When Ian Ziering's character Fin raised his chainsaw and leaped at the jaws of a flying shark in Syfy's Sharknado, it no doubt caused all kinds of comments in both viewers' homes and on their Twitter accounts. But perhaps a few people watching the intentional B-movie wondered what side-splitting remarks the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000 would have made during that scene and throughout the entire film. Well, wonder no more: a live recording of Sharknado commentary from three former members of MST3K will take place in just two weeks, and further commemorating the shark-filled cyclone flick is a Sharknado POP! vinyl figure from Funko.

The 4-inch vinyl figure features a shark inside a freak saltwater tornado with its mouth wide open and sharp teeth on full display. Coming soon to online retailers like Amazon (in stock on July 3rd, 2014), this vinyl figure will help usher in RiffTrax's live Sharknado event in mid-July. (Check out photos of the Sharknado POP! vinyl figure below, thanks to Figures.com!)

From Fathom Events, RiffTrax, The Asylum, IGN and Syfy comes “RiffTrax Live: Sharknado”, an event in which Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett—former MST3K members and current collaborators on the like-minded RiffTrax website—will view and provide a live commentary for Sharknado. The live event will take place in the historic State Theatre in Minneapolis (rather fitting, as this is the same city MST3K premiered in) on Thursday, July 10th at 7:00pm CST, with a recorded encore showing on Tuesday, July 15th at 7:30pm CST. If you don't live near Minneapolis and you want to catch this event, don't despair: “RiffTrax Live: Sharknado” will be aired in almost 650 theaters around the country.

To buy tickets for participating theaters, visit www.FathomEvents.com. If you're planning on attending the live recording in Minneapolis, you can buy tickets at Hennepin Theatre Trust.

Centennial, Colo. – May 5, 2014 – Just when you thought “Sharknado,” a movie about mega-cyclones sucking up sharks from the ocean and hurling them onto land, couldn’t get any more absurd, the stars of RiffTrax have blown those expectations right out of the water and created a perfect storm of funny. The sidesplitting RiffTrax crew – Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett (best known for the groundbreaking “Mystery Science Theater 3000”) – is set for what may be their most epic event ever as they take on the Syfy instant cult classic "Sharknado." Presented by Fathom Events, RiffTrax, The Asylum, IGN and Syfy, “RiffTrax Live: Sharknado” will be broadcast live from the historic State Theater in Minneapolis to select movie theaters nationwide on Thursday, July 10 at 8:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. CT/ 7:00 p.m. MT and 8:00 p.m. PT, HI and AK, with a second showing on Tuesday, July 15 at 7:30 p.m. local time.

Tickets for “RiffTrax Live: Sharknado” are available at participating theater box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com. For Minneapolis-area fans, tickets to the live performance at the State Theatre may be purchased online here beginning May 5 at 2:00 p.m. CST.

The event will be presented in nearly 650 select movie theaters around the country through Fathom’s Digital Broadcast Network. For a complete list of theater locations and prices, visit the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change).

“Sharknado” premiered on Syfy on July 11, 2013, becoming an immediate worldwide sensation, generating nearly 5,000 tweets a minute and quickly amassing nearly 400,000 social mentions. In August, Fathom Events and The Asylum held a raucous midnight showing in more than 200 theaters nationwide. Fans should also keep an eye out for “Sharknado 2: The Second One,” which will premiere Wednesday July 30th at 9/8c on Syfy.

Produced by The Asylum, “Sharknado” is the story of beachside bar regulars including owner Fin (Ian Ziering, "Beverly Hills 90210"), bartender Nova (Casie Scerbo, "Make It Or Break It") and local drunk George (John Heard, "Home Alone") as they team up with Fin’s ex-wife April (Tara Reid, "Scrubs") to investigate the ecological nightmare that has sharks swimming through the streets of Los Angeles and falling from the skies.

Entertainment Weekly described it as “… an hour-and-a-half of ridiculous, slapstick, theatrical, scientifically-impossible fun” and New York Daily News said, “’Sharknado’ is bad to the bone. It’s absurd. It’s ridiculous. If you’re a fan of low-budget horror movies and you miss it, you will regret it for the rest of your life.”

"We're excited to have landed the big fish that is Sharknado. For a long time we've wanted to do a shark based movie as well as a tornado based film so we think combining the two will be twice as thrilling for our audience,” said Michael J. Nelson, RiffTrax creator and former host of the Emmy-nominated, Peabody Award-winning “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”

“We have had tremendous success separately with both ’Sharknado’ and RiffTrax. Putting the two of them together is a marriage made in apocalyptic, flying-shark heaven,” said Dan Diamond, senior vice president of Fathom Events. “Fans are going to be figuratively, and probably literally, rolling on the floor laughing.”

Source: Figures.com
  • Derek Anderson
    About the Author - Derek Anderson

    Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.

    When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.