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- | <fs smaller>[cutline]</fs> <fs x-small>// | + | <fs smaller>Axanar producer Alec Peters on the set of the Ares in the warehouse he's moving out of May 1.</fs> <fs x-small>// |
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====== Ares Studio Patreon a Bait-and-Switch? | ====== Ares Studio Patreon a Bait-and-Switch? | ||
- | **//New Video Spouts Outdated Pitch About Warehouse Peters is Actually Giving Up//** | + | **//New Video Spouts Outdated Pitch About the Warehouse Peters is Actually Giving Up//** |
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- | Alec Peters released a Patreon video update February 15, 2019, aimed at rallying supporters who so far had pledged $1,637 a month. The video offered patrons an impressive tour of Axanar' | + | Alec Peters released a [[https:// |
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===== Smaller warehouse ===== | ===== Smaller warehouse ===== | ||
- | Peters had informed his Reel Trek viewers on February 8 he was giving up the 6,000 square foot warehouse featured in Friday' | + | Peters had informed his //Reel Trek// viewers on February 8 he was [[yout> |
- | ==== Patrons | + | <WRAP 425px right> |
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- | That's not the news Peters delivered to patrons in the video a week later, however. His Reel Trek comment has not been officially posted anywhere, appearing only in AxaMonitor' | + | ==== Patrons in the Dark ==== |
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+ | That's not the news Peters delivered to patrons in the video a week later, however. His //Reel Trek// comment has not been officially posted anywhere, appearing only in **AxaMonitor**' | ||
===== Bottom Line ===== | ===== Bottom Line ===== | ||
- | Peters is moving ahead assuming he won't earn enough from Patreon to keep his current warehouse, and the smaller one he's moving into May 1 won't offer anywhere near the space he's continuing to tell donors they' | + | Peters is [[pokey_patreon|moving ahead]] assuming he won't earn enough from Patreon to keep his current warehouse, and the [[incredible_shrinking_studio|smaller one]] he's moving into May 1 won't offer anywhere near the space he's continuing to tell donors they' |
===== Patreon Progress ===== | ===== Patreon Progress ===== | ||
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- | <fs smaller>**PATREON STATUS** on February 15: 180 patrons (0 more than previous day) for $1,637 ($7 more than previous day). Growth is flattening.</fs> | + | **PATREON STATUS** on February 15: 180 patrons (0 more than previous day) for $1,637 ($7 more than previous day). Growth is flattening. |
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+ | ===== Revisionist History of Ares Studios ===== | ||
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+ | While trying hard to raise enough money to support some kind of studio space in Georgia, Peters has been trying to rewrite history, claiming he never used Star Trek intellectual property to build an independent studio: | ||
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+ | ==== A Different Tune ==== | ||
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+ | That's not what Star Trek fans heard from Peters during his [[axanar_kickstarter_details# | ||
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+ | Hundreds of thousand of fans' dollars were raised by Peters under the banner of producing "the first fully-professional, | ||
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+ | ==== The Bottom Line ==== | ||
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+ | Despite three-quarters of a million of fans' dollars poured into the now-abandoned studio, | ||
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+ | Discuss this article in [[face> | ||
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+ | **Keywords** |