Searching for Australian Browncoats
POSTED BY: YoungSpirit
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 02:30
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They're frosting the glass? I know they frosted the ones behind the newsreader guy, but surely they won't behind koshy and mel?
I wonder if I'd be asked to move on by security or something. Does anyone know if the US show have people waving placards in their windows? Maybe the chances of people being asked to move on would diminish if we had a bigger group doing this. A few sydney siders on this forum, but not a heck of a lot - I don't know if my mates would be able to pull off a stunt like this with me cuz they all work full time (so do I, but I'm on study leave this year).
Anyone here mad enough to help out? I'm thinking we could take just one step further and make up t-shirts for ourselves or wear jumpsuits or something, make up a firefly sandwich board and hand out flyers about the DVD set / Serenity fact sheet with screenshots of some of the episodes or something. All outside Sunrise's little window so we can still hold up placards. Course we'd need someone to film it so we can put up footage of it here, etc.
-- H
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Maybe it is just the newsreader Harl. Hope so. I'd love to participate, but unfortunately do morning shifts at work, and plus i'll be away for the next five weeks.
Sorry - not so useful for you! But LOVE the sandwich board idea.
Y'know I went back to Kmart today to ask about dvds (don't know if I mentioned this already - but if so, sorry for being boring)they had noooo idea. That's three stores that don't stock it.
The only guy who'd even heard of our big damn heros was in the video shop. He says it's always out on rental, so there must be more of us around than are letting on.
Well, night all - I have a fun 5am start - more joy than you can poke a stick at!
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Adele - have you asked if you can place flyers inside the rental Firefly DVD covers? Perhaps some of "11th Hour"'s post-card sized arwork, with the address of this thread written along the bottom? I asked at a local sci-fi store, one of the assistants said "yeah, sure," when I told her I was trying to engage a little guerilla marketing... now I just have to come up with something to do!
Thanks so much to everyone who's recommened Joss Whedon to Enough Rope. I went over and looked at the Guestbook - there are SO many recommendations, so it never hurts to add one if you haven't done so yet - but hopefully they'll take our advice, and make us all very happy Browncoats by interviewing Joss...!
'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!'
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Yeah, I gotta say, it's been a great effort on the Denton front. Course, it doesn't hurt to do it again even if you've already done it ;) I did... hehehe
Good idea about the video store guerilla marketing thing.
-- H
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Hey everyone,
heard about this board from one on the official site.
Here is the link for andrew d:
http://www.abc.net.au/enoughrope
He would be better than ROve, Rove only interviews one person from overseas per epp - on the tv link thing, and this is always like a movie star or actor, so i doubt they would pick Joss. ALso, when Andrew interviews Lisa-marie Presley a while ago what she said made news in America, so i think we could find a lot more out if he was on Enough Rope.
I would be willing to do the thing in Sydney for Sunrise. To show Australia the geek i am. I have uni holidays in two weeks i think. Im in Wollongong by the way. And with the handing out of flyers and stuff. Maybe we could get Grant to interview us. It is a possibility.
ALso, because we have the election soon, we could make election themed posters. "Vote one Firefly/Serenity/Mal/Jayne", or somehow include the Alliance vs Browncoats theme.
Contact me at
object . in . space @ gmail . com . au
take out the space and leave the full stops.
Lets make Australia the biggest goram supporters of Firefly the verse has ever seen!
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I'm back to remind everyone about www.meetup.com - The Melbourne group now has 5 members, and Brisbane has 6 (but Canberra only has 1). C'mon, everyone, there isn't even a Sydney group yet!! So get along and create or join a group. I think this site will be a great way to organise get-togethers.
Melbournians: the next scheduled meet is Sunday October 10th. Go to meetup.com and RSVP now! I *know* there are more than 5 Firefly fans in Melbourne!
'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!'
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i made a Sydney meetup group! So go and join! I havnt made a place to meet or anything, just thought it would be good to see how many Browncoats we are dealing with first and get in contatct. Im in Wollongong but can get to Sydney pretty easily
Here is the link to join:
http://firefly.meetup.com/209/
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Browncoats, I can't ask you enough to go to http://www2b.abc.net.au/enoughrope/suggestaguest/ and suggest Joss as a guest for Enough Rope if you haven't already!
On Meetups... here are the direct links to the meetup groups in the Aussie capitals that have them (so far):
Canberra: http://firefly.meetup.com/173/
Melbourne: http://firefly.meetup.com/161/
Sydney: http://firefly.meetup.com/209/
Perth: http://firefly.meetup.com/23/
Brisbane: http://firefly.meetup.com/29/
Unfortunately, no sites/groups for Hobart or Darwin... yet!
The majority of groups now have between 4 and 8 members... go go along, join up (if you haven't already) and start organising meetups!
By the by, has anyone here written to/called Channel 7 and gotten a response yet?
'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!'
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Hey folks,
I'm a Melbourne Browncoat, currently working in Malaysia but expecting to be back home for Christmas.
I'm mostly over at the OB but lurk here on occasion. There are at least 3 other Aussies over there (GOLDEN_FOOL [Melbourne], Cassandra028 and McShaz [Perth]) and 1 Kiwi (aDrunkard)
I've signed up to meetup.com, and plan on hooking up to a local shindig when I get back.
Interesting side note: They screened most of the series in Malaysia over the last 2 months - strange because they're only just screening Season 7 of Buffy - who'dve thought that we'd get stuff later than Asia?
"Some people juggle geese."
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NEWS!
This is from serenitymovie.com
http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/index.html?fuseaction=for
um.viewtopic&t=4863&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=75
Cassandra28 did some great work and found out that:
Ok, I got a reply from Channel 7 regarding Firefly... They do own the rights.
They also said: "I have registered your comments and views regarding the scheduling of this program. Feedback from viewers is always welcomed." Let's take them up on that...!
If you want to write to them, the point of contact at Seven Corporate is:
Graeme Hill
Head of Programming Scheduling
Seven Network Ltd
PO Box 777
Pymont NSW 2009
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So now we know that Seven does own the rights (unfortunatly??). Now we have to get them to show it.
Sydney Firefly has only two members: http://firefly.meetup.com/209/
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