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Got the first two volumes for my birthday, theyre really expensive... cheapest ive found though was on DDD for 35/40 each...

Anyone know where i can pick the rest of the volumes up cheaper?
 
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Someone (I think Amazon) had them on sale a few months ago. There's always the next DDD.com sale in Nov.
 
A bit of a longshot, but if you find them used at EB/GS, I believe they are $9.99 per season. I picked up a couple that way (during the buy 2 get 1 free, to boot).
 
My all time favorite show! It looks like the sets are all about $35 and the best place to go is www.deepdiscountdvd.com. Also, season 10 shall be arriving shortly (8/29/06). Here are the episodes and break down from Amazon:

212- GODZILLA VS. MEGALON
This extremely silly Toho picture from 1973 is a blast whether you love or loathe Godzilla movies. Its original Japanese title is Gojira tai Megaro. It is simply goofy beyond belief! The people of Seatopia, who live under the ocean, decide that it's time they controlled the surface world as well, launching an all out assault on surface dwelling humans. Their main instrument of destruction is Megalon, a large monster with big spike-like arms and a star-shaped projection on his head. Godzilla comes to the rescue, assisted by a man-made robot named Jet Jaguar that can change its size to become gigantic. Together, Godzilla and Jet Jaguar teach Megalon and the Seatopians a lesson they'll not soon forget.

This is a GREAT episode and includes some of the BEST host segments ever, including the "Rex Dart, Eskimo Spy" sketch, the `Bots get new arms sketch, the `Bots argue over whose monster is the "coolest" sketch, and the HILARIOUS translation of the Jet Jaguar fight song during the final host segment. The scene of Godzilla dropkicking as if flying through the air during the opening titles in later seasons of the show comes from this episode. This is a must-see episode!

503- SWAMP DIAMONDS (plus short: WHAT TO DO ON A DATE)
This is a 1955 Roger Corman "classic" starring Beverly Garland and Mike "Touch" Connors before his fame with Mannix. Beverly Garland leads a gang of escaped female convicts to a cache of diamonds and they kidnap the innocent Mr. Connors and his girlfriend along the way. A policewoman goes undercover inside the gang hoping to recover the stolen diamonds. Beverly Garland turns in the usual good performance and looks great doing it in spite of the mediocre film quality.

Host segments in this episode focus on the dating short as Servo tries to get up the nerve to ask Gypsy for a date. There's also a hilarious bit based on the "This Side of Paradise" episode of the original Star Trek series.

514- TEEN-AGE STRANGLER (plus short: IS THIS LOVE?)
This is the second episode of MST3K to be hosted by Mike Nelson after the departure of show creator Joel Hodgson. The main feature is a small independent film made in 1968 West Virginia about a serial killer in a small town and it looks every bit the amateur film. Highlights in this episode include Mike Nelson transforming into Mikey from the movie and the hilarious "The Janitor Song." The short is also a winner with some of the oldest looking "young people" you're likely to see on film; this is really funny stuff!

810- THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION
This movie is a 1975 monster flick from Bill Rebane, the same man who brought you Monster A-Go Go! This film is ever so slightly more competently made than Monster A-Go Go and actually features a couple of well-known actors: Barbara Hale of Perry Mason fame and Alan Hale, Jr. who was The Skipper on Gilligan's Island and also the sheriff in the film The Crawling Hand which was featured in MST3K episode # 106. The movie is really goofy fun, with large spiders everywhere, sleazy and gross yokel-type characters less appealing than the spiders, and a small car dressed up as the biggest and cheesiest looking spider of them all. The scene where Barbara Hale's character does an odd tumble down a hill is worth seeing all by itself and there's plenty of other good material here as well for the MST3K writers. This is certainly one of the more fun episodes done after the show moved to the Sci-Fi Channel. The amusing host segments are based loosely on the classic SF film Invasion of the Body Snatchers rather than on the film featured in the episode.

This DVD set also contains the following extra features:
-MST3K Video Jukebox with 15 songs from the series
-Photo Gallery
-Outtakes consisting of about 15 minutes of the best moments from "Poopie 2"
 
I have six of the sets plus the Essentials. I got them all either from Amazon when they were cheap or the DDD 20% off sale. Definitely worth picking up and they hold up to repeated viewings very well. My friends and I watch an episode each week so we can relive the good ol' days when our Saturday evenings were dedicated exclusively to MST3K.
 
