#AlitaAnniversary

Many of you might remember the celebration & postcard event that we had for #AlitaDay, a.k.a. #AlitaAppreciationDay (September 9). We want to have a similar event for February 14, the anniversary of the Alita: Battle Angel movie release. It’s time to show Jim Cameron how much you #LoveAlita

Eddie McTrigger, the orchestrator of the original #AlitaDay postcard event, has provided the addresses for the #AlitaArmy to send postcards expressing our love for Alita to Jim Cameron, Jon Landau, and Robert Rodriguez to.

As with #AlitaDay, postcards are preferred. There’s a website that you can use to create them, if you’d like to use it. Keep in mind: they need at least a week to be completed. Send your postcards early if you like – just try to time it for Valentines Day. https://www.mypostcard.com/en/

“I’d give you my heart!” – Alita

Disclaimer: “The Alita Army” is not officially affiliated with either Open Bionics, Tilly Lockey, or the makers of Alita: Battle Angel.

Some background: As fans of Alita: Battle Angel, we started a campaign to show how passionate we are as a fan base and to give the film studios faith that an Alita sequel will be successful. We wanted to fly a banner with “#AlitaSequel #AlitaArmy” over the red carpet at the Academy Awards. The quote we had for the banner to fly was $1,810. Our deadline to pay that was Wednesday, January 29, 2020. We’ve funded that thanks to your generous donations. Every donation that we now receive will go to charity. The fundraiser will remain open until February 19, 2020.

Where the donations are going: With the banner flight paid for, every donation from this point on is going towards giving someone a bionic arm through Open Bionics. Open Bionics develops affordable prosthetic limbs for amputees.  Their mission is “to make beautiful bionic limbs more accessible.” They will receive the donations, and even if we don’t raise enough money to cover the whole cost of an arm, we can substantially decrease the cost of one for someone.

TARGET: According to the Open Bionics Twitter account manager: “The entire process includes paying a clinical team, this is the only way to fit a hand, so at the moment the entire process including clinical costs totals £10,000.” With this information, we have set the final target to $15,000: That’s $13,000 for the entire process of providing a complete Hero Arm, the $1,810 we already paid, and a small addition to cover payment processing fees. (GoFundMe charges no platform fees, but WePay, PayPal, and the other payment processors charge 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction)

See Tilly Lockey’s story in the following video:

We would love to help other young people like Tilly be able to receive cool prosthetic arms. So we have decided to give all funds beyond what we need to fly the banner to Open Bionics so that they can bring some much needed assistance and joy to the world.

Thank you very much for your support!

UPDATE (APRIL 28, 2022): The Alita Army gifts a young boy a bionic arm

by Max D, Team Member

Continued thanks for all your support! We’re closing in on $6,000 now and everything beyond the flight and banner goes to Open Bionics to give bionic limbs to amputees.

Please continue to share the campaign. By the time all costs are considered a bionic limb costs £10,000 per limb (US$13,000) so we can still use every dollar donated! We can substantially offset or perhaps cover even the entire cost of a Hero Arm depending on how much we raise.

Visit the following link for more information on the campaign and how to donate: