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beaker

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Nice! Kids need a new all original JHC PUPPET(not cgi) show. I thought Animal Jam was too odd for most kids, and sadly it's been awhile since the amazing Bear in the Big Blue House last aired.
 

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Henson NEEDS a puppet show as a tent pole franchise. Nothing's gonna happen with Fraggle Rock except for weird merchandise, Puppet up is great, but you don't here much about it.

I just hope they manage to get something to last more than 5 episodes that ISN'T Dinosaur Train. And I hope they got someone better than 4Kids to handle the merchandise. 4Kids could barely manage it's own properties, especially when they lost Ninja Turtles to Nickelodeon.
 

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JHC has just been in kind of a sorry state. I see a lot of Sid dvds, but does the show get good ratings? I guess its pretty well received. Couldnt get into Dinosaur Train...to me it doesnt light a candle to Chuggington, which for some reason I absolutely love. Yeah JHC without a flagship children's puppet show feels off. What happened to the doozer cgi cartoon? ...exactly. FR movie, DC 2, Farscape rebirth, etc. JHC is tumbleweeds and crickets...RIP.
 

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They lack vision and focus, and do too many things at once. Though, to be fair, the FR movie was partially the fault of a failing movie studio. There is no call for the Doozer series to be stuck on the ground, unless they wanted it as another laughable movie tie in to a movie that's not happening. :rolleyes:

I still think they should've dropped production on DC2 (not going to happen any time soon) and focused on Happytime Murders. A low key movie that would have made a name for the company. But no... they wanted to focus on big big films that will take years to accomplish even if they had the money.

They need a new leader and a new partner. Lionsgate SHOULD have been that partner, but other than releasing a few videos (and randomly copyright claiming anything that was on those videos on PooTube) they haven't done squat. Hit was a BAD choice... they apparently ruined everything they touched (and pulled off even more GooTube vid parodies of their stuff) and Henson couldn't have been happy there. I think they were only in it until the FR movie was clearly not going to happen.
 

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JHC has found its place working as effects/animatronics for movies as well as doing supplemental and ongoing cgi kids series. I wish them luck, and Im glad they at least toss us a bone here and there with the Henson Alternative stuff. But there really is very little connecting them to the Muppet worlds anymore. To me I guess the biggest thing is a whole new generation being exposed to Fraggle Rock(err that is, if they have The Hub channel)
 

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Nice! Kids need a new all original JHC PUPPET(not cgi) show. I thought Animal Jam was too odd for most kids, and sadly it's been awhile since the amazing Bear in the Big Blue House last aired.
Aw, yes! I gotta watch some of this!! And BITBBH was a great. Ever seen It's a Big Big World? it's JUST like bear!!
 
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