Haha nice! Crow and Tom right in a row.

I really wish MST3k would come back on the air .. I'd settle for just the repeats. Some new episodes released straight to dvd would be acceptable as well.
 
i got a copy of a lot of the single episodes.. my favorite is "manos"..and "hamlet".. also "girl in the gold boots" is funny as hell.
 
Gamera is really neat,
He is filled with turtle meat.
We all love you, GAMERA!!!


I have the first 7 boxes, but will for sure be picking up the 10, since it has that godzilla episode.
I believe I picked them up for the most part at circuit city, and I think they were 29.99, but I could be mistaken
 
But Resusa, you is a chick! I hope they put out "Teenagers from Outer Space" in the next one.. one of my favs. Or the one where the actors kept putting their knees up.. had me rolling. Sampo anyone?
 
[quote name='jonlubbe']Gamera is really neat,
He is filled with turtle meat.
We all love you, GAMERA!!![/quote]

:rofl:

[quote name='Sancho1978']But Resusa, you is a chick! I hope they put out "Teenagers from Outer Space" in the next one.. one of my favs. Or the one where the actors kept putting their knees up.. had me rolling. Sampo anyone?[/quote]

Teenagers From Outer Space was in Volume 6
 
I have one DVD that I was going to add to my trade list. It's not a box set. It has "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" and "'Manos' Hands of Fate" on it.
 
I'm borrowing sets 4 and 5 from a friend, but he scored them reasonably cheap used at FYE's grand opening sale $20 a set.

My favorite song is still Master Ninja Theme Song. Sodium is pretty good too.
 
I love this show. Some new episodes would be nice, but incredibly unlikely, considering that everyone who worked on it got burned our and went off to do other things, which is sad, because it was one of the greatest and most original shows, ever.
THAT BEING SAID...

My all-time favourite episode is "The Final Sacrifice," an awful, Canadian movie. Their commentary on it is just hilarious.
 
I love that the hero of that movie is the ugliest, most uncharasmatic teen ever. I also enjoyed how every time they showed him picking something up they go "ehhhhhhh", like everything he lifts is heavy.
 
got volume 8 from wherehouse.com for 29.something after shipping and handling with 25offall coupon code from beetlegum's post in this forum.

I haven't seen that many episodes, but I love the one where there's this blonde guy in a spaceship (which happens to look like some sort of factory) and he yells funny. Also, they keep making fun of his name. Anyone know which one I am talking about?
 
[quote name='doctorfaustus']got volume 8 from wherehouse.com for 29.something after shipping and handling with 25offall coupon code from beetlegum's post in this forum.

I haven't seen that many episodes, but I love the one where there's this blonde guy in a spaceship (which happens to look like some sort of factory) and he yells funny. Also, they keep making fun of his name. Anyone know which one I am talking about?[/quote]
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Space Mutiny

And they keep blurting out names like "Rock Hardnotch" and "Stone Ironsteel"
 
[quote name='KABUKISTAR']I love this show. Some new episodes would be nice, but incredibly unlikely, considering that everyone who worked on it got burned our and went off to do other things, which is sad, because it was one of the greatest and most original shows, ever.[/QUOTE]

For better or worse, this might take care of that for you.

http://www.rifftrax.com/
 
[quote name='dratsacras']For better or worse, this might take care of that for you.

http://www.rifftrax.com/[/quote]

Oh snap! That's pretty awesome. Not nearly as good as MST3K itself. It would be great if they got Kevin Murphey and Bill Corbett or Trace Beaulieu to talk on the commentary, too...
Yes.... and then they just need to release some skits to go into breaks in the movie, and find a way to get the silhouettes over the movie.... then we'd be in bussiness.
 
[quote name='KABUKISTAR']Oh snap! That's pretty awesome. Not nearly as good as MST3K itself. It would be great if they got Kevin Murphey and Bill Corbett or Trace Beaulieu to talk on the commentary, too...
Yes.... and then they just need to release some skits to go into breaks in the movie, and find a way to get the silhouettes over the movie.... then we'd be in bussiness.[/quote]


AWESOME!!Thanks for the link,I bought the download.All I need now is Road House!!

You're right,it would be nice with Murphy and Corbett/Beaulieu but Smelson is gold by himself.
 
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