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Very touching Beth, but the Henson Company haven't owned the Sesame Characters for a few years now either. I get your point though.

Just a reminder the Larry King Show will be starting imminently !!!!

*whispers* Um...... FARSCAPE ? :D

Disney top guy Michael Eisner will be appearing on CNN's Larry King Live in the USA tonight (20/2/2004) between 9-10pm ET. It'll be interesting to see what he says about the whole Muppet thing, and also anybody can probably call in - so you could ask him in what direction he hopes to take the...

Me too! :zany: Seriously, who is gonna get custody of the Muppet Penguins ? If i saw a Penguin wearing a pair of mouse ears i think i'd break down. :zany:

I'm REALLY glad you guys enjoyed that, so wish i could have been there. We'll have to have some fan meetups at Disneyland or EuroDisney or something. I know it won't be the same but it'll be good.

Disney only really use their own "preferred" people to make figures and PVC's etc. Palisades make specialist stuff for a collectors market - i don't think they would "dumb down" if told to and start making cheap kiddie fodder. There is hope, the Pirates Of The Caribean license went to a more...

Why? They still have all the same problems. They will still need to stay afloat and get the properties they do still own working for them? I really doubt offloading the Muppets means they now all they have to do is sit back and make Muppet projects galore with a care in the world. If...

Actually they were doing a lot with it - just because they didn't tell you personally what their plans were didn't mean they weren't planning stuff. They were actually getting a lot more stable lately. Now if you'll excuse me i'll get back to my donut ... Mmmm donuts ....

Excellent editorial - i really love the personal perspective on it. It says a lot about the way many of us feel.

You'd think maybe the kids would have issued a statement to staff and friends/followers of the company like Rivkin did. We haven't even had an announcement of Wizard Of Oz yet. I'll be the first to admit i could be way off base here but i've never found we got a great deal of respect from...

Actually, they pretty much can do all those things in a way, not break molds obviously, but cause problems with Palisades or Sababas licenses or make sure they end early. I think with the websites the ones you pointed out don't really break copyright in certain ways. With the Muppets, until...

Yeah but you have to be a shareholder to get in. Anyway forget Muppetfest - with this whole Diz thing we can now look forward to :- "MUPPETS ON ICE" I bet Dave Goelz and Steve Whitmire are practicing ice skating across the office right now, probably will bump into Bill Baretta and Jerry...

It's not just $60-$100 million, it's that with all sorts of later payments and incentives depending on exactly what happens and how things go over time. It is very cheap but if you consider that the Kids bought back the entire company for near $90 million, and they are managing to hold onto the...

Oh Jeez, THEY SOLD THE LARGE CUPS? OMG - We've had those since 1955. Is nothing sacred ? This just in from the home office in looneyland :- Jim Hill has written his first article on this, actually it isn't all that bad. Except he claims he predicted two weeks ago that Eisner had...

News just in :- Henson sell "Water Cooler" to Pixar. They will however be keeping ownership of the cups, and will act as consultants to Pixar advising them how to change the water tanks.

Great we'll see new stuff but the fairly limited timespan worries me - and interesting they have that extra year consulting but maybe not producing. I can hear the dusty draw opening and the Muppet Haunted House and Muppet Time Travel scripts having the cobwebs dusted off them. I also...

New article at the New York Times - says nothing new but here it is :- http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/18/business/media/18muppet.html Y'know i hope this won't mean the return of Jim Hill to Muppet Central. I don't think i can take that, i got headaches the last time. He'd probably say that...

Yup, but the Muppeteers (as far as we know) and the Puppet Workshops are still retained by Henson so it isn't the clean cut it first seems. We also don't know whether Disney HAVE to employ Henson to work on Muppet projects or if they are just available to work on them if thats who Disney decide...

It'll probably be "Disney Presents ........ Jim Henson's Muppets" I'm sure the kids will have negotiated the use of Jims name as part of the sale deal.