Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Star Trek The Sci-Fi Channel Special Edition Extras-
"Operation- Annihilate!"

Hey guys... While I may not have a review for you, I do want to at least try to finish off these Sci-Fi Channel Special Edition posts! Here is a new one for ya... "Operation- annihilate!". Enjoy!

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Help Save The Photo Content At This Site!

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This is James Sawyer... I run a few pop-culture websites/blogs online. Some of the more popular ones are:

1989Batman.com
MOTUMovie.com
APieceOfTheAction.net
ActionFeatures.net
TMNTFilm.com
MOTUCFigures.com

For years, I have ran all of these sites out of my own pocket- Registration fees, hosting fees, content fees- I have covered them all without resorting to ads or fundraising. I want the sites to be a fully engaging experience, free from pop-ups and the feeling that I am profiting from your enjoyment in some way.

Photobucket is seeking to change this. I started with Photobucket years ago when it was the "big" photo hosting site. I needed a place to host all of the photo content for the different blogs, and at the time Photobucket was the best option for this. Still, I have never been a freeloader account- I have paid them a monthly fee for years in order to handle the bandwith for all my sites (the biggest one being 1989Batman.com). With over 15000 photos stored there, a paid account was the right thing to do.

...But yesterday they sent me an e-mail letting me know my plan was going away, and the only option that now works for me is paying $400 for another year of service. Or I have 30 days to go elsewhere (but of course they won't let me just download the photos I have stored there).

That leaves me with 3 options. 1.) Find all my original files, re-upload them somewhere else, then update every single post at multiple sites in 30 days. 2.) Just throw in the towel and shut all the sites down. 3.) Pay the $400 and buy myself a year to do option 1.

None of those are great. None are what I want to do. I honestly am not sure what I am going to do at this point. I highly doubt I would have the time to devote to doing such a huge task of transferring services in the next 30 days, so I would be looking at downtime for the sites until I have time to do this work... and I have a feeling once they are down, the motivation for me to get them back up will slack off (life has a way of keeping you busy). I guess the $400 option is the best one for the life of the sites, as a year is probably enough time to get them all updated seamlessly. But man... $400 a month before Christmas hurts. A lot.

So I posted this message at a few of my Facebook fan pages... and some folks suggested I look toward crowdfunding to offset the cost.

Now I really dislike doing this... but with the only option being major downtime for the sites, I am asking that anyone who has enjoyed the sites and has the extra funds that they wish to donate, please do so. If you don't, that is fine too. I won't just let the sites die regardless. It may just be that they have to go away for awhile.

The goal I am setting for this is enough to cover the photobucket fee to keep the sites as-is for a year (plus a little extra to hopefully cover all the fees GoFundMe will take). This will hopefully buy me enough time to get through the arduous task of migrating all the photos (if photobucket frees them up) to a new hosting site and updating all the posts. If for some reason that does not work... Well, at least this will buy one more year of life for all that exisitng content.

Thanks to anyone who read all this. Even if you don't donate, I appreciate that... and I would appreciate it if you shared this. Not so much to get more backers- But to spread the word on what Photobucket is doing to its paying customers. :(

Donate or use the links to share the GoFundME here: Paying Photobucket To Preserve Picture Content

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

RED ALERT!
Super Sale At Entertainment Earth Today!

SALE ALERT! Entertainment Earth has the AWESOME Diamond Select Klingon Bird of Prey HMS Bounty on sale today only for the crazy low price of $36! Hurry up! http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=DC10071&id=19-401245414

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Monday, February 10, 2014

Star Trek The Sci-Fi Channel Special Edition Extras-
"Tomorrow Is Yesterday"

Hey there. :) Here's all the extras from the Sci-Fi Channel Special Edition of "Tomorrow Is Yesterday". Let's do the time warp again...

Saturday, December 15, 2012

"A Collector's Trek #7" Is Now Up At StarTrek.com!

After a bit of a hiatus, my seventh blog entry for the official Star Trek website is now up! This time around, I take a look at the McDonald's Star Trek: the Motion Picture Happy Meal promotion! Head on over to StarTrek.com and check it out- A Collector's Trek #7: The McDonald's Star Trek TMP Happy Meal Promotion

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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Looking To Buy a Gift For That Certain Trekkie In Your Life This Holiday Season?

...Well I might be able to help! The nice folks over at "We Love Fine" contacted me last week about setting up an exclusive Cyber Monday coupon code to share with you fine followers of APieceOfTheAction.net! The code is good for a whopping 25% off your order of Star Trek related apparel, including the new Juan Ortiz retro print designs and their recent Trek design contest winners! Sweet! So head over to WeLoveFine.com tomorrow (11/26/2012), load up your cart with some awesome Trek Tees, and then enter the following coupon code to take advantage of the savings: TREKCYBER25

(And in case you are wondering- No, I am in no way being paid or supported by WeLoveFine.com in this promotion. APieceOfTheAction.net has and shall hopefully always remain advertiser free. I just thought it was really cool of them to want to involve Trek fans in the savings so I am more than happy to spread the word!)

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Star Trek The Sci-Fi Channel Special Edition Extras-
"Obsession"

Here's all the extras from the Sci-Fi Channel Special Edition of "Obsession". For some reason, when this episode was first shown, the intro segment was for the wrong episode... so this one is a bit shorter than most.