beaker
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Oh man, you're bringing me back to all my fond memories of the early, mid and late 1980's when Muppets were truly everywhere. Im so grateful to have lived in that time period. Indeed, we've been kind of shoehorned into thinking seasonally or merch only when a film comes out. I see what you're saying. Part of the cultural landscape indeed.It seems like you're taking the lack of a total merchandise explosion harder than anyone else. I don't see this as just a movie or a flash in the pan opportunity for the Muppets. Disney is carefully and consciously setting up a lifelong brand! That's so much more exciting than some forgettable seasonal penguin plushes. I used to hate it when the only Muppet merch we got was at Christmastime. I mean, to me this isn't just a Muppet movie. We're returning to a time when Muppets were part of our environment. When Kermit and Fozzie would show up on Nightline just to shoot the breeze about the stock market with Ted Koppel for no other reason than the fact that these characters live and breath in the world and that's what everybody decided to do that day. When you'd go to the drug store and pick up school supplies with Muppets on spiral ring notebooks reenacting moments in history that were not tied to any current project. This is why I'm not worried. If the Muppets don't achieve some level of retail dominance this time next year then I'll be the first to sign a petition to Disney. I just think it's coming and in a permanent way.
Well this will be the last time you hear any complaints from me...I sometimes tend to not see the big picture.
The fact is, Im hearing so many accounts of non Muppet fans/casual fans now obsessively seeing the film. So many families 0-80 years plus are going. I mean I kid you not, wearing my muppet shirts(including yours) and muppet hats, its not unusual to get 50 complements/comments in one day. on the bus, walking about, at the mall, crossing the street. i dont see that happening with people wearing pixar/disney or looney tunes shirts.
This film is awakening and stirring something within so much of the population and hopefully it'll just go super nova...especially when it his foreign markets and north american dvd.