Laser Rangers 2013 November Meeting

Laser Rangers Assemble!

Date: November 2, 2013
Time: 4:50pm
Location: David Sooby’s home theater with 51-inch Samsung HDTV, a 5.1 Surround Sound Dolby Digital sound system, a full set of audiophile-grade speakers, and upgraded seating for about 15 people without crowding.
Captain Laser: Ken Keller and David Bridges
Food: Thanksgiving! Bring a side dish or dessert!
Costume: Formal Dress

To learn more, please visit our Facebook Event Page.
This will be our only feature of the night. Please arrive early! Dinner and annual planning discussion to follow.


Marvel's The Avengers
(2012, 142 minuntes) Directed by: Joss Whedon. 

Starring: Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, & Samuel L. Jackson.

Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. assembles a team of superhumans to save the planet from Loki and his army.

Before joining our ranks please watch this video trailer!







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After the feature, we will have our Thanksgiving dinner complete with a turkey and all the sides. Then we will plan next year's line up. If you want to get involved and make a difference, please join us!
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Next month: Will be movies released this year and voted on at the meeting! Don't Miss it!

 
The home of the Laser Rangers is located about four miles north of the Kansas Speedway, NW of the intersection of I-70 and I-435 on the Kansas side of the Greater Kansas City area.

IMAGE CREDITS: The information for all of these shows come from the invaluable IMDB. The movie posters come from Wikipedia or the movie's respected distributors. The Thanksgiving picture comes from http://www.umass.edu. The Horn of Plenty picture comes from www.ericnielson.com.

The movie screen frame image used for the Laser Rangers contact information is courtesy of Psychology Today Online. Many thanks to these websites!

Laser Rangers 2012 November Meeting

Marvel Superheroes II (Special Thanksgiving Edition)

Date: November 3, 2012
Time: 4:45pm (Fhanish time)
Place: David Sooby’s home theater with 51-inch Samsung HDTV, a 5.1 Surround Sound Dolby Digital sound system, a full set of audiophile-grade speakers, and brand new seating for about 15 people without crowding.
Captain Laser: Ken Keller
Food Theme: Thanksgiving Dinner
Dress Theme: Fine attire, Classy dress or leftover Halloween costumes (super hero themed please, but not required)

See more at the Laser Rangers Website. 

Short features will precede our main features!

X-Men: First Class

(2011, Appox. 132 minutes); Starring James McAvoy, Micheal Fassbender, Rose Byrne, and Kevin Bacon 

In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start world war III.

Check out this awesome trailer!









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During the break we will have our annual MOVIE MEETING where in we will plan out next year's movie schedule. This will be a longer dinner break than normal so we can all enjoy wonderful food prepared by the Laser Rangers and come up with the best possible movie agenda for the year to come.
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There will be more amazing shorts between dinner and our main feature.

Captain America: The First Avenger

MAIN FEATURE!
(2011, 124 minutes); Starring Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones & Hugo Weaving
 
After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending USA ideals.

A truly fantastic super hero movie and the awesome trailer!

The home of the Laser Rangers is located about two miles north of the Kansas Speedway, NW of the intersection of I-70 and I-435 on the Kansas side of the Greater Kansas City area.

IMAGE CREDITS: The information and movie poster images for all of these shows come from the invaluable IMDB or the movie's  respected distrubutors. 
The movie screen frame image used for the Laser Rangers contact information is courtesy of Psychology Today Online. Many thanks to these websites!

Monthly KaCSFFS Meeting Sept. 15, 2012

Don't forget your Super Suit (capes optional)!

Our guest speaker is "Captain" Jaymes
Logan of the Geekvolution website.

Who: You, we hope!
What: KaCSFFS Monthly Meeting
When: September 15, 2012, from 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Where: Our usual, The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, MO 64111
Why: Fun with Friends and Superheroes
How: With style and gusto, of course!

Super September
The September meeting theme of superheroes is a tip o' the hat to our guest speaker, Jaymes Logan.

A notable local expert on comics and Star Trek, Logan will speak about comics, and--if you wish--also his new book, geek video, Trek, and related topics. Come pre-loaded with questions!

"Captain Logan" is one of the two masterminds (along with the indispensable Vince) behind the Geekvolution website, your source for a new video every day, forums, blogs, items for sale, a master list of Superhero movies, and much more.

Logan's book will be available
for sale on Saturday night.

Logan's new book is The Girl with Seven Names, recently published by Argosy Press. There will be copies for sale at the meeting (as well as Geekvolution T-shirts). Bring cash or checks! A book description from the Geekvolution site tells us:

“Dr. Franklin Bryce is a therapist with an unusual specialty: helping people deal with the unfathomable realities of the Multiverse. Helena Kathryn is a woman with unusual problems: multiple personalities, incredible strength, and severe amnesia.

