autographs as part of the collection. Sketch and art
cards should be a sure thing as licensing has already
approved their use in the series. This will be the first
RRParks release to feature sketch cards. Die-cut genuine
film-used costume prop cards are also in the works with
original costumes IN HAND now. True fans will also
enjoy special limited edition metal cards as an extra
bonus. “Our plan,” says Parks, “is to utilize the great
folks at Faerie Metal for this. [They] have done special
metal cards for Chronicles of the Three Stooges, the 1959
Three Stooges Reprint series, The Three Stooges Theater,
Chronicles of The Grim Reaper, and Basil Wolverton II:
Wolverton’s Women).”
TheaTrical Packaging
According to Parks, the project is being planned as a
retail wax pack box release, similar to his Chronicles of The
Three Stooges Series 1, 2 & 3 products. Each box should
contain 36 10-card packs with random chase card inser-
tions. “Steve at Nationwide Carton, the guy responsible for
the wonderful boxes used for Chronicles of The Three Stooges
Series 1, 2, and 3, has been tweaking a die-cut template for
MST3K boxes,” said an ebullient Parks.
An album will not be available per-se as the manufac-
turer has rather strong feelings in this area. “Personally,
I am not a fan of expensive and dedicated binders/
albums,” Parks confirmed. “Instead, my plan to create
‘binder insert’ sets so that collectors can use their own
binders and insert both an official cover and spine into
binders of their choice. This keeps production costs
lower, keeps the cost of the series to collectors lower so
they can afford other card series, and provides collec-
tors a flexibility with regards to what binders they use
while at the same time having ‘official album’ parts in
their collections.”
With all the work and ideas Richard Parks is putting into
this series, it’s easy to see that for him, at least, there is no
mystery to this science. NSU
Mystery Solved!
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etflix has fixed the universe by bringing
new episodes of Mystery Science
Theater 3000 to hungry MSTies
everywhere. According to Shout!
Factory rep, Sarah J. De Bruin, series creator
Joel Hodgson serves as a writer, director and
executive producer on the new season. The
show features a new host, new Mads, and, of
course, new cheesy movies to riff. In the new
season of MST3K, Kinga Forrester (Felicia Day)
and her loyal henchman, Max (Patton Oswalt),
have revived the infamous experiment started
by Kinga’s father twenty-nine years earlier:
How many cheesy movies does it take to drive
a person mad? In this latest reiteration of the
show, her test subject is Jonah Heston (Jonah
Ray), a space pilot for Gizmonic Institute who
gets trapped responding to a distress call from
the dark side of the moon. Confined aboard
the Satellite of Love, Jonah lives with his robot
friends, Gypsy (voiced by Rebecca Hanson),
Tom Servo (voiced by Baron Vaughn), and Crow
T. Robot (voiced by Hampton Yount). Returning
cast members include Bill Corbett, who joins
the new season as a guest writer and will have
a guest appearance as his character, Brain Guy.
Kevin Murphy makes a guest appearance in
Season 11 as his character, Professor Bobo,
and Mary Jo Pehl joins as a guest writer and
for a guest appearance as her character, Pearl
Forrester.
As far as including the rebooted show in their
card sets, RRParks CARDS confirms that subset
coverage of Netflix’s Season 11 and beyond will
begin in series two of Mystery Science Theater
3000 trading cards.
Net Fix