In light of both the announcement of The Magnus Protocol and the introduction of polls to tumblr, I thought it would be a good time to reintroduce the fandom to Ye Olde TMA Fan Survey!
If you weren’t one of the 3,500+ people able to take the survey back in the day and it sounds like something you’re interested in, I’ve got good news for you:
THE TMA FAN SURVEY IS STILL UP AND RUNNING!
Take the survey here (it contains spoilers through the finale!!!)
Read after the break for more context and for the results of the initial run!
Exactly two years ago, a group of us launched the TMA Fan Survey as part of the fan project Eye Love TMA to celebrate the podcast that means so much to so many. In the two months between survey launch and the March 2021 finale, we got over 3,500 fans (and a few cast/crew members!) to take the survey. I had a blast getting to examine such a large set of data and analyse how the fandom related to the podcast through items such as:
Favourite character
Favourite season
Scariest episode
Charisma levels of the fandom as compared to the Archivist
What the Admiral looks like
How the Admiral wears trousers
Which entity fans are most afraid of
Which dancing Theresa May haunts the Archivist in the gap between his nightmares
And so, so much more!
Now, since the fandom has only continued to grow since the finale, and that means there are even more people who are able to contribute to this project, I decided to readvertise the survey.
Through the launch of TMagP, I’m going to be running a drive to collect Even More Data for the survey and release an updated newsletter come October.
Look at the finale-era results here.
Tumblr post of highlights from newsletter launch by the incredible niksfake
Adorable comic by shanni used to advertise the survey
Just to note that, going forward, I’m only going to be looking at the multiple choice questions on the survey. I already read through 3,500 responses to each of the 6 short answer questions and I am not going to read through any more, thank you very much.
Also, the survey was written in between the release of MAG 190 and MAG 191 and updated relevant episode-centric questions with each new release, so please feel free to laugh at some of the more outdated questions.
Published by Penguin in 1995 💽 Pretty steep fee (over $1000 adjustd for inflation), but it def wasn’t intended for personal use.. (see description below)
Image of CD case is from an Amazon posting of a new copy on sale today for $1,241. Unfortunately no screenshots online..
Excerpts from 1997 software review by Victor Cordell in Sound Series, Vol. 53, published on JSTOR.
That’s right.. Michael Wadleigh! The same dude who took on the colossal task of video documenting 1969 Woodstock, and provided a lot of the footage used in the 1974 documentary on Janis Joplin. No mention of RocknRom on his Wikipedia bio. Just his filmography.
I was curious and had some time on my hands, so I compiled the data on the morphs shown on the Animorphs covers (I excluded 41, 48, and 54, since they don’t show actual morphs).
The most common morphs shown were dog (21, 35, 49) and human (8, 13, 46), though the families Felidae, Canidae, and Hominidae were all tied in number of covers.
*Edit: The third chart should be 15 no, 36 yes. I forgot that they acquired bats before The Underground.
