Thanks to you, the Kickstarter community, we shattered RiffTrax Kickstarter records in 2016 when you helped us fund our Mystery Science Theater 3000 Reunion show. This year, we're headlining our Live show slate with one of our biggest names ever!
With your help, we can make this the most amazing year of RiffTrax Live yet!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Do the Robot!
about 7 years ago
– Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:37:22 PM
Happy Friday, backers! We’ve got a new riffing treat to make your weekend extra sweet.
Westworld is here!
Saddle up, buckaroos, our Westworld riff has mosied on down from the OK Corral and sauntered straight into your RiffTrax Library. If you had previously connected your Kickstarter rewards, you should see it there already! Otherwise, you'll want to click the digital download "activation" link over at BackerKit right away.
As a thank-you for handing over your hard-earned dollars to make RiffTrax Live 2017 a reality, we’re giving each and every one of you this riff on the first episode of the HBO hit series - absolutely free! Be sure to head to https://www.rifftrax.com/kickstarter2017 to claim this and other digital rewards.
And even better, our Westworld commentary is also available NOW in the auto-syncing RiffTrax app! Get the app, download the riff, and enjoy our hilarious jokes about this magical robot cowboy amusement park!
One week left to be a founding member on Drip!
We’ve been blown away by the response to DripTrax so far, and wanted to make sure you each had the chance to jump on board before our founding period ends next Friday. We’ve already shared some EXCLUSIVE behind-the-scenes tidbits available only to our Drip subscribers, with more on the way.
If you haven’t already, consider becoming a founding member soon! (Once the founding period is over, you'll still be able to subscribe, but only as a regular member.) Don’t miss out on plenty of "inside baseball" from the writers, riffers, and even the RiffTrax staff, totally exclusive to Drip members. Plus giveaways, exclusive downloads, and a whole lot more! We've got some fun stuff planned, so stay tuned.
Enjoy your weekend! We'll be back with more before you know it.
- Mike, Kevin, and Bill
The Limited Edition 10-DVD Lunchbox is now available to Pre-Order!
about 7 years ago
– Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 06:38:30 PM
As a special surprise just before Turkey Day, we’re opening up pre-orders for our 10 DVD Limited LunchboxRIGHT NOW! Since you were all so generous in making our live shows this year happen, Kickstarter backers will have the first chance to pre-order this limited edition set.
The DVDs included are: Bridget and Mary Jo: Short and Sweet, RiffTrax Live: MST3K Reunion, RiffTrax Live: Birdemic, RiffTrax Live: Manos, The Hands of Fate, RiffTrax Live: Time Chasers, Shorts Assemble, May The Shorts Be With You, Hand Crafted Artisanal Shorts, Santa and The Ice Cream Bunny, and Santa’s Village of Madness.
Best of all, as a Kickstarter backer, you can use your exclusive coupon code LUNCHBOX to take $10 off your pre-order. These will start shipping from RiffTrax HQ on December 11th for backers.
DVDs+Blu shipped! Posters ship this week! Plus DripTrax and lunchboxes!
about 7 years ago
– Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 09:16:02 PM
Happy Monday, Backers!
We hope your Thanksgiving week is off to a superb start. We’ve got some news today that should make your Turkey Day better than Nana’s special cornbread!
DVDs have Shipped!
As some of you who backed us at the $100 level or above have already discovered, a whole slew of RiffTrax DVDs and Blu-rays are one step closer to sitting on your shelf: all physical media rewards (and their BackerKit pre-order counterparts) have been shipped! That includes RiffTrax Live: Samurai Cop, RiffTrax: Live Summer Shorts Beach Party, and the brand new Bridget and Mary Jo shorts collection, Short and Sweet!
Our RiffTrax shipping expert, Jamie, worked super hard to get all of these shipped out before the holidays, and we’re thrilled that you’ll get to enjoy them in time. You should have received an update via BackerKit containing your tracking information over the weekend. If you didn’t, please double-check your spam folders, and contact us if you still can’t find anything.
If you didn’t back at a high enough level to receive the DVDs, you can pre-order all three of them starting today!
Speaking of pre-orders...
Limited Edition DisembAudio Lunchbox!
Note: DVDs contain zero nutritional value and may trigger nut allergies.
