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Hi Byron, Have fun and hope you manage to hit that high 'C' - just close your eyes and think of Ella Fitzgerald.

I think probably Swamp Years was a terrible idea. It was badly scripted, poorly acted and the only good thing was the quality of the technical side. It put out all the wrong messages - either they want the Muppets to be kiddy orientated, edgy and nostaligic, or family orientated but trying to...

Yeah apparently Jim wasn't happy with the treatment the films were being given by the rights holders (or joint holder - not sure what control JHC had) and so he decided to buy them back himself. It was an incredibly bad business move and financially hasn't made them a lot of money but it's just...

Yeah the promotion starts on Thursday. The Muppets end tommorow - Christmas eve. Also talking of plush - Boots in the UK have now got mini Hoobs plushes of the main 3 characters. They are £6 each but very good likenesses and larger than the McD's plushes. Iver looks particularly good.

I think the Brillstein comment was more about the Sesame characters but yeah Jim and Jane were against any form of merchandising but Jim needed more money to do things with advanced technology and he also used it to buy back the rights to Dark Crystal and Labarynth.

Exactly, and look where Pepe is now ! Kinda makes you wonder how he's worked his way into the main 5 so quickly. This could be a fantastic career move Cory ... and as Muppetquilter says, you'd look great in the little hat. Hmmm i may have to come join you and form a comedy double act.

Actually we had an executive meeting while Emmy was in the bathroom and you are on the shortlist for elevator porter. Trust me Cory, it's way better a deal - all those execs will be in your elevator, you can say whatever you like and they won't be able to get out till it hits ground ...

Well um Cory's right that Disney isn't whiter than white, but then yeah so's Jamie when he says that they aren't the only ones. All of these big multinational corporations are usually crooked in some way, sometimes they've just fiddled the accounting all these years, other times they are...

I'd give ya $600, although i want heavy casting of Penguins in all new Muppet productions - thats the deal or nothing. Good luck finding the other 249,999 fans though - Henson have been trying to do that for years and no luck so far !

But Byron's busy right now with his new job and and all that !

If people really want a chat and MC can't do it, and Warrick doesn't plan one now either then it'd be no problem for me to put a chat room up on my own server for the night and put a link to it in a thread here. Kinda an unofficial festival of the bells - if enough people are up for it at the...

The promotion is almost over and most of the characters retired, unless people have been collecting entire sets to sell later it'd be hard. You can usually pick up a few characters on both the American and UK Ebay sites very cheap. The Ebay price though for a full set apparently can be as...

Ooooh i like the new menu a lot - it has a skating penguin. Well done Jamie, you've certainly done your duty towards the penguin cause this year. Gotta love Gonzo's eyes widening too - very cool !

That'll be the day i become 'King Of The Penguins' and dance around the streets naked wearing a tiara. Here's how i reckon it'll go IF Disney purchased Henson. They'd start off by issuing a press statement all nicey nicey saying that things won't change much and now two great forces in...

I think Warrick was trying to organise something - there is a link to some information on his forum at :- http://fragglerock.iboardplus.com/index.cgi?board=YFDVP6WWQDK;action=display;num=1039269374 It's a shame nothing's happening at MC though !

Yeah they have been very quiet on the Muppet license - they were supposed to unveil all the plans last Summer at an industry event and they didn't. 'Muppets Take To The Skies' also hasn't seen the light of day yet on the PSX.

That is the public perception, but it's a very weak method because the person you are accusing of copyright theft would actually have to acknowledge they had viewed your work with that copyright tag on it and well, they aren't likely to do that. Best bet is to go to solicitor in the UK, or if...

I don't know about this site, but i think another may have an event possibly planned.

Yeah it would mean the Fox show might get pulled, or possibly may be limited to the minimum amount of episodes Henson are commited to provide. I think it might be too late for the new owner to just pull out but they can always buy themselves out, or mess things up deliberately so that nothing...

That's IF the Fox show even goes ahead, though i think it's likely they will fulfill that contract rather than get out of it. If it WAS Disney, i can't see them being too happy about an edgy Muppet show on Fox though, not really the direction i could see Disney taking the Muppets in at all...