Complete our SOFT LAUNCH SURVEY by May 2 for a chance to win the ULTIMATE MST3K DIGITAL COLLECTION!
over 2 years ago
– Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 09:17:08 PM
Hello Friends!
As we've announced in past updates, MAY 6, 2022 is approaching – and with it, the end of our Gizmoplex "soft launch" period, and the official premiere of Season 13!
Before the soft launch ends, we want to get a better idea of how you feel about the new episodes, our livestream events, and some big decisions we'll have to make this year.
To help guide the future of Mystery Science Theater 3000, you're invited to complete our SOFT LAUNCH SURVEY by May 2.
Plus, to make it worth your time, everyone who completes the survey will be automatically entered to win the ULTIMATE MST3K DIGITAL COLLECTION – over 130 classic episodes of MST3K – which you'll be able to stream and download from your Gizmoplex library.
And, if you use the MST3K FORUMS, you'll also receive a special badge on your profile, proving that you completed this survey and helped make MST3K better for everyone!
(Please note that this survey is not seeking feedback on the VISUAL QUALITY of the episodes, since we still haven’t shared the final versions yet.)
We're excited to get your input, so that we can make this season – and the Gizmoplex – something you'll want to continue supporting for years to come.
Your Friends,
Team MST3K
Screeners of EPISODES 1301 + 1302 in the Gizmoplex NOW. Plus: PRE-LAUNCH SURVEY this week + unofficial event this Friday + update on reward shipping!
over 2 years ago
– Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 09:16:31 PM
NEW PREVIEW SCREENERS now available!
That’s right: if you have an active Gizmoplex Member Pass*, you can now watch the PREVIEW SCREENER editions of our first two new episodes – Santo in the Treasure of Dracula (1301) and Robot Wars (1302) – plus the first new short (Pipeline to the Clouds), in the Gizmoplex.
Unlike the livestream premieres and preview screenings, these screeners don't include a pre-show, intermission, aftershow, announcements, or advertising: just 100%, uninterrupted, pre-release edits of new MST3K.
If you have an active Gizmoplex Member Pass, you can access the preview screeners here:
We are still seeking your feedback on these screeners, as they are not final versions yet. We’d especially like to hear about any audio level issues you experience. At the end of each of these screeners you’ll find a link to tell us about any problems you had.
*These screeners are only available to active Gizmoplex Pass holders – meaning backers who pledged during the Kickstarter, or pre-ordered a Gizmoplex Pass before Feb 28. If you’ve pre-ordered a PREMIERE PASS or SEASON PASS, those will be active beginning with our public premiere of Santo on May 6.
SOFT LAUNCH SURVEY INCOMING
We’re still working on the soft launch survey we mentioned during the ROBOT WARS preview screening on April 1, and we will be sharing a link to it in the next few days.
In this survey, we will be asking you about your experiences and opinions on the new episodes, but also your feelings on the Gizmoplex itself, and the events we’ve done so far.
This is your chance to make your opinions known and have an impact on the future of MST3K, so we hope as many of you will fill it out as possible.
To make it worth your while, we'll also be offering an extra incentive:
Everyone who completes the survey will be entered into a drawing, with 10 backers winning copies of the ULTIMATE MST3K DIGITAL COLLECTION. That's right: answer a few questions, and you could win 130+ classic episodes of MST3K to download and stream forever (or to gift them to a very fortunate friend!).
UPDATE: NEW PLAN FOR THIS WEEK'S LIVESTREAM
As we announced during the Robot Wars preview screening…
This week's planned "MST3K TRIBUTE TO: FUTURE WAR" livestream has been postponed until THURSDAY, MAY 12.
We made this decision both so that we could focus our efforts this month on being ready for the PUBLIC PREMIERE on May 6th, and because – as it turns out – this Friday night is the first night of Passover and the beginning of Easter weekend.
HOWEVER: Since we don't want to leave anyone without plans for Friday night – and because you can’t keep enthusiastic MSTies down – a group of backers are organizing an unofficial FRIDAY NIGHT SCREENING in the Gizmoplex, and are running a poll where you can help choose the episode. And, since our team has some pull with the Gizmoplex brass – *cough* White Dot *cough* – we’ll run whatever episode you select this Friday at the usual time (8pm ET / 5pm PT).
