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You are a generation Xer after my own cartoon watching heart! I too grew up with fond recollections of the Sid and Mary Krofft school of Saturday morning puppetry (rough around the edges though it was!). Some of MY favorite Saturday morning memories from childhood were waking up at five...

Without jumping ahead to see if anyone else got the answer, I'm gonna guess NewsRadio.

Here's a few more photos from the exhibit. That was one of the best days of my whole life... http://www.jayfosgitt.com/PhotoGallery/muppets1.html http://www.jayfosgitt.com/PhotoGallery/muppets3.html http://www.jayfosgitt.com/PhotoGallery/muppets4.html

Yes, that was totally Digit! I was so excited and wanted to play with him, but regretfully he was bolted down to the shelf!

Back in 2000 there was a traveling Muppet exhibit and it came to Flint, Michigan just barely an hour south of where I lived. The exhibit covered all facets of Henson creation, and one of the displays was a hands-on station where you could touch and play with odds and ends bits of puppets and...

"Hey, I liked Ralph Bakshi's Mighty Mouse. It far exceeds the original concept to me." Right on, Frogboy 4! Bakshi's Mighty Mouse pulverized the old Terry Toon's episodes! Not to mention the beyond abysmal Mighty Mouse cartoon from Filmation in the late 70's. Bakshi's my hero!

I actually got to put my hand inside the baby Rowlf head! It was one of the greatest experiences of my life!

I don't recall people freaking out when Ahmet Zappa was slated to helm the Fraggle Rock Movie (which I'm still patiently waiting for, by the way), so I can't see why Segal and Stoller are getting such backlash. They're certainly no more controversial of a choice. Besides, looking back at the...

I just needed to update everyone and say the Fraggles are now off the market. Thank you to everyone who replied.

I'm just throwing this out here initially to see if there's any interest. But I own a full set of Fraggle dolls produced by Tomy in the early 80's. They include Gobo, Red, Boober, Mokey, Wembley, Traveling Matt and Sprocket. If anyone is interested, please send me a message and let me know, with...

These are wonderful! I love your expressive lines and the colors are so vivid! Plus your interpretations of the characters are familiar and fresh all at once! You should be very proud!

I don't know if anyone else has seen this, and it sounds legit enough, but I found this on Myspace today. If it is on the up and up, people like me who have been wanting Bremen on DVD all these years may want to jump at this. At $14.00 you can't really beat it...

Storyteller Scribe Passes Away.... Anthony Minghella, the brilliant writer behind the entire Storyteller series, Greek Myths series, and director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley and other films, passed away at age 54. Such a terrible loss to Muppet fans and film fans alike...

Y'know, a lot of people from my generation have given Smurfs a bad rap, and I just don't get it. I really enjoyed the cartoon as a kid. That kind of fairy tale fantasy was wonderful for kids like me who grew up in mid west USA far from any such idyllic European surroundings, albeit fantasy ones...

Much as I'd love to disagree here, there's just no way I could. The Henson legacy is a broken antique lying in pieces on the floor and lamenting its former golden glory.

What bugs me is that The Creature Shop is capable of the best possible full body animatronic puppets in the entertainment industry...and yet Jonez, who I normally admire very much, has opted for the Henson gang to only build the BODIES of the monsters and having the heads done in CGI. I think...

If it helps, I'm pretty sure it was put out by Fisher Price.

I used to have a hard rubber toy of Barkley back in the late 70's/early 80's, so such a product does exist, and you can probably find it on E-Bay.

It IS possible to make a Henson movie without permission from various parties, but at the sacrifice of a LOT of key elements to the story. I know it's a lesser example, but I think back to when they made that tv bio pic about Robin Williams in his Mork and Mindy days, and how little details had...

Everything Buck has said has also crossed my mind. A cohesive, comprehensive film about Jim's life would require nothing short of huge alliances not seen since Disney, Warners, MGM and whoever holds sway over Fleischer's cartoons allowed their characters to cohabitate in Roger Rabbit. I can't...