Thursday, January 17, 2013

Disney-Henson: Who Owns What



Information about Disney's purchase of the Muppets in 2004...

Letter from Jane Henson to Michael Eisner regarding the "early Muppets"

Part 2 of letter


Price tag for the Muppets (and Bear in the Big Blue House): $45 million

Apparently, Muppets Inc., now known as The Jim Henson Company, was founded on or about November 20, 1958
Regarding Kermit in "Emmet Otter" and "The Christmas Toy"


Regarding the SNL and Sesame Muppets...
Muppet/Bear titles bought by Disney

More Muppet/Bear titles bought by Disney

Muppet projects apparently in development at Henson at time of Disney deal 

Properties retained by Henson...
More properties retained by Henson... 






At the bottom, Regarding the title "Jim Henson's Scary, Scary Monsters" P1...

Continued: Regarding the title "Jim Henson's Scary, Scary Monsters" P2...
Domain names registered by Henson








3 comments:

  1. I also have this book, amazing information. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. 6 years late to the party, but i really like that the Jim Henson company owned the domain "MuppetFucker.com" at some point

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