EXCLUSIVE KICKSTARTER BACKER PRE-ORDER WINDOW! Since you were generous enough to help make our slate of live shows and DVDs possible this year, we wanted you to be the first to know about and get first dibs to buy the latest, greatest piece of RiffTrax merchandise: a DisembAudio DVD lunch box set!
This limited-edition box set (only 1,000 will be made with the Limited Edition mark) is chock full of ten RiffTrax DVDs from some of our all-time greats, to Bridget & Mary Jo's brand-new shorts collection, Short and Sweet. They all come packed in this collectible, high-quality metal lunchbox featuring the visage of everyone’s favorite auto-magical syncing robot, DisembAudio!
The ten DVDs included in this set are: Bridget and Mary Jo: Short and Sweet, RiffTrax Live: MST3K Reunion, RiffTrax Live: Birdemic, RiffTrax Live: Manos, The Hands of Fate, RiffTrax Live: Time Chasers, Shorts Assemble, May The Shorts Be With You, Hand Crafted Artisanal Shorts, Santa and The Ice Cream Bunny, and Santa’s Village of Madness.
Pre-orders for the lunch box will open on November 29th, BUT Kickstarter backers will have an exclusive 24 hour windowon November 28th to pre-order before the general public. Order yours by December 5th to receive it in time for Christmas!
Plus, because we just like you folks so dang much, you'll be able to use a special backer-only coupon code to take $10 off your order of this exclusive set, until they sell out: LUNCHBOX
This collection took a ton of work, but we think you and the riffing fan in your life will love having DisembAudio sit on your DVD shelf (provided he doesn’t try to sing "My Heart Will Go On" again).
RiffTrax on tap on Drip!
We are pleased as Punch to announce that we’re part of the beta for Kickstarter’s new venture, Drip! On our Drip, we’re planning to offer first looks at upcoming riffs, behind-the-scenes goodies, exclusive digital downloads and more. Jump in on our exclusive, limited founding period and help shape the future of "DripTrax."
Posters Ship This Week
If you backed at either poster level (signed or unsigned) then you can expect a shipping update later this week. The posters are actually being signed by Mike, Kevin and Bill at this very moment!
That’s all for now, folks! Expect another update from us regarding digital rewards, and a few forthcoming MP3 tracks very soon.
- Mike, Kevin, Bil and the RiffTrax Crew
Shipping addresses unlocked! Physical items shipping soon!
about 7 years ago
– Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:31:34 AM
Howdy folks!
We’ve got some great news for you, good Backers of Kickstarterland, and wanted to share it as soon as we could.
New reward for BTS level backers
Those of you who backed us at the “Behind the scenes video” level ($20 and higher), we’re happy to announce that video is now available in your Library (if you've activated your backer info already) as well as at the 2017 Rewards page!
Visit the Rewards page to see all of the unlocked rewards so far, and make sure you're all up to date. We've got more digital goodies coming soon!
Shipping addresses unlocked! Shipping begins early December!
Our shipping timeline, which we’d mentioned in our previous update, has been moved up! David and Casey, our in-house video production team, have been working extra hours to make sure your physical media live shows get done on time. And now, we’re pleased to announce that thanks to their efforts, we’ll begin shipping your DVDs in the next two weeks!
If you’ve recently moved, or otherwise need to change your address for any reason, you should do so as soon as possible. We’ll be locking addresses down again next Wednesday, November 15th. We’ll send a 48-hour notice through BackerKit before then, so you'll have enough time to ensure your information is accurate. We also highly recommend adding [email protected] to your list of contacts or trusted senders, to be certain you don’t miss those BackerKit messages from us.
If you end up needing to change your address after the 15th, you'll have message us here on Kickstarter as soon as possible so we can get your information corrected. Please note that change requests received after that time will result in your rewards being delayed.
Unsigned posters shipping on the 20th
Backers who are due to receive the 2017 Kickstarter poster ($125+), printing is almost done, and we’ll be sending the unsigned versions by November 20th. (We also fixed a typo on the design before putting them into production.)
Soon after poster printing ends, we’ll head over to the print shop in Minneapolis to autograph hundreds of them for backers of the “Your poster is signed” reward level ($200+).
We are currently expecting to have all of them signed, and the shipping process started, no later than November 27th.
