So glad I’ve got near-all episodes, specials, extras, and the movie on tape and/or DVD. I don’t trust anyone to give up rights to old episodes.
My most treasured possession: both of the Godzilla MST3K episodes on DVD. 
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The mind fair boggles now, but Toho being so overprotective of Godzilla movies to someone growing up in the days when every fly by night VHS company kept doing cut-rate releases of the movies on VHS is. . .well, it’s a sign that times have changed.
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Weirds, I was just looking around for other things, and I see that the MST3K movie is available for digital streaming rental and purchase from the likes of Amazon and Google, so it’s not necessarily that Universal is all “nopes to riffing” but that they are “nopes for any riffing we don’t 100% own.” So presumably it would be possible for Alternaversal to license the movie for distribution the same way the other retailers do, but that’s probably a headache and a half to sort out.
Universal probably actually has it in some package deal, so they’d have to pick up distribution rights (not riffing rights) for about 30 other movies they don’t want. And, to be perfectly fair, because the general public doesn’t have the sophisticated tastes that we do, it’s possible the only reason it’s available on those other platforms in the first place is because it’s included in a package of popular movies they couldn’t get unless they also picked up MST3K (and a handful of other “less desirable” movies).
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I was wondering about that myself. I am also surprised that Soultaker isn’t available either, because that is a go to for me.
I made sure I bought the bluray of the movie. Still one of my favorite features they riffed and the one that made me fall in love with MST3K and participate in both Kickstarters.
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What’s this “and the rest” crap?
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He made his car entirely out of bamboo!
Also, welcome to the forums!
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Also, this, but decidedly more than 42 times.
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Uhhh… I hate to burst your bubble….
But I haven’t actually seen it yet…
I was working at a bookstore when it came out and talked about it to everyone. One day I was up on a ladder and possibly the only person at work that I’d never expect to go see the movie snuck up on me and said in a rather solid impression of Mike “Other people need to use this ladder too, you know.” I almost fell off the stupid thing.
As an aside, is this the only example of a TV show being made into a feature film where the movie was shorter than a TV episode?
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Opinions will vary, but it’s definitely some fun stuff.
It’s the only one that comes to mind off the top of my head, yeah.
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I’ll definitely have to watch it. It’s on my bucket list.
I’ve only ever seen the deleted scenes.
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I hope you get a chance to watch it soon. It’s really quite good and a lots of fun!
There’s just something about MST3K looking that expansive and upscale that’s just thrilling to see.
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