2008 Muppet Daily Calendar

[frogboy4]

Didn't see a thread on this so thought I'd post now that it came!
(if there already is an active thread on this feel free to get a mod to lump this one in with it)

I did get both Muppet calendars - monthly (kinda boring with over-used stylized images border lining on garish) and daily (hundreds of Muppet pictures and trivia).

I've only thumbed through the daily calendar, but there's lots of cool stuff. A few images here and there I hadn't seen, some I expected to see that are absent and several repeats (some consecutive). All things considered, I prefer they make a calendar like this every year!

 

[minor muppetz]

Does the daily calendar include any pictures of Lips, Digit, Seymour, or Fleet Scribbler?

 

[Luke]

Great news to see two calendars, the day to day one seems fantastic. I can't wait to get it!

 

[theprawncracker]

The daily calendar is INCREDIBLE! I absolutely love it and can't wait until 2008 so I can start using it.

 

[Telly]

Dang it! The Daily Calendar sounds cool. I saw the monthly one. Wasn't too impressed with it. I'll have to keep my eyes out for the daily one though!

 

[frogboy4]

An Overview: Muppets 2008 Daily Calendar!

Amazon always seems out of the calendars. Here is where I got mine at a pretty good deal!

Images include:

* Many group shots (including my fave without the floating Piggy head)
* Muppet portraits of nearly everyone (multiple photos of Sweetums, Rowlf, Scooter, Clifford, Rizzo and Pepe)
* Previous calendar shots (through the years)
* Trading card images,
* Muppet Party Cruise game images (some)
* A very cool classic Fozzie and Kermit Muppet Show poster
* Greeting cards
* An attractive poser of Bunsen (that actually looks to be for internal company use only)
* Yes Muppets on skateboards rolls by
* Swinetrek ship picture,
* Muppet Magazine photos
* Miss Piggy Cookbook photos

Petty criticisms include:

* The trivia seems correct except I believe it marks Clifford’s debut as Muppets Tonight along with Pepe.
* Color printing is fair, but not excellent. (That’s being a rather picky graphic designer on my part.)
*Missing Muppets include Van Neuter, Johnny, Sal, other Muppet monsters, not sure if I saw penguins. There were so many repeated images, like one particular pic of Beaker, when I have the privilege of knowing there are more “clearable” photos in the archives.
* There are a few key photos I wanted to see like behind the Muppet Theater etc. (At least they didn’t include that dreadfully hacky Muppet group collage that passes for a poster. Man, that thing is ugly and done by a person without any artistic skills.) There could have been a few more classic photos, but I was pleased that they included any.

Overview: A

We are lucky to get this and all of these cool photos in one place. It’s thoughtful, surprisingly comprehensive in its selections and I hope we get more. This is the Muppet calendar for 2008.

 

[minor muppetz]

Well, Pepe did debut on Muppets Tonight. Clifford didn't. Is The Jim Henson Hour even acknowledged in the calendar?

 

[frogboy4]

Pepe is one of my favorite characters so I know he started on MT. I always thought he was the best thing to come out of that show. I was mentioning that the calendar lumped him together with Clifford making it seem that both began together on Muppets Tonight. I saw no mention of Henson Hour. I'm keeping the calendar stored away to enjoy next year (or at least trying to). Haven't read much of the trivia yet.

 

[TheJimHensonHour]

The Jim Henson Hour Apprently never happend...

 

[frogboy4]

I just got my hands on a copy of the JHH series and am savoring every bit. It did happen or my misspent teenage years are catching up to me. Either way it's highly enjoyable.

"Of course I have real hands!"