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    Increase in Commercial Television Puppetry

    I want to not hate that commercial, but all I see are a bunch of overpaid ad execs saying "stuff happens" and collecting an undeserved paycheck for pulling it out of their puppet holes. I almost actually miss the King.
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    More Non-Muppet-Shaped Muppet Toys

    That's what I've been saying all along. Fozzie looks too Season 1, and that goes against the grain of style guide enforcement. There have to be some great stories about Palisades clashing with those. I recall them getting absolutely hammered by complaints that Inspector Clouseau looked like...
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    No More 2D Animated Films At Disney

    Like I said before, Princess and the Frog flopped because it went up against the second Chipmunks movie. Disney stupidly gave that hideous Christmas Carol movie the stronger Thanksgiving slot because, at the time, Christmas movies didn't automatically mean failure. Not to mention it was a...
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    Video: The Count Celebrates Sesame Street's 1 Billion Views on YouTube

    I'm very glad that Jerry and Matt worked together up until the end. That experience Matt has ensures that The Count will live on as part of the series as long as there's Matt. It's a real shame this sort of thing didn't happen sooner with other Muppets and performers. At least we're assured...
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    Disney buying Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode VII coming in 2015

    I haven't the links, but Mark Hamil and Carrie Fisher are in. As long as it was collaboration, we'll get a better product. What made the prequels what they were was a lack of it and complete toadying yes men. All Lucas films would have been terrible, and it's come out that if he didn't get...
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    Video: Jim Henson's new Fraggle Rock series "The Doozers"

    You didn't miss too much. It was just some theme song interspersed with footage of Doozers running around or riding around in weird vehicles. Basically something we all could have figured out. Just, a little more hi tech than the original Doozers. But then again, that was 1980's Doozer tech...
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    Video: Jim Henson's new Fraggle Rock series "The Doozers"

    Seems like the same old Youtube copyright shenanigans to me. I'm sure Henson didn't want anything leaked (especially since this is likely going to be another case of either Short run in Peru or worse and more likely a No Export situation. Still, kinda snotty of them to rip down a fan leaking...
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    Your Thoughts: Sesame Street Season 43

    I have to admit, I'm getting kinda tired of Fairy Tale characters being used to prove a point. I think it's high time to recast some of Jerry's roles besides just The Count and have other main characters push the plot along. It confuses me why they put those two aforementioned similar episodes...
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    Any Monty Python fans here?

    I love Holy Grail, but I think it's the most overrated of the Python films. Life of Brian's subject matter alone makes it the more powerful picture. You rarely hear anyone reference that one, unfortunately. I heard a "Biggus Dorkus" on Mucha Lucha (kid's show, what do you expect?) But I...
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    Video: Jim Henson's new Fraggle Rock series "The Doozers"

    My only problem is the Miss BG staccato mouth movements that looks like something out of a bad claymation student project. Hopefully when the show starts up, they'll fix it and give us smoother, more natural mouth movements. Other than that, I do dig the look.
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    More Non-Muppet-Shaped Muppet Toys

    I wonder that strongly as well. There is no copyright notice anywhere on the page. Plus the title of the line kinda hints at it. I mean "pillaging pop culture?" That alone says "if we don't get a cease and desist letter, we'd be surprised." If they did get a license, no wonder the toys cost...
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    Your Thoughts: Sesame Street Season 43

    As long as they aren't all forced Hispanic Heritage ones. But then again, they have the potential to do it completely organic. After all, there's Maria, Luis, and Rosita. The new cast member, too, but we'll really see some more Rosita as Rosita and not as "that Spanish speaking friend of...
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    Video: Jim Henson's new Fraggle Rock series "The Doozers"

    Other than Pajamanimals or whatever it is, they just don't have a puppet series. In fact, Henson basically just produces and probably writes Dino Train and this Doozer thing. Outsourced studios do all the grunt work. Seems they're going to use Canadian voice actors as well and possibly reap...
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    When you need to rant...

    That's why I only bother if it's worth it. I was going to stop back with the Young Justice one a couple years back, and then every other promotion just kept grabbing me back in. I really should start getting them through e-Bay... at least that way I can get a full set. Still missing Megatron...
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    The Return of "Whose Line is it Anyway"

    Pee Wee's situation is one of those stories that depends on who's telling it. Though it's starting to turn more and more likely that he did that on purpose. Mainly because he desperately wanted out of the character, who by the time it turned into a kid's show lost all the satirical edge the...
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    The Return of "Whose Line is it Anyway"

    Summer replacement season has nothing to do with ratings. It's all about making cheap and often lousy programming that's deemed not good enough for a fall start up (even though quite a few fall start ups crash and burn just as quickly), or blasting through extra episodes of something that's...
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    Video: Jim Henson's new Fraggle Rock series "The Doozers"

    I have a feeling that's the case. After all, they aren't named after construction equipment. Maybe they've never even seen a Fraggle. I don't see Henson doing a puppet based Fraggle Rock project for some time, even though viral videos would be the easiest, most cost effective, and painfully...
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    Your Thoughts: Sesame Street Season 43

    Okay... so when did they change the fact that today's episode was supposed to be the new one, and that won't be shown until the end of the month? Secondly, I read the synopses for the next consecutive episodes and they're all the bloody same! More trial and error engineering. The same...
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    Easter Fozzie Plush at CVS

    Exactly! I feared that they'd be out a week, some whistleblower would pop in, and these would be rare collectibles that would get recalled well before Easter actually hits. So far, I got like 5 of them. They're a buck each, and I really wish I got more of them. Especially since I only got 2...
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    More Non-Muppet-Shaped Muppet Toys

    Again, I really don't think these are official. They look very much fan made and cutom. That seems to be why the price is high. I doubt they'd sell these at retail for that much. Not even the most pretentious vynal collector would bother with something that small and expensive. There's just...
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