TPB Editor, Christiarc (Oklahoma) TPB Graphics, janey_13 (Michigan) TwinCities Scapers (www.twincitiesscapers.com)

Volume I, Issue No.2 September 2004 Will Air As Miniseries! TPB Highlights: • Miniseries: October 17, 2004 By Christiarc (Oklahoma) • SciFi “Farscape Marathon: By now, it’s no secret...the October 1-15, 2004 past couple years of hard work have paid off, in Inside this issue: spades! Library Bookmark Project 2 We’ve accomplished what all the ex- FPW Trailer Video 2 perts...EVERYONE...said ’s New Website 2 could not be done. Don’t Farscape Sports? 2 get comfortable, yet. Media Love 3 We must get the ratings FPW Viewing Parties 3 sky high and there’s no Henson Thanks Fans 3 two ways about it! Each F:PW Viewing Parties! 3 of us has to talk it up. We have to support the pro- More Love From TV Guide 3 jects which will get more “You guys ROCK!” FS Cast on Late Night Talk 4 Henson Donates Props eyes on the MINI. , ComicCon, July 2004 4 Each of us has sat down, GenCon Report 5 in front of the TV and film, each and every week. enough numbers, we’ll Upcoming Events 5 scanned through the It made us laugh, cry, never be without it again. ScaperMore Projects Yearbook Project (cont.) 5 6 channels for some bit of shudder and gasp...but we Star Trek is proof. Where Franklin & Tupu! 6 television fare worth were never bored. This is can Farscape go from Verbatim Magazine 7 spending time watching. why hundreds of thou- here? Well, the universe Navarro’s New FS Book 7 No, it’s not too much to sands of people, world- IS big! Browder’s Audiobook 7 askOctober at 17,the 2004 endon The SciFiof Channela hard wide, have banded to- Nat’l TV Ad Campaign 7 day. For many of us, Far- gether to bring it back. “And it ends in “To Be scape was “that” hour per Continued,” right?” Trading Cards, II 8 Now, troops...do whatever week. on SG1 8 you can...get the numbers Ben Browder, ComicCon Sticker Project 9 Farscape was like a small up for the Mini! With high July 2004 Mini on DVD 9 SciFi’s “Farscape Marathon” Lead-In to the Miniseries David Kemper on Video 9 Dave Elsey: Creature Shop Scapers asked for a mara- Monday-Friday Be sure to verify the times 10 thon and we have received Are You Sitting Down? 10 9amEST/8amCST with your local listings and more than we’d ever ex- set your recording devices PK Cadet Tshirts 10 Through pected. properly. Postcard: Leno 11 All 88 episodes will be aired, 4pmEST/3pmCST This may be your only op- Postcard: Conan 11 in order, on SciFi’s Daytime Beginning Friday, October 1st portunity to record straight Postcard: Apple.com 11 Rotation. Eleven full days of through from the Premiere Through Postcard: Dr. Pepper 11 programming, completely to the end of the Mini! given to Farscape. Friday, October 15th Bumper Stickers Back Page 2 The Peacekeeper Beacon

Scaper Projects: The Library Bookmark Project by Mickie (TwinCities Scapers)

Now that we're starting to push hard for advertising Total = $1500.00 ideas, I thought that I'd throw this one out. How about getting a bit of extra mileage out of the Library Project. What I was thinking of was sending bookmarks to all the I would also like to open this up to groups or individuals branches of all the libraries that we've scaped. who would like to use them for their own scaping efforts, library or otherwise. (100 bookmarks for a $6.00 dona- This is, really, a bigger project than it sounds like. I've tion. Yeah yeah, I'm imposing a middleman markup ). I crunched the numbers and those 131 libraries actually did look into mass market mailings, but when all is said in have over 1500 branches cumulative. done, it would only save us about $20.00 (which I'm willing to toss in just to save us the paperwork) I was thinking of setting 20 bookmarks per branch as a I'm going to need a fair amount of help to pull this off: good minimum number. It doesn't sound like much but 20x1500 = 30,000 bookmarks (yeah, Mickie can do You may donate to this project or volunteer your help by basic math). Sending a little bit to a lot of places also contacting: minimizes the loss if a given branch chooses not to participate. [email protected] Here's how the pricing would break down for 30,000 bookmarks: I'm aiming for end of Mid-September to send these out.

Printing through 48hourprint.com = 800 postage for 700 packages $ (yeah the shipping is almost More GREAT graphic artwork by as much as cost of the printing) mycattoldme! Want to see the Frellin’ Fantastic Trailer from ComicCon? Thanks to Apple.com Another Scaper Blitz has done the trick! For the Mini Trailer!

