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Weekend Discussion Thread: Ideas for Future Shout Factory SetsAlert reader David Finn writes:
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How about a Secret Agent set:
Operation Double 007
Code Name: Diamond Head
Danger! Death Ray
Agent For H.A.R.M.
Everyone will soon copy me, how bout a Gamera/or Japenise set???
It might be lethal, but:
The Coleman Francis Film Festival
It could even include a pudgy, gray action figure!
You mean besides the Russo-Finnish set? (The more I think about that the more I like it)
How about a TV series Box Set:
Master Ninja I
Master Ninja II
Riding With Death
Cosmic Princess
Or a Sandy Frank set:
Fugitive Alien I
Fugitive Alien II
Time of the Apes
Mighty Jack
The latter might be difficult given Sandy Frank’s reputed antipathy toward the Brains. So I guess “YOU’RE STUCK HERE!”
How about an “MSTV” set, with any four of the films produced for TV, or made from TV episodes?
Stranded in Space (305)
Time of the Apes (306)
Fugitive Alien (310)
Mighty Jack (314)
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II (318)
Master Ninja I (322)
Master Ninja II (324)
Crash of the Moons (with General Hospital!) (417)
Attack of the the Eye Creatures (418)
Code Name: Diamond Head (608)
San Francisco International (614)
Riding with Death (814)
Agent for H.A.R.M. (815)
(and that’s deleting a few that Rhino or Shout! have already done)
(Whoops, MPSh posted his while I was still writing mine.)
Excuse the third message in a row, but it occurred to me they could do a more specific “Crashed Pilots” set with
Stranded in Space (305)
Code Name: Diamond Head (608)
San Francisco International (614)
Agent for H.A.R.M. (815)
although that would go against the usual “two Joel/two Mike” pattern.
There are four Hercules episodes, so that would have made a great themed set.
How about a cowboy set?
Gunslinger
The Painted Hills
Last of the Wild Horses
Final Justice
how about a Bert I Gorden pain parade?
The Amazing Colossal Man
War of the Colossal Beast
The Magic Sword
Earth vs. the Spider
“what sin could a man commit in a single lifetime.. to bring this upon himself?!”
How about an Outer Space-themed set?
111 Moon Zero Two
201 Rocketship X-M
524 12 to the Moon
704 The Incredible Melting Man
It’s a 2 Joel/2 Mike split, and all eps have yet to be commercially released. No double-dipping required! :grin:
I can’t think of the proper episodes, but:
The “Who is Merrit Stone?” collection.
The Dubbed Italian Flims box set:
Escape 2000
Colossus Vs. the Headhunters
Devil Fish
Diabolik
The “Shoot the Moon” box set:
Moon Zero Two
Rocket Ship X-M (which misses the moon and ends up on Mars, IIRC, but whatever)
Crash of Moons
12 to the Moon
Track of the Moon Beast (alternate)
The “MSTie Moments” box set: (ruined by the fact that two ar released already)
Mitchell
Samson Vs the Vampire Women
Laserblast
Diabolik
Personally I’d perfer Season sets, but barring that I’d probably go for international sets. Russo-Finnish, Japanese, Italian…
Or how about an Ed Wood, Bert I. Gorden, Coleman Francis, Roger Corman blow out set. :mrgreen:
My set would be this:
101: The Crawling Eye
202: Rocketship XM
624: Samson vs. The Vampire Women
then either 801: Revenge of the Creature or 1013: Diabolik
That way, you have the first episode, the first appearance of Frank, the last appearance of Frank, and either the first Sci-Fi ep or the last overall ep.
OH! Got another one!! How about Crappy monster costume set! :twisted:
#17: That’d be half the MST library, right?
Plus the already got the two worst on DVD during the Rhino days with “Santa Claus Conquers The Martians”
GAMERA!
They could do a double set on the evils of teenagers:
112 – Untamed Youth
307 – Daddy-O
315 – Teenage Caveman
522 – Teen-Age Crime Wave
523 – Village of the Giants
601 – Girls’ Town
610 – The Violent Years
809 – I Was A Teenage Werewolf
And none of these have bee released yet!
Well…
The Joe Don Baker collection.
Much like the more recent Simpson’s box sets the box would be Joe’s giant face.
perhaps it could include a fake plastic sheriffs badge and a shot glass.
Personally, my preferred sets would be Russo-Finnish Quartet, Hercules/Colossus/Maciste, Great Actors Slumming (IE Overdrawn, Delta Knights, etc.), Musicals and Space Travel (aka the “Sleep Pack.” Include an inflatable pillow and space blanket!)
