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The "I-Maniac Fan Club" Newsletter
Issue #45
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. I-Manicon 2005
2. Message From Eddie Jones
3. Message From Mike McCafferty
4. Message From Craig Silverstein
5. DVD Offer from lanchid
6. Fan Club Chat
7. New Members
8. Merchandise News
9. Petitions and Campaign News
10. Coming Attractions
Sorry the newsletter is a bit long this time around. I will try to
keep each section short. Just a lot of things going on. Stay tuned!
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I-MANICON 2005
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I am pleased to announce that there will be an I-Manicon 2005. I have
spoken with the cast, and barring any professional commitments that
they can’t work around, they will all be there.
*I-Mom throws confetti into the air*
The con will be held on Saturday, July 9th, in Los Angeles,
California. Details will be announced as they get firmed up, but I
wanted to let everyone know now so you can start looking at airfares.
We don’t have a hotel picked out yet, and we are not only looking at
hotels in the area, but college campuses as well. One of the members
of our egroup let us know that colleges frequently will rent out dorm
rooms and meeting rooms during the summer, and this might make the
con more affordable for our members.
If you would like to join the egroup to help us plan where the con
will be held, other activities, goody bags, whatever, please join us.
The URL is http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/I-Manicon_2005/
Because of low attendance at other cons, and the astronomical cost of
meeting rooms and beverage service, we decided that a mini-con for
one day would make more sense for us, rather than hosting a whole
weekend.
We will have the cast on Saturday afternoon for a Question and Answer
Panel, then pictures and autographs. We are planning a dinner for
Saturday night, and will invite the cast and their spouses to be our
special guests.
We will plan a few activities for Saturday morning. We are also
planning a few activities for those members who wish to remain in LA
a bit longer to sight-see.
I hope as many fan club members as possible take advantage of this
opportunity. This may be the last time I am able to get all of the
cast together for something like this.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This con is for fan club members only. Please do not discuss this on
the message boards or in the egroups. Thank you.
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MESSAGE FROM EDDIE JONES
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Hello you all,
I have a film coming out May 6th in NY, LA and SF. I plan on telling
as many people as I know about "Fighting Tommy Riley". Still do not
know the theatres where it will play. LATER.
Thank you. Eddie Jones
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MESSAGE FROM MIKE MCCAFFERTY
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I want to say thank you to all of you guys for keeping up the fight.
Ultimately, the show is out of everyone's hands but yours. I know
that the entire cast wants to come back and do something together,
but it will be up to you, the fans to determine what we do. But I
trust you all, as does Vinny and the rest of the gang.
Mike
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MESSAGE FROM CRAIG SILVERSTEIN
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Craig, our favorite I-Man writer and one of the best script writers
in the USA today, was charmed by your birthday greetings. He sent
this message:
WOW! Thanks a lot! I am surprised by, and really appreciate all the
birthday wishes.
I’m completely blown away by I-Nin’s manga. I think it’s the most
flattering gift I’ve ever received! I fell out of my chair and
flattered all over the kitchen floor, where I remained for about an
hour until my wife came home and scooped me into a dustpan.
. . .to you and each person who posted a greeting... THANK YOU!
Craig
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DVD OFFER FROM lanchid
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One of our members, lanchid, sent me to following email to share with
all of you:
To show my I-Man love, I am going to be in London at the end of
April. Are there any I-Man fans in the States who want the dvds? I am
willing to go into stores and pick up sets and bring the back in my
luggage for fans. It'd save them the overseas S&H, as they would only
need to pay for the sets, as well as shipping from where I live
(Virginia). Have people email me; I want to help boost sales of the
sets in the (vain) hope of a season two set.
Laura, aka lanchid lanchid@gmail.com
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FAN CLUB CHAT
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Vince and Paul are still trying to coordinate a date when they can
chat with us. It will probably be on a Friday night at 9 p.m. EST, 6
p.m. PST.
Paul has been extremely busy lately, and we have had to reschedule
the chat 3 times now. I will let you know as soon as a date has been
set.
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NEW MEMBERS
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Since our last newsletter, we have gotten 6 new members worldwide. We
now have 1121 members in the fan club. Let your friends know about
our fan club. In the meantime, please join me in welcoming our 6
newest newbies!
*I-Mom throws confetti into the air!*
Dan
McLeigh
ruNN
scifichick
valor57
Volks
Please continue to tell all your family and friends about our great
fan club. We have events coming up that are for fan club members
only.
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MERCHANDISE NEWS
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Just wanted to announce that we have a second online store. We may
eventually join all of the merchandise into one store, but we are
having access problems right now and decided to have our new
Merchandise Director, Mardel, open her own store. The URL is
http://imaniacs.org/main.htm then click on the Merchandise link.
The Invisible Man Marketing and Promotion group has opened its own
Cafe Press shop in order to raise funds to promote the show and its
cast and crew... as well as give fans really cool collectable items
for their very own! All profits go towards The Cause, folks! Their
url is http://www.cafepress.com/imanmandp
We have an agreement with their Merchandise Manager that their store
and ours won’t carry the same merchandise. This way we don’t compete
with each other, and you get more merchandise to choose from.
Go to http://www.meccadigital.com/ for info on the DVD that was on
sale at the last I-Manicon. Mike McCafferty and friends made a DVD
just for us and it is great! Just try to find those Easter eggs.
More details are at
http://www.meccadigital.com/Eberts_Press_Release.html
My apologies to Mike and friends for taking so long to get the word
out. This got buried in my email and I thought I had sent it out
already.
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PETITIONS AND CAMPAIGN NEWS
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If you haven’t done so already, please go to
http://imaniacs.org/main.htm and sign the 4 petitions that are linked
to our site. Also visit the IMMP website to get the latest campaign
news.
The petition for the IMAN movie is at
http://www.petitiononline.com/imanfilm/petition.html
We should have the link up at our site shortly.
I can’t stress how important it is to vote at these sites. You never
know who is looking at these sites, so the more votes we get, the
better our chances of getting what we want. Also, when we print out
the petitions to send to TPTB, we know from experience that we need
at least 1000 signatures to make an impact. But if it takes us 5
years to get those signatures, they won’t have the same impact as
getting them in a shorter time period. Tell your friends!
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COMING ATTRACTIONS
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No, I haven’t forgotten about the fan club auction. Just ran into a
snafu back in November and with the holidays and Real Life, it just
took awhile to get it sorted out. I hope to be able to start
auctioning off the IMAN items shortly. Just trying to get I-Manicon
2005 off the ground since that has a deadline and this doesn’t. Stay
tuned for more updates.
Joyce
(Invisible Mom)