I honestly don’t know. (Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s Vimeo’s doing.) Sorry.

Thanks. I hope you enjoy it.

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.)

Thank you.