Another late night thought...

POSTED BY: Keyoke
UPDATED: Friday, September 8, 2006 22:50
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KEYOKE

Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:31 AM

How much do you reckon it would cost to get an advert in some Sci-Fi mags? Just one of those half-a-page ones? or maybe a leaflet slipped inside?

I doubt it would cost more than we can raise through donations, surely?

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"We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days,
Through the fire and the flames we carry on"

SEAOTTER

Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:45 AM

That's a good idea, and very Firefly.

When the series was on TV and looking cancellable, the fans took out an ad in Variety, the absolute source for the players in Hollywood.

Doing that again for the anniversary might be a great idea. Or anywhere that Hollywood types will be seeing for days. If not Variety again, maybe Premiere magazine?

(here I had been thinking, "What if we send all the Universal execs Krispy Kremes on 9/30 as a thank you?" when I feel grateful, I always seem to go to donuts first. )

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:53 AM

Krispy Kremes are always a good idea, even when there's carts and carts of them, such as was seen here: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2006/03/01 (scroll down to the bottom).

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

SEAOTTER

Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:05 AM

(laughing) I can't believe someone actually did that. I wasn't going to post my idea -- I thought I'd get laughed out of the room.

But honestly, when you bite into a Krispy Kreme, don't you have an experience similar to Kaylee's with the strawberry?

And wouldn't you want those making decisions to associate that feeling with Serenity?

But yes, I know, the Hollywood types live to be streamlined. (sigh)

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:16 AM

Hehe, I thought you might like that. Given your Uru banner, I figured you might know of both SOE and Penny Arcade. Funny funny stuff.

I wonder, though, how much more difficult it would be for us to get Krispy Kremes delivered to Universal? Penny Arcade just has that one small office after all, and no security (that I know of)...

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

KEYOKE

Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:57 AM

Thats another Idea. Gamers tend to be Sci-Fi geeks anyway, how about writing to all the gamer comics you can think of, and asking them to put up a banner?

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"We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days,
Through the fire and the flames we carry on"

KEYOKE

Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:57 AM

Thats another Idea. Gamers tend to be Sci-Fi geeks anyway, how about writing to all the gamer comics you can think of, and asking them to put up a banner?

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"We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days,
Through the fire and the flames we carry on"

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:09 AM

Interesting thought -- and as a gamer, I can't say that I'd mind if that had the unintended consquence of catching some game developer's eye!

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

MARINE

Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:36 AM

All of this sounds good. Someone (I do not remember who) brought up the idea somewhere else to use myspace.com as advertisement. The Marine Corps did the same thing to recrute people http://www.usmc.mil/31stmeu/index.htm talks about it (scroll down for the link). Of cource more numbers the better, but there are so many ideas going on, we just need to get them all on the same page so everyone can do it, in numbers.

Theres been talk about writing to different places and people, thanking them for the movie on the 30 of September. The myspace thing, now sending them some Krispy Kreams with a letter. Its all great, but how can we get everyone from all of the other web sites and everywhere else Browncoats maybe at on the same page to do it all at once? I vote for CK to be our leader, shes always charming enough to do so :P

FOLLOWMAL

Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:42 AM

Hey, Marine, you're right CK is charming and all.. I agree.

But we already have a leader. 11th Hour is a veteran Browncoat who is quite talented as an artist and quite talented as a guerila marketer.

Check out her site here:

Firefly/Serenity Guerilla Marketing Posters ~ http://the11thhour.home.att.net
Serenity Inspired Cafe Press Shop ~ http://www.cafepress.com/11thhourart

All the ideas are going under one heading. They go in the guerilla marketing forum down right below the general discussion forum box. We've been doing this all summer. I know it doesn't look like it cuz you just got here and it takes time to build sites and alter old ones. But we currently have quite a few things going on.

I'm gonna make a newbies read here thread tomorrow over there. Maybe that will help everyone to see what is going on. Our threads fall off the front page so quick folks don't know what we're doin'.

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www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=20&t=23296

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