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The Wall of Brians
The Room of Brians was a room located in the unmarked section of the Kong Studios basement during Phase 2.
Phase 2[]
The dead German radio operator slumped over in the Room of Brians.
The Room of Brians referred to a wall with 25 portraits all of which depicted famous people or characters with Brian in their names including, Brian Burton, Brian Warner, Brian May, Brian the Snail, and the key art for the movie The Life of Brian. The room previously served as a German radio communications bunker during World War II. There is a corpse of an unnamed Nazi officer resting on the counter of the radio set. In the left corner of the room, a broken computer can be found beside a stack of Nazi gold.
Equipment compartments for three occupants.
On the room's left wall, there are three equipment shelves; implying that there may have been two other German officers that occupied the bunker at one point but, their whereabouts are unknown. The missing contents of the shelves were more than likely scavenged by Murdoc.
The radio played a looping distress call from Noodle after the El Mañana Incident), but only dead air static prior to it.
Slowboat to Hades[]
Slowboat To Hades DVD Bunker/Radio Room
A few days before the Slowboat To Hades DVD was released Gorillaz released Rise of the Ogre, with a transmission from Noodle saying:
| “ | October 26th 2006 sounds are heard coming from the basement of the derelict Kong Studios building site. From the shatters basin of Kong Studios, a small, almost incomprehensible sound can be heard emitting from the damaged radio set in the brain room. | „ |
Slowboat To Hades DVD Bunker/Radio Room Outside
Then 4 days later on October 30th 2006, On the Slowboat To Hades DVD when go on the map you can go to the Bunker. Only to hear Noodle's transmission. Along with the music video for El Mañana, the animatic, Noodle's Capsule Hotel (Noodle Ident) and the Fancy Dress G-Bite. At some point between the events of Slowboat to Hades and Rise of the Ogre, the dead radio operator's body was removed but, his boots were left behind. The stacks of Nazi gold also increased in quantity. The radio set itself was also replaced with a newer (but still archaic) model as well as the inclusion of a newish wood desk. The model airplanes hanging from the ceiling were also replaced with a model of the attack helicopter used in the El Mañana music video.
Trivia[]
- The lone dead German officer may have been part of the Funkabwehr (or Radio Defense Corps), a radio counterintelligence organization created in 1940 by the Nazi High Command for the monitoring of illicit broadcasts. The underground transmitter was the secret radio station established in enemy-occupied territory (in this case Essex, England). Such a station was charged with passing back to its control station, information of a military, political, or war-industrial nature obtained through espionage. Being located in Essex which was adjacent to (at the time) German-occupied Belgium, it was more than likely used as a listening post for intercepting British radio communications before forwarding the information to Brussels (the Belgian-based German Intercept and DF unit location) before being forwarded to HQ Berlin.
- The German officer may have died from a heart attack as evident by his slumped over sitting posture which is common among people that go into cardiac arrest.
- The can on the German officer's belt is a Luftwaffe gas mask canister (as evident by its grey-blue color).
See Also[]
- Wall of Captains
- Danger Mouse