So what do you think we'll be getting for the 30th?

[GlenTokyo]

Seems like something would have been leaked because of the cast if it was anything major involving them

BBFC filings and such would come out if it was some kind of DVD or Blu-ray

Maybe it’ll be a Dave mini Dwarf night, lots of episodes maybe with some cast interviews but I’m thinking we’re getting announcements.

New series announcement on the TV? Commentaries for download? A new book or something?

What do you think?

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[Pete Part Three]

Free beer and money.

[si]

A book’d be nice. ‘Red Dwarf: A Celebration’, that kind of thing.

[Dave]

Nowt.

[(deleted)]

I have a sad suspicion it’ll be fuck all as well. Bearing in mind they’ve got about five weeks to go.

Probably an ‘announcement’ about XII/the tour but zero ‘stuff’.

This is why they should have held XII back a tiny bit longer…

[bloodteller]

>Bearing in mind they’ve got about five weeks to go

but 2018 is fifty-two weeks long

[Me Own Stunts]

>but 2018 is fifty-two weeks long

Not all of it.

[International Debris]

Probably an ‘announcement’ about XII

Doug comes on stage at DJ. “I’m over the moon to announce that Red Dwarf XII will be broadcast last year!” then eats an egg forwards.

[Ridley]

A tweet.

[bloodteller]

what about sex?

[(deleted)]

Not here, it’s too sandy.

[Jonathan Capps]

Doug comes on stage at DJ. “I’m over the moon to announce that Red Dwarf XII will be broadcast last year!” then eats an egg forwards.

Amazing.

[Moonlight]

I was going to nominate that post for the Hall of Fame, but now that the Hall of Fame is a literal thing such nominations are probably invalid.

I’m still doing it.

[Plastic Percy]

I’d quite like eBooks of the four novels, or at least the Omnibus.

[Dave]

I’m hoping for a countdown clock on the website.

[bloodteller]

a remake of The End using the sets from XII and Skipper

[bloodteller]

well obviously thats not going to happen, but it would be good, wouldnt it?

[Plastic Percy]

Most likely Doug confirming that XIII will be out in two or three years time. Sadly I think the time of merchandise being anything other than t-shirts, badges and lanyards is behind us.

Who’d ever think we’d be nostalgic for the days of Duane Dibbley bobbleheads?

[bloodteller]

i’d love to see some more merchandise like the Starbug model that came with the Series V DVD. it’s a really nice model, lots of detail and it looks good on my shelf. something like that for the Red Dwarf ship would be bloody lovely. or another Scriptbook like the VIII one, that’d be amazing.

or y’know, we could just have another lot of mediocre t-shirts and crap hoodies.

[GlenTokyo]

The t-shirts have been particularly poor this time round. London Jets and Mugs apart, which are hard to get wrong (though I could do without the series branding), almost all of the others I have issues with. The Leopard lager one has the wrong font, the XII one where they’re all Kryten is just bad, the Red Dwarf Haynes one has spelling and factual errors, and all the Haynes share the issue that they’re obviously ripping off Haynes but didn’t bother to do a mechanical drawing with internal gubbins.

I like the no longer insane one design wise but not as an item of clothing you’d actually wear, and the hoodies are hit and miss. The technician one is nice but is ruined by the series branding.

[bloodteller]

the lanyard is a bit crap too. i mean who’d want that? is there some sort of market for lanyards that i am currently unaware of?

[flanl3]

actually, yes.

[NoFro]

As someone who works in an office where everyone has a security pass, yes there is. I honestly find it a bit weird when I have a meeting with a higher up who wears an expensive suit and decides to compliment it with a cheap Game of Thrones lanyard.

[CB3]

Looking ahead at the TV schedules, it appears that Dave will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the exact moment when Red Dwarf was first broadcast with a repeat showing of Timewave.

That’s… somewhat disappointing.

[International Debris]

That’s hilarious.

[Dave]

Someone said “30th anniversary” but Dave thought they said “spit on a wrist”.

[flanl3]

“I lick you”

[(deleted)]

I have nearly died laughing.

[thomasaevans]

A lot of anniversary material comes out over the year of the anniversary rather than on the exact date. Thunderbirds & Captain Scarlet are prime examples of this. There is a complete 50th Anniversary blu-ray box set for Captain Scarlet coming after the vanilla releases, but the date of the 50th has long since passed BUT it’s still the year of the anniversary.

