MST3K Kickstarter Livestream

 For the last week or so Mystery Science Theater 3000 has been doing livestreams nearly every night. It's been amazingly consistent and has given me a sudden abundance of nightly entertainment. Most of the streams have featured the new(er) cast watching classic episodes, something that didn't sound like much at first but turned out to be way more hilarious and enjoyable than I had hoped. One stream was the cast playing Jackbox games like quiplash and so forth,which, again was fantastic. I decided not to post them all on ye olde blog because each is 2 hours and it was nightly so it just seemed like too much content.

But now this is the last day of the Kickstarter and there is one more livestream to close it out. The stream starts tonight at 6PM Eastern. The Kickstarter, by the way, has already reached every goal and so the new season will be a full 12 episodes. One interesting bit of news is that they will be renting out a theater to have a live "Grand Finale" showing of the last episode of the season. And the location of the live event just so happens to be in the Philadelphia area. 

So anyways, all goals have been met so tonight's livestream stream will be about piling on, maybe some additional goals or episodes, maybe some additional bonus rewards and probably some surprise guests. Check it out if you have a free night and you're into that sort of thing.

New MST3K Kickstarter

 

As you might recall, back in 2015 Mystery Science Theater 3000 did a record breaking kickstarter to bring back the show, which ultimately went to Netflix. Since then, Netflix "cancelled" it. Now there is a kickstarter to bring it back and cut out the middleman - shows will be released on a streaming service 100% dedicated to MST3K. Users will be able to stream live events, classic episodes as well as new seasons. And it will last as long as the money lasts.

It's a good idea, we'll see what happens.

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MST3K - Kickstarter Telethon

Buoyed by a star-studded "telethon", the MST3K kickstarter has ended with great financial success even if the event was hampered my major technical problems. Here's the rundown for anyone interested:

First, the goal was to reach $5.5 Million to make a full season of twelve episodes. They got that.

Then, the goal was to reach $5.9 Million to add a Christmas episode to the season of twelve. They reached that.

Then, the goal was to pass $5.7 Million on the kickstarter alone to have the record for the highest total in the history of kickstarter. They reached that.

Finally, they said if they get to $6.3 Million, they'll make a 14th episode and they just barely made it.

This was the highlight for me. This is the Game Grumps interviewed and then playing a video game MST3K style with Crow. The game they play? "Manos: The Hands of Fate: the video game". Appropriate.



Here's Patton Oswalt stealing the show in a segment that kind of encapsulates the whole night.

MST3K is Back... Sort Of

Original show creator Joel Hodgson is bringing back MST3K, using crowdfunding to raise the necessary funding.


Someone did a good job at making the crowdfunding page entertaining for the fans. Some names of the rewards: "Hello. Thank You!", "Shirty the Shirt Sprite", "Big McLargehuge" and "She stole Mike's keyboard!". It also states "Finally, if we raise $1 BILLION – stay with me on this one – we’re going to adopt a real live teenage boy and “Truman Show” him into believing he is the Pumaman!"

A couple of the rewards are owning a Servo/Crow used in the show, having your own obscure joke used in the show and being listed as a producer.

Exciting news but there are a number of reasons to be... less excited. The host will not be Joel or Mike for sure and the robot puppeteers will likely be new as well. More importantly, what about the writers? The only person we know to be involved at all is Joel. That leads to the question, if the show comes back with an all new cast and all new writers, is it the same show?

I would argue "not at all" but, fortunately for me, I have money to spare on nonsense speculation like this.

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