If you want to join in:
UPDATE on KICKSTARTER REWARDS
For the last few months, we've been so focused on the new season and the Gizmoplex that we haven't talked much about your other Kickstarter rewards, so here's a quick update:
Due to COVID manufacturing delays, we now estimate that most physical rewards will be ready to ship in mid-June, and will be shipped out in June and July.
We understand that these ongoing delays might be frustrating and disappointing, but – as you all know – COVID continues to disrupt global manufacturing and shipping schedules, and that's resulted in some materials (e.g. specific apparel sizes) taking longer than normal to acquire.
We hope to have more definitive information by early May. Once we do, we will also begin collecting all of the shipping costs for rewards and confirming your shipping addresses, so that rewards are all sent to the right place.
Please remember that we won't be able to mail out your rewards until we collect your shipping costs – so keep an eye out for that update.
We'll continue to update you in these backer updates when we have major announcements, but remember: you can also check our ESTIMATED REWARD SCHEDULE, which we'll keep updated whenever we get new information.
That's all for now, folks! Thanks for reading, and as always, we will #SeeYouInTheGizmoplex!
FRIDAY at 8pm ET / 5pm PT in the Gizmoplex: LIVE BACKER PRE-SCREENING of EPISODE 1302: Robot Wars!
over 2 years ago
– Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 03:22:23 PM
Our Gizmoplex "soft launch" powers forward this Friday night, with a special members' only pre-screening of the next brand-new episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000…
JOIN US this Friday, April 1, at 8pm ET / 5pm PT for all the stop-motion robot battles you can handle, as we screen a rough cut of Episode 1302, Robot Wars, exclusively for backers!
Also, some of you have asked about a themed recipe for Friday’s event. At this time we are moving toward keeping the recipes as a part of the Special Tribute Events, and not the new episode premieres. But if you have an opinion on that, or other ideas on how to incorporate cooking into the Gizmoplex, we’d love to hear it!
Haven’t redeemed your Gizmoplex Pass yet?
No need to miss out! We've launched a new site that makes it even easier to redeem your Gizmoplex access: just follow these instructions.
Support the Kickstarters for RiffTrax & Onyx Path!
This week, we also want to lend some support to friends of the show, and to make sure you know about two Kickstarter campaigns ending in the next week that might interest you!
First, you may remember that near the end of the #MakeMoreMST3K Kickstarter campaign, our friends over at RiffTrax volunteered some generous bonus rewards to help us cross the finish line. And, now that RiffTrax is nearing the end of its latest Kickstarter – RiffTrax Live 2022: The Return of Swamp Thing – we’d like to return the favor! So…
Pledge even $1 to the RiffTrax Kickstarter before this Saturday, and you'll get a free bonus pack of MST3K SHORTS in the Gizmoplex!
To be exact, you’ll get a pack of five classic shorts featuring Mike Nelson that haven’t been released on the Gizmoplex yet, including…
- A Day At The Fair
- Is This Love?
- Progress Island USA
- Speech: Platform Posture and Appearance
- Money Talks!
So get over there and support their campaign, because the world always needs more riffing!
Also, as you might recall, Onyx Path Publishing backed our own #MakeMoreMST3K campaign as one of our Gizmoplex Founding Sponsors. Onyx Path publishes a range of fine tabletop role-playing games, including They Came From Beneath the Sea, a game that lets you flex your terrible B-movie genre genius. And now, you can help them expand this series into new genres:
Check out Onyx Path’s Kickstarter to help them publish two new B-movie roleplaying games: They Came From [CLASSIFIED]! and They Came From the Cyclops’s Cave!
They Came From [CLASSIFIED] is all about spy and secret agent movies and shows from the 60s - 70s, while They Came From the Cyclops’s Cave! takes on the fantasy genre, from Steve Reeve’s Hercules through to Hercules and Xena, with stops at 80’s sword & sorcery flicks and Ray Harryhausen epics.
