Big Rapids/Notable in-town locations

The following is a list of locations in Big Rapids relevant to Dozerfleet history that happened off of the Ferris State campus.

K-Mart
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Goodwill
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6885398,-85.5005299,3a,40.8y,332.7h,92.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1si3JbbyzSWse4opHqvdUowQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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Big Lots
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6876396,-85.493014,3a,15y,346.37h,87.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSFgoHLAR4YyLCU3jeO7_Bw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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Hillcrest Oakwood Properties
Hillcrest Oakwood Apartments in Big Rapids was where Chris Wilson resided in the fall of 2009. He portrayed Chris Kennal in Blood Over Water. However, the story had it that Mark Stefflin (played by Zach Foster) resided there. The apartment being in Mark's name is also canon to the 2013-inceived novel.

Bowmaster House
Around that time, the founder of Dozerfleet had friends in town living at this location. He developed feelings for a woman there named Merre, though things didn't work out between them in the end. He selected their theme song at the time to be a variation of "Broken" by Lifehouse. This track was considered later for the Trapezoid Radio segment of A Decade of Ambition in the DVD bonus features section. However, it was replaced with a Trapezoided variation of "Broken" by Seether, one that turned Shaun Morgan into Cornert Mindoche and Amy Lee into Stigmie Sletterman. While he was not impressed by 2008's Twilight film; she enjoyed it greatly.

Redeemer Lutheran Church
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6536359,-85.4832744,3a,26.7y,269.03h,89.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNa8dFASZXS7ZeGATZxK3sg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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Biggby
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6885398,-85.5005299,3a,40.8y,332.7h,92.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1si3JbbyzSWse4opHqvdUowQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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Great Lakes Bookstore
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6885398,-85.5005299,3a,40.8y,332.7h,92.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1si3JbbyzSWse4opHqvdUowQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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Innovative Grafix
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7008555,-85.4725733,3a,38.3y,2.72h,87.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHzpdEQjQDSeruIq7C1WEYA!2e0!7i3328!8i1664 asdf

Gilberts' Carpets Plus
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Mancino's Pizza and Grinders
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Buffalo Wild Wings
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6882539,-85.5013462,3a,15y,15.78h,90.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXRiYLrLKa5MqW8jkW-ie1w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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Family Video
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6980529,-85.4837996,3a,89.8y,104.65h,73.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXSpGCWk56O30Q31PTUYmKA!2e0!7i3328!8i1664

Wal-Mart
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Meijer
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6885398,-85.5005299,3a,40.8y,332.7h,92.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1si3JbbyzSWse4opHqvdUowQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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Crossroads Charter Academy
Further viewing: Google Maps

Spectrum Health
Further viewing: Google Maps

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AMC Theater
The AMC Theater (formerly the Carmike Theater) in Big Rapids is host to an alleyway. That alley was where Toy Volkonir was discovered by Cassie Helm in 2008's Volkonir. That same alley is used for scenes involving Gambino Penguin in Mutt Mackley and Gambino Penguin's "Somewhere I Belong".

The evening of August 25th of 2006, most Ferris students were attending the Meijer Madness event. The Dozerfleet founder went to the Carmike, and had almost the entire theater exclusively to himself. Snakes on a Plane was showing. Its ending immediately inspired ideas for an animated series spinoff. Snakes on a Blog mentioned this animated series pitch; but New Line never contacted about it. In the spring of 2007, TMNT was on at that same theater. It was also the location where the founder saw The Dark Knight and took a date to see Hancock in 2008.

JC Penney
Further viewing: Google Maps

The local JC Penney in downtown Big Rapids was at one point going to be a shooting location for the pilot episode of Kozerlen, before the practicum class abandoned Kozerlen for what would ultimately morph into Blood Over Water. This corner is where Jessie Morcin awakes and discovers the note with "Kozerlen" written on it.

Stanford Ice Mountain plant
A few miles south of Big Rapids is the town of Stanford, home to a bottling plant for Ice Mountain. While they were replaced with Sleet Mountain for the YouTube publication of Blood Over Water as well as the novelization inceived in 2013; original raw cuts of the class miniseries had the villains literally working for Ice Mountain. Edits removed this, to avoid the Ferris Access Channel facing potential litigation for defamation. Sleet Mountain is where Clyde Spendelworth crafts most of his evil schemes, before Chris goes on a nationwide rampage to destroy Clyde's Gleeful-N'-Young empire. Chris proves highly successful for six years, before being trapped in Gerosha during a Hebbleskin Gang takeover while in the middle of chasing down Frank Morvel during the events in the Cataclysmic Gerosha story Ciem: Inferno.

With Candi in jail and her Ciem identity exposed, Miriam Flippo becomes desperate to destroy the Hebbleskins' energy dome so the city can be saved without Candi - or the local police. However, the only hero physically strong enough to stand up to Lava Tigre and Frank Morvel both, as far as Miriam is concerned, is Chris. They form a shaky alliance to fight for Gerosha's freedom, while Candi tries to negotiate to get some of her own back. After a fateful sequence of events, Candi is temporarily let out of jail. She promptly returns to Gerosha, and seizes advantage of Miriam catching a lucky break to get past the energy dome and enter the city. The villains are defeated; but Miriam decides the best way to reward Chris is by giving him the best possible chance to flee town without being discovered by police too soon. This backfires on her, and she is convicted of aiding and abetting a fugitive. For her accident in revealing the existence of Zeran wardrobes, Candi is sent back to prison at Madison Juvenile Correctional. Miriam is sent to SCALLOP Juvenile Containment Center in Texas.

Leaving his Gerosha adventures behind, Chris whittles his way into hunting Clyde down, working his way through Gleeful-N'-Young and the Hebbleskins' ranks. Finishing Clyde off for good requires him to gain the assistance of Extirpon and the Gray Champion - just in time for the three of them to immediately be needed to stop a full-scale Icy Finger assault on Cincinnati during the events in Ciem: Ash Cloud.

Cataclysmic Gerosha would require a full-on actor to portray the slimy Clyde character. Due to lack of volunteers, the shaded backside of Zach Foster was used for Clyde in episode 5 of the Blood Over Water miniseries. Debbie Carley's office was used as the Sleet Mountain main office, as much of Bishop Hall was used as a stand-in for Sleet Mountain's Lower Northern plant. Class instructor Nathan Meadows was supposed to portray Clyde, but was unavailable on shooting day. Obscuring Zach became a must, as Zach was already established as portraying both Mark and Aaron Stefflin.

707 Cypress St.
The basement of this house in Big Rapids was used for shooting the trailer for Volkonir. Almost all props seen in the majority of the trailer's runtime were native to that basement - including the original Candle of Hope prop and the Trinket of King Morlikus. The Dozerfleet founder did the trailer voiceover for Volkonir using voice acting and modulation via editing, since John DeBruyn was unavailable for voice recording on shooting day.