Four toe Statue

EKRIUQ

Another theory I saw about the statue,

...was built around Jughead to secure it in concrete. I know a lot of people are thinking the Swan Station was built around it and the bomb has something to do with pushing the button and what happened when Desmond turned the fail safe key. That could very well be what will/has happened. But I believe the Others will build/built the statue around Jughead to protect themselves from it's leaking radiation. I just don't see them moving the bomb across the island and putting it underground.


Statue (just off the water):
http://www.endtimeprophecy.net/Jacob...oed-Statue.gif
Jughead (notice how close the water is in relation to it's current location):
http://getlostpodcast.iimmgg.com/ima...a1c4ed67ccd2c7

The tower around the bomb would make for a great skeleton for the statue. So why only four toes? Answer: they ran out of concrete. That simple. Not as ancient as we thought, but it would be a great answer....was built around Jughead to secure it in concrete. I know a lot of people are thinking the Swan Station was built around it and the bomb has something to do with pushing the button and what happened when Desmond turned the fail safe key. That could very well be what will/has happened. But I believe the Others will build/built the statue around Jughead to protect themselves from it's leaking radiation. I just don't see them moving the bomb across the island and putting it underground.

The tower around the bomb would make for a great skeleton for the statue. So why only four toes? Answer: they ran out of concrete. That simple. Not as ancient as we thought, but it would be a great answer

Sad Professor

I think you're right. It seems like the most logical explanation for the statue.

Anima

Why do you have the same thing twice in the same post?

I dont see why people think thats why they built the swan. Why would you have to keep pushing a button to stop a nuke exploding? I mean it works on a trigger system, if its triggered, it explodes. If its left alone it does nothing. Why have an elaborate underground facility when all you have to do is what Daniel said and cover it with lead and the bury it. The lead is to stop any radiation leakage. Also when the hatch exploded, there wasn't much of an explotion. The hatch was destroyed but everything around it was pretty much untouched. Also theres no radiation.

Those two photos you posted show completely different locations. One is a beach with part of the base of the statue touching the ocean. The other is in a clearing in the forest.

If, like you said, they were following Daniel's instructions and covering it with concrete, why the hell would they make a gigantic foot. With 4 toes no less. Thats idiotic.

eddiehead

Anima wrote: »

If, like you said, they were following Daniel's instructions and covering it with concrete, why the hell would they make a gigantic foot. With 4 toes no less. Thats idiotic.

+1

why not just a solid mass of concrete?
Id be pretty pissed if the answer to the 4 toes mystery was something as trivial as running out of concrete. There's plenty of evidence to suggest that there were people on the island loooong before 1950's, the statue will have something to do with them.

oleras

Look familiar ? ?

Niall0

The swan hatch was something to do with magnetism wasnt it , they explained it properly around the explosion i think. There was that really thick concrete wall which wasnt really explained though and it could be possible the nuke is buried in there under alot of concrete, id imagine they would bury it underground and not make a nice statue out of it for some reason.
Id say the four toe statue is more likely from an ancient civilisation (the people who made the wheel thing with all the heiroglyphics and stuff and probably the temple. When we see the temple they will probably reveal more about them.
Also that 4 toed statue does not look like it is made from concrete. Its too detailed, and old concrete would look alot worse than that, its probably a marble sculpture or something.

Jay Ru

if the bomb was encased in the statue, surely the scuplting of the statue combined with the fact that the bomb is already leaking wud lead to the bomb going off. also i doubt there is enough concrete in that statue to contain the bomb in the first place.

Mellor

EKRIUQ wrote: »

The tower around the bomb would make for a great skeleton for the statue. So why only four toes? Answer: they ran out of concrete. That simple. Not as ancient as we thought, but it would be a great answer

Hmm, I really dont think this true.In fact, i'm pretty sure we can discount alot of it.

A statute wouldnt need a skelton if it was solid concrete, but that doesn't really disprove it.
The statue looks like stone to me, not concrete.
As for the four toes being due to running out of concrete. This makes little sense. Concrete doesn't work like that, add bits on and on (like glass and clay objects). If it was built from concrete to hold the Jughead, it would have to be cast as one, then carved into a statue. So runnign out of concrete wouldn't be a reason for 4 toes. (I really doubt it would be down to human error either)

Finally, Damon and Carlton have confirmed that the original script called for a 6 toed statue, but ABC wished to change it. Creators didnt mind as long as it didn't have 5 toes.
They also confirmed it predates Dharma, which could be anytime

Narcissus

Mellor wrote: »

Finally, Damon and Carlton have confirmed that the original script called for a 6 toed statue, but ABC wished to change it. Creators didnt mind as long as it didn't have 5 toes.
They also confirmed it predates Dharma, which could be anytime

I was just reading about this, another reason was given from the sculptor on Lost saying (from one of the podcasts) :
that the statue's foot was changed from six to four toes because it was hard to tell that it wasn't a regular five-toed foot when it had six toes.

Also, when the statue was shown in Live together die alone Sayid says something about wondering were the rest of the statue is. As can be seen from the image it looks like it was a very large statue that collapsed somehow.

I would hate for it to be something as simple as covering up the bomb, I believe it has a sense of mystery about it.

It should probably say spoiler in the title as some people haven't seen Jughead yet.

trishw78

I was just thinking the way the island "Moves" could it be possible that this foot is part of the Colossus of Rhodes, just a pondering idea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Rhodes

Killaqueen!!!

I thought about how the bomb could be encased in the statue, or in the concrete wall in the hatch, but taking all things into consideration (not going to repeat the above points), the most likely explanation is:

1) It was built pre-Dharma (pre-1950s), maybe the people worshiped this 4-toed 'god', maybe it's supposed to be Jacob. Who knows.

OR

2) As the poster above stated, the island 'moved' onto (well not 'onto') this statue which was built by some other ancient civilisation. Just like how perhaps the Black Rock ship came to be in the centre of the island.

oleras wrote: »

Look familiar ? ?

Hmmm...sorry can't really see that. Is that the pole the Others tied Locke's father to? Dunno if that was concrete......technically could work but I wonder how far away that camp was from the bomb.

Mellor

Killaqueen!!! wrote: »

1) It was built pre-Dharma (pre-1950s), maybe the people worshiped this 4-toed 'god', maybe it's supposed to be Jacob. Who knows.

The creators said it was pre-dharma. So thats confirmed anyway. But Dharma was 70s not 50s. So we don't how far back it was built

AnonoBoy

trishw78 wrote: »

I was just thinking the way the island "Moves" could it be possible that this foot is part of the Colossus of Rhodes, just a pondering idea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Rhodes

I think the Colossus of Rhodes had five toes, didn't it?