How about some MST3K toys? I would love Crow, Tom Servo and Gypsy action figures. Mike and Joel... not so much. Gypsy should come with a little photo of Richard Basehart. You could release special editions of the dvd's with toys based on the episode (Chunk Ramrod from Space Mutiny, Torgo from Manos the Hands of Fate, Prince of Space and Invasion of the Neptune Men spring to mind).

To put this request in perspective, I have the Rhino sets 1 - 12, plus most of the singles. I will buy your stuff.

Let me field this question.  Jim Mallon has mentioned this MANY times.  When the show aired on KTMA the station never really secured the rights to the movies which were riffed on.  So they never could be shown again for legal reasons. 

It would be cool to at least make the "Host Segments" of each KTMA episode available.  But I've heard that the Best Brains crew sees those shows as their "test stage" and would rather fans remember them for their more "polished" form.

I have a question.  Is Shout going to start from scratch with the shows or are they going to release episodes already available from Rhino? 

Will there be any kind of poll to determine which episodes get released? Because Some episodes like Final sacrifice, Danger death ray and attack of the eye creatures need to be released to dvd

I was really surprised and excited to hear ShoutFactory picked up the rights to MST3k, I know they'll do it justice!  First Freaks & Geeks, then Swamp Thing and now my favoriteist show of all time?  Now that's a great track record!

For those wanting to get an idea about what MST3k episodes are most likely to be released (in terms of rights), check out my Likelihood-for-Release list:

http://forrestcrow.proboards47.com/index.cgi?board=mstchat&action=display&thread=1152828151&page=1

or:

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/ward_e/listlikely.html (hopefully it will be updated soon).

I've tried to be thorough in researching information, but there's still plenty of holes to be filled and would love to eventually know what the people at Shout think about it.

Cheers!

To Mr. Brian Ward,

I'm really sorry to bother in this thread about something unrelated but I could not get a reply from you in the other thread.  Anyway, my question is:  Do you still have any "Captain N the Game Master" Disc 3 replacement discs.  I just discovered about this correction recently and I'd really like to take advantage of this offer.  Please let me know what steps I would have to take and where I can send the disc.  Again, sorry everyone, for discussing this here.

AJC

"The Amazing Colossal Man", is one I passed to get on VHS (for Pod People and Cave Dwellers) and when  I went back the next week to buy it, it was gone and out of print. But "Bride of the Monster" is the one episode that I've always felt DEMANDED to be put out just because it's such an ED WOOD classic.

 There's my Two cents...

Thank You....

Commander Jodo

Is Shout trying to get the rights to copyrighted films, or concentrating on those episodes that have fallen into the Public Domain (as Rhino did with their last couple of sets)?

Great news and bad news all at the same time. I missed the 9th set and the aftermarket prices can get ridiculous. Anyway, looking forward to see what you guys have planned.

May I suggest 310-Fugitive Alien and 318- Star Force-Fugitive Alien 2 for the first set?

Glad to hear that a lot of thought and effort is going into which episodes to release and how best to give them a worthy DVD treatment. I hope speed of release is also an issue that Shout Factory will handle better than Rhino. One set of 4 episodes every 9 to 12 months is painfully slow with so many great episodes still unreleased. I own every Rhino DVD release so far (and all 4 Film Crew discs too) and would like to see a lot more coming a lot faster.

As for favorite episodes I'd like to see on commercial release, here's a brief wish list for starters: the Robert Lippert films from Season 2 (Lost Continent, Rocketship X-M, Jungle Goddess, King Dinosaur), Gamera films, Robot Monster from Season 1, Amazing Colossal Man and War of the Colossal Beast, Bride of the Monster, Warrior of the Lost World, 12 to the Moon, Outlaw (of Gor), Fugitive Alien and its sequel. Thanks!