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From: rewing@Apple.COM (Richard Ewing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Kermit and Disney...
Message-ID: <34447@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 89 20:42:49 GMT
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Indeed, Henson Associates was purchased by Disney at the tune of over 150
million.  Its a pretty good match, really.  Disney gets the incredible
market appeal of the Muppets, 5 feature films, old Muppet show programs,
Muppet babies, etc.  For henson, he gets his characters even more marketing
appeal, and confidence that the Muppet characters will outlive him (after
all, Mickey lives, doesn't he?).  Jim Henson also gets a nice retirement
nest egg, not that he really needs it.  He still owns the Muppet
characters per se, and any new ones that he creates.  Disney on the
other hand gets to market and present the characters in whatever medium they
see fit, so the deal actually works out.  Since henson gave permission
to Columbia for use of the Kermit name, I doubt if we'll see that go
away by Disney lawyers.  And another note, Disney doesn't get any of the
characters created for the Children's television Workshop, who owns
such notables as Big Bird, Ernie and Bert, and Mr. Snoffalupagus to name
a few.

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