On August 13th, red, at WatchFarscape.com, As usual, Farscape fans responded with one We should all be as quick to posted this message: email after another, until with our usual tenac- ity...we got what we asked for! send our gratitude as we are to “Want to see the trailer? we need your Friday, August 20th, on The G Block on The send out requests. Email to: help. The Farscape mini-series is Fox Report With Shepard Smith, The Fox unique in that most mini-series and tv News Channel, the announcement was made: [email protected] series don't actually ever do 2 minute The trailer for Farscape: The Peacekeeper trailers, so there aren't really any great Wars has debuted at apple.com/trailers, the online venues to release a tv mini-series Apple.com movie trailers page, at 3pm EST on If you want to send your trailer. How would you like to see it at Wednesday Aug. 25!!! It is “rockin’ like a hurri- Apple.com's trailer site? I'd love to see it cane!” “Thanks” to Apple via postal there, if only for a handful of days, but In seven days an idea went from a desire to mail, send to: apple.com hasn't responded yet. see the remarkable ComicCon trailer video, to a request blitz (at first, rejected), to an agreement Well, how about if you drop them a line? to provide a venue to view the trailer we all can [email protected] Let them know that enjoy! Apple.com there's a great new Farscape mini- Here’s the link: 1 Infinite Loop series coming and there's a bitchin' http://movies.apple.com:80/movies/independent/ trailer, and then tell them to contact the farscape/farscape-peacekeeper_m480.mov Cupertino, CA 95014 Company for information on how to get their hands on it. Scapers, you could “cure a rainy day!”

Virginia Hey’s New Farscape Sports? Sure!

Website (Editor’s Note: When I showed the first edition to my son, he said “Cool, but there’s no sports in your paper” We’ll just see about that!) Our beautiful, blue, babe, Virginia Hey, has a new website look and style. When you watched the Olympic Opening Cere- This is so relaxed and monies, you were watching a Scaper's work! easygoing, it feels just like sitting down for a intimate Scaper, Marti Acker (aka VodalianMage) is part chat with our “gentle of the crew (Wardrobe) for the Opening Ceremo- Ginny.” nies in Athens. Take a minute and visit her site. We are EVERYWHERE! Congratulations, Marti! “A Killer Within” Starring Ben Browder www.virginiahey.com Coming this fall to a theater near you! Volume I, Issue 2 September 2004 Page 3 Media Love: All Time High

SciFi Maga- on the Mini and Claudia Black. The links to Their feedback page is located at: zine, re- these are: http://www.tvguide.com/services/feedback/online/ leased to August 12, 2004 contactus.asp stores in Farscape Miniser- Or their postal mail address is: August, ies Scoop! Mr. Steve Sonsky, Executive Editor carried this TV Guide full page ad http:// www.tvguide.com/ 1211 Avenue of the Americas for the Mini. news/ New York, NY 10036 It’s a beau- insider/040812b.asp tifully done Drop them a line, at TV Guide and offer Ethan and well After several Alter a word of Scaper “Thanks!” placed ad. months of prepro- (A request for a PKW cover, would be nice) duction, the cast If you have- Another good piece is the MediaSharx arti- reassembled in n’t seen it cle, August 8, 2004. Australia in Decem- close up, Emotional Resonance & Rocket Launchers you should ber of last year for an intense nine- SciFi Channel: Helping An Old Friend try to do so. Get Back On Its Feet Send the week shoot. "It was enormously chal- by Scott Nance receipt for the mag to SciFi Magazine, along Read it here: with a note explaining why you bought it. Posi- lenging," Henson http://www.mediasharx.com/index.php/ tive reinforcement, folks! says. "It's a movie, so the scenes were bigger and there were always more characters. We columns/2789 were usually doing only one or two takes of a If you see a printed or televised media piece As always, TV Guide has been “over-the-top” in shot with four cameras rolling, so everyone had about Farscape, send it to this newsletter and generosity to the Farscape cause! to be on their game. There was no space for we’ll try to publish it here. Looks like it will only TVGuide.com Insider has run very nice pieces people to be forgetting lines or things like that." increase, prior to the Mini! Farscape:Peacekeeper Gives Kudos to Fans! Wars Viewing Parties!

You heard it from David Kemper, himself! Don’t ComicCon, 2004, Brian Henson: would have been continuing, without watch Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars by your- “… But one the work of the fans of Farscape to try self! Hold a viewing party! Take a photo! thing that I and keep it alive. And that genuinely is Send them to this newsletter and over the know that true. This mini-series was independ- months after the Mini, TPB will print your party people ently financed. And those financiers pics. These can be family groups, scaper have read found out about the show, and about groups or just a few friends you have invited to that I’ve the possibility of it continuing, through share the wonders. Send the photos by email said this, the efforts of the fans. And they were or postal mail and we’ll share your good fellow- but I want introduced to me by the fans. So we ship with the rest of the Scaper World! to say it would not being sitting here, and we again. would not have made this mini-series, “I will just say this. I would say… There is and Farscape would not be continuing if absolutely it wasn’t for everything that you’ve I wouldn’t watch it alone.” no way that done. So that YOU for what you’ve David Kemper Farscape done. “ (about F:PW) More Love from TV Guide Inside Online!

