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Post by lovemondays on Jul 25, 2014 23:40:42 GMT
On July 9th, Murdoch Mysteries announced their first ever studio tour, scheduled for tomorrow, July 26th. I saw the info 18 hours after the fact and it was already fully booked  . From what I understand there will be four 90 minute tours for approximately 250 people each. So....1000 super lucky MM fans are getting an inside view!!! Lucky ducks! What I want to know is if any of our 'regulars' in the Toronto area (no names but we know who you are  ) have a ticket and will be able to give us a full rundown....hopefully with pics? |
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Post by snacky on Jul 25, 2014 23:58:17 GMT
On July 9th, Murdoch Mysteries announced their first ever studio tour, scheduled for tomorrow, July 26th. I saw the info 18 hours after the fact and it was already fully booked . From what I understand there will be four 90 minute tours for approximately 250 people each. So....1000 super lucky MM fans are getting an inside view!!! Lucky ducks! What I want to know is if any of our 'regulars' in the Toronto area (no names but we know who you are ) have a ticket and will be able to give us a full rundown....hopefully with pics? I saw people scrambling about this on Tumblr several weeks ago, but I thought this was the same thing as the Murdoch Mysteries event Carco told me about before. I'm guessing it was something that was announced on Facebook. This kind of bothers me because announcing it that way aims it squarely at a particular social media savvy generation. It also seems like most MM "outreach" occurs on Facebook. I thought their recent recognition of artwork was rather sad, too. On the one hand it was wonderful to recognize fan creativity. However, the MM Powers That Be had to reach back YEARS to find a few examples of hand-drawn pictures. In the mean time they barely recognized other more modern forms of creativity that have gone on since then (thank goodness someone spotted the Lego vid, at least). These other forms of creativity are what constitute the MM "fandom" and expand the show's recognition: especially during off-seasons! Perhaps there are legal reasons the Powers That Be can't recognize the gifs and the vids, but they should still find a way to appreciate that this isn't just passive "copying": fans do all sorts of creative things in their appreciation of MM, and their "crowd-sourced" efforts deserve a nod. Just recognizing 4-year old drawings is almost like deliberately snubbing the gif/vid community, IMHO. Sorry for the tangent, but it's all part of what I feel is a bit of tone deafness on the part of MM's Powers That Be. The entire fandom is not on Facebook: many people make the deliberate choice not to use Facebook. MORE IMPORTANTLY: a forum like this leaves a Googleable record of our fannish activities, while Facebook activity just vanishes behind Friend Walls. Someone on the MM marketing team, particularly their social media marketing team, might want to think about that. I'm not sure how MM should have issued their tour invitation, but I don't think the way they did it was very fair to people like you: they should not dismiss you as an "older" MM fan - they should think of your influence on your children, and your influence as a teacher, and issue hand-engraved tour invites to people like you, IMHO. |
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 0:08:20 GMT
On July 9th, Murdoch Mysteries announced their first ever studio tour, scheduled for tomorrow, July 26th. btw, Prop Monkey has been tweeting some pictures from the tour: twitter.com/MonkeyLairLabs |
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Post by lovemondays on Jul 26, 2014 0:23:29 GMT
It was on FB and Twitter but I'm not one of those people who keep their phone close to hand AT ALL TIMES! Zzzech! I don't want to join the FB fandom because it feels very closed and elitist.
Thanks for the vote of support. I agree that the Powers That Be are targeting a younger crowd. I can't fault that completely because a younger fan base guarantees the future of MM particularly with revenue $$ geared to the all- important 24-45 demographic; however, those of us outside that group are just as important to current viewership and are quite likely FAR more numerous.
There's a part of me that is desperate to hang outside the studio offering outrageous sums of money for a ticket...a reverse scalper, lol!
I'm following 'prop monkey'. He's a hoot!