I mentioned in another post that the blu-rays are listed again on Amazon and Zavvi for February, maybe it’s nothing. I’d love another book tbh… and that kinda merchandise would surely be better released in the autumn for the Christmas market?

[Captain Bollocks]

One of the things I’ve enjoyed most about Dave-era Dwarf is how modern technology has allowed the fandom to be more involved and interactive with each other. If not for this place, I don’t think I’d really talk much Dwarf with anyone, and certainly not to the nerdy extent that things are discussed here.

With that in mind, would it be too late to ask for a live anniversary Dwarfcast on the 15th, presumably right after we all watch Timewave at 9pm on Dave? Or, you know, something slightly more appropriate like The End on DVD at 9pm?

[Ian Symes]

would it be too late to ask for a live anniversary Dwarfcast on the 15th

Only in the sense that we were going to do it anyway.

[flanl3]

Only in the sense that we were going to do it anyway.

It’s only January and I think we already have a strong contender for scandal of the year. I can’t believe you all were just going to go ahead and do a DwarfCast without our permission.

[Moonlight]

That’s it, I’m going to find Ed Bye at Dimension Jump and tell him I’m never listening to DwarfCast again!

[Ian Symes]

If Ed Bye ever came to Dimension Jump, you can guarantee we’d get a new ident to play at the end of each DwarfCast.

[Ridley]

The sound of Ed Bye being kneed in the testicles.

[Hamish]

That’s never happened before.

[bloodteller]

i think for the 30th anniversary, we’ll get three decades combined into one celebration

[Ben Saunders]

Which three decades?

[flanl3]

Tomorrow, lunchtime and The Matrix.

[Stephen Abootman]

Would like to see (at some point) a 30-40 mins Dave era smeg ups shows, preferably with Kryten links. Am sure there must be plenty that wasn’t on the DVDs (certainly I can think of 3 or 4 good examples just from the 3 recordings I went to alone).

Too soon for a BTE – XII ‘Just the Shows’ boxset?

Also, you should win things by watching.

[cwickham]

So, you want a realistic, down-to-earth show… that’s completely off-the-wall and swarming with magic robots?

[(deleted)]

The Dave era Smeg Ups special is something I’ve wanted for ages. Seems such an open goal!

[Plastic Percy]

Smeg Ups, Smeg Outs, Smeg Cloche.

[Seb Patrick]

If Ed Bye ever came to Dimension Jump, you can guarantee we’d get a new ident to play at the end of each DwarfCast.

SYMES: So until next time, Ed Bye everybody!
EVERYONE: Ed Bye!
IDENT: Oh, fuck off, I’m not recording that for you.

[Seb Patrick]

it’s a really nice model, lots of detail and it looks good on my shelf. something like that for the Red Dwarf ship would be bloody lovely.

Someone else, gussets, etc.

[RamesesNiblickTheThird]

Dave from 9pm on the night are showing back to back classic episodes and Samsara until the early hours…..

Perhaps we’ll get an announcement of a new series from Doug?

[Dave]

With the Blu-Ray listing update, the announcement of a 1-8 BR boxset seems like a possibility.

[Ben Saunders]

“Hi, Doug Naylor here, I know some of you were expecting me to announce a new series of Red Dwarf, but I’m afraid that’s not the case. What I can announce, though, is -nine- new series of Red Dwarf, all to be made concurrently and broadcast in 2019. I’m writing the scripts right now, and have just come back from hospital where I was treated for chronic hypertension.”

[Moonlight]

I just saw “Can of Worms IV: White Hole III: Rimmerworld Squared” recorded at Pinewood.

It…

Uh…

I enjoyed the lighting gantry above the studio. Very metallic.

The Dave era Smeg Ups special is something I’ve wanted for ages. Seems such an open goal!

You mean we could get more than five minutes of them?

[(deleted)]

Forgot to mention, the other night a Dave announcer specifically confirmed that repeats night is an official anniversary theme night of ‘Dave’s favourite episodes’. So yes, Timewave genuinely is being presented as one of the all-time top 5.

[Stephen Abootman]

I think Timewave might have been the most viewed episode of XII in the official figures (if not, very very close) so I suppose for Dave it would be a big success.

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