Mystery Science Theater 3000: C/D, S/D.

So I go over to mst3k.com and I also read this:

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THE 'BOTS ARE BACK!
We are excited to announce some very big news for MST3K fans.

But first, some housekeeping: For reasons that will become apparent, we need to ask those of you who reach our site using the URL MST3K.com to update your bookmarks, and please use the URL MST3Kinfo.com. Many of you use this URL already, but if you get to us via MST3K.com, starting next week you won't be able to anymore.

The reason is that, next week, MST3K.com will become a new destination for a brand new site, created by a reconstituted, relaunched Best Brains Inc.

Or, as they put it when they contacted us about this: The 'Bots are Back!

Beginning November 5th, BBI will be launching its very own website at MST3K.com. The site will feature brand-new animated adventures of Crow, Tom Servo and Gypsy. We're told the goal is to have one new adventure each week (though "some settling may occur with shipping," they added). The Web site will also feature work from the original series (which BBI is now calling "the legacy series"), behind-the-scenes footage and other material culled from the BBI vault.

Also on the site will be BBI's first online store, featuring all new merchandise. (This means that the BBI merchandise section of our site has been taken down. )

The new adventures of the 'bots are being produced by BBI President, MST3K series writer and the returning voice of Gypsy, Jim Mallon. He will be joined on this new experiment by veteran MST3K series writer and performer Paul Chaplin (who will be on the writing team and will be providing the voice of Crow) along with new writing and performing talent.

We know this is going generate a lot of buzz among the fan base and you all probably have a zillion questions. So do we. Many will be answered on Nov. 5th. More will be answered soon after. Jim told us that the site and project "are going to grow in a very organic fashion and we're going to let the characters and the story take us in the direction they want to take us." We at Satellite News can't wait to see it.

What does this mean for Satellite News? The biggest change is that we will no longer be known as "The official MST3K Web site," and this marks the end of our 10-year arrangement with Best Brains as the official voice of the old Info Club. Jim has, however, declared us, "The Official MST3K fan site." We still have close ties to BBI and whenever they have news you'll see it here first, along with news about the rest of the former cast and crew members of our favorite cowtown puppet show. For us, this is just one more topic in the growing list of MST3K-related news it's our job to report.

We have some interesting plans for our site as well, so be sure to stay tuned!

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Okay, this is just getting ridiculous.

It's like all those competing versions of the Drifters.

When Kevin and Frank re-team, it will be time to get excited all over again.

i duno. joel, trace and frank doing shit together is pretty damn exciting.

Yeah, this is true. I admit I haven't seen too many Josh episodes.

Just watched Giant Leeches and Girl from Lovers Lane last night.

"Big Stupid?"

"Heterosexual experience."

oh, and the Don Martin shoes.

"...this isn't the answer."

And then in the leech movie, dumpy overweight pig husband muttering under his breath to tightly-packed, pert-bosumed saucy cat wife wearing mini kimono: "Quit wearing my things."

That is one grimy movie, that one.

"Here you go, Miss Shelby."

It's like everyone except my favorite Best Brains members Michael Nelson and Kevin Murphy are trying to do their own "The New Adventures Of Mystery Science Theater 3000". :(

uh www.rifftrax.com

I watched the show for 4-5 years, but u guys scare me

thanks?

joel, trace and frank will always be the "real" mst3k for me.

joel, trace and frank will always be the "real" mst3k for me.

-- chaki, Friday, November 2, 2007 1:32 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^

if crow isnt trace he can fuck off

trace is awesome

You worked with him a bit, right?

(You probably say that upthread, actually.)

yeah for awhile. we talked about mst3k a couple times. my bro was a much bigger fan of the show than i was (and i thought it was great) and when he visited town i introduced him to trace, who talked to him about the show for 30 minutes and gave him a signed dr clayton forrester photo.

New Crow has his moments, but it's the interstitial shit on the Sci Fi episodes that's really tedious.

the interstitial stuff btwn Frank-Dr. F was occasionally better than the feature, tho.

everybody stop saying "frank" without the "tv's" honorific

uh www.rifftrax.com

Damn.

thx ethan

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g169/lordparsec/JoelandBots.jpg

<3 <3 <3

New Crow has his moments, but it's the interstitial shit on the Sci Fi episodes that's really tedious.

-- Lolpez, Friday, November 2, 2007 9:39 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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the interstitial stuff btwn Frank-Dr. F was occasionally better than the feature, tho.

-- Dr Morbius, Friday, November 2, 2007 9:41 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Neither of them made it to the Sci Fi channel though.

I was probably wrong to side with Fujiwara upthread. These days, I dig MST3K a little bit more than the entire concept of movies.

ban Eric

from ILF

there's an admin there?

Hooboy.

http://www.mst3k.com/

Rifftrax have enjoyably increased in consistency and quality over the last 10-15 episodes or so. Unfortunately initial Film Crew DVDs are near the very low end of MST3K episodes.

joel, trace and frank will always be the "real" mst3k for me.

skitwise definitely but I'll lose my shit during any era of the movies themselves.

these days I'll ffwd through any interlude that doesn't feature frank, sweet frank

yeah, the actual movie parts never really lost teh funny.

anthony totally otm about frank

I'm guessing any possibility of a DVD release of any of the classic episodes is pretty much nil, right?