And that's all for this update, friends! Thanks for reading, and remember:
Join us tomorrow night at 8pm ET / 5pm PT for our backers-only preview screening of Robot Wars!
Enjoy the rest of your week, and we'll #SeeYouInTheGizmoplex!
SEASON PREMIERE set for MAY 6, plus... EVERY CLASSIC EPISODE will stream in the Gizmoplex for FREE!
over 2 years ago
– Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 09:32:34 PM
If you've been online this morning, you might have seen an article going around with some news that you – as our backers – already knew:
The official SEASON 13 PREMIERE is now set for MAY 6, 2022, and will be available exclusively in the Gizmoplex.
We also unveiled the official MST3K SEASON 13 TRAILER, which you can watch right now on IGN, or starting tomorrow in the Gizmoplex.
Of course, all of you reading this have been on this inside with us from the beginning (thank you!), so a lot of what’s included in the new announcement won’t come as a surprise.
However, now that we're starting to share information with the public, we also wanted to update you directly about a few big developments.
How to Watch Season 13
If your Kickstarter rewards included a Gizmoplex Member Pass, you're already able to watch the "pre-release" cut of our first new episode (Santo in the Treasure of Dracula) as well as our first "Gizmoplex special event" (last week's MST3K: A Tribute to Manos livestream), so feel free to skip to the next announcement.
However, if you didn't get a Gizmoplex Member Pass yet – or your non-backer friends are wondering how they'll be able to see the new season of MST3K – you have a few options.
1. Get livestream tickets at the door for $10/event. If you don't want to commit to a full member pass, you can join any livestream event in the Gizmoplex for $10/ticket, which also includes access to rewatch the event for one week.
2. Rent each new episode for $8/week. If you don't care about seeing the live premieres, and just want to see the new season, you'll be able to rent each episode in the Gizmoplex starting one week after the livestream premiere.
Or, if you want to see all of the new episodes, shorts, and special events, you can get a better value by signing up for a GIZMOPLEX MEMBER PASS:
THE GIZMOPLEX SEASON PASS ($135)includes livestream tickets and rewatch access for all 27 planned Gizmoplex events – including 13 new episode premieres and 14 special events – plus all event replays and new content until February 28, 2023! Since individual tickets to 27 events would cost $270, that's 50% off!
And if you aren't ready to commit to the whole year, but still want a better price, we'll also offer a series of short term passes:
THE GIZMOPLEX SUMMER PASS ($50)includes livestream tickets and rewatch access for our first 11 events – 7 new episode premieres + 4 special events – plus streaming access to all event replays and new content until July 31.
We'll also offer an AUTUMN PASS, covering August to October, and a WINTER PASS, covering November to February. If you get all three, the whole season will cost $150 – over 40% off the full ticket price!
And finally, to save you a little bit more, we've got one more special offer:
Grab a Season Pass before the SEASON PREMIERE on May 6, and you'll also get a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD of Season 13 – worth $85 – for free!
But again, if you pledged for EXPERIMENT 85 or above during the Kickstarter, you already have a full Season Pass and the digital download of Season 13 for a way lower price.
Having said that: if you have friends or family who might also enjoy a Gizmoplex membership, we encourage you to share these details. Remember, the more people who join the Gizmoplex, the sooner we can get to work making more new MST3K!
And remember: if your Kickstarter rewards include a Gizmoplex Member Pass for three, six, or nine months, you'll be able to upgrade to a full Season Pass at a special backer price! More details about that coming in May, so stay tuned.
Coming Soon: A Major Gizmoplex Upgrade!
If you read the IGN article, you might have noticed another significant development that we've been working on for a while:
Starting on MAY 6, all registered Gizmoplex users will be able to stream EVERY AVAILABLE CLASSIC EPISODE – that's over 125 episodes from Seasons 1-10 – for free, and without ads!
Yeah, you heard us: even if you don't have a Gizmoplex Member Pass, you'll be able to stream the entire MST3K classic collection for free, and – for a limited time – without advertising!
We've been hoping to announce this since before the Kickstarter, but needed to wait until we were 100% sure we could work out all of the details… and now we have!
