the building in which he lives, to which the main characters came for the summer. The Mystery Shack is both a home and gift shop, and a museum. It’s paradoxical, but here, in the center of the most mystical town in the USA, fakes and deceptions are collected for curious tourists. Stan makes money from visitors as best he can, while constantly deceiving them and being disingenuous. The Shack store is also run by Wendy and Soos. However, the building itself is fraught with many more mysteries than it might seem at first glance.

The forest of Gravity Falls contains the vast majority of the town's wonders. The forest surrounds the settlement on all sides, and the most amazing creatures live in its depths. Among them: gnomes, muzhikotaurs (half men - half taurs), giant spiders, flying skulls and many others!

Lake Gravity Falls is located very close to the city. It is surrounded by high cliffs, and on one side has sand beach. Many residents relax here or go fishing. According to legend, Zhivogryz lives in the lake. In the center of the reservoir there is an island - Head-shaped Beast Island - on which there is a colony of beavers.

Creatures from the series

The animated series shows a huge number of fictional creatures - funny and truly scary, harmless and dangerous. Here are just the most interesting of them:

• Gnomes. Cheerful dwarfs who want to make Mabel their queen. They are harmless, but can create a giant gnome from their bodies.
• Man-taurs. An allusion to minotaurs, half-humans, half-bulls obsessed with courage. Aggressive, but ready to help Dipper become more courageous.
• Zombie. Disgusting, decaying creatures that can be defeated with a triple symphony. Very aggressive and dangerous.
• Dinosaurs. They were imprisoned in amber in a mine under the city. High temperatures melted the amber, releasing the monsters.
• Head-shaped island beast. A giant island-shaped head that flies after Dipper and Mabel in the mini-episode. The twins manage to escape.
• Multi-bear. Two fused bodies with four legs and arms and eight heads. Dipper defeated the bear, proving his courage, but did not kill it.
• Sheil Shifter. A dangerous monster that can take on any form. Found by heroes in a cave, subsequently frozen and neutralized.
• Bill Cipher. A powerful demon in the form of a yellow triangle that can subjugate the minds of people. The main antagonist of the story.

City holidays

Gravity Falls loves to celebrate holidays. The main ones are:

• Opening day of the fishing season. Almost the entire city flocks to the lake on this day, when fishing season officially opens. In the episode of the series, the heroes try to unravel the mystery of Zhivogryz, supposedly living in the lake.
• Party at the Mystery Shack. The city's largest disco, which is organized by Stan Pines in order to attract attention to its products. During the party, Dipper clones himself (repeatedly).
• Return of the Mystery Shack. A meeting to celebrate the opening of the store for the second time after defeating Gideon Gleeful. Zombies appear in the series and are overcome by Dipper, Mabel and Uncle Stan.
• Summerween. A holiday that townspeople celebrate on June 22 as the summer Halloween. Instead of pumpkins, lanterns are carved from watermelons in the summer. The episode features the creepy Summerween Dodger.

• There is a place in the USA that has a name very similar to Gravity Falls. This is a city named Oregon Vols. It is quite possible that the authors of the series referred to him.
• The main characters of the animated series, Dipper Pines and Mabel Pines, are twins. They were “copied” from the main author of Gravity Falls, Alex Hirsch, and his twin sister named Ariel.
• Another connection with Ariel is that the girl dreamed of her own pig as a child. That's why Mabel got a pig in the series.
• Some characters in the television series are distinguished by having four fingers on each hand. The other heroes are fine - they have five fingers. The creators of the series explain this by aesthetics. It’s just that some characters looked good with four fingers, while others looked good with five.
• The finale of the series is still far away, but the authors have already made a reservation that the final episode will show the final departure of the twins from Gravity Falls home.
• At the end of each episode, an incomprehensible set of letters appears. In fact, this is an encrypted message that relates either to the past series or to the next one. You can decipher the phrase by carefully listening to the whisper that sounds at the end of the opening screensaver. By scrolling the whisper backwards, you will get the key to the cipher.
• In Gravity Falls, literally every frame is a code, a reference or " easter egg" There are already quite a few thematic forums on the Internet where participants try to unravel the mysteries of the series and predict the plot.

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Many of those who watched the cartoon about this settlement would like to know whether Gravity Falls really exists, or whether it is just another invention of the screenwriters. To understand this issue, let's talk a little more about what kind of city this is, where it is located according to the plot of the animated film.

Does Gravity Falls exist in real life?

Before answering the question of whether Gravity Falls exists, let's look at the information we know from the cartoon. So, according to the plot of the animated film, this settlement is located in American state Oregon, in terms of population and total area, is quite small, that is, in fact, it is a kind of analogue of a cottage settlement or a provincial town.

Now let's figure out whether the town of Gravity Falls actually exists. So, if we look at the list of settlements located in the state of Oregon, we will not find such a settlement. Of course, many believe that it is so small that it simply is not included in such lists, but after looking detailed maps USA, we will also make sure that it simply does not exist.