By Ethan Alter, TV Guide Inside News In early 2005, viewers will have the chance to fugitives] was like seeing an old friend you Friday Aug 13, 2004 see Black as a different kind of alien — a vil- never thought you'd see again. There were lainous one — on the popular Sci Fi series, minor differences [in the set], but for the most Farscape Vixen Returns Stargate: SG-1. "She's a pretty manipulative part, it was like a time warp. A year and a half http://www.tvguide.com/news/insider/040813b.asp character," Black says. "I've never played that had passed since they had dismantled it, and Claudia speaks about her characters transition type before." there it was again.” into the Mini, "How do you deal with a woman Monday , August 16, 2004 No spoilers here, but Ben goes on to say, who was bred to be a soldier, who was never "When we come back to the story, they're still in Ben Browder’s Farscape Plan supposed to have emotions for other people, 275,000 pieces," Browder laughs. "But I don't and who is now pregnant?" she says. "This http://www.tvguide.com/news/insider/040816a.asp think I'm giving much away to say that Crichton time, you see a more improved, upgraded "I got tears in my eyes walking back onto the and Aeryn return. However, it may not be the Aeryn. She's a woman now, not a girl so much. set," Browder tells TV Guide Online. "To walk Crichton that people remember...." But it was bizarre at first, because I was used to back onto Moya [the living leviathan which Aeryn the warrior. Here, I was Aeryn the housed Crichton and his band of interstellar woman first, and the warrior second." Come on, October! Page 4 The Peacekeeper Beacon Let’s get the Farscape Cast on Leno or Conan!

The Tonight Show Or you can send your request by postal with Jay Leno mail: Or you can send your request by postal mail: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Late Night with Conan O’Brien Let’s get the atten- 3000 W. Alameda Ave. tion of The Tonight 30 Rockefeller Plaza Burbank, CA 91523 Show with Jay New York, NY 10112 Leno! Our Far- Let’s make sure they know: scape stars will be Might as well put the word out to Co- Are you looking for guest the best nan O’Brien, too! Late Night with stars who will draw in guests...ever! Conan O’Brien Late Night with Conan O’Brien viewers by the thou- Post your re- Post your requests for the Farscape sands? quests for the Cast: Then the cast of Far- Farscape Cast: http://boards.nbc.com/bb//postlist.php? scape: Peacekeeper http:// Wars are people you Cat=&Board=Conan&page=0&view=colla need to have as your www.nbc.com/nbc/ psed&sb=5&o= The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/ guests...they stars of feedback/ this year’s biggest block- Or Email to here: buster miniseries on the SciFi Channel. Or post at the Leno message board here: [email protected] http://www.nbc.com/boards/Leno/ The filming of this mini used up all the explo- sives in Australia...and then some! No other couple has the chemistry on screen, like Ben Browder and Claudia Black! Get ‘em Henson Donates Farscape Props now...after October 17, 2004...they are going to for the “Scape the World” Contest! be the hottest pair in the world. “Thanks to all of the fans who came to Comic Channel airing, so this contest is only open to creativity of the story itself. Con and continue to spread the word about advertising, projects, or events that take place Farscape. Your commitment to invite new view- in the U.S. Scapers outside of the U.S. may Categories ers into Farscape's universe has been seen enter, but their projects or events must take (one grand-prize winner per category) around the world. With the airing of the miniser- place in the U.S. during the time specified. Your projects will only be limited by the bounds of your ies coming up fast, your efforts mean more now Your goal in this contest is to devise advertis- imagination (and good taste and legality -- please than ever before and I am grateful for the un- ing, projects, or events that will reach as many don't get yourself arrested in the name of Farscape). ending dedication you have all shown. Thanks non-Scapers and non-scifi fans as possible, again for all you have done to continue the 1. Television 2. Radio 3. Print 4. Outdoor and then you must carry out those plans. You Farscape adventure.” Advertising 5. Live Event 6. Internet want to attract good, positive attention to Far- Brian Henson scape and to get the details of the upcoming Criteria Executive Producer and Director mini-series out there to as many non-Scaper/ Each event will be judged in its category based Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars non-scifi fans as possible. Get the local press on the following criteria. Points awarded in involved, or take advantage of local events, and each area, to be tallied into a grand total. Countdown to The Peacekeeper Wars, Scape use all the resources at your disposal. the World Contest. Win authentic, official Far- You or your group can