It's Official: Disney completes Muppet acquisition

[BoyRaisin2]

Uh, Henson.com is still green. Think they heard that Disney bought the Muppets yet?

 

[McFraggle]

Uh, Henson.com is still green. Think they heard that Disney bought the Muppets yet?

I was wondering the same thing.

 

[beaker]

Uh, Henson.com is still green. Think they heard that Disney bought the Muppets yet?

They are the ones that sold out to the mouse, I would think so. Then again, noone goes to that site so I dont think it would matter if they left it as is.
I wonder if muppets.com will ever get updated?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Uh, Henson.com is still green. Think they heard that Disney bought the Muppets yet?

They can stay green. I just wonder if they will ever take the Kermit stuff off there.

 

[BoyRaisin2]

Yeah, it's hard to tell what they're going to do with the Muppet and Bear images since those people never update the site!

The copyright at the bottom still says 2002 for crying out loud.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Copyrights are supposedly good for the life of the artist or 75 years, whichever is greater.

 

[McFraggle]

Copyrights are supposedly good for the life of the artist or 75 years, whichever is greater.

The only thing is, they sold the copyrights so I don't think this rule applies.

 

[Mark Filton]

Here I am playing catch up again

Yippeee the final nail in the coffin (sarcasm).

"We're talking the Muppets here, a product with history, with an already strong fanbase."

Yeah, we're talking the Muppets here, whose reinvention of puppetry for TV can be copied by anybody now, and the old characters have a fan base of us oldtimers.

Yeah, the Muppets, in a world where Yoda is performed by a dozen geeks in a programming room and the actors on film look at a stick and pretend it is him.

Yeah, the Muppets, who are gonna be turned inot CG characters and lose their purity with Disney.

People say "Hey, this didn't happen for nothing!" Yeah, just like the Germans.

Maybe acquiring properties helps the stock look good. "Wake up and smell the coffee" is what I say.

Disney makes kiddie crap versions of familiar stories, and as for being "edgy" they are blocking Michael Moore's new movie. I think Moore's movies are not TRUE documentarties, but this shows Disney is no "edgy" company. The Muppets are there for them to use to sell junk toys and junk projects. These punks working on new Muppet material don't give a darn about "The Rainbow Connection," or any of the stuff we love.

They don't even be nice to Mickey.

Here is a sad mouse for you

Now if only the other Muppet emoticons were crying, barfing, and dying.

 

[beaker]

Hes got three strikes in the last year or so alone as faras Im concerned.

Strike One: Eisner ignoring colleague advice and closing off 2d animation and bungling other deals...and creating the atmosphere for Pixar to leave.

Strike Two: Eisner in a last ditch effort to appease shareholders, buying out the Muppets...not JHC, FR, Farscape, CS, etc...just the Muppets and Bear.

Strike Three: Eisner vowing to make sure Michale Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 will not come out, despite financing it. Eisner doesnt want the viewer to see the truth about Bush.

 

[BoyRaisin2]

Strike Three: Eisner vowing to make sure Michale Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 will not come out, despite financing it. Eisner doesnt want the viewer to see the truth about Bush.

Uuugggghhh.