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For those interested in Mystery Science Theater 3000, here's the message Joel sent backers, like me, when this fundraiser fell short of the goal: Read more... )

So hope is not lost, just postponed. We've brought back MST3K before; we can do it again.

brightknightie: Silhouette of Joel and the bots from Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Other Fandom MST3K silhouette)
7 hours remain in the fundraising pledge drive to make a 14th season of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Yesterday was the 35th anniversary of their premiere on local cable in Minnesota. It's all-or-nothing; they're currently at 66% of goal.

Update, Sunday: They didn't make it.

brightknightie: Silhouette of Joel and the bots from Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Other Fandom MST3K silhouette)
Joel has announced that if they reach their fundraising goal and can produce a fourteenth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, they have arranged to be able to tackle -- at last -- Plan 9 from Outer Space itself, reputedly the worst movie of all time.

They're now up to 37% of their goal with 7 days left (from 10,387 contributors). You can get details and pledge here.

I'm concerned that their fundraising this time around is being slowed by (1) most of their folks being unable to do even social media promotion until recently because of the strikes, (2) moving from well-known Kickstarter to a lesser-known platform this time to be able to keep more of the funds raised, and perhaps (3) some lingering unhappiness from some backers of the previous season when the shipping of the "backer rewards" (t-shirts, pins, etc.) was unexpectedly late and overly expensive from pandemic supply-chain problems.

brightknightie: Silhouette of Joel and the bots from Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Other Fandom MST3K silhouette)
Are you, or is anyone you know, a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K)? If so, you may be interested to learn that they're currently crowd-funding a new fourteenth season, completely independent of any studio or other corporate overlords (unlike the revival eleventh and twelfth season done in cooperation with Netflix, but very much like the revival thirteenth season in which they launched their "Gizmoplex" independent streaming, and of course also different from the old Comedy Central days, or Sci-Fi Channel days, or even the primordial local cable days).

Learn all about it at mst3k.com! Or on their YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter/X. This effort runs through this Thanksgiving Day (November 23, 2023), after which they will lock in the number of new episodes they'll produce for the season, so, to get more episodes, fund them before their deadline. And of course there will be their traditional "turkey day" marathon of "turkeys" (bad movies) being mocked in signature style.

I've personally backed each of the revival seasons so far, including this hoped-for fourteenth. I'd be happy to describe my experience with their "Gizmoplex" streaming and as a backer; please ask any questions.

(Never heard of MST3K? It's not like anything else, so it's kind of hard to explain, but don't worry -- as the theme song says, "it's just a show," so we can "just relax" about the backstory in which mad scientists trap a victim alone in space and force him or her to watch endless cheesy genre movies, but the victim fights back by creating sentient robots to watch the movies with, together endlessly mocking everything about the movies in a rain of jokes so dense that even if you catch only every fourth joke, you laugh all the way through. It's not for everyone! But it is very much for some. It's something I get to share with my sister, so I value it even more highly for that.)

Addendum: With 13 days left, they are currently at 33% of goal for a 6-episode season. Ouch. It really hurt that the studios didn't settle contracts earlier, so that the actors weren't able to do any promotion on social media or elsewhere. (They want to do a 12-episode season if they can get the money; they set the 6-episode season as the minimum goal.)

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