LeVar Burton's Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Project Reaches Goal in 1 Day

[thekev]

Now at $2.8 Million! That's awesome.

I would love to see it come back just so I can share the experience with my kiddos!

Did you grow up watching it too? I watched it in the mid 80s before he was Star Trek. Amusingly I later watched Star Trek because Lavar Burton was in it.

 

[bradl]

They're going to make it.

right now, $4,902,896 with 19 hours to go.

Also, they've broken the record Kickstarter had for the most backers for a project. I think before this one is done, they are going to top 100,000 backers for this. But they have another $98K to go. It will be close. 12 noon PT tomorrow is going to be interesting.

BL.

 

[benthewraith]

Troy: Butterflies in the sky! I can go twice as high! Take a look, it's in a book, reading rainbow... (/cries)... re-ead-ing rai-ainbow...

Troy:I've told Pierce a thousand times, I never wanted to meet Levar in person! I just wanted a picture! You can't disappoint a picture!

On that note, that's cool that Seth McFarlene is going to match the donations.

 

[MacNut]

$4,995,269 right now.

And they are over 100,000 backers.

edit: $5,001,543

 

[bradl]

This just finished. Final stats:

105,853 backers.

$5,408,680 contributed. Seth MacFarlane matches on $1 million, so that goes up.

Between this and following Amelia Earhart's flight, I'm actually feeling pretty good today, especially from the fact that there are a hell of a lot of good people out in the world, and a lot of children are going to be benefiting from this.

We were given it just from the grace of one guy; time to pay it forward.

BL.

 

[ucfgrad93]

Glad they made it.