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NPR's All Things Considered ran a segment on this exhibit today. You can listen to the segment, which includes a sort of brief audio tour, at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92502872 This page includes a one-minute clip from Jim's Time Piece in a split-screen format...

That's not necessarily the case, though I'll consider the possibility. I've laughed at plenty of British comedians before. Spike Milligan's efforts just felt too artificial and insincere. It's like he said to himself, "Well, I'll make some weird faces and toss my arms around, and that'll be...

Season Three Boxset in a Nutshell--positives Praise #1: Harry Belafonte episode. Praise #2: Loretta Lynn episode. Praise #3: Pearl Bailey episode. Praise #4: The show took bigger chances this season, especially with the afore-praised Harry Belafonte episode and Loretta Lynn episode...

Season Three Boxset in a Nutshell--negatives Complaint #1: Like some others who've posted, I hated the Spike Milligan episode. I frowned at a few of the stereotypes, but mostly it was his endless unfunniness. His self-consciously "zany" routine did nothing for me at all. Complaint #2: Elke...

Seemed about time to drag this thread back up to the top. . . . Neca has released pictures of the Hoggle and Jareth figures in their packaging. This is supposed to be on sale by the end of the month. See the pictures here: http://necaonline.com/article/detail/226

I don't know about the Skeksis, but Neca claims the Jareth/Hoggle set will be released in June: http://necaonline.com/product/detail/45505

This is more complicated than I realized I don't want to give this issue more space than it deserves, but . . . According to Muppet Wiki (http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_301:_Kris_Kristofferson_%26_Rita_Coolidge and http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_302:_Leo_Sayer --see the top right...

Episode order I don't remember anyone else mentioning this, so I feel compelled to bring it up: the Leo Sayer episode (second on the disk) really ought to be first. This episode introduces Annie Sue Pig, rival-in-training to Miss Piggy. There is no question that this is the episode meant to be...

I got the box set this morning (fuzzy cover--yay!) and watched the first episode at lunchtime and "Muppets on Puppets" tonight. Then I read through this thread and noticed someone saying the bonus features had subtitles. Remembering that Phillip Chapman's review stated that the full audio of...

Some of you may find this odd, but I've actually been looking for a Snuffleupagus in scale with the Palisades Super Grover figure, a thought I first had when I noticed the plush Snuffies now being sold at Carlton Cards--only those are a bit too small. I told myself that surely at some point...

Speaking of generation gaps . . . I've been neglecting my Muppet Central reading lately, so I read through this entire thread today. And when I came to the first comment about the different Leelas, I immediately thought, Oh, yes, that's right, Dr. Who. On one season of the original Dr...

What would I want with a giant Doozer? If you were going to release a Fraggle figure in giant size, isn't a Doozer just about the LAST character you'd pick? You'd think maybe, oh, I don't know, a GORG instead?

Burdened with shame and embarrassment at not owning a CD I have long claimed to want, yesterday I bought the Labyrinth soundtrack at a Best Buy. And I forgot to clarify in my Firey description (yes, I'm still beating that drum) that the arms, legs, and heads should all share the same...

In case anyone cares, the watch-like icon on that folder is for the Quark Xpress application--which, for those who don't know, is the most widely used software for professional desktop publishing (it lets you put text and pictures together in pretty ways to make books and magazines).

Fieries--the ultimate figures I've floated this idea before, but it's worth repeating, no matter how unlikely it is: mix-and-match Firey figures. Each Firey has its own unique head, and at least one of them has a fat body, and arms and legs come in two styles--one Firey has bent arms and legs...

I hadn't even thought about that! What a good idea. (Or is there another pilot out there somewhere?) I feel less anxious now. Even if they decide to bulldoze ahead with the premeire-obsessed policy, we still might get the crucial Mr. Hooper episode. Another episode I've been thinking...

Shakey Sanchez! Perfect! That's just the kind of idea I was looking for. And I have seen what might be called "semi-blind" boxes of Japanese figures--each box had a small hole in the front, and behind the hole was a slip of paper showing a number. There were six figures, so if you only...

At the risk of seeming impatient All along I've been worrying about the third set. Not whether or not we'd get one--I haven't doubted that--but more the content. The policy of using only season premieres is a dangerous one here (assuming they don't do the Hawaii episodes). A true collection...

I'm certainly not happy about the blind-boxing. I very much hope there's some option to buy a complete set. However, I'm thinking if I end up with Fraggle duplicates, I may have to customize them into Sesame characters like Abby Cadabby or Zoe. (Boober has the least clothing, he'd be the easiest...

Cookie Monster answers the "Proust Questionnaire" in a video clip on the NPR website, which also has some thoughts on Cookie Monster as the unrestrained id (that's Freudian talk) of Frank Oz. You can find this and a few other Cookie tidbits at...