Available on DVD November 26th from Shout! Factory
Mystery Science Theater 3000: 25th Anniversary Edition
5-DVD Box Set Features Previously Unreleased Episodes
Moon Zero Two, The Day The Earth Froze, The Leech Woman and GorgoA man and his puppets in space watching cheesy movies … sounds crazy, no? But here on the Satellite of Love you might say each one of us is a captive audience, watching gifted writers and performers try to make sense of it all without losing their minds. Why do we continue to treasure this oddball TV series? That can be answered in one word: funny!
On November 26th, 2013, join us as we celebrate 25 years of cult-movie craziness with Mystery Science Theater 3000: 25th Anniversary Edition from Shout! Factory. Housed in a collectible silver(ish) tin, MST3K: 25th Anniversary Edition is a five DVD set that features the films Moon Zero Two, The Day The Earth Froze, The Leech Woman and Gorgo. Also included are all new bonus features including the three-part documentary Return To Eden Prairie: 25 Years Of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Life After MST3K: Mary Jo Pehl, Ninth Wonder Of The World: The Making Of Gorgo (MST3K Edition), Last Flight Of Joel Robinson, MST Hour wraps, four exclusive mini-posters by artist Steve Vance, and more!
As a special gift to celebrate the silver anniversary, we’re including a bonus DVD in the set with a double feature of two long-out-of-print fan-favorite episodes. Yes, we said we weren’t going to get each other gifts, but we just couldn’t help ourselves! On this special occasion, we brought back two key episodes that were the shot heard ’round the MSTie world: Joel’s last episode, Mitchell and Mike’s first episode, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die. We know, we shouldn’t have, but nothing says “love” like a favorite episode forever memorialized on DVD.
Titles Include:
Moon Zero Two
The Day The Earth Froze (with short: Here Comes The Circus)
The Leech Woman
GorgoBonus Disc Double Feature
Mitchell
The Brain That Wouldn’t DieBonus Features Include:
Bonus DVD with Mitchell and The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
Three-part documentary Return To Eden Prairie: 25 Years Of Mystery Science Theater 3000
Ninth Wonder Of The World: The Making Of Gorgo (MST3K Edition)
Last Flight Of Joel Robinson
Life After MST3K: Mary Jo Pehl
MST Hour wraps
Leonard Maltin Explains Something
Original trailers
4 exclusive mini-posters by artist Steve Vance
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Official Shout Press Release on Next SetI don’t think there’s anything new here, but here’s the official press release from Shout about the next set:
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Whether something is released or not comes down to money. When an estate or person decides they need/want the money, things will start popping.
A prime proof of this is that some rights holders won’t release their rights because they want more money than the DVD maker can/will pay.
Money money money.
I agree with Gizmonic. Shout! should roll out a limited edition set of the “who knows” category and see what happens… see what proof is offered of ownership. The limited edition status would make it simple to “cease and desist” or whatever, if there were legitimate claims.
Finally, even if some episodes are never willing released, EVERYTHING will be released for sure in the distant future when everything is in public domain.
But we’ll be dead and I’m not sure if our species won’t have destroyed itself with a cleverly designed virus or bacteria.
Despite my post, I am actually an upbeat and happy person. Thanks in large part to MST3K.
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Loran (All) do you get the sense that Shout! will eventually turn their attention to re-releasing OOP Rhino titles in greater quantities?
Generalist@46:
Well, a few years ago Shout! began releasing OOP Rhino titles under their Shout! Select banner. Then, about a year or so ago, they stopped doing that. No explanation as to why. Poor sales maybe? Perhaps more MST fans have the Rhino titles than don’t have them. Fast forward to the upcoming V.28: Shout! is including 2 Rhino titles – Mitchell and The Brain that Wouldn’t Die. So, what is going on? Personally – I already have the Rhino versions of those two episodes, so I am not happy about the possibility of paying a larger price for V.28 just to get 2 extra episodes I already have. However, Shout! seems to know a lot more than we do (hell, for all we know, Susan Hart’s signature is already drying on the paperwork!) So, I am not completely sure what Shout! is doing with OOP Rhino titles. I suspect, however, that when the well runs dry (i.e. Shout! has done everything they can to get the rights’ to the non-released films), they may proceed to re-secure the rights to all OOP Rhino titles. How Shout! would release them is unclear. Shout! Select individual discs? Rhino episodes mixed in….
LORAN!!! SUM UP!!!!!
Sorry about that. If the rights can be obtained, and there is a decent profit to be had by all, then yes, I think Shout! may eventually release most, if not all OOP Rhino titles as long as there is a demand for them.
END!!!!END!!!