Also: if you're a fan of our 24/7 channels, like Twitch and PlutoTV, don't worry: none of our linear streaming channels are going away. We're not trying to remove options for watching MST3K. We're just adding a better option, where you can see every episode on demand.
"Why buy what you can stream for free?"
One last thing: Even though you'll be able to stream all of our classic episodes on-demand for free, we hope you'll still consider purchasing the episodes you especially love, and adding them to your personal Gizmoplex collection.
3 Reasons to Buy & Own Classic Episodes
1. When you buy an episode, it's yours to keep… forever.
From time to time, MST3K loses the streaming rights to the movies featured in classic episodes, and we're forced to stop streaming and selling the episode. For example, we lost the rights to The Final Sacrifice in 2017, and are no longer allowed to stream the beloved adventures of Rowsdower and Troy. But, if you had already purchased that episode, you'd still be able to watch it whenever you want!
2. When you buy an episode, you can download it DRM-free!
Once you own an episode in the Gizmoplex, you also get access to DRM-free downloads. That means you can watch your episodes offline, back them up for safe-keeping, and break free of the yoke of your internet overlords! Plus, starting later this year, you'll also get access to any available bonus material for the episodes you own!
3. When you buy an episode, you're helping us #MakeMoreMST3K.
The last reason is the most obvious: when you purchase episodes of MST3K through the Gizmoplex, you're also helping fund the creation of more new MST3K, and helping us cover the cost of keeping the Gizmoplex – and our apps – available to everyone. Buying episodes keeps this whole machine going!
So that’s where we stand with today’s newest announcement! If you still have questions, join us on the forums or leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Thanks again, backers, for joining us on this wild ride!
TONIGHT at 8pm PT / 5pm PT: Our first GIZMOPLEX TRIBUTE EVENT features MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE... and our first BRAND-NEW SHORT for Season 13!
over 2 years ago
– Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 02:39:34 PM
This is your day-of-show reminder:
Tonight at 5pm PT / 8pm ET, please join us for our first GIZMOPLEX TRIBUTE EVENT, featuring the beloved – sort of – MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE, by clicking here!
But let’s not bury the lede:
At the start of tonight's show, we'll also premiere this season's first all-new, freshly riffed, SHORT FILM!
Yes, the short will be airing first, but we hope you’ll stick around for the rest of the event. We have some brand-new exclusive content throughout the show, plus a live discussion and audience Q+A session immediately after the episode, featuring Joel, Mary Jo, and a special guest!
Also: please note that BackerKit sent out a new round of emails yesterday, letting backers know that their GIZMOPLEX MEMBER PASSES were available to redeem using our new, easier method.
If you already claimed your Gizmoplex Member Pass, you can ignore that email. If you haven't redeemed your pass, or are having trouble redeeming it from BackerKit's email, look for an email from our team over the weekend with a one-click button that'll help you redeem your pass.
And again, if you can't join us live for this event, don't worry:
The "almost-instant replay" will be available in the Gizmoplex a few hours after the live show ends.
To view the replay on the Gizmoplex, just go to your PURCHASES and click on your Gizmoplex Event Pass. You'll see it there as soon as it's available – or click here!)
In the meantime, you're gonna need some dinner to go with your movie, so be sure to check out Joel's recipe for TORGO'S PIZZA. Complimentary crazy bread not included.
Got questions about Manos?
Pop over to the Livestream Q+A category in the forums and share your burning inquiries there, and you may get an answer during tonight’s event!
Gizmoplex Live Chat, Round 2
If you found the live chat a little overwhelming during the last livestream event, well... so did we! Tonight, we're trying some new tricks to make the Kingadome chat room a little more functional:
- We’ve instituted a “slow mode” that prevents posting more than once every 20 seconds.
- We’ve also added a few extra "channels" you can switch into. Just click CHANNELS at the top of the chat panel, and choose the "row" of the theater you'd like to join.
- Want to join the chat without having a distracting chatroom next to the movie? You can join from your phone! Just click here.
That should be everything you need to know, so grab your pizza ingredients, get into your comfiest cultist robe, and sign in before the show starts at 8pm ET / 5pm PT tonight.
We'll #SeeYouInTheGizmoplex!
