While brute force will eventually work, there's a logic and a theme to it.
Comment has been collapsed.
Honestly trying to find the giveaway code looks like too much of a hassle to me, so have a free bump :P
Comment has been collapsed.
I recognize them too, but the letters won't work?!
Comment has been collapsed.
553 Comments - Last post 1 hour ago by Delisper
722 Comments - Last post 1 hour ago by ZPE
66 Comments - Last post 2 hours ago by ZPE
2,041 Comments - Last post 3 hours ago by Wok
21 Comments - Last post 4 hours ago by nvcstudent210
15,351 Comments - Last post 6 hours ago by jahas10
298 Comments - Last post 6 hours ago by hallak65
16 Comments - Last post 20 minutes ago by chairmankao
26,431 Comments - Last post 34 minutes ago by Dominicanoed
725 Comments - Last post 57 minutes ago by grom9663
248 Comments - Last post 58 minutes ago by hbouma
10,865 Comments - Last post 1 hour ago by Axelflox
2,683 Comments - Last post 4 hours ago by Mhol1071
795 Comments - Last post 5 hours ago by Dvn2010
"Nice to meet you! Do you know your A-B-Cs?"
"A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z"
"Terrific! You do indeed. Now, instead of telling you what I think, I'll do something better, I'll invite you to The Alphabet Train! 26 wagons, one for each letter of the alphabet! You need to be Level 3 or more to board it, and you can get on it until next Sunday 10th of May, at 10AM UTC."
(...)
"Oh, right, I'm sorry, here's the ticket."
This train and puzzle are over! Nothing to see here!
(except the solution below if you're curious)
The train ticket included 5 images, so first of all you needed to figure out that each one corresponded to an alphanumeric character, and combining them all together you'd obtain the relevant part of the URL to the first wagon of the train.
Now, I said several times in the discussion that there was some common theme to what you needed to "extract" from each image. And, this being The Alphabet Train it kind of made sense to be something related to the alphabet. Or, maybe, AN alphabet?
Indeed, the thing in question was the NATO phonetic alphabet, and each image corresponded to an element in this alphabet:
1: Victor Vran ---> Victor ---> v
2: A couple tango dancing ---> Tango ---> t
3: Charlie Sheen ---> Charlie ---> C
4: Juliette Lewis ---> Juliet ---> j
5: Sub-Zero ---> Zero ---> 0
All together: vtCj0, which gives us the URL of the first wagon of the train.
The relative sizes of the images was a clue of whether they were upper-case or lower-case. I also made Sub-Zero taller than lower-case but shorter than upper-case in order to indicate that he represented neither, but a number. Anyway, "Sub" doesn't belong to the NATO alphabet, so it was the "Zero" part what we wanted.
Finally, a couple of hours after the puzzle began, I edited the OP so the first letter of each paragraph spelled N-A-T-O, but I'm not sure anybody noticed it :P
Comment has been collapsed.