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    MIA: Bear in the Big Blue House

    The biggest challenge of getting Bear back on television is what Playhouse Disney/Disney Junior is right now. Dora-esque shows featuring Disney characters. Unless a very obvious change in programming comes, I don't see how something gentile and classic Sesame Street/Fraggle Rock like would...
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    Disney.com merch

    I'm starting to doubt the standees are for sale. They're probably just a store display thing. Someone WILL get their hands on it, sure... it just don't think it would be general retail sale.
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    Muppet Christmas Carol origin

    Out of all the concepts of the movie, I really think making Statler and Waldorf the Marley brothers was one of the great ones. Inventing a role not in the book, similar to Benjamina Gunn in MTI... the ONLY way to get Piggy in there. If only they could have fit Muppets as the other ghosts, I...
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    Frank Oz worked on a new Muppet movie script

    I mean, of course, a lot of the character interactions and concepts were subtle. Due to the breakneck pacing and the overly chopped, hacked edits to fit an arbitrary running time so multiplexes can force so many showings of it in one day, a lot of the concepts had to be connect the dots. Just...
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    The Muppets is now the top-grossing Muppet movie

    It does seem like enough. Like I said, films that flop randomly get sequels all the time. I wouldn't doubt Jason would be involved in the next one, but it's too soon to tell then. Muppet movies have always did their best as DVD sales anyway. Disney movies too, in fact. Only thing that held...
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    What's in store for the Muppets in 2012 article

    It's so depressing Jim died when that decade came to a close. Some of the best Muppet work came out in the 80's. I've always treasured 80's Sesame Street, even over the 1970's episodes... we had Fraggle Rock and that needs no explanation... I really do love the concept of Jim Henson Hour. Too...
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    Anyone else tired of seeing Animal with pink hair?

    His hair is layered... there's strands of Pink, darker pink, red... yeah, it's all about how it looks in the light too. I'd say a dark, almost Reddish pink would work. Too red, and he could look too much like Elmo in merchandise. Now that I think about it, this is obviously a style guide...
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    The Muppets is now the top-grossing Muppet movie

    Other than the horrid Twilight franchise where I'm convinced 60% of the audience was either dragged in unwillingly or watching it ironically, none of those movies released at that period did all that well domestically. Even then, there was a sharp drop off for that movie's second week as well...
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    The Muppets is now the top-grossing Muppet movie

    I think Disney saw it as successful enough and the movie did what it set out to do, bring interest back into the characters. More stuff is coming out later, I'm sure we'll at the very least see a new TV special soon. 90 would be impossible, but if it cleared that, it would be the second highest...
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    Muppet Christmas Carol origin

    It's not that I don't like the ghosts they had (but I LOOOOVE The Christmas Present Ghost), it's just that they're played straight doesn't help the fact the movie lacked a certain level of fun. Not saying there weren't great, funny, Muppety moments... they were too few and far between. Of...
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    The Muppets is now the top-grossing Muppet movie

    I think they bought the rights up to an Underdog movie, and just let it about to expire and just took whatever generic super dog script they could. It's probably good from a perspective where if it was titled differently, it wouldn't be so bad. All they did here was slap a bunch of character...
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    Fraggle Rock Comics at Taco Bell

    Henson wants Fraggle Rock to be it's main family franchise, but if there was something substantial and new coming, we'd clearly hear of it. This seems to be a 3 and under prize with generic robots being the main prize. Wendy's has a Snoopy based under 3 Meal no matter what the other tie in is...
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    Frank Oz worked on a new Muppet movie script

    The movie DOES require a leap of faith on the part of the characters, sure... but I feel that's greatly rewarded in context. I'd hate to see any characters boiled down to a catchphrase or a stock personality. How come people are having problems with depressed Kermit, but everyone accepts...
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    Frank Oz worked on a new Muppet movie script

    Sorry, but I just don't get what you're saying in most cases... Think of it this way... In MFS, Kermit was devoid of personality and was barely in the film. And the part of the film he was in, he just made a couple goofy asides... every poignant moment was between Gonzo and Rizzo... I did not...
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    Sesame Street Stays Up Late

    Thanks. Just got around to seeing it. it is SUCH a shame they don't do prime time Sesame Street specials anymore. *&^%$ PBS and their Wayne Dyer self help pledge month crap. People would actually WATCH this. And viewers would happily pledge if something of quality was on for a change. No...
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    Fraggle Rock Comics at Taco Bell

    It's an under 3 Toy. Just to point that out... you're going to have to ask for them. But they are much more interesting than cardboard robots. Sigh... I miss when the third party fast food toys were epic. I LOVE my Cow and Chicken Super Cow from Taco Bell.
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    Funko POP! Muppet figures coming in 2012

    Some character representations are closer to others, some don't need to be that close anyway. Batman, and the rest of the DC and Marvel super hero line are just as well looking barely like the characters. Then there are the kinds that look a little closer to the original character, but still...
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    The Muppets is now the top-grossing Muppet movie

    I don't like it either...Tim Hill has something about eating feces... look at the Bunny Rabbit that crapped jelly beans in Hop. The first film didn't need the raisin OR the fart under the towel (the dutch oven joke in the second one was way more lazy, disgusting, wrong and pointless). They...
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    What's in store for the Muppets in 2012 article

    I'd say it's more Jim, Jerry Juhl, and every writer the series had's show... but Jim felt the show went as far as it could go, ended it at the height of its popularity and left us wanting more. That's why none of the Muppet Movies were direct sequels of each other (though VMX and The Muppets...
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    The Muppets is now the top-grossing Muppet movie

    Well, like I said, the first one actually had some redeeming quality to it, albeit poorly cast with a couple pointless bathroom jokes. The script was written by someone who did The Simpsons when it was GOOD! At least there was that nice bit of snarky satire of the music industry. The second...
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