Count 5 #51 – I was 70% kidding about Shout releasing a movie they don’t have rights for. (This was born from a technique we have at my job to find out who’s accessing a file they shouldn’t be. Change the permissions, sit back, and see who comes whining!) As good a job as Shout is doing with MST3K, I don’t want them to get sued. However, if they want to throw caution to the wind, I will gladly buy a ring-side seat! It worked out pretty well with Rhino as I now posses a rare commercially-pressed DVD for “hell-freezes-over” episode #212. Mwa ah ah ha!!! :evilgrin:
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Loran@53:
Thanks for the response. I’m in sort of a unique position with MST. I sold off all of my DVD’s a few years ago and have recently re-purchased most of them (Rhino & Shout!). I either have purchased or plan to purchase all of the Shout! Select titles shortly. Especially the one’s I don’t have Rhino’s of, of course.
Going forward though, I’m fairly sure I would have no problem purchasing any and all Shout! releases even if I may already own it in some capacity, be it via iTunes or through my repurchasing of most Rhino DVD’s. Some of the Rhino DVD’s had transfer issues or, like with 518, a missing stinger.
Thus far, if I’m not mistaken, Shout! has released something like 31 Rhino titles to iTunes and Amazon. Of those, Shout! has released 11 as single DVD’s (including Manos). That leaves another 20 titles they have apparently gotten the license for at least download sales. I think most of them are on Hulu too, come to think of it.
Maybe Shout! will either resume the Shout! Select releases (unlikely) or they’ll put out two 5 disc boxes (2 ep’s per disc) in the future to get those out into to the market. That would certainly drive a wedge in eBay price hiking of OOP sets. They could so something like Mystery Science Theater BSF (Before Shout! Factory) Volume 1 and Volume 2. Silly I know.
@ Gizmonic Temp 54 – Yes, your slightly flippant factor came through in the just the right percentage. About the same level as my own.
Shout! is too smart to get caught up in unnecessary legal woes, and that’s a good rule of thumb almost all the time.
Then, like Rhino’s approach you referenced, sometimes you just have to say “to hell with it,” and set course for the center of the sun to see what happens… almost out of a perverse curiosity.
I truly think Shout! will overcome even more unbelievable perceived walls regarding difficult rights issues in the very near future.
Shout’s tenacity alone in itself makes for great theater.
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I ordered a couple of volumes in the Amazon sale and did it through a link here to index the referral share for this site.
I COULD NOT BELIEVE the low price for the Gamera set (though I already owned that one)…
It was so COOL to see all these sets on Amazon stating “temporarily out of stock,” showing how great the response was.
We mysties live in blessed times and our voices are heard as a collective hive mind of MST3K obsession.
I feel like I’m about to break out into a Sinatra tune….
Tom: “We did it ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuur waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy!”
(cough cough choke cough)
Pleased to see some of my favorite episodes are in the public domain! HIGH SCHOOL BIG SHOT should be a definite release, and the sooner the better!
Pre-Order from Shout! finally posted:
http://www.shoutfactory.com/?q=node/218471
Hey now Captn Ross Hagen at #34, that XXIV was a pirate copy!
I had the same thing from an eBay seller on that set just last week. So I contacted S!Factory with that detail about the posters as well as several other discrepancies (happy to share if people are interested — it’s much more subtle than the misspellings, etc. on a previously known pirate edition) & they confirmed to me yesterday that it was a pirated edition.
Along with the previous notice from the Shout! folks (I think it was on volume XX?), it’s clear that piracy of these sets has become a significant problem. Me, I’m gonna pre-order this one!
My wish list for Shout Factory to release in the future would include “Horror of Party Beach”, “Invasion of the Neptune Men”, “The Screaming Skull” with the Robot Rumpus short, as it was with that movie anyway “Terror from the year 5000”. OK, I’d like to see ALL the movies released one day. I started collecting them when Rhino first came out with them on DVD. Needless to say, I get them all as they come out. I’ve read some people get upset about the price from Shout Factory, all I have to say is that if you’re a true fan, and watch them all the time like I do, it’s still cheap and hilarious entertainment!
Possibly a useless fact, but according to my calculations, if Shout! were able to release every episode not yet released, the collections would top out at 41 volumes (assuming four new eps per volume).
I have a blu-ray player that I have hooked up to the internet and YouTube and I have MST3K permanently among the searches so I can watch them on my big screen. I saw the 25th anniversary news yesterday and I too was hoping that someone was going to clean them up a bit so they’re watchable. Someone really needs to imo, because these are too precious to let just go extinct. Been a fan since Comedy Central and the Joel era :pain: