Amazon has some MST3K sets on sales…

The prices are pretty good, especially with the free shipping and no taxes.

Mystery Science Theater 3000, Vol. XVI (The Corpse Vanishes / Warrior of the Lost World / Santa Claus / Night of the Blood Beast) This is the one with the little Tom Servo figure; maybe Christmas tree decoration size. Four pretty decent episodes for $35.50, 45% off the $65 MSRP.

Almost as cheap is the Mystery Science Theater 3000, Vol. XVII (The Crawling Eye / The Beatniks / The Final Sacrifice / Blood Waters of Dr. Z) for $35. Well, actually, it’s a tiny bit cheaper, but the discount is only 42%, because the MSRP for this set is $60, not $65.

For about the same amount ($35.50), you can also pick up the The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 12 (The Rebel Set / Secret Agent Super Dragon / The Starfighters / Parts: The Clonus Horror).

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BeckoningChasm

A lot of those are available as Netflix “Watch Instantly” episodes. I thought I’d die laughing at “Santa Claus” on the one hand, but on the other, “The Crawling Eye” just didn’t work. (For me, I hasten to add.)

BTW, I don’t work for Netflix.
Ericb

Robot Monster is going to be in the next set.
John Campbell

I sadly will not purchase any of these.

I got a couple of episodes from Netflix for my fiancee to watch as she’d never seen them.

My fiancee is deaf and not a one of the episodes was close captioned or SDH (subtitled for deaf and hard of hearing).

Really really sucks because we both love the b-movie cheese.

I even confess to our dark romance with the SyFy originals…

I know…I know…go directly to hell, don not collect $200 from Charles Band…
The Rev. D.D.

The SFC years gave us Werewolf, which I think is one of their funniest episodes, and also the delightful Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders and those two insane Japanese movies (Invasion of the Neptune Men and Prince of Space). Honestly, they weren’t a bad three years.

I got to pick up the first set a while back (my first one). I found myself a bit disappointed with Santa Claus although I still enjoyed it; to be fair, I had expected it to be as bonkers as that Red Riding Hood/Tom Thumb movie we watched at T(ween)-Fest, so it’s not really the movie’s fault. Night of the Blood Beast was easily the best episode of the four.

I’ll have to plant some bugs in some ears and see if I can’t get one or two of those other ones for Christmas…hell, it worked for Father’s Day when I got the Ultraman set Ken had noted was on sale a while back. Of course, I have to finish the Iron King set first before I can watch it…
John Campbell

Rev DD/Ken/anyone who owns the sets – can you confirm if what you have is close captioned/english subtitled?

I really want to share these with the fiancee.

I remember when MST3K wason the original comedy channel…sigh…
Ericb

John, I have them. I’ll check when I get home from work to see if they have closed captioning. I don’t think they do. I think I remember reading about it on the Satellite News site. With all the multiple dialogue and comments occuring on meta levels these things must be a nightmare to close caption or dub.
John Campbell

Ericb – ugh!! I didn’t even think of that. You’s end up with a screen full of text.

And even though I’ve lived with CC for years there are still times we both have to stop what we’re watching and back up to catch something that flashed by. I imagine the stop and go watching on this would be a nightmare.

(We don’t use sound unless there’s a reason like coompany is over or we want to know what a commercial said or I’m in the mood. I wanted to gain a true understanding of what life is like for the fiancee. And at this point I’m used to CC. It’s wierd to watch TV without captions now!)

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