Searching for Australian Browncoats

POSTED BY: YoungSpirit
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 02:30
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ARCADY

Friday, August 20, 2004 3:48 AM

Hey there! West Aussie Browncoat here. I've just bought some transfer paper and am going to make my own t-shirt/s, so look out for me and say "Hi!" if you see a brunette in a Blue Sun shirt around Perth

SMUDGE

Friday, August 20, 2004 6:50 AM

Hi
from melbourne imported in about april, It's got me through winter,converted about 6 people. Just bought the aust relase so i can lend out to friends

shiny

OZYBONZA

Friday, August 20, 2004 10:12 AM

Canberra Represent!!!!! I've been spreading the word, made a few converts over here :D

YOUNGSPIRIT

Friday, August 20, 2004 12:14 PM

Wow. What a response! And from a far few places, too!

It certainly does feel like we're on the outer rim of the 'verse over here, and hey, we are... :D But we love it so!

I'm also planning to make some T-shirts etc., if I can find a place that will print onto transfers well enough... my current technological state of affairs is more dismal that I'd like. Can any one offer suggestions, or point me in the direction of any sort of tutorial?

Does anyone know addresses we could write to asking about the show? Considering Channel Seven's treatment of (the last season, at least) of Buffy and Angel, perhaps they aren't the station we should be aiming at (Unless of course they've already bought it and, as suggested, sre holding back). Does anyone here have any industry contacts (film/television) that we would be able to *ahem* entice into helping some sort of campaign to bring Firefly to free-to-air TV? And getting Serenity a opening date in Oz/NZ less than a 2mths/6mths/12mths (etc) after the US and UK?

Sorry, that overenthusiasm again. Oops. Hold me back, boo me down if it gets too much, folks... :D

Not wishing to exclude people outside Melbourne, but Jackofall: where is this group and may I join up? :D Best wishes to everyone...

Wash: 'Yes... this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "this land".' 'I think we should call it your grave.' 'Ah. Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.'

BLAISE

Friday, August 20, 2004 12:32 PM

brisbane here...

and channel 7 acquired the rights to ff quite some time a go...i remembered posting about it at the time. and well...you know channel 7, so i'm sure you know what to expect.

edit: i take that back, channel 7 may very well treat it good, considering the hype around the movie and all, that might provoke them to pull the tapes out of the vault, again, you know what channel 7 is like, they like to be the first to do everything.

BANRIGH

Friday, August 20, 2004 1:41 PM

I just got my blue sun shirt made today! My brother and sister said it was shiny and they are going to get some too I'm getting another one done tomorrow on a tan tank top. :)

If ya see an asian with a orange rogue streak and a blue sun shirt, that'll be me.

If I see anybody with a Firefly Shirt I'll just scream 'BROWNCOAT' at the top of my voice like the freak I am. I am warning you now.

I was lazy and got mine done at a print shop. But it was worth what I paid.

CALHOUN

Friday, August 20, 2004 2:27 PM

Heya all,

Newcastle, NSW browncoat here.

In over a year so far i've converted 30 or more people. Basically I find anyone who takes the time to watch it loves it. Its great when I get someone new hooked on Firefly, its like reliving the show all over again. Cracks me up when they start quoting lines to me.

Ive made 3 sleeveless faded green shirts with the blue sun logo, just like Jaynes, and I wear them proudly.

Lets try to determine who was the first Aussie browncoat... I downloaded the eps approximately 2 weeks after they originally aired.
I've always considered myself "Aussie Browncoat No.1"

Jayne - I like smackin'em! (Safe)

BLAISE

Friday, August 20, 2004 3:07 PM

hmm...i'm not too sure...but i *think* i was the first aussie on this board, prior to the show airing. i came over when i followed a group of Dark Angel trolls, and i ended up defending Firefly, and falling in love with it. Firefly was sadly put at blame for the cancelling of dark angel, although, it really wasn't. i used to run the wekly show chats on irc, but when the show ended i lost a bit of faith- iwasn't expecting a movie! everything i love on tv always gets taken away, so when FF went, i was a little bitter...lol.

i tried to convert everyone i knew! my room mates, my parents...lol, my uni mates hehe. everyonei showed it to, loved it.

OUTLANDER

Friday, August 20, 2004 3:10 PM

I'm an Aussie Firefly fan from Melbourne. I have been one ever since I downloaded The Train Job shortly after it aired in the US. I bought the US DVD set as soon as it came out and have shown it to any one I can drag through my front door and I've just bought two copies of the Australian release of the DVD set, one for my sister for her birthday and the other so I can lend it to more people. I’m also trying to think of other ways to promote Firefly in Australia.

I've checked out a couple of stores like JB hi-fi to see how many copies they had and to start with one store had only one copy and another had none. I checked recently after they got a new shipment in and they now seem to a few more on there shelves. I'm guessing that they underestimated the number of sets that they would need to satisfy demand, seeing that most people that work at a store like JB hi-fi would have never heard of Firefly.

For us in Australia the Firefly frenzy is just beginning.

BLAISE

Friday, August 20, 2004 3:20 PM

i've seen a few copies in K-Mart. i wish i wasn't so poor. i want to buy it, i can't believe i still haven't seen the final 2 unaired eps, i'm completely out of the loop!

lol, i was the same with train job...i literally sat in an irc channel for hours waiting for it to be released. i had the pilot already, so i was really keen. i still wish they had aired the pilot before train job...maybe things would have gone differently...but then again, maybe we wouldn't be getting a movie! lol

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