enter an event or project • Number of viewers/participants scape props. As a "thank you" to the fans for into one of 6 different categories, you will then example: if you're organizing an event, rally, or flash saving Farscape, provide proof that your project or event oc- mob, how many people participate? has generously donated a collection of six curred during the timeline set for the contest, props from the set of Farscape to WatchFar- and each completed event will be judged on a • Length/Quality of exposure scape.com. We want to give those props to set of 5 different criteria. The project with the you, the real heroes in the battle to save Far- example:if you organize a fan group to stand outside most points in its category will win. You or your at the Today Show, do you get on air? For how long? scape. This is where you, by doing what you've group may enter more than one project in more Does a host come over and talk to you on camera? been doing so brilliantly for the past two years, than one category, but in order to win you must example II:if you get a letter or an editorial into a local will have a chance to win one of several au- provide proof that a project was carried out. thentic Farscape props, and other great Far- paper, what's the paper's circulation and where in the scape prizes. No projects currently in discussion or in the paper does the letter or editorial appear? works on any of the Farscape boards or groups • Outreach to non-Farscape/non-scifi audi- will be eligible to win; to be fair to all, the con- ence THE CONTEST test is only open to new projects. This is to be an individual or local group, grass- example -- How well does your project or event reach roots, fan-based PR-blitz that will take place Be as creative as you can be, but remember that non-scifi, non-Farscape audience? Handing out during the week before the airing of Farscape: that you're hoping to catch the eyes of non- fliers at a local, non-scifi event will reach more of that Farscape viewers, and even non-scifi fans, so audience than handing out fliers at a local scifi con- The Peacekeeper Wars. vention or meeting. you will be Farscape's ambassadors to a new While we'd love for every Scaper to be able to audience. Present Scapers and Farscape in the take part, the real telling of Farscape's future • Targeted message will be how well it does during its U.S. SCI FI best and brightest possible light with projects that typify the high-standards, high-quality, and example -- Does your project or event manage to give Volume I, Issue 2 September 2004 Page 5 GenCon Report by Kim (Ohio Scapers) The Jerry Springer kind of family that times there were no visitors at the booth. Often hubby) and CrystalMoon joined in the fun at the are Farscape Fans joined up to scape the atten- we had people stacked up waiting to raid the booth. Saturday was also panel day. Muaadeeb dees of GenCon in Indianapolis the weekend of freebies on the table or to take a shot at one of and the ChicagoScapers did the honors at 2 August 19 - 22nd. GenCon Indy is touted as the the baddies (Ahkna, Scorpy, Grayza and panels and said that fun was had by all talking best 4 days of gaming and is attended by 25- Staleek) on the booth's dartboard to earn raffle the campaign and Farscape to a captive audi- 30,000 people each year. We saw a heck of a tickets. The scapers at the booth were highly ence. Thanks to the FWA we could pay for the lot of them at the Farscape booth over the four effective at pulling in the hardcore fan as well as booth. Thanks to FarOps we had lots of swag days of the con - which is a great thing. We the casual viewer and the newbie. Whether it and giveaways. Besides the lovely swag donated few...we happy (and tired) few...we band of was Lowell's booming voice, Muaadeeb's infec- by other Scapers at the Con itself, Scapers scapers that worked the booth had a great time. tious enthusiasm or UTChick's quiet "come around the country sent swag as well. hither and throw darts" gesture, fans couldn't We set up on Wednesday as the core group of The final raffle on Sunday (which was the only resist taking a peak at our swag and info. "all weekend" scapers arrived in "you must be in attendance" raffle) had scapers Indy. PKRanger joined njak and I from Ohio, Friday and Saturday, our scaper legion grew as packing the aisles in all directions for at least two Muaadeeb and the ChicagoScapers (grapeshot, Jubi Solo, Sunderflame, Camerakiller (and her booths away. We had to hurry as security was Jen and Mattttt) arrived by car soon after. The getting quite nervous, the entire area was one big lovely and talented Lowell Stouder (BigTall) also log jam as people started to arrive 30 minutes joined us from Virginia. UTChick ar- before the raffle time. Very exciting and quite rived using the most circuitous route from Phila- hectic. We had scapers at the booth even after delphia to Indy by way of Florida. After setting they turned the lights off in the hall and were

