July 29th, 2019Very few people can say they don't have Jim Henson as part of their childhood, thanks to Sesame Street and The Muppets. However, there was so much more to this man and his incredible workshop than meets the eye. Thankfully, we have Kevin Perjurer's Defunctland to showcase it all!
Here, I'll show you a couple definite key episodes but...
May 3rd, 2019May the Fourth Be With You! Well, tomorrow anyway... it's nearly Star Wars Day and we wanted to dip back into the archives for some classic Star Wars cast memories.
When the original Star Wars was released in 1977 (well before it got the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope and launched the biggest juggernaut franchise of all time), it...
February 8th, 2019This year marks a ginormous milestone in children's television, not to mention in the pop culture fabric of darn near every single one of us – Sesame Street is 50 years old!
Yep, it was way back in 1969 that a friendly city lane filled with humans and Muppets first entered our educational lexicon. In the years since, Sesame Street has...
January 16th, 2018As you may have noticed, we are excited to feature a number of The Jim Henson Company titles across our crate lines this January. So as you might imagine, we were triply excited to have the opportunity to interview one of the veterans of the Henson creative stable, Julie Zobel!
Zobel is a Senior Puppet Builder based out of Jim...
August 29th, 2017It's really hard to undersell what a big deal this was when it happened in the winter of 1980. Like, it was a big deal when Mark Hamill hosted The Muppet Show, no doubt... but droids on Sesame Street?! Talk about blowing a 5-year-old's mind!
We're flying our Star Wars flag today with this reminiscence of one of the biggest TV moments of...