{"id":22799,"date":"2023-11-20T19:28:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T01:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=22799"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:08:15","slug":"mst3ks-14th-season-fundraiser-going-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=22799","title":{"rendered":"MST3K&#8217;s 14th Season Fundraiser Going Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that Joel Hodgson and MST3K gang are <a href=\"https:\/\/showmaker.mst3k.com\/makeseason14\">having a new kickstarter for the next season<\/a> (for values of &#8220;kickstarter&#8221; that include &#8220;not on the Kickstarter platform&#8221;). There are five days left and they are only 38% of the way to the first goal of $4.8 million, which will be six features and six shorts. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19839\">last two<\/a> Kickstarters they had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=14649\">blew past their goals<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This one? Not so much. Despite announcing that <b>Plan 9 from Outer Space<\/b> will be among the riffed films. <\/p>\n<p>Donor fatigue? The Biden Recession? Not doing enough promotion? Not enough boost from a non-Kickstarter platform? Disgruntlement over how long it took people to get their promised rewards from the last campaign? <\/p>\n<p>I think it may be some combination of all the above. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe the usual Turkey Day festivities will kick it into higher gear. But if they don&#8217;t, this may be the first MST3K fundraising effort to fail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that Joel Hodgson and MST3K gang are having a new kickstarter for the next season (for values of &#8220;kickstarter&#8221; that include &#8220;not on the Kickstarter platform&#8221;). There are five days left and they are only 38% of the way to the first goal of $4.8 million, which will be six features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,13,5,474],"tags":[15,1983,1979,2024,1989,1975,732,1970,1987],"class_list":["post-22799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-science-fiction","category-tv","tag-bad-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-joel-hodgson","tag-kickstarter","tag-movies","tag-mst3k","tag-science-fiction","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22799"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22804,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799\/revisions\/22804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}