Kickstarter Tiers - Getting the OOT on BD — Page 2

TV's Frink said:

Donate $500, I come to your kitchen and peel potatoes.

Dontae $1000, I don't post for a month.

Does this stack?  If 12 people donate $1000, you're gone for a solid year?

xhonzi said:

georgec said:

Donate $66 and have clone troopers come to your house and murder you.

Donate $1138 and be locked in a cell with Princess Leia for 24 hours.

Er... which Princess Leia?  The fictional one, or the current day Carrie Fischer?

Because I think you'll have way too many people pay $1138 for the first (there aren't enough 24-hours in a parsec to satisfy that kind of demand!) and none for the second.

Actually, there probably are a handful who would.  I just don't want to know.

Leia would be a Tupac-style hologram. Not actually Carrie Fisher.

Hologram...force ghost...either way picture me rollin'

CP3S said:

Too bad there isn't a way to actually make a Kickstarter for this? Obviously it wouldn't work, because we wouldn't have control over an OT BD actually being made. But if there was such a thing as a "theoretical" Kickstarter, that still required funds being donated (dontae-ted?) to show seriousness (prevent fake pledges), with the promise they'd be refunded after a certain date, it would give an indication of how much interest there is in an OT restoration on BD (in no way doubting that the number of people interested in the OT is extremely high). It would be very interesting to see how high and how fast the pledges would sky rocket. I honestly think it would be in the high millions in a very short amount of time.

i think in the real kickstarter,

no money is actually taken until the project

is a reality. that way you only pay if the project

is funded and completed.

later

-1

negative1 said:

CP3S said:

Too bad there isn't a way to actually make a Kickstarter for this? Obviously it wouldn't work, because we wouldn't have control over an OT BD actually being made. But if there was such a thing as a "theoretical" Kickstarter, that still required funds being donated (dontae-ted?) to show seriousness (prevent fake pledges), with the promise they'd be refunded after a certain date, it would give an indication of how much interest there is in an OT restoration on BD (in no way doubting that the number of people interested in the OT is extremely high). It would be very interesting to see how high and how fast the pledges would sky rocket. I honestly think it would be in the high millions in a very short amount of time.

i think in the real kickstarter,

no money is actually taken until the project

is a reality. that way you only pay if the project

is funded and completed.

later

-1

CP3S said:

xhonzi said:

This is true.  So, if someone at TheForce.Net (*wink*) (<-wink) were to create a Kickstarter project that asked for pledges- and were it to be shutdown before completion, no money would actually change hands and yet the amount ($$$) of interest would be a matter of public record.

 

Haha, thinking about this just gave me a funny thought, that would be hilarious if a lot of this kickstarter crap bounces, leaving all these projects way less funded than they think they are.

Ah hem, anyway, I know money is only taken after completion for Kickstarters. I was simply saying that in my hypothetical Theoretical Kickstarter for the SW BDs, money would probably need to be taken and refunded at a later date in order to keep desperate OUT fans from pledging millions of dollars they could never make good on and skewing the numbers.

xhonzi said:

Bingowings said:

I meant the donations should be tallied each with a target number.

When the target is reached the prize should be unlocked to the general public.

So when enough donations of $500 are reached there should be a limited cinema release for all.

If enough donations of $1000 are reached there should be a general cinema release for all.

A single donation of $1 Million should trigger a general apology from Lucas.

A single donation of $10 Million should trigger a specific apology from Lucas in person to the individual donor.

The lower scale donations should be entered into tombolas and the winner of the lower drawer should be entered into the drawer two grades up.

This would allow for a small but probable chance that donating $1 could result in a personal apology from George Lucas.

Now I understand.  I don't think Kickstarter works that way, but I could be wrong.

There was apparently some thought of putting an ad for OT.com and our cause in some press magazine like Wired, Sound and Vision, Empire or particularly Variety, etc., but apparently the price is more than a little ridiculous and we'd all have to kick in more than would be worthwhile for something that likely won't work anyway.