As promised, now that the WGA strike is over preparations are beginning for Season 14. In addition to new episodes and shorts they’re planning to remaster older episodes.

Funding / Epsiode Count Chart

They won’t start filming until SAG has a contract, but they’re getting the ball rolling. Help spread the word!

  • ety3rd@lemmy.worldM
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    If anyone is interested in the math of this, meaning, what you get out of it for what you put in, here’s my way of thinking.

    I look at new MST3K in the vein of RiffTrax. Not beholden to a network and therefore not getting production funding either, so they have to directly charge for their output.

    In the case of RiffTrax, they charge about $12 for a full-length HD VOD release and about $2 for a short. Carting those numbers over to this campaign, let’s see what we get.

    If the lowest goal is reached … That’s 6 episodes and 6 shorts for a total of $84. (There’s also the “enhanced” older episodes, but as those won’t be available for download, I’m ignoring them for the moment.)

    If the middle goal is reached … That’s 9 episodes and 9 shorts; a total of $126.

    If the top goal is reached … 12 episodes, 12 shorts; $168.

    Which goal will be reached? Who can say? The season 13 Kickstarter finished with $6.5 million. That’s over the middle goal but shy of the top goal by almost a million. I think reaching the middle goal is very likely with the top being a bit of squeaker. (Just my thoughts.)

    Conclusion? Donating at the $85 level is simply a bargain. You get each of the episodes and shorts as a download, PLUS access to the Gizmoplex which – I’m hoping – will include a ton of livestreaming events and those were a highlight of season 13 for me. (Oh yeah, and all those “surgically enhanced” episodes, too.)

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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      1 year ago

      And anyone who (like me) backs the annual RiffTrax kickstarter is probably helping to subsidize those Rifftrax prices a bit, since they always raise over the goal.