With Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett busy with their Rifftrax enterprise, I didn’t expect them to be involved, but where were Mary Jo Pehl, Frank Conniff or Trace Beaulieu from Cinematic Titanic – I feel relatively certain that other human in the video was alum Josh Weinstein. Is Joel the only original cast member involved? I couldn’t be the only one who had a moment of “huh” when Crow and Tom didn’t sound like Crow and Tom, and that led me to the bigger realization that seemingly Joel is the only original series worker involved. My bigger concern is that there aren’t many Kickstarters that ever break a million in support, so I hope they aren’t setting their sights too high.Ģ. That way of thinking has hamstrung a number of major KS projects. As someone experienced with crowdfunding, I know everything costs more than you think it should, and I’m glad that Joel doesn’t appear to be asking for less than is needed just to hit a goal. $2 million for three episodes sounds like a lot. (In the interest of transparency, you should know I’ve already pledged $25.) Here are my biggest concerns:ġ. This is all very exciting, and very well timed around MST3K’s newly re-annualized Turkey Day marathon of classic episodes, but this has left me with a ton of unanswered questions. Obviously the crew at LT are huge MST3K fans, but in case you need more explanation, here’s the KS pitch video. The show that invented mocking of cheesy movies debuted decades ago, and now creator Joel Hodgson is looking for $2,000,000 (minimum) to bring back the series with new episodes, new hosts, old friends, and hopefully prove to stingy television executives that MST3K is worth bringing back. Here’s the short version: A Mystery Science Theater 3000 Kickstarter just went live. Joel and the bots need two million dollars to make new episodes, but what exactly does this KS include? Much like fat cop Mitchell, we clumsily investigate…
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