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100% agree with that! Well stated! :)

Animal is always crouching so I suppose he seems shorter. That's my guess. Animal's stand also appears to favior a shorter crouched pose. :halo: Fozzie's nearly four feet tall! Wow. :o

A short Muppet film would be fantastic! Nail on the head there. On the Roger Rabbit note - there was to be a sequel, but the shorts were intended to be their own separate thing. They were created due to the popularity of Who Framed Roger Rabbit's opening sequence. Spielberg also wanted to...

Pixar released a 2D short before the Ratatouille DVD. Also, here's a little something I saw on the web. http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/01/29/will-pixars-next-project-up-be-a-traditional-2d-animated-film/ And did anyone else see the new Goofy short before National Treasure 2?

That's an interesting perspective. I'll watch it again with that in mind. There does seem to be a strong beginning and ending but it does get a little lost in the middle. I personally don't feel that Chicken Little was trying to be Dreamworks PDI. Film critics and the Hollywood-minded sort...

I didn't dislike Shark Tale all that much. I really liked Jack Black in it. But it was rather boring and crude in bits without being clever. I believe "snoozefest" sums it up for me. Not bad, just not all that good (in my opinion, of course) I happen to have loved the style and the message of...

Brad Bird (who wrote and directed the Incredibles - probably the best CG film ever) remarked that few animated films have a story of purpose. I agree with that. Here's an honest rating of the films you listed. I don't think it's the CG that's particularly bad, it's the stories. Ratatouille...

It looks dementedly cute. I must see it. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809765392/video

Zoot is always too hip for the room (whether or not he knows the room he's in). :cool: No Muppet matches his hipness in my opinion. Now groovy, that's another thing! :flirt: :D

Being a San Francisco resident for over thirteen years now I have been through a few minor quakes. We tend to take them for granted and nobody seems to note them except on the news. I hope it's like that for our UK members. My thoughts are with you. :sympathy:

Neither art nor puppetry is created in a vacuum. Jim Henson took what was around (as artists do) reformatted it and made a more palatable brand of puppetry with the Muppets and then, of course, started the Creature Shop. To say any artist copies another is true, but also short-sighted. That's...

Wow! Wembley is my favorite of the bunch, but they are all spot-on! I hope you make a Boober. Keep us posted if you do. Heck, keep us posted on any new work! :coy: I remember Karen Prell/Red Fraggle not having access to a usable puppet at MuppetFest and that made me sad. If she only had a...

You've always been a great even-tempered guy. Wish I had more of that. I'm a better "in the room" guy than a forum poster. The speeling and grammatical issue alone... Fragments. Run on sentences that ramble (with too many parenthesis) that state the same point in several ways while still...

It was a very long time ago so the team over there handling questions could have changed. I think that once Sideshow received my email they had already been inundated with similar concerns over the absence of Floyd and the inconsistent quality in their Fozzie Bear prototype (which was actually...

You are in for a treat!

I think the puppets are just plain cuter. There's also a nuance of performance that comes across with puppetry that can't be compared with low frame rate animation. I just never liked the quality and inconsistent proportions in the Muppet Babies animation (not to mention the voices). I do think...

Hope you're feeling better these days. I am the world's worst person when ill. Nobody believes me about that until it happens - then duck! I've seen Dave as the heart of the Muppets since Jim and Richard passed and Frank moved on. So, really since Muppet Christmas Carol (Frank dubbed a lot...

I'm thinking that since these are reportedly intended to be in-park exclusives that Disney is taking its sweet time and staggering the release. Could be a month, could be year or could get shelved. I keep checking out action figure magazines - since they showed pictures of the Mickey & gang Star...

Oooh, I think you misunderstood me :o I was talking about my particular distaste for the Barbie-like cartoon representation the Henson Company put out of Piggy in merchandise under their control. I'm a classic Piggy guy, although I do like some of the new Piggys. I still much prefer her in the...

:sing: I remember asking Sideshow about that and they responded quite rudely and didn't seem to care. I think Palisades really stole Sideshow's thunder as they both inked Muppet licensing contracts at the same time, but Palisades had more popularity, a better relationship with fans and a better...