$6.3 Million goal has been reached and FOURTEEN new episodes are coming!
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Over $6 million total.
What an achievement.
What a great time to be a fan.
Can’t wait for **13** new movie signs.
So now we get to watch people watching a movie? What’s THAT about?
They just passed Veronica Mars on Kickstarter alone.
Whoa, 14 episodes!!!
I’ve been on the road all night so I didn’t get to see the telethon, just heard about the news. 6 million?! WOW. Count me in with everyone else who have to eat a whole lotta crow (avian, non-automaton) over thinking 5.5 wasn’t reachable. What an amazing time to be a MST.
Oh my god why haven’t they been written, shot, and released yet? What’s taking so long?!
Congrats everyone! An unforgettable Kickstarter, a surreal telethon, huge announcements and FOURTEEN new episodes!!!
What a time to be a MSTie!
it’s gonna be january (and probsbly end-of) to see the next first epi in such a long time… last what i read around it’s gonna be good, looks of it from all posted so far, and what we got to see tonight in the telethon…
Wow. I’ll be the first to admit that I thought nine episodes were going to be a stretch and here we are at fourteen. Joel sure knows how to run a hell of a Kickstarter. I’m still not entirely sold on this myself, but I’m thrilled that this much support has turned out and am really pulling for this to be good. Congrats again and it’s a good night to be a MSTie.
We’ve got movie sign x14!
Thank you everyone!
Hey, let’s at least give Joel a chance to get a good night’s sleep first!
He always looks so tired…
Wow, January? Like I said, give these guys some time to sleep!
The Kickstarter lists the first episode’s estimated delivery date as July.
I’m at the $85 tier, so I’m wondering when they’ll have the soundtrack download, classic episode downloads, and Rifftrax shorts available for download.
And then how long it’ll take them to get the server back up after 30,000 people try to download them at once.
Anyway, time for bed. Goodnight everybody. (And it is a good night indeed.)
14? 14???? Amazing.
thad
Wow, January?Like I said, give these guys some time to sleep!
maybe i read the post i remember wrong! no big deal… i’m bought-in, so i have no worries. :) just a lil’ early xmas present!
Now *that* was the most fun I’ve ever had on the Internet! What an amazing month, and an amazing last few hours in particular, seeing the campaign finally fly as high as I always believed it could!
I probably shouldn’t have thrown in as much money as I did, especially during those frantic final minutes, but seeing the total sail past $6.3M just in the nick of time, and getting to see Joel’s stunned reaction LIVE, was worth every penny and more!
14. I was amazed when we got confirmation for 3. Amazing, absolutely amazing. To put in perspective, this will mean this season will have more episodes than seasons 1, 2, 7, 9, and 10. Or, in other words, half of the existing seasons. Incredible. Thank you to everyone who chipped in, and congratulations!
I was one of those that thought getting past 3.3 was unlikely. Gotta say, Joel masterfully played this. Looking forward to seeing where this goes from here.
I’m a pretty easygoing MSTie, so I’m looking forward to this. It’s going to be AWESOME in 2016![/funky like a monkey]
Regardless of anyone’s feelings on the reboot or it being crowdfunded, Joel deserves some serious props for promoting this project just about as well as it could have possibly been promoted. From the initial announcement that caught everyone off guard, to the slow trickle of information on casting, to the marathons and telethons..it will serve as a example for running the perfect Kickstarter campaign. And that gives me hope that the project itself will be run as well as the campaign to fund it.
Wow!!! What a glorious day to be a MSTie! WE DID IT! :D
Congratulations to Joel but most of all to the pledgers. We should all give ourselves a pat on the back.
To quote Ian Malcolm – “You did it…..you crazy sonofabitch, you actually did it!”
I had my doubts it would reach 12 episodes, but 14?! Eating crow as I type this…not bad. Tastes like chicken.
the sleepy guy did it!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!
We did it!!!!!!!!!!!
The impossible is now happening, people!
Last night was like staying up for New Years! So much fun!
So proud to be a MSTie, and to donate to the greatest event in history. (Well, in my opinion anyways)
You go, Joel! Right on!
We did it! We finally did it! Damn us all to hel….. oops wrong speech.
I mean, Let the Sunshine In…!
I am busting out the Schlitz and baby oil tonight!!
The influx of support the last couple of days amazed me; while somewhere deep inside I really thought we might blow the doors off this thing, I dared not let myself get quite so optimistic. It’s neat to see how much influence this “little puppet show” — which I think brings people together in a way television never did before its time — has had on so many people. For Joel and EVERYONE involved in MST3K from its inception it has to be amazingly gratifying to have this kind of support, since to me it is a measure of the amount of joy it has brought into peoples lives.
