I personally think they should avoid HIT. They need someone who cares about the product they're handling.
I think they indeed cared, until they found out the deal was going to expire, and the movie wasn't going to be made by 2009 or 2010 when internet buzz said it was to be. Same thing that happened with the vynals.
I really think that if things went according to that plan we would have indeed seen a FR animated box set... in fact, it didn't even need to be a box set per se... I've seen a lot of lower cost DVD sets featuring 13 episode Saturday seasons on 2 disks (Teen Titans, Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, and George of the Jugnle- that had 17 half hours on 2 disks)... And they were all under 20 bucks. Heck... Lionsgate was able to fit 13 episodes of Ninja Turtles on one disk, and they retailed for about 10 dollars.
I mean, after all, FR animated was only on one season (13 episodes). And it doesn't have a single licensing issue, unlike Muppet Babies (with it's use of Columbia clips). Wouldn't have been a problem.
I just hope the next distributor has the same vision Hit did initially (they very well could have not given us a single season set, and just did 3 disks with 3-4 episodes on them each- no bonus features... no nothing- retailing for 20 bucks)... and they give us Season 4 AND the animated series.
Hey guys I found A- Animated Fraggle Rock episode segment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBIyv1gWaZ0
If any one finds a full episode post a link.
Multiple episodes were posted, but Jim Henson Company took them down. They did it nicely, too... not a single account has been suspended (thankfully... FromDaBush had just too many other great things there). Thankfully they didn't touch my Benooni Berri Youtube Poop.