They've released like 10 boxsets of 4 classic episodes each so far.

I was gonna say! They've been chugging out regularly, but they're a total mix of what they have the rights to at any given time, and have covered everything from the first to the final season.

http://www.rhino.com/mst3k/index.lasso

(Actually I'm kinda pissed with myself now, turns out they've pulled Volumes 9 and 10 -- I have nine but wasn't able to find ten, and now I know why!)

wait why?

Gotta be something to do with the film rights. One of the Vol. 10 choices was Godzilla v. Megalon and I noticed some comment over on Amazon where a guy sez, "Wonder how they were able to get the rights to that one?" Perhaps Toho wasn't happy.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5d/Mike_Nelson_as_Torgo.jpg/225px-Mike_Nelson_as_Torgo.jpg

"...lEt Me GeT yOu YoUr FrEe CrAzY bReAd."

"NO, NO!"

http://cinematictitanic.com/all_josh_darth_sm.jpg

(Also, the first Cinematic Titanic release is available.)

Prince of Space and Invasion of the Neptune Men were great

That photo is so weird. I guess I should have expected that Frank Conniff would pull a Terry Jones as he got older.

Picked up the Vol. 12 DVD set the other week -- worth it to finally have The Starfighters alone on DVD. "Bob Dornan, wild at heart."

Couple of the extra bits on the set were great -- for The Rebel Set they interviewed Don Sullivan, aka the 'sing-whenever-I-sing' guy from The Giant Gila Monster. Classy guy, one of those 'go to Hollywood to make it big' fellows (from Idaho! he escaped like Abbott did!) who never broke through but apparently had a great time in LA anyway. Good slice-of-life stories about his time as a young actor, how The Rebel Set came together, and how he didn't mind the MST take on it because as he says, "They took a dramatic film, and made it funny as well." Nice attitude!

For Parts: The Clonus Horror they interviewed Robert Fiveson, the director -- his stories were just as good, went over the whole stuck-with-no-budget origins of the production, how he initially cringed when he heard that MST wanted to do it but then thought, "Hey, wait, what's wrong with more attention?," enjoyed what they did with it and was especially gratified with the attention and support that a lot of MSTies gave him when the whole kerfluffle with The Island blew up a few years later.

Some of the trailers they provided as well were crazy. None for The Starfighters but one each for the rest, and each of them are priceless in cheesetastic ways.

Meantime! Some happy news I dug up about how the Vol. 10 DVD set had gone out of print before a lot of people could snag it due to a rights problem with Toho over a Godzilla inclusion -- the word is:

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 10.2
Available February, 2008. Replacing Vol. 10 (which withdrawn due to rights issues involving episode 212- Godzilla vs. Megalon), this will contain the same titles, except that episode 212 will be replaced with episode 402- The Giant Gila Monster. The new disk will also feature a bit featuring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu and J. Elvis Weinstein, in which they make sport of the rights screw-up. For those that managed to buy Vol. 10 before it was pulled, the Gila Monster DVD will also be sold as a single unit.

It's also the first time any of those three have done anything for the Rhino DVDs as a bonus appearance, and two-to-one it's going to be a Cinematic Titanic plug as well, why not? Anyway, glad this is happening because I missed getting my copy! (Vol. 9 is still unavailable due to rights problems as well, no word on that changing yet.)

Interesting!

SHOUT! FACTORY ACQUIRES CULT FAVORITE
COMEDY SERIES MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000
FOR WORLDWIDE HOME ENTERTAINMENT
AND DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION

LOS ANGELES, CA - Adding to its expansive library of comedic TV offerings, Shout! Factory secured the worldwide home entertainment and digital download rights to the long running American cult television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K.) This announcement was made by Shout! Factory President Garson Foos.

Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Shout! Factory will be the exclusive worldwide home entertainment and digital media distributor for Mystery Science Theater 3000 branded properties which include a vast library of original episodes that have never-been-available on DVD or for digital download.

“Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a true cult-classic series. Its high-camp rendition of B-movies to the small screen makes it one of the most memorable pop culture shows of our time,” said Garson Foos, President of Shout! Factory. “MST3K lines up perfectly with Shout! Factory brand. We’re thrilled to work with Jim to further the legend of MST3K on DVD and in the digital marketplace.”

“We are thrilled to be at Shout! Factory. It is a really a great fit for Mystery Science Theater 3000,” said Jim Mallon, President of Best Brains, Inc. and a producer/director/writer of MST3K. “Shout! Factory totally gets the world of MST3K and has shown great respect for Joel, Mike, the Mads and the quirky little bots. They have already issued us lockers. We look forward to great new releases ahead.”
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Our source at Shout Factory says they are looking at the first release around mid-year and they have not made any decisions about what whether they will be single releases or sets.

Volume 10.2 will be the final Rhino release.

Dammit, Raggett, you beat me to this