#20 beat me to it – here’s a similar list
There are so many Juvenile Delinquent films to chose from, I’ve split them into two sets. All are B&W and feature some of the hottest MST Babes ever (Mamie Van Doren, Ann-Margret, etc.). And most are very funny episodes…
Naughty Boys:
307 Daddy-O
415 The Beatniks
522 Teenage Crime Wave
618 High School Big Shot
Nasty Girls:
112 Untamed Youth
601 Girl’s Town
610 The Violent Years
615 Kitten With a Whip
I know it’s not a 4 disk set but a nice 2 disk set would be The Estavez Premiere Collection:
Soultaker
Werewolf
The Dark World of Sports:
Sidehackers
Samson vs. the Vampire Women
Racket Girls
The Skydivers
#5’s As Seen On TV set gets my vote.
…and if you order now we’ll include the Pocket Fisherman at no extra charge! (Just pay seperate shipping and processing.)
Since Warrior of the Lost World is coming out soon, that leaves these post-apocalyptic episodes:
Apocalypse Then!
107 Robot Monster
110 Robot Holocaust
403 City Limits
705 Escape 2000
and as a bonus, throw in K20 The Last Chase w/Lee Majors and Burgess Meredith
Actually I think the KTMA episodes would make a good limited edition collection. Charge us fans top dollar to pay for acquiring the rights to these things. I’m thinking $200-300, like that Beatles In Mono set. A rip-off, sure, but its likely the only way to see them released.
I would love to see the very first episode # 101 The Crawling Eye # 306 Time Of The Apes # 703 Deatstalker….. and #1013 Danger: Diabolik! Sort of a begining, middle, middle, end type of thing and toss in #K04 Gamera vs. Barugon or something earlier as a bonus!!!! That would be an awsome box set!!!!!! :lol:
The “Less-than-Super Natural” Boxset.
The Undead
The Touch of Satan
The Screaming Skull
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
(It was hard to find a magic-themed movie for Joel’s tenure without impeding on the Hercules movies or the Russo-Finnish quartet.)
“2001” actors set: Riding with Death, Devil Doll, Gorgo, and The Magic Sword. Three with William Sylvester and one with Gary Lockwood. OR
Master Ninja 1 and 2 & It Conquered the World (Lee Van Cleef) plus Revenge of the Creature (a few seconds of Clint Eastwood). Both actors were in Sergio Leone’s westerns. So it’s not a theme like made-for-tv or spy stories but I’d gladly buy either of these.
Th1rt3eN says:
November 14th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
how about a Bert I Gorden pain parade?
The Amazing Colossal Man
Unfortunately, Rhino had this (I have my VHS copy yet) but had to pull it. Don’t know if it would be possible to get rights again.
Personally, I’d like a dual Kaiju set.. with the all the Gamera and the two Godzilla movies (can’t do a count in my head on Gamera)
J/P=?
Wow, this proposed set looks kinda dreary. All feature buxom young ladies under the influence of creepy hypnotists:
Sleeping Beauties
805 The Thing That Wouldn’t Die
806 The Undead
808 The She-Creature
818 Devil Doll
Hot Girls set:
Spider Island :grin:
Catalina Caper (just ignore plot)
Wild Wild World of Batwoman (just ignore plot)
Girls Town (don’t ignore Mamie) :evil:
No theme but
Jungle Goddess
Teenage Caveman
Last of the Wild Horses
Revenge of the Creature (for historical purposes)
#33
Are you proposing that Wild Wild World of Batwoman has a plot? Can you back up that claim?
Hmmm… I’d suggest an Ed Wood box set, but that’s only three movies:
423 – Bride of the Monster
610 – Violent Years
613 – Sinister Urge
Also, Sinister Urge was also already released. Still, maybe it could come with a new Shorts compilation?
Or, how about “Hooray for the 70s”, which would be a bit Mike-centric (and again, is already mostly available):
512 – Mitchell
622 – Angels’ Revenge
811 – Parts: The Clonus Horror
814 – Riding with Death
I’d love for a Planet of the Bobo set, with episodes 801-804, and an Observer World set with episodes 805-808. Hell, you could even package the latter in a brain bowl.
# 35 Are you proposing that Wild Wild World of Batwoman has a plot? Can you back up that claim?
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Apparently. :mrgreen: This is just part of a
plot review in “The agony booth.”
“The rookie is given the glass but hesitates, asking if she has to. She’s told it’s part of the ritual…. the rookie drinks and remarks that it tastes good and not all like she thought. The others join in, laughing…
Aimless Brunette: Now that you’re one of us, I can tell! We’re vampires all right, but only in a synthetic sense. Drinking the real stuff went out with Count Dracula.
Dumb Rookie: So what’s this?