Agree, this has been an amazing ride. Excitement, anxiety, optimism, obsession, giddiness, euphoria. Now I’m at Anticipation!
But what will I do know that I don’t have Kickstarter to check obsessively several times an hour?
I mean this sincerely, and from the bottom of my heart. Hikeeba!
Yea, I think January for new MST3K episodes is really pushing it considering the post production alone. I think June/July is more reasonable and given that this will be on the web, it wouldn’t surprise me if it were later than that.
I’ll be curious to see if any network, cable station, or web platform decides to pick up the show after that. I hope that Joel was already in contact with with a few of them, however I could see this being Kickstarted every year if not.
Travis! I hope you’re working on updating your “Likelihood for Release” list — I just checked and you do NOT have anything listed for Season 11 yet! Come ON, man!! :laugh:
Congrats on surpassing their goal and I look forward to this reboot.Will give it a chance like I did ICWXP..Now I’m just wondering what movies and possibly(or is it possible?) shorts they’ll riff..Will it be movies they passed on before? Will it be movies they couldn’t get the rights to like Moment by Moment? As long as the reboot has the same spirit as the original and as long it’s funny and not trying to be hip,then I’m all for it..
Fantastic news. The telethon was a bit of a mess, but the fans came out anyway. I never imagined we would make 12 let alone 14 episodes.
Based on the KS campiagn, I think they are planning on SHOOTING the episodes this summer, which means that release would probably be next fall. We’ll have to have patience, but up until a month ago we thought the next new episodes of MST3K were going to be in…forever, so even if we have to wait a year it will be worth it.
What I am more excited to see is where it gets picked up (channel or streaming service). I am guessing we wouldn’t hear anything about another season beyond that until this season starts broadcasting, but I think there’s a good chance that Joel will get his wish and the show will go beyond one season as well.
Awesome job by everyone (except the tech guy).
It’s been quite a ride, I have to say. I strongly suspect that Joel and Shout! already had the funding for at least nine episodes and just created the Kickstarter to generate excitement as they had their investors slowly feed their cash into it. Joel was clearly caught off guard toward the end, though, and especially episodes 13 and 14 where he was making up new goals off the top of his head. Overall, it was a lot of fun and also exhausting! I’m sure they thought I was loafing at work, checking Kickstarter every 30 minutes or so.
Clearly this will be a fall premiere — that’s why the Holiday episode will fit in nicely. I would suspect we’d see the first one no earlier than the middle of September.
I stayed up as late as I could here on the east coast, but didn’t see the final hour. I’m *really* sorry I didn’t see the announcement (was there one?) about 14 episodes, but at least I got to see Day and some of HER Facebook feed (I have to say she’s a bit of a dirty girl, and I mean that in the nicest possible way).
I ended up donating as much as I could (only $85) but as someone who thought so little of this in the beginning I have to say it’s been quite a turnaround for me.
Did anyone else think the telethon was Public Access television’s finest hour?
I doubt it. Kickstarter fees are so high that would be throwing money in the toilet.
Now I’m kicking my self for not getting the 85 buck for all seasons but I didn’t know how much each episode who cost to download. So I didn’t know if was deal or not.
Now that the funding is secure, I don’t mind waiting a few months for the episodes to be done. Better to wait a while and get quality product.
I watched the double feature then the entire telethon. I hung in there with all the technical difficulties and roughshod production. I appreciate the hard work that went into the telethon from Joel and all the guests and performers, as well as the technical people and Meltdown Comics.. I enjoyed the show. They said about 7000 people were there from the beginning to the end watching the telethon. Thank you, MST3K. See you in 2016, new season. And, you’re welcome, Joel. ????????????
To the MANY people who said 12 episodes was highly unlikely, I say the following: “that was actually a quite reasonable stance given the enormity of the task and I’m just pleasantly delighted that we were able to buck the odds.” So, take that!
By the way, there’s not going to be a new episode in January. Joel said during the telethon that they don’t even go into the writing room until mid January. At that rate, you’re talking more like March at the soonest. They have to watch and rewatch the movie multiple times before they even shoot the thing. And I think the first shows are going to take a little longer since this is an all new staff (except Joel and Paul). It will probably take the newbies a while to get into the swing of things.
Aw, be nice; it was a tough job with very little prep time.
It looks like the Add-Ons page is still up and running; if you still want to buy the whole new season for $85, that’s the cost of the DVD package.
Which, by the way, if the Add-Ons shop IS still up and running, that means they’re still making money and last night’s numbers aren’t the final tally…
Ouch! You sure told me.
Looking forward to seeing you on the show!
Don’t forget they haven’t even built the sets yet. Even a cheap show takes a lot of people working a lot of roles.
