Phase One completed! Thanks to all you new Repair Crew members, Pat and Alex were able to complete phase one of restoration and are moving quickly to phase two.
Meanwhile, a magical thing happened. Our friends in the coin biz were inspired by the Vader’s Fist coins we did last year and whipped up a prototype of the first-ever R2-KT stained glass coin! The first prototype was rather plain (only the blue and gold spots were translucent). I asked them to make it FULLY transparent and the results are spectacular. I was so impressed I pre-ordered a bunch and WOW do these things look beautiful in person!
Unfortunately there is a very limited quantity and the coins are 4x the cost of others to make, so I’ve wrestled with how to offer these in a future fundraiser. Instead, it made me think: how else can we make being a Repair Crew member special? So, I thought why not treat these like a “Stretch Goal” for this fundraiser, offering them to existing donors as a second tier.
And that’s what this is about. Any R2-KT Repair Crew member who would like to claim one of these coins can simply bump their donation by $20 and we’ll add a coin to your Repair Crew Membership kit. No additional charge for shipping, it will go out with your kit. Just drop $20 via PayPal to r2kt@r2kt.com and include the message “Shiny!” and I’ll add a dazzling stained glass coin to your existing Membership Kit. Stained Glass coins are available only to Repair Crew Team members, because darnit you guys really came to the rescue.
I’m so glad to share this news with you and I’m so happy to offer an exclusive to our Repair Crew members. Just another way for me to say ‘thank you!’ to everyone helping us with KT’s long-overdue repairs!!! As always, please let me know if you have any questions.
One week left and we close the fundraiser (June 15). So tell your friends if they want to join up. After next week the work continues on KT and I will keep you all posted on our website. As we said before, any funds left over (if any) after this project go straight to our Make-A-Wish fund which we can add to our fourth quarter donation to MAW. Win-win!
So much happening and it is all exciting – and all thanks to you.
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
Phase One completed! Thanks to all you new Repair Crew members, Pat and Alex were able to complete phase one of restoration and are moving quickly to phase two.
Meanwhile, a magical thing happened. Our friends in the coin biz were inspired by the Vader’s Fist coins we did last year and whipped up a prototype of the first-ever R2-KT stained glass coin! The first prototype was rather plain (only the blue and gold spots were translucent). I asked them to make it FULLY transparent and the results are spectacular. I was so impressed I pre-ordered a bunch and WOW do these things look beautiful in person!
Unfortunately there is a very limited quantity and the coins are 4x the cost of others to make, so I’ve wrestled with how to offer these in a future fundraiser. Instead, it made me think: how else can we make being a Repair Crew member special? So, I thought why not treat these like a “Stretch Goal” for this fundraiser, offering them to existing donors as a second tier.
And that’s what this is about. Any R2-KT Repair Crew member who would like to claim one of these coins can simply bump their donation by $20 and we’ll add a coin to your Repair Crew Membership kit. No additional charge for shipping, it will go out with your kit. Just drop $20 via PayPal to r2kt@r2kt.com and include the message “Shiny!” and I’ll add a dazzling stained glass coin to your existing Membership Kit. Stained Glass coins are available only to Repair Crew Team members, because darnit you guys really came to the rescue.
I’m so glad to share this news with you and I’m so happy to offer an exclusive to our Repair Crew members. Just another way for me to say ‘thank you!’ to everyone helping us with KT’s long-overdue repairs!!! As always, please let me know if you have any questions.
One week left and we close the fundraiser (June 15). So tell your friends if they want to join up. After next week the work continues on KT and I will keep you all posted on our website. As we said before, any funds left over (if any) after this project go straight to our Make-A-Wish fund which we can add to our fourth quarter donation to MAW. Win-win!
So much happening and it is all exciting – and all thanks to you.
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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