MST3K Season 14 Crowdfunding Has Begun!

[RVR II]

S14 didn't reach its goal of $4 mill.. fell short by about 1.3 million so it's not happening (for now at least)

[ihavemyreasons]

Still bet they regroup and try again. But we'll see.

[The Lurker]

A lot of it seems to be a poor timing thing. 

[The Lurker]

Greetings, backers.

Well, we've come to the end of the month, and the end of the Turkey Day Marathon and this campaign.

While we're incredibly grateful for all of the support, enthusiasm, and encouragement, it's clear we've fallen short of our goal this time.

First, to be clear, please understand that that means that no one will be charged anything, and we will not be collecting anything that you pledged to this campaign , since the agreement was that we'd only collect funds if we reached our minimum goal. No charges will be put on anyone's credit cards.

Second, and more important, please know that we're incredibly grateful for all of your input, feedback, concerns and questions, and are thinking about all the suggestions you have made over the past month.

One silver lining is that the continued support for this campaign, and the show, may have opened up some new conversations about potential partnerships and fundraising that could be key in getting the show another season.

We'll spend some time now exploring those, and working to integrate all of the feedback and suggestions we've heard from you, and will follow up again next year, Lord willing and the creek don't rise, when we've had a chance to regroup and have more to share downstream.

For now, whether you pledged or not, please accept our thanks and gratitude for your ongoing dedication and investment in MST3K.

We're proud that the show continues to mean so much, to so many, and will keep working to figure out a path forward so that we can hopefully continue to #MakeMoreMST3K.

Until then, have a wonderful holiday season, and thanks again for all of your support.

Cheers and Thanks,

Joel and Team MST3K

[Edward J Grug III]

It's a sad result, but I am hopeful they will be back.

More sad was seeing in real time a significant, loud sub-section of the fan-base pretty much campaign against the campaign. Quite baffling to me, if you don't like the new stuff, don't watch it - No one's taking the original series away.

Left a really bad taste in my mouth.

[RVR II]

Yeah, over on the https://forums.mst3k.com/ forums, it started to de-evolve rather quickly, to the point that the mods over there had to step in on multiple occasions 

[ihavemyreasons]

Unfortunately I think Joel listens to / reads a lot of the garbage. My take since season 11 has been more MST3K better than no new MST3K so I'll continue to support even though I'd prefer to see some things done differently. Had no idea there was an active campaign against the current fundraiser. I just thought it wasn't run as well as the Kickstarter campaigns. Not near as many reminders or publicity.

[Edward J Grug III]

To be clear, I don't think the anti-new-MST3K brigade had anything at all to do with the funding failing. I think there were quite a few missteps from the team, unfortunately - Not sure if they thought it was a safe bet after the last few campaigns or what, but it really looked like a half-hearted attempt from the outside.

[The Lurker]

To be clear, I don't think the anti-new-MST3K brigade had anything at all to do with the funding failing. I think there were quite a few missteps from the team, unfortunately - Not sure if they thought it was a safe bet after the last few campaigns or what, but it really looked like a half-hearted attempt from the outside.

I think it was a combo of
1. economy issues
2. poor timing (especially with strikes going on)
3.  Switching to a fundraising platform that unfortunately had less visibility than Kickstarter.

[Edward J Grug III]

Agreed, but add in very little promotion/events from the team - Way less than in the past, even post-strike.

Resentment over the delivery of the previous kickstarter rewards.

[The Lurker]

Yeah there were some shipping issues, though at least some of it was Covid related and couldn't be helped much.

[Edward J Grug III]

I think people also forget what a small operation MST3K is in reality also.

[abosch]

I suspect that a part of it was the lack of publicity in a way that attracted the eye. Most of that would be from the SAG-AFTRA strike since creatively promoting these fundraisers involved a lot of work by actors and writers.