Shout! Factory is taking preorders on Vol. XX. And if you act now, you’ll receive free MST3K stress ball with your order. Details here.
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Pre-Order Vol. XX and Get a MST3K Stress Ball
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THE COLOR IS NOT RIGHT! THE NEXT SET IS ALL JOEL,WITH NO MIKE!/ ALL MIKE NO JOEL! THEY ONLY DO LIVE SHOWS NOW! THEY NEVER COME CLOSE TO WHERE I LIVE SO I WONT GO SEE THEM OR BUY ANY OF THE DVD’S! RIFFTRAX VS. CINEMATIC TITANIC! JOSH VS. KEVIN! TRACE VS. BILL! JOEL VS. MIKE! TRACE AND FRANK VS. MARY JO, KEVIN AND BILL! SANDY FRANK VS. GAMERA! (HUH?) WAAH! WAAH! WAAH! STOP WINING EVERY TIME SOMETHING COMES OUT ABOUT M.S.T.3K. WE ALL HAVE OUR LIKES AND DISLIKES, BUT WE SHOULD BE GLAD THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE STILL OUT THERE AND WE’RE GETTING NEW STUFF THIS LONG AFTER THE SHOW STOPPED. DVD SETS, COOL COLLECTORS ITEMS, LIVE SHOWS, DOWNLOADS IT’S ALL GOOD! ONE LAST THING #33 GREAT JOB, THAT IS REAL COOL. BUT THE COLOR IS NOT RIGHT! NOW IF YOU USED A CANTALOUPE INSTEAD OF A HONEYDEW AT LEAST THE COLOR WOULD BE CLOSE TO THE STRESS BALL OR MAYBE IF YOU USED A MANGO. TOO BAD THERE ISN’T ANY GRAY FRUIT.
LOL!
Brian Ward OWNS MST3K fans. :D
Brian Ward tries hard to please and has an enormous amount of patience with zealous fan-boy complaints, that’s for sure. I see some amazing stuff over on the Shout! Factory forum and no matter how geeky it gets he’s always patient and respectful. And like most fan forums, the 80/20 rule applies, which is that 20% of the people make 80% of the posts, complaints, questions, and therefore take up 80% of his time there.
The stress ball could be pink for all I care, it’s going next to the Bots and my Bandai Gamera figure!
I’m perfectly willing to accept that the original logo ball wasn’t actually grey , but rather more of a warm grey (or “tan”) color. Maybe just “grey” wasn’t the appropriate word to use. But the picture of the ball posted on the Shout Factory website and with this article is such an obvious and strong yellow (I’d even say a “cool yellow” meaning a yellow leaning more towards the green side of the spectrum than orange) that from that picture alone I can’t imagine it is anything even close to the color of the original prop (but you know, this is all just the opinion of a professional artist who went through four years of art school including entire courses on things like color theory…).
So either they performed some kind of video magic on the show to make the yellow logo ball appear to be more warm grey/tan than it looked in real life, or the picture of the stressball that Shout Factory is using is terrible, and doesn’t accurately represent it’s true color at all, or the stressball’s color just isn’t anything like that of the logo. I actually hope that it’s just a really bad picture they are using, and that the stress ball actually looks much closer to the logo in real life. I might even order just in case that is the case.
And none of my moaning (or as I would more accurately classify it, innocent WISHING) has been meant as a complaint about Shout Factory. They are awesome, and have done an absolutely wonderful job with every MST release so far. I can’t believe how many excellent sets they’ve put out in such a short period of time. Great episodes abound, and the amazing ‘bot statuettes, and the upcoming Gamera dream set that very few of us ever thought could happen. All amazing work. Nothing to really complain about at all. I simply wished that the little giveaway freebie ball was “grey”…
The grey ball is for the next release. Early adopters always get the unrefined products.
I just pre-ordered it off the Shout site for the oh so controversially tinted stress ball. Is it normal that it charged my card right away for an item which isn’t being released until March? Not sure I like that part. I’m also not impressed with Shout’s log in system, I went to the trouble of becoming a member of the site before ordering and it refused to accept my user/pass on the checkout screen even it logs in fine on the home page.
Lots of mail order vendors charge immediately when an order is placed, others charge at time of shipment. Each does their own thing.
I can’t believe there is yet another complaint here wishing the stress ball was gray. It’s golden yellow on the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide as well as on the DVD boxed sets, on the MST3K dot com website, in the photo used on Wikipedia, and all that is because it’s yellowish in person. Add to that the fact that it was black on white and white on black on official clothing and other colors occasionally too and there’s just no rational reason to keep whining about it not being gray. Amazing.
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“Lots of mail order vendors charge immediately when an order is placed, others charge at time of shipment. Each does their own thing.”
Thanks.
I think all his brouhaha about the yellow ball says a lot about us as a collective.
1. We are a silly lot. Each a unique individualist yet on the whole given to bouts of good tempered silliness and eccentricity.
2. We don’t have enough mst3k episodes to watch and keep us busy. More need to be released and at a quicker rate. Why can’t we have 5 or 6 discs to a set? Why must we wait so long in between releases? If we had more to watch, we wouldnt be hanging around grumbling on message boards.
We would pay whatever it costs for more episodes. We always have and always will.
3. Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic need to put out more material – again, to keep us busy. And look at what made you the legends that you are to us fans, and get out there and do more of what made us fans. Look at all easily available crappy old movies out there that still havent been riffed. Wild Guitar, Call to Danger (peter graves!) Night of the Ghouls, Horror at 37,000 Feet, Day of the Animals, Empire of the ants, The Cyclops, Food of the gods…
…and thats just for starters. I’m sure there are plenty more out of work, quack-pop psychologists that can read even more into this whole mysterious yellow ball thing.
