TPB Editor, Christiarc (Oklahoma) TPB Graphics, janey_13 (Michigan) TwinCities Scapers (www.twincitiesscapers.com) Volume I, Issue No.2 September 2004 Farscape 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 Virginia Hey’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. Ben Browder, 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. Claudia Black 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 Jim Henson 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.