“You’re looking at the largest, probably the most expensive mini-series that television has to offer right now. You’re getting what you want. “ David Kemper up the booth, we all adjournedComicCon, July 2004 to Fridays for shooing people out on Sunday. Gamers seem to some food cubes and raslak. It was the last rest love Farscape :) All in all, the Farscape we'd get until Sunday. Booth at GenCon seemed to do it's job: whip- After the con opened on Thursday it all kicked ping people up into a frenzy over Farscape: into high gear. During the 4 days of the con, I Peacekeeper Wars. And that's the way we could probably count on one hand the number of like it.

Henson Donates Farscape Props for Contest! (cont.) out the date and time of the mini-series? Or does it better its future will be, and we'll all be winners work you've already done. transmit a general spreading of Farscape awareness, of this contest. that could be built upon by other traditional methods of Whatever you can do, big or small, national or advertising? On October 1st - 5th, you or your group will local, print or live, donating to charity or throwing submit your proposed project or event to watch- a Scaper party, will all be part of ensuring that • Creativity farscape.com at [email protected] Farscape has a future beyond the mini-series. with the header "Contest Entry". example -- ah, Scapers don't need examples in how to Best of luck to all the participants. be creative, they are examples in how to be creative. Your project must be executed at some All the info you need may be found at: Watchfarscape.com will be judging the contest. point during the period of October 8th In the event of a tie, the final decision will be through October 16th. http://www.watchfarscape.com/forums/ made by an outside body. You will have from October 17th to October showthread.php?p=545730#post545730 Timeline 31st to submit to watchfarscape.com via email, fax or post mail, the proof of your project's com- August 25rd - The Contest Begins pletion and any supporting material such as August 25rd - September 30th -- Brainstorming ideas ratings, circulation of publication, or event num- Upcoming Events on how to reach a new audience. bers. (examples - photographs, screen capture, October 1st - 5th -- Proposal submission deadlines press clippings, audio or video recordings) August 28-29: Creation SciFi Com Sacramento Scapers will be operating the Farscape October 8th - 16th -- Projects and events must occur On November 20th, at the official Farscape booth. during this time convention in Burbank, CA, winners will be announced and prizes will be awarded. If win- September 3-6: DragonCon October 17th - 31st -- Proof of completed event or project must be submitted ners are unable to be present, their prizes will Southeast Scapers (www.southeastscaper.com) are be shipped to them. In the event that a group on board for this one. November 20th -- The Winners will be announced and wins, the individual who submitted the proposal September 2-6: Worldcon/Noreascon, Bos- prizes awarded at this year's official Farscape conven- will be awarded the prize. tion in Burbank. ton, MA Other Details Boston Scapers will be there, caring for the FS How to Enter fantable. You don't need to enter the contest in order to Upon the posting of this contest, new threads September 24-26: FenCon, Dallas, TX think up a project for you and your friends to for each of the categories will be opened in the participate in. In fact, we want to encourage We can’t tell if there is a scaper group doing a booth "I Have A Plan" forum on the watchfar- that, and that's the basis of this project. The or table. Hope one of you from Texas will let this scape.com community message board, Frell newsletter know. props are a "thank you" from The Jim Henson Me Dead. Company, and this contest is a "thank you" September 30-October 3: Arcon, Collins- From August 25rd to September 30th, we en- from us, for doing everything you've done over ville, IL courage as much brainstorming and sharing of the past two years. You are an amazing, end- This is the St. Louis, MO area. Hope a regional group ideas and resources as possible amongst lessly creative community and this is just our will be there, too. Let us know if your group will be Scapers in all of these categories. We want small way of encouraging you towards that last there and we’ll put this in for next month. every fan here to reach their goal of Scaping little push to the mini-series, but also giving you Send us notification of any event your group is plan- the world; the more viewers Farscape has, the a chance to get something back for all the hard ning and we’ll get it in print. Page 6 The Peacekeeper Beacon Spread the Scaper Word! Cheap Buzz! Harveywhispers FarOps. That leaves a possibility for Share this newsletter (TwinCities Scapers) other Scaper groups/Scapers to at- Print 2-5 copies of this newsletter. Leave tain a number for their own swag the copies at your local coffee shop, book- store, library, or anywhere else someone Con Organizers - DRD Keychains supplies. Another possibility is to may sit and read. - CHEAP!!! donate toward more keychains heading to DragonCon and World- This newsletter is read by more people I was recently able to broker a deal Con. Whatever the case, I will be than could have ever been anticipated. If in which an online toy dealer is will- collecting paypal payments for key- each of us were to copy it and leave even one copy on a waiting room table at a chains over the next two days (thru doctor’s office, dentist’s office, beauty Monday evening). My request is shop, automotive repair...all new viewers that, if purchasing for the swag are reached at, virtually, no cost! stores of your own group, just shoot Waiting rooms are “waiting” on this great me a PM first. This will allow me to way to create all new buzz! ensure that the kindness of the toy This newsletter prints out easily on regular dealer is not being exploited for pur- 8 1/2x11” sheets. poses of getting a cheap keychain/ Send an email to TPB and let us know re-sale. If donating for Dragon/ where you left copies! WorldCon, just note as such in the Signatures paypal transaction. Almost all email setups have a “signature” option. Use yours to promote the Mini, If you just want one for your collec- every time you send an email. Locate tion, I just wouldn't feel right about your email “signature” option and sign all abusing the great deal these fine your emails with: ing to sell their last 250 DRD key- folks agreed to. “Farscape Returns! Epic four-hour Mini- chains for .89 cents each. Original series, Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars,” begins October 17, 2004 on the SciFi price for these keychains is $7.99 Note: each, and the company is willing to Channel ...Tune In and Share The Won- Generous donations have already ders” provide this deal due to the respect resulted in the ability to send an ad- they have for the Scaper work ethic. For email “sigs” which accept a graphic, ditional 56 keychains to DragonCon/ 20 Great Banners by Anubis are at: As of today, I have attained 125 of WorldCon. http://www.watchfarscape.com/forums/ the keychains for the efforts of showthread.php?t=26101&page=1&pp=40 Calendars- &

Available at: David Franklin’s Calendar will be “in Lani Tupu’s “Limited Edition” Sketch stock” September 1st. Pad, 2005 Calendar is available now. “He was a lowly Lieutenant. De- This calendar compiles several of scribed pejoratively as the “ultimate Lani's limited edition sketches. David Franklin’s peacekeeper”. Political animal, Please check out the various 2005 Calendar lackey, Smithers, brown-nose, play- sketches to get an idea of what is thing…. the scorn heaped on him contained in the calendar. There seemed endless. are 11 of his sketches plus one candid shot of Lani preparing his After undergoing an Xtreme make- paints. over he has reinvented himself. “ Lani Tupu’s “Limited Edition” Order online here: Sketch Pad http://www.peachtreeservices.net/store/product_info.php?cPath=27_29&products_id=44 2005 Calendar Tell them you read about it here at The Peacekeeper Beacon! Volume I, Issue 2 September 2004 Page 7 Verbatim Magazine Joe Navarro’s New Farscape Book!

ISSUE 4: The final text has just gone to the publisher Creature Shop for years. Plus lots of “Women are on Joe Navarro’s new Farscape book. The interviews with the people who were there at smart. If women name of the book is The Creatures of Far- the time, from producer Brian Henson to watch it, it's scape, Behind the Scenes at Jim Henson's series creator Brian Henson to the original smart. That's my Creature Shop, and it follows the creation of artists and designers. opinion. (Laughs) Farscape's myriad alien characters from the Suffice to say, you'll find some photos that Hey, look, I take early days when the show was still called probably won't be seen anywhere else, a few that position, Space Chase, right through The Peace- revelations about scenes that never made it keeper Wars. because it's safe. into the final product, and a couple of sur- Women are It's packed with tons of cool art and photos, prises. Joe has promised you won't be dis- smarter than most of it in color, including a lot of stuff appointed. men. I don't ar- that's never been seen before. As a lifelong Oh yes, this book also has an introduction by gue with my SF fan and makeup/makeup FX junkie, Joe producer, Brian Henson, and a final word by mother, I don't wanted to do the kind of book he’d be inter- Dick Smith, arguably one of the world's argue with my ested in buying. greatest living makeup artists. wife. They're smarter than I am. I know The release date is scheduled for October that, okay? I have women on a pedestal The book covers the initial design phase, 2004, to coincide with the airdate for Far- because they're better looking, they're going all the way back to its earliest Space scape: Peacekeeper Wars. smarter, and, dog gone it, I like 'em.” Chase Days, when most of the characters Read about this book at: Ben Browder, Farscape looked very different than the way they fi- nally ended up on screen. D'Argo as a giant Order here: http://www.farscapeworld.com/news/ animatronic lizard? Zhaan a male Buddhist shownews.php?id=175 http://www.btinternet.com/~a.j.mosby/ monk-type? Scorpius a multi-legged insect? If you wish to order this book, order from this VerbatimMag/html/order_form.html Some of the original art has never been link and support the FarscapeWorld site! copies ea. @ £6.50 / $14.00 (includes postage) seen anywhere before, mainly because it Tell them you read it here at The Peacekeeper Beacon was scattered around dusty shelves in the

Browder’s Audiobook, The Interlopers, by Alan Dean Foster

You might have heard that Ben Browder good. (which is not at all surprising, since http://members.aol.com/acsfanfiction/ recently narrated an audiobook for Buzzy Alan wrote it and Ben narrates it!) (aeryncrichton's fanfiction site.) Multimedia- Interlopers by Alan Dean Fos- www.forfarscape.com (the Farscape Web- You can visit any of these links to pur- ter. It's going to be an 8-CD set, selling for master's Association Site) chase: $45.00, and ready for mailing in early Oc- http://farnews.org/index.php?cat=24 tober. Word has it that it's going to be very fsgfinejewelry.com (DorothyGail’s site) (FarNews.org)

Nat’l Advertising Campaign Jul (www.watchfarscape.com) With the invaluable help of LilOrion , we've The History Channel we're planning on having the commercial been busy contacting cable networks to help direct interested people to the easily remem- $5368 - $22,395 (:30 seconds) get a view of our best options given the bered farwhat.com url for the date and time amount of money currently in the fund. Discovery Channel of the mini-series, and for more information on Farscape. As of this afternoon, the balance of the fund $2922 - $3565 (:30 seconds) of the National Television Advertising Project The Learning Channel is $9,731.93. With this total, we've got some What we really need now, to make this as options to think about. We've contacted the $7776 - $14163 (:30 seconds) effective as possible, is more money. More following cable networks for prices: Animal Planet funds will allow us to make sure we can get enough repetition of the message to get last $1487 - $4173 (:30 seconds) minute buzz about the miniseries going. Cartoon Network (during Adult Swim) The Travel Channel As soon as we've decided definitely which $6982 - $13962 (:15 and :30 seconds - ad channels we'd most like to go for, and their will automatically be shown twice) prices, we'll update this again. What we're going to hit by advertising on FX non-NBC Universal networks, is that we $798 - $8138 (:30 commercials) won't be able to give the date and time of the For more detailed info, visit: http:// mini-series. Networks don't generally like to A&E www.watchfarscape.com/forums/ advertise for their competitors. We'll have to $3897 - $22,179 (:30 seconds) say something along the lines of "check your showthread.php?t=27466 local listings for date and time" or, alternately Page 8 The Peacekeeper Beacon “The Saga Continues: The Farscape Trading Card Adventure” By harveywhispers(Wisconsin) Due to the extensive success of who have proven friendliness to Scaper- “Unrealized Realities: The Farscape Trad- dom, or Farscape products. Immediately ing Card Pro- coming to mind, are Best Buy or Suncoast ject”, I am proud Pictures, within my own region. Should to unveil “The Saga Continues: The Farscape Trading Card Adventure”. Specifically, this is meant to serve as a continuation of our efforts to complete a the orders/addresses and prepare the genre-jumping envelopes well in advance of card deliv- project! ery. The Plan We would love for this project to be a suc- We will be using cess…for this, we need the donations to a total of 12 new art submissions, to pro- you prefer to aim your attentions at a dif- start and the duce a total of six two-sided trading cards. ferent type of store within your area, you recon to begin! Each might choose to again focus upon the Card Delivery piece comic shops as was done in our initial If I am able to has round. collect $400.00 been Cards will be available at a slightly in- within the next pro- creased rate, this time, due to a strong two weeks, we vided need to offset postage expense that is will have the by our sure to be related. Expense will be $10.00 trading cards original donation, per each 100 cards an individual/ three weeks in artists, group would like to secure for their area. advance of the and will Logistical prob- miniseries! I am be pre- lems encoun- starting the “pot” sented tered in the first with $30.00 of in the color/black & white format. 2,000 of version of this my own funds! each card will be produced, for a total of project have all 12,000 trading cards. been resolved, Donations We are in need of Scapers, through the as I now have a www.paypal.com entire United States and any of our willing team specifically usename: worldwide friends, to contact a local elec- focused upon [email protected] tronics specialty store regarding the possi- shipping. It is bility of giving customers cards as a pro- the duty of these Mail: Twin Cities Scapers motional item during the two-week period lucky individuals PO BOX 362 prior to the miniseries. Types of stores we to daily access Balsam Lake WI 54810 specifically want to focus upon are those the notices, print