Blondie: A real groove.
Aimless Brunette: Honey, mint cherry and strawberry yogurt!…
We then cut to the title card. If you’re hoping to see the three women from the prologue again, you’re out of luck, because not only do they have nothing to do with the story, they never appear again. You see, this bit was tagged on after DC Comics hauled Warren into court, in an effort to convince audiences that this “Batwoman” is a bat woman because she’s a vampire, not because she has anything to do with Batman.”
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See. The plot was so complex and the cinematography so brilliant that DC Comics had to intervene to prevent the destruction of its empire should this film succeed. (Looks like Tom Servo’s Sarcasm Sequencer Overload is influencing everyone here).
#38
Oh. Thanks. I was always so distracted by the bikinis that I totally missed it. Now it all makes sense.
Maybe there could be sets with separate Joel & Mike themes as a sort of “Double Feature” for harder to group episodes.
Mike Example:
Mads in the Theater – Last Of The Wild Horses & Quest Of The Delta Knights
I think they should have done a set with “Crawling Eye”, “Sampson & the Vampire Women”, “Laserblast”, “Creature from the black lagoon” and “Diablolik”. All the Important first and last episodes. Also it would be great if they did an all Observer package with episode 805 to 808. It would be awsome!
Finnias Jones@#27: Limited edition sets that Shout! warns us in advance will go out of print, to replace the Rhino era tradition of it just sneaking up on us? (I still don’t have the Beginning of the End DVD, but that got me off my butt to jump on every other set before any went out of print)
BRILLIANT!
On Travis’s likelihood for release list, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster has the only “When Hell Freezes Over” rating, since Toho/Sony will never give up the rights, and that’s one of the few titles that could bring a potentially company-killing lawsuit if they pulled a Godzilla vs. Megalon stunt like Rhino.
BUT – and I hope this never, ever happens – if Shout! were to find themselves in the unthinkable situation of going out of business, leaving no company that could be sued within a year, but still had the resources to pull off an online order only release of one last MST3K box set, well, Joel says when ya’ got lemons…
Illegally release the 4 episodes judged least likely to ever get a legit release in our lifetimes! My guess would be:
213 -Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
306 -Time of the Apes (Featuring the Sandy Frank Song, likely his main sore point)
309 -The Amazing Colossal Man (Take THAT first rights holder to reneg!)
910 -The Final Sacrifice (Because the rights holder specifically said “no”)
“Hell Freezes Over” would denote the legit rights to all of these becomming available, so this worst case scenario set would be called:
“Hurry! Before Hell Thaws!”
But that’s such a morbid possibility to consider that I much prefer the impossibilities of those ‘Complete Planet-Story-Arc’ sets Wampa Joe proposed.
Russo-Finnish darn it!! Simply because NONE of those have been released AND it’s even remotely possible AND it would rock my freakin’ face off!!!
How about the Peter Graves set?
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Beginning of the End
Clonus Horror
It Conquered the World
Attack of the Eye Creatures
I second the Peter Graves set @42, but maybe replace Eye Creatures with SST Death Flight ?
( and let me add my voice to the crowd : Russki 4-pack !! )
How about a boxset for MST3Kinfo/nationwide fanclub! The first episode where the nation-wide MST3K fanclub is announced on the show, the first episode with the MST3Kinfo website coming up, the first show where they missed mentioning the fans at the end of the show, and stuff like that. Plus bonuses and Minneapolis fanclub clips to boot. Maybe even to the point where original content is made by Mike, Kevin and the rest?
Lame Japanese Heroes set:
Invasion of the Neptune Men
Prince of Space
Fugitive Alien I and II
Big Bugs Set:
Giant Mantis
Giant Spider Invasion
Beginning of the End
Earth vs the Spider
@44 – No, that’s a completely DUMB idea… how about the 2 greatest episodes that merit Joel (not the greatest episodes of MST3K, but episodes that had a lot of Joel’s acting & riffs…) and the 2 greatest Mike episodes (Ditto) and a 5th episode to break the tie — all of it voted on by the fans, here! Yeah, I’ll go with this idea instead of the previous one…
Mike Nelson: Destroyer of Worlds
804 The Deadly Mantis (ape planet)
808 The She-Creature (observer planet)
814 Riding With Death (camping planet)
815 Agent For H.A.R.M. (the trial)
1960s European spy films
504: Secret Agent Super Dragon
508: Operation Double 007
815: Agent From HARM
1013: Diabolik (a stretch, I know…)
How about a “Special Guests in the Theater” set
Hercules and the Captive Women
Fire Maidens from Outer Space
Last Of The Wild Horses
Quest of the Delta Knights