etc etc. Anyone know how to fix this?
Move to the US
As I said it before Disney are not used to handle strong international brands like the Muppets, so give them time to adjust their strategy
On a more serious note theres ways around it, some proxy sites work others don't just shop around until you find one that does. And be prepared to shop around again later, since the proxy servers you do find that work will stop working at sometime.
Another way is to use hotspotshield however it dose not always work with the disney site, don't know what they have that disables it on their site when it works well on HULU. And hotspotshield do add a bug to your system if you use VISTA, it can randomly crash your computer with "The Blue Screen of Death".
Finally theres a third way, find a backdoor. However you will need to know a little about code and that stuff in order for that option to work.