Claudia Black as “Vala” on SG1 It's called "Prometheus Unbound" and her which is to deliver the Prometheus to her and is currently in post-production. character is named Vala. people, whom she alleges to be rebels flee- This is what http://www.stargate-SG1- ing from Ba'al. Vala herself was once the solutions.com/ipw-web/b2/index.php? host to a Goa'uld symbiote. m=200406 says about Claudia's role!!! Farscape’s Aeryn Sun is one of the strong- Stargate writer and Co-Executive Producer, est and smartest female characters to ever Joseph Mallozzi told fans that Black will play grace the screen, with Black taking a cov- Vala, the alien woman who steals the Earth’s eted TV Guide cover as one of the sexiest only starship ‘Prometheus,’ and with it, Dr. stars in the universe. Farscape fans are Daniel Jackson. fortunate to be able to welcome Claudia Vala, dryly humorous, challenging and cyni- Black back to her most famous role in the cal, uses her looks to try to distract Daniel mini-series Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars, from preventing completion of her mission, which finished filming in March of this year Volume I, Issue 2 September 2004 Page 9 Round 2—Sticker Project THE STICKER PROJECTS Esk “CarScape” design. STICKER PROJECT 2.1 – Limited time combo offer. The sticker projects were born out of the STICKER PROJECT #2 desire to raise funds for FarOps and also Since we are coming down to the wire provide the donators with a Farscape- The second batch of stickers featured five with the conventions and because the related gift for their generosity. Ratscape designs. This project is cur- MINI is just round the corner, I decided to rently open for donations and more infor- combine projects 1 and 2. This project is For more info on Farscape Regional Op- mation can be found here: http:// also currently open for donations and in- erations aka FarOps, please visit their www.watchfarscape.com/forums/ formation can be found here: http:// website at: www.FarOps.com showthread.php?t=26349 www.watchfarscape.com/forums/ showthread.php?t=27386 You will get a gift of 25 stickers (5 of each Their current project – The Convention For a limited time, you will get a gift of 50 design) for each donation of $15. Project , was set up to ensure a Scaper stickers (5 of each design from both presence at as many conventions as pos- groups) for each donation of $20. sible. They’ve been scaping unsuspecting people, one convention at a time, for the Round 2 Stickers Thanks again to all who have donated to better part of 2004. these projects and also to PK_Paul, Esk and Ratscape for donating their artwork to the cause. To date the stickers projects have raised $300.23 for FarOps. Round 1 Stickers STICKER PROJECT #1

The first batch of stickers featured four PK_Paul “Fartoon” creations and one Preregister for the Mini on DVD!

This is one number that can REALLY get bers for their investment. DVD sales are more Farscape! more important then ever, and may, just “We could not...in may be MORE important than the Niel- truthfulness to all of REMEMBER: Firefly got a movie based sens. If you want more Farscape, then do on the sales of its DVDs! what you can, when you can to get those our fans...change REMEMBER: Family Guy is BACK in pro- DVD sales up. Up, UP! duction based on its DVD sales! In the meantime, go to Amazon.com and things.” get on this email alert thingy; they’re pass- You want more Farscape? Then make ing these numbers on to TPTB: David Kemper, sure The Powers That Be (TPTB) funding Speaking about the Mini this mini-series see BIG DVD sales num- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...? v=glance&s=dvd David Kemper Speaks on Video at SciFi.com