MP3 rewards coming next month
We also wanted to share the dates for those two highly-anticipated Just the Jokes stretch rewards. They are:
Westworld: Season 1 Episode 1 (December 8th) Batman v. Superman (Approximately December ~15th)
And as some of you might have heard during Kevin’s recent Revival League podcast interview, we’ve assembled a veritable League of Riffing to help us take on BvS! Our list of confirmed guests includes:
Cole Stratton & Janet Varney!
Bridget Nelson & Mary Jo Pehl!
Ian Potter & Matthew J. Elliott!
RiffTrax Senior Writers Conor Lastowka & Sean Thomason
PLUS! “The Mads” Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff
Each group will take a chunk of the film to help us get through the theatrical version of the DC Comics “blockbuster" in our first-ever multi-riffer tandem riff! We're excited for this twist to the format, and can't wait to deliver the final product to you.
So concludes today’s update. Please enjoy the rest of your week, and we’ll be in touch with more updates soon. Huzzah!
- Mike, Kevin, Bill and the RiffTrax crew
Rewards update!
over 7 years ago
– Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:08:00 PM
OHhiiii, most excellent backers! We're halfway through the week, and we hope yours has been swell so far. We apologize - it’s been a little while since we last spoke - but, we've been busy, and thought it was time to catch up.
For starters...
Backer-Exclusive Avatars are now available
For those of you who backed this campaign at the $60 "Goodie Pack" level or above, an exclusive trio of avatars crafted by the extremely talented Len Peralta are now yours!
Let us know which one’s your favorite! And, look for more digital goodies to become available soon. To unlock these and any other rewards that are available, simply visit the Kickstarter 2017 page; and if you still need to activate your rewards, you can find the activation link at BackerKit in the "Digital Downloads" section.
Wait! There's more!
NEW, never-before-seen shorts are here
Some of you've already noticed two mysterious shorts appearing in your Library. We're coming clean to let you know that yes, we put them there! If you were generous enough to throw at least $10 our way, the reward of TWO TOTALLY NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN SHORTS is now yours. Check your 2017 rewards page to view these new riffing oddities before anyone else!
First off, you've got Six Murderous Beliefs:
Then we have the strangely appropriately-titled People Soup! Written and directed by none other than Alan Arkin!
These never-before-seen shorts were hand-picked by us (by hand!) to be part of the this reward.
But that’s not all! We have one more big reveal for you…
Kickstarter Poster Design!
Behold, in all its digital glory: the RiffTrax 2017 Kickstarter Commemorative Poster!
A year of live riffing in one image!
This poster is a full 27" x 40" of this year's RiffTrax Live shows, and we’ll be sending it off to the printers shortly. If you backed at the $125 level or above, we're aiming to get yours sent out before year's end. Those of you who backed us at the $200 level and higher for the autographed poster might need to wait just a little bit longer due to the extra time required. We have lots of posters to sign! We’ll update you once we have a solid timeline, and again once shipping starts.
The poster is an exclusive reward, and will not be available anywhere else.
Oh, and while we're on the topic of shipping...
DVD/Blu-Rays are heading into production
Some of you have been wondering where your physical media rewards are. So here's the scoop! We’re in the final stages of pre-production for the DVDs and Blu-Rays for this year’s rewards (as well as those of you who've purchased them as Add-ons at BackerKit). Because they take a fair amount of time to produce, when we launched this year's campaign, we set the expected delivery date for these rewards to December.
While we're still hopeful that we'll be able to get them out the door by year’s end, it's now looking like it could take until January. We know that’s a month longer than what we’d anticipated, and we sincerely apologize for the unexpected delay, but we think this newest slate of physical media will be worth the wait.
Here's a sneak peek at the box art for these upcoming releases, including Bridget & Mary Jo's first-ever shorts DVD collection — which you helped make possible:
We can't wait to get them onto your shelves!
If you're moving soon, or will otherwise need to change your shipping address at BackerKit between now and then, never fear! We'll be unlocking address for everyone there once the production process is underway, in time for you to verify that your information is still accurate. We'll be sure to give you advance notice before that happens.
Whew! That’s it for now. By the way, if you don’t have any plans for Halloween this year, be sure not to miss Best of RiffTrax Live: Night of the Living Dead in theaters next week! And if you have any questions regarding your pledge or rewards, please send us a message here and we'll respond as soon as we can.