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 0:47:10 GMT
It was on FB and Twitter but I'm not one of those people who keep their phone close to hand AT ALL TIMES! Zzzech! I don't want to join the FB fandom because it feels very closed and elitist. You shouldn't have to. What a time suck! That assumption is what makes me so mad. If your library has this book by Dave Eggers check it out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_%282013_novel%29This will validate your distance from FB and Twitter. Well the older viewership might also be the PARENTS of the younger viewership: they are just as capable of spreading "word of mouth" advertising. Studies of Facebook ads show that ad purchases go nowhere: what counts is word of mouth and positive disposition/experience. So MM should care more about cultivating its fans (i.e., not Pointedly Ignoring the entire gif/vid community) than, say, a major media buy on Facebook. btw, you should go just to see if people dress up and take pictures, tee hee. You never know - maybe there is a way to get into a tour as well.  |
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Post by lovemondays on Jul 26, 2014 0:57:46 GMT
I checked the Open House link a while ago. They are VERY specific about who will and will not be granted admittance. Since all the ticketing was done online, they are expecting a hard copy of the ticket, with your name plus gov't issued ID to back it up. It would break my heart to see all those lucky people and know I'm not one of them  . You'd think since 'I just might be psychic', they might have issued me a personal invite. I mean that was through FB with my real name and everything. Sigh. I will check out that book. It drives me nuts that so many people seem to hold their identities within their phones and not themselves. I was listening to John Tesh last night on the radio about people who have actually died trying to retrieve their dropped phones. Truly another example of the conundrum that is "are we really better off in a technological age?" |
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 1:13:19 GMT
they are expecting a hard copy of the ticket, with your name plus gov't issued ID to back it up. lol, maybe they think Orphan Black will try to get in. I guess I can see how you feel. That's a great way of putting it, and I think that's what you will see explored in the Eggers book. There are probably other great novels exploring the same issue, but that's the one I've read and can recommend. It really gave me the feeling of the "thinness" of the persona spread out over social media. |
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Post by lovemondays on Jul 26, 2014 1:20:29 GMT
The "thinness" is SUCH a good way of putting it. I go NUTS when my kids try to organize something with their friends via text. It takes forever instead of a 2 minute phone call! It's a PHONE for crying out loud!!!! There is no emotion attached to this issue whatsoever  . |
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 1:29:22 GMT
The "thinness" is SUCH a good way of putting it. I go NUTS when my kids try to organize something with their friends via text. It takes forever instead of a 2 minute phone call! It's a PHONE for crying out loud!!!! There is no emotion attached to this issue whatsoever . Though I have to say I'm grateful for the alternatives to the phone: I find the idea that anyone can interrupt me with a shrill brrrrrriiiiinng very disruptive!  I tend to keep the ringer off, and it's more likely I'll see an email first.  Also, you can't see body language on the phone either! Nothing beats a nice hang out at a cafe! |
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Post by lovemondays on Jul 26, 2014 1:35:16 GMT
I totally agree. Have you ever noticed that everyone has a preferred method of contact? My sister won't answer her cell or a text ever, but you can get a quick response with an email or a voice mail on her land line. Same device. Hmmm. My sister-in-law is always available via text but no other way. My BFF is cell, phone or text. You seem to be an email girl.
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 1:47:59 GMT
I totally agree. Have you ever noticed that everyone has a preferred method of contact? My sister won't answer her cell or a text ever, but you can get a quick response with an email or a voice mail on her land line. Same device. Hmmm. My sister-in-law is always available via text but no other way. My BFF is cell, phone or text. You seem to be an email girl. It might be just because of the sound of the phone hahahaha.  |
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Post by lovemondays on Jul 26, 2014 1:51:27 GMT
Didn't you say a while back that you don't use a cell phone?
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 2:10:18 GMT
Didn't you say a while back that you don't use a cell phone? Nope, I've never had one. Last remaining person in America. This may save me from the Zombie Apocalypse. |
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Post by lovemondays on Jul 26, 2014 2:13:58 GMT
Probably. There's no way to track you from an orbiting satellite while holed up in your super anti-zombie fortress, a la "I Am Legend".
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 2:19:58 GMT
Probably. There's no way to track you from an orbiting satellite while holed up in your super anti-zombie fortress, a la "I Am Legend". I also have no credit card debt, and I wouldn't have any debt at all if it weren't for danged student loans keeping me "on the grid". grrr.  |
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. From what I understand there will be four 90 minute tours for approximately 250 people each. So....1000 super lucky MM fans are getting an inside view!!! Lucky ducks!
) have a ticket and will be able to give us a full rundown....hopefully with pics?
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I tend to keep the ringer off, and it's more likely I'll see an email first. 
