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Diamond Select is Bringing a TON of Exclusives to SDCC This Year

Diamond Select is Bringing a TON of Exclusives to SDCC This Year

Ghostbusters figures, Marvel Gallery statues and busts, a Harley Quinn statue, Vinimates galore, Pacific Rim and Muppets figures, Star Trek ships, Star Wars Gentle Giant busts, and so much more This may be the most exclusives DST has ever brought Check it all out below! Real Ghostbusters Action Figures Spectral GB Box Set The classic tan costumes[...]
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[Rumor] The Muppets Take Disney+, New Shorts Coming to Streaming Service

It makes perfect sense to us that Disney+ would be bringing the beloved The Muppets franchise to their new streaming service Back in February, there were rumblings that this was the case, and new reports are echoing this with some additional information. The original report was that The Muppets were headed to Disney+ in some type of live-action[...]
Original 'Sesame Street' Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Retiring

Original 'Sesame Street' Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Retiring

Performing as a professional puppeteer in Las Vegas and Boston in the 50's and 60's, Spinney would meet series creator Jim Henson at a puppetry festival in 1962 when Henson was first developing the Muppets that would be essential to the show's success Joining Sesame Street's premiere season, Spinney's unique talent and heart would help make Big Bird[...]
Sesame Street's Mark Saltzman Wrote Bert and Ernie "As A Loving Couple"

Sesame Street's Mark Saltzman Wrote Bert and Ernie "As A Loving Couple"

For nearly a half-century, these main Muppets used song, dance, and rubber duckies to make generations of kids into better human being Of course, adults have shown their "thanks" by hijacking the conversation and spending an obscene amount of time trying to definitively assign – one way or another – a sexual orientation onto two[...]
Hamilton's Renee Elise Goldsberry Sings New 'Muppet Babies' Theme

Hamilton's Renee Elise Goldsberry Sings New 'Muppet Babies' Theme

It's like that wonderful period where music was really bouncy and really melodic." – Renée Elise Goldsberry Muppet Babies executive producer Tom Warburton and Muppets Studio collaborated on a female character that would both compliment and as well as contrast Piggy Statler and Waldorf, Bunsen and Beaker, Rowlf the Dog, Rizzo and Dr[...]
Disney Plans The Muppets Reboot for New Streaming Service

Disney Plans The Muppets Reboot for New Streaming Service

To that end, sources have told The Hollywood Reporter exclusively that The Muppets would be getting their second reboot in the past four years as part of the new service's programming slate; and that Disney is actively searching for a writer with a new take. The Muppets Studio was acquired by Disney in 2004, but it[...]
Stranger Things 2: Sesame Street Teases Parody 'Sharing Things'

Stranger Things 2: Sesame Street Teases Parody 'Sharing Things'

#StrangerThings pic.twitter.com/eCoiyUgh24 — Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) October 27, 2017 In the teaser slip for "Sharing Things," Oscar the Grouch first warns us of some of the "trashy" spoilers ahead; and then we see Grover (Lucas), Ernie (Dustin), and two unidentified Muppets (Will and Mike) in their Ghostbusters gear, just like their counterparts from the series[...]
Muppet Confidential: Puppeteer Whitmire Gone; Kermit Declines Comment

Muppet Confidential: Puppeteer Whitmire Gone; Kermit Declines Comment

If the next time you hear Kermit the Frog he sounds a little different, you're not imaging things: long-time puppeteer Steve Whitmire, whose been working with The Muppets since the The Muppet Show in the late '70's, is reportedly no longer working with Muppets Studio Muppet fan site Tough Pigs reached out to the company[...]