In this video clip, DK speaks enthusiasti- it?...and it will probably cause them to go back cally about Farscape, the Mini and the and watch the series.” “People always want to know about the sex and fans of Farscape! sexual tension on Farscape. Most of the people “The miniseries certainly pushes things to a, a . who work on Farscape and create Farscape like ..an edge that we didn’t have in the series. In sex and sexual tension; therefore we felt, well, terms of revealing more, I would say that it’s why not put it in the show? It’s somewhat revo- pretty consistent across the board..What we’ve lutionary, only because . . I think all the people done is consistently maintain the characters, who did certain science fiction shows before us and no one will be disappointed; Old fans will were afraid to tackle the subject.” go...YES, that’s Farscape, I know it, I love it...New fans will go...Where the hell did this Check it out at: show come from and how come I missed http://www.scifi.com/farscape/ Page 10 The Peacekeeper Beacon Dave Elsey: Creature Shop Monster Maker Star Wars.com materials into beloved characters within For his latest role as the Creature Shop August 20, 2004 the sci-fi cinematic universe. Supervisor for Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Elsey and his team From his fantas- Elsey's resume reads like a cult film are responsible for "anything that has tical creatures in dream list. He did creature effects in any appendage, horns or unusual con- "Farscape" to his Alien 3, worked as a special makeup tact lenses, to full suits and Animatronic plant-wrangling effects artist on Hellraiser, Mission: Im- puppets," but also for revamping a few skills in The Little possible, M:I 2, and Waxwork (in which characters who are nothing less than Shop of Horrors, he also played "Zombie #6.") He honed iconic in the minds of Star Wars fans Creature Shop his animatronics skills in the cult classic worldwide. Creative Super- of The Little Shop of Horrors. He is per- visor Dave Elsey haps most well known by genre fans for is very familiar his role as the creative supervisor on Read the entire article at: with transforming the sci-fi TV series "Farscape" where he http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/bts/ foam, latex and designed and maintained up to 50 dif- profile/f20040820/ Dave Elsey a hodgepodge of ferent creatures. Are you all sitting down?!?! By Tiriel Nope, it's not about the Comic-Con DVD, we're together, it was just great And if Brad gets it his And everybody: Please, please, please keep still working on that but I got some really cool way then we will get to see much, much more your fingers crossed that Dr Pepper comes unrelated news. Ben (something I can wholeheartedly support ) through and sponsors that afterparty for A Killer And a trillion billion Thanks to DorothyGail, Within! I didn't get to see the movie itself, but We just wrapped an interview with Ben and Brad Keller (the director of A Killer Within) and because without her help this wouldn't have just from listening to them talk I really, REALLY happened. wanna see it NOW! LOL! Something else (you are sitting down, right?! This is your last warning!) they'll try to have a special edition Well, I can't say too much more, except that if to test my (lack of?!) patience. Looks like this is DVD of A Killer Within just for us Scapers!! you'll enjoy watching it even half as much as going to be a great autumn for Scapers, isn't Including this interview, with some really cool we enjoyed shooting it, you'll be in for a real it?!?! stories from the set, comparisons to Farscape treat, 'cause those two just rock Love and Peace and Hell Yeah!!!! and a lot of other stuff. How cool is that?!?! I don't know when the DVD will available but I'm Brad Keller is all DorothyGail made him out to sure we'll be amongst the first to know be and Ben and Brad were having so much fun

PK Cadet Tshirt harveywhispers (TwinCities Scapers) Newly available on the fan market is the ever other venue for easy advertising of that darn highly durable graphic, which would fade fashionable “PK Cadet” t-shirt. As is visible little miniseries. slightly upon numerous washings. Projected in the pictures below, the design has been price will be $12.00 per shirt, including all Shirts will become available during the period made to resemble the popular shirts which applicable shipping charges. Should you of mid-September, as we are currently using many of our government agencies have wish to send gift shirts to individuals, send this time to gauge the precise interest level of created. Our designer went out of her way shirts to a media outlet or include a shirt in possible owners. The design will be affixed to to make a design which served the dual any project we can get it done for you. each shirt through a heat press process, purpose of giving Scapers their own take on which is akin to a VERY upgraded version of Should you have interest in attaining a shirt, the the please send a message to me indicating the “FBI” iron-on number of shirts you would want. shirts, we I can be reached through regular email: and have one ([email protected]), each that personal message at FMD and snail mail used. pro- (address to follow). Said vided process Twin Cities Scapers yet pro- PO Box 362 an- duces a Balsam Lake WI 54810

Bumper Scape (Part Deux) by pkgrl

With 1,000 new, professionally printed bumper stickers already distributed to Scapers, and being plastered on cars all over the country, the Bumper Scapers are ready to do it again! This time, they need help paying Bumpersticker Artwork by mycattoldme for these stickers, which are only One, to help the PNFF Scapers place as many stickers as possible in about 40 cents each. their local Suncoast stores (they've already gotten the OK) People who want to contribute to Two, to provide as many stickers as possible to anyone else who wants the new round of stickers may do to put one on their car, or in their car window, or in a store window, so by going to: etc...The KEY is that we want these stickers to BE USED. www.paypal.com Yes, they would make a nice keepsake, but the main drive of this pro- and using Dominar of Action’s ject is to get the name Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars out there in the email: public mind! [email protected] USE the stickers, then, after the mini, save it.

See all the information you need in this thread: There are two goals in this round of sticker madness: http://www.watchfarscape.com/forums...ead.php?t=27442

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