All the ridiculous controversy over the color of the stress ball got me to dig out and check my photo of the spaghetti ball that I snapped during my tour of the studio at the 1996 second Conventio-Con in Minneapolis.
All this stress over the color of a stress ball is really getting me stressed. Does anyone have a stress ball?
Wow, so much about a little ball. I thought the same thing about the color until I realized that my mauspad globe is yellowing due to age! (Thank you, I am (almost) outta here!)
I buy ALL of the box sets because I like the quality, even though I already have DVD copies of EVERY episode (copies of old videos tapes). I like to think that SOME of the box set money goes to the writers of MST3k. I feel like I still owe them something because there show has helped me laugh my way to sleep for over 13 years now.
Nice to know that there are other “knuckle-nobs” like me out there!
“I like to think that SOME of the box set money goes to the writers of MST3k. I feel like I still owe them something because there show has helped me laugh my way to sleep for over 13 years now.”
Sadly, no. According to a post from RAD (who happens to be Mary Jo’s husband) on the Cinematic Titanic boards from some time back (if someone can link the post it’d be appreciated) “Jim and only Jim makes money on the DVDs.” So as awesome as the Shout sets are, the only person associated with the show who gets any money from them or anything to do with MST3K anymore is Mr. Mallon. That’s why in a recent interview Mary Jo said she’s “bitterly angry” with him. There’s been conflicting info on this though because others have said that Joel supposedly said in an interview that he does get royalties from the DVDs but I’ve never been able to find the quote.
Joel has stated that when he left the show that if Jim Mallon’s idea worked he “knew he (Joel) would be okay”. Pretty sure Joel retained part ownership of the show and therefore gets royalties, he just gave up control of production. I believe Mike Nelson also said something a while back about Jim and Joel being the only two people benefiting from DVD sales. Everyone else on the show was effectively an employee and only the two owners get royalties. Of course, after that screenwriters’ strike a year or two ago, one of the concessions they asked for was a piece of DVD sales for shows they wrote, so the writers may be getting a small piece due to that.
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That’s good to know, thanks. I always thought Joel would have been nuts not to keep *something* of what he created before leaving and never thought about how the strike results from 07/08 might have helped a bit as well.
Thanks majorjoe23. I added Volume 18 to my MST3K Collection due to the Amazon sale. I always wait for those sales and hope the sets don’t go out print before I can get them.
I ordered mine minutes ago from Shout! I need the stress ball. I work for a small TV station in the woods.
@Mr. B(ob) #58
It wasn’t ANOTHER complaint. It was me the first original very darn first guy who simply WISHED (not complained) the ball was grey clarifying that I was never COMPLAINING just WISHING (you might try actually reading posts before commenting on them). Also since you brought it up I just looked at the cover to the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide as well and compared it to the cover of Volume XIX, and they obviously both used the exact same photo of the logo ball. Yet the colors are totally different on each. On the ACEG it is a very intense golden color getting into the orange range in the more shadowed areas, yet on the cover to Volume XIX it is a very pale grey-ish/tan color with a hint of a warmer tone creeping in, probably from the way it was lit. So that tells you how dependable promotional photos like that are when used within a graphic design context where they are likely to be played around with in order to work better within the design as a whole. On the ACEG it was obviously quite heavily adjusted to have a striking yellow/golden/orange tone so that it worked with the blatantly yellow/golden/orange color of the cover’s lettering, not to mention that the cover of the book wasn’t even printed in a full color process. It only has three different colors of ink that make up the entire image, black, yellow and red. That being it’s pretty much a given that the Shout Factory DVD cover image, being a full color image, is much more accurate to the real prop, but in any case neither version of that photo is anything like the greenish yellow of the stressball in Shout’s own photo of that. I’m now leaning towards the idea that the photo of the stress ball that is posted here and on Shout’s site is just a very bad shot that doesn’t accurately represent the color of the real thing, and that it might very well be much closer to the color of the actual prop, but anyone who’s saying that the color of the stress ball as it looks in the one photo we’ve seen is ANYTHING like that of the original logo ball from the show is talking crazy talk.
Also @ CaptainCab #57 I actually looked at Shouts preorder policy the other day because I was curious about just that thing, and according to their own policy they claim that they won’t charge your credit card for an order until it ships. Even if you order other in stock items along with your preorder they say they will hold all items until the preordered one is ready to ship, and charge you then. They even recommend that in that kind of situation you should just place multiple orders instead. The exception is if you use Paypal they charge you instantly since that is Paypal’s policy. So unless you used Paypal you shouldn’t have been charged yet, according to the policies they have up on their website.
But is it a stress ball or a stress half-ball?
Wow, it sounds like the people worrying most about the color of the stress ball need a stress ball more than anyone! LOL.
@ #70: But is it a stress ball or a stress half-ball?
Ah, the mysteries of the universe can be inscrutable. Fortunately, this one will resolve itself in March. Or you can ask Brian Ward that question over on the Shout! Factory forum and probably get an answer within a week.
It’s not a problem either way… I’ll love it whether it’s a sphere or a hemisphere. If my comment came off as less than a playful poke, my apologies.
Thanks SF for all the hard work and love you’re putting into these releases. For a Johnny-come-lately MSTie these releases have been a godsend.
Can’t wait til Vol XX arrives in my mailbox!
Meant to say:
Thanks SF for all the hard work and love you’re putting into these releases. For a Johnny-come-lately MSTie LIKE ME these releases have been a godsend.