Non-Sport Update — August-September 2017

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RRParks Turns Unwatchable Movies into Essential Trading Cards


by Alan Biegel


S


cience will be a mys-


tery no more when


RRParks CARDS


launches Mystery


Science  eater 3000


Series One trading cards


late this summer. Known


for making unwatchable


movies essential viewing,


the MST3K TV show aired


seasonally from 1988 to



  1. Now, thanks to a very


successful Kickstarter cam-


paign, the screwy sci- favorite is back for an unprecedent-


ed new season of 14 laugh- lled episodes on Net ix.


 e show, which is as silly as its concept, tells the tale of


janitor Joel Robinson (played by show creator Joel Hodgson),


who is shot into space and forced by some evil nogoodniks


to watch really bad movies. To preserve his sanity, Joel builds


a number of lovable robots to help him wisecrack his way


through the stinkiest  lm clunkers one could ever imagine.


When Hodgson le the role in mid-season  ve, character


Mike Nelson (not-so-coincidentally played by actor/writer


Mike Nelson), took over the madcap team.


MYSTERY BASE &


INSERT CARDS


Just like the show’s main


resident mad scientist, Dr.


Clayton Deborah Susan


Forrester, Richard Parks of


RRParks CARDS is deep in


perfecting his experiments.


In Richard’s case, that means


concocting trading cards


as cockamamy as the show.


Currently in template/


design phase, the main base


set is dedicated to Experiment (a.k.a. episode) cards and


feature scenes with Joel, robot friends Crow, Tom Servo


and Gypsy, and the “MADS” (a.k.a. really mad scientists).


Collectors should seek out choice promo cards as well


as special e ect subsets, manufactured in foil and other


eye popping printings. Supporting subsets are principally


based on the “Invention Exchange” routines between Joel


& the Bots and Dr. Forrester. Video stills from the  rst


three seasons of the original MST3K TV show will be em-


ployed. Richard advised that since the majority of movies


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