The scriptwriters themselves also admit that the city of Gravity Falls exists only thanks to their imagination, and you will not find such a settlement in any American state. Of course, you may find some similarities between this town and real settlements, but these are nothing more than coincidences. When creating the script, the authors did not set themselves the task of copying a real settlement; on the contrary, they wanted to come up with an unusual and mysterious town. Completely avoid certain matches with real cities and natural areas, of course, they failed, since there are many provincial settlements that are as similar to each other as 2 peas in a pod. Therefore, if you wish, you can find a very similar settlement, but it is real and not fictitious, for example, towns such as Vortex and Boring, located in the same state of Oregon.

The animated series Gravity Falls was released back in 2012 and has since gained great popularity. There are currently two seasons, the latest of which began on February 15 this year.
Its main plot revolves around 12-year-old twins Mabel and Dipper Pines, who spend their summer holidays in the small town of Gravity Falls, which is located in Oregon. Its name is translated into Russian as “dangerous fall.” In his area, in the forest and river, many strange creatures live, and under the water there is a huge, scary head. According to the history of the town, it was founded in 1842 by Sir Lord Quentin Trumble III, after he fell from a cliff on his horse at this place.
From the moment the cartoon appeared on the screen, everyone became terribly interested - does the city of Gravity Falls really exist or is it fiction?
Unfortunately, this is really just another fictional city. It does not actually exist - neither in the state of Oregon, nor anywhere else in the United States in the form in which the filmmakers describe it.

On the other hand, his image combines several different towns of the American outback, similar to each other “like two peas.” After much analysis and reflection, fans of the cartoon came to the conclusion that it at least combined the towns of Vortex and Boring, in the same state of Oregon. There has been a reputation for some kind of paranormality about them for a long time.

The Gravity Falls valley itself does not actually exist either, because it was created by a spaceship during landing. And a UFO has never landed in this state! Although in the state of Oregon, again, there is one slightly similar place. See for yourself:

So there are a lot of mysteries, of course. But do not forget that this is just a cartoon and it is a figment of the author’s imagination.

What is the animated series about?

Twin children Dipper and Mabel Pines come for the summer to visit their great-uncle Stan, who, although he does not believe in the supernatural and magic, owns a souvenir shop called “The Mystery Shack,” where all the main characters of the series live. Here are collected a variety of fakes, forgeries and deceptions for visiting tourists. As it turns out later, the store itself holds many secrets that the heroes have yet to unravel.

The boredom that descended on the brother and sister at first soon dissipated, because while exploring the surrounding area, they managed to find diary number 3, telling about a variety of mystical phenomena in the area. Deciding to unravel the secrets of an unusual place, Dipper becomes a regular participant in dangerous undertakings. The prototypes of the Gravity Falls characters in real life were acquaintances of the creator of the animated series.

Gravity Falls characters and prototypes in reality

The following can be said about the characters themselves:. Dipper Pines is one of the main characters of the animated series. His name is apparently a nickname, because on the hero’s forehead there is a constellation of a bucket of moles, and in translation from English dipper is a bucket. Interesting Facts about the main character:

Mabel Pines - Dipper's sister, distinguished by its cheerful and uncomplicated character. Always excited to embark on a new adventure, no matter the dire circumstances. Being an active person, she enjoys chatting with friends, wearing flashy clothes and engaging in a variety of hobbies. It's enough for Mabel to fall in love handsome guy just show up in Gravity Falls. The character was most likely based on the author's sister, Ariel.

Other characters:

City location on screens

The city in the cartoon is located in Oregon, apparently because as a child the author of the series went on vacation to these parts with his sister. Gravity Falls was founded in 1842 by one of the US presidents, Quentin Trembley, after he fell on a horse from a local cliff.

Despite this, this fact was hidden for an unknown purpose, and Nathaniel Northwest was named as the founder of the city. As we learn in the course of the story, before the gold seekers and the president himself appeared here, the valley was inhabited by an indigenous population who left these places due to the prophecy of Shaman Modoc. It said that Weirdmageddon was coming in the near future.

What is really known about the city?

No data on previously existing or currently existing populated areas nothing with the same name is known.

As fans of the animated series have noticed, Gravity Falls is indeed very similar to its prototypes, the town of Boring and the small town of Vortex, from which it was drawn. Looking at photographs of Oregon landscapes, it is quite easy to agree that many of the sketches are similar to places that exist in life. So, for example, you can find a valley very similar to the drawn valley of Gravity Falls.

Thus, it can be said that Gravity Falls doesn't exist in real life, and is presented only collectively remote towns lost in the Oregon forests, filled with various interesting stories, secrets and riddles.

As for the name, Gravity Falls can be translated from English as “gravity falls.” Such a verbal pun adds even more mystery to the whole interesting story, which even adult viewers are ready to solve with enthusiasm.