Please don’t eat Crow. We need him for 14 new episodes.
“Thrilled” isn’t a powerful enough word to explain how I feel.
This is an extraordinary time to be a MSTie.
I honestly figured $4.4 mil was where we would top out. 2 million over that is pretty crazy.
The missus and I are still a bit trepidatious about things… but we put up our money out of faith in Joel. I really hope this comes out as a worthy successor to the show we all love. Fingers crossed!
Fourteen!?! Wish it was Fortyteen!
Can’t wait to see the new set! or old set?!? Deep 13? Gypsy? ? Cambot?
It’s odd. People were mad when Joel left. It was everyone else – minus Joel and fans walked away forever.
Now it’s Joel… minus everybody! Some people don’t know what to think, but I eagerly await the new episodes!
Callbacks? Hi-Keeba!?, Watch out for snakes!, You’re dirt, Terry…
One would hope that, at some point, Heston and the ‘bots would be subjected to the couple of old-school Gamera movies that slipped by Joel & co back in the day (since they weren’t in the Sandy Frank syndication package): Gamera vs Viras (1968, aka Destroy All Planets) and Gamera vs Jiger (1970, aka Gamera vs Monster X). Shout released them on DVD, around the time of the MST3K Gamera set, so it probably wouldn’t be too difficult.
–If it was up to me, over the long haul, I’d also pursue:
* Devil Girl from Mars (1954) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOBn-g5VTfM
* Women’s Prison (1955) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts6aAr3eh7E
* The Astounding She Monster (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5O20rTaCzo
* From Hell It Came (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAkwU-GwTsE
* Bop Girl (Goes Calypso)(1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBBCQHJvY0w
* The Giant Claw (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRqjSBKIhtc
* The Girl in Black Stockings (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76zAYWc0O48
* Sorority Girl (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgpPurKpsPU
* Attack of the Puppet People (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAhLO8hnD0c
* The Brain from Planet Arous (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_B-87ZzV2E
* Frankenstein’s Daughter (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVDsVorXoWI
* She Demons (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhLBxuZxBd8
* The Head (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-bboQhx-Q8
* The Manster (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev_DeeuQbuo
* Konga (1961) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bsdT9_PjdI
* The Brainiac (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHXHnYK3gfM
* Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wgtnvpY4_I
* Reptilicus (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khRHxXtKuNo
* Invaders from Space (1965) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ7YlBNUj3Y
* Evil Brain from Outer Space (1965) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiPNfCnxz2g
* Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl8euHz-NHE
* The Wild, Wild Planet (1965) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8F20KzJHtQ
* Lightning Bolt (1966) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMDm8e5Gfi0
* Swamp Country (1966) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160937/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
* Star Pilot (1966, aka 2+5 Mission Hydra) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl6l95ZoY3U
* Argoman, The Fantastic Superman (1967, aka The Incredible Paris Incident) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R98fcL8UD4w
* Hot Rods to Hell (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23xrWYWbMdw
* Journey to the Center of Time (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBHDZ7e1SFc
* The Love-Ins (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52e_yZbIHPI
* Mission Stardust (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S663KG4bpk
* The Lost Continent (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVw5fJsnj7c
* They Ran for Their Lives (1968) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063685/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
* Latitude Zero (1969 – Toho, but it has none of their classic monsters in it, so maybe it’d be cheaper) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEMDfCwnRGw
* The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant (1971) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–CaKWItay8
* The Doll Squad (1973) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OLpIUgDGLM
* Infra-Man (1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4faudEDZf-A&spfreload=1
* Master of the Flying Guillotine (1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmdP1qTjGZY
* The Mighty Peking Man (1977, aka Goliathon) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWFnvRHa1EQ
* The Battle Wizard (1977) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPVZxf5o2AE
* Yeti, Giant of the 20th Century (1977) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97FAle0F1jE
* Fantasy Mission Force (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StxVJBRZPe4
–As for shorts:
* “My Milkman, Joe” (1958) would be a must, if there’s a print available that’s less jumpy/splice-y than this sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmazyj-QSmQ
* “How to Undress in Front of Your Husband” (1937) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvqvHu-9kLE
* “Wishes on Wheels” (mid-1950s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6L0ykX9lPU
* “Key to the Future” (1956) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6keHpeYak
* “How to Succeed with Brunettes” (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vVV8hRTxgE
–What do you think, sirs?
Excellent list of films to riff. I was wondering, though…will the “holiday special” be a regular episode of MST3k, or will it be something else? Perhaps a 1/2 hour special where they don’t riff a movie, or perhaps riffing Christmas shorts. Guess we’ll have to wait until next year to find out.