"When a bat-winged, dimension-hopping thief steals Franklin's greatest gift - his telepathy - his life starts to unravel. Returning to the humdrum cases of normal psychotherapy holds no thrill... until Helena comes to him for help discovering her true identity.

"Unable to resist the allure of a tantalizing new case, Franklin jumps back into the many worlds of the Multiverse with Helena in tow. Standing in their way are killer robots, insane hypnotherapists, and a slew of alien adversaries. Of course, all of these are nothing compared to the greatest threat of all: Helena herself!”

If you can't attend the meeting, but still want the book, it is available from Geekvolution (please make them your first choice, since this is buying from the author himself), or from KaCSFFS friend (and home of SF&F Literati) Barnes & Noble. It also is available from Amazon.

We bet you can do better than "Human Torch"
Marshmallows, when it comes to bringing Super Food!

Food Theme
As usual, we are asking you to bring creative food offerings--this time on a "Superheroes" Theme! Ask yourself, "What would a superhero eat?" Other than "Whatever s/he wants to," might it be "Caped Cupcakes"? Perhaps "Spidey Spaghetti," or "Wonder Woman Bread"?

Scour the web, wrack your brain, and channel you inner Super Chef, to nourish BOTH our bodies and our imaginations with Super Foods!

There WILL be voting--and certificates for the best Super Foods! (Consider the gauntlet to have been thrown).

Late Note! We backed a WINNER!!
Congratulations to 2012 ConQuesT Artist Guest of Honor Ursula Vernon for her HUGO AWARD!!! She won the category "Best Graphic Story" for Digger.

PHOTO CREDITS: We are indebted to Argosy Press for the photo of Jaymes Logan. Amazon provided the cover art for The Girl with 7 Names. And we really hope that Marvel agrees our satirical use of their Human Torch image, originally created by artist Adi Granov for the cover of Fantastic Four, vol. 4, 542 (Jan. 2007 Marvel Comics), accessed from Wikipedia, is "fair use"!

Super Red Suits Rule!

Laser Rangers embark into the Marvel universe this month, with Daredevil and Iron Man:

David Sooby again hosts Laser Rangers.

Date: July 9, 2011
Time: 4:15 p.m. "fan time"
Place: The usual.  See contact information for host David Sooby inside the proscenium arch.
Food Theme: "All Time American" food (hamburgers, fries, or anything with grease!).  Alternate "liquid" diet, suggested as a spoof: "The Tony Stark" (martinis or anything straight up with a proof over 20%).
Captain Laser: Ty Gephardt
Apparel: Wear superhero costumes, or business suits (in honor of Tony Stark or the blind attorney).

You have a truly broad range of costume alternatives in July!

On the Program: The Movies of the Evening both feature Marvel superheroes:

Daredevil is the first feature for July 9.

Daredevil
Released in 2003, the group will view the Director's Cut.
The movie was written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson,
It was based on the Daredevil comics by Stan Lee and Bill Everett.

The cast includes: 
Ben Affleck, as Murdock/the Daredevil
Jennifer Garner, as Elektra
Michael Clarke Duncan, as Kingpin
Colin Farrell, as Bullseye

Shorts:
Captain Laser has selected three short films to accompany the evening's features:
A scene from The Incredibles (2004), with Brad Bird as Edna "E" Mode, describing the pitfalls of capes.
The Robot Chicken short, Iron Chaney.
The How It Should Have Ended short, Iron Man (due to spoilers, this short film will be shown after the second feature!).

The second July 9 feature is Iron Man.

Iron Man 
This 2008 blockbuster was directed by Jon Favreau.
The screenplay was written by Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, and Matt Holloway.
The movie was based on the Iron Man comics, created by Stan Lee, Larry Leiber, Don Heck, and Jack Kirby.

The cast includes:
Robert Downey, Jr., as Tony Stark
Terrence Howard, as Rhodey
Jeff Bridges, as Obadiah Stane
Gwyneth Paltrow, as Pepper Potts

A more in-depth description of this program, with reviews and at least one film clip, should be published on the Laser Rangers Website.

CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE:
Many thanks to Ty Gephardt for most of the information in this post!
PHOTO CREDITS: The movie screen frame image used for the Laser Rangers contact information is courtesy of Psychology Today Online.  The photo of the man in the business suit is from Men's USA.  Paul Young's Screen Rant blog provided the image of fans in superhero costumes.  Many thanks to IMDB for the movie posters for Daredevil and Iron Man.