‘Pacific Rim’ Viral Fires Up with Kaiju Alert System Test & Countdown

In 14 days, the Kaiju Emergency Alert System is going to go bonkers. There’s going to be an invasion (I can predict the future!). Of what exactly? We’ll have to find out. Leading up to what will likely be the big debut of a trailer and the first public footage from Guillermo del Toro’s new movie Pacific Rim is a new viral with a countdown timer. A few places (via The Playlist) have noticed that new site called Pan Pacific Defense Corps has launched (with the Pac Rim logo) that features a glowing dot on San Francisco and the big timer. There’s also a test TV video that links to the Kaiju Emergency System from that page (see below). The actual Pan Pacific Defense Corps website doesn’t show much yet, just a map of the entire world with the glowing red dot on San Francisco. If you click on that, it …