#jim henson company

[puppetdaily]

Sneegle from safety commercials for the National Council of Churches

[mantisfriendd]

Every new employee at Jim Henson's creature shop gets thrown into the Muppet Pit, if the employee has a good and pure soul the muppets let them pass peacefully, if they have a soul of darkness the Muppets rip them to pieces and what remains is used as material for the next puppet.

[snufflysam]

[thecryptidart1st]

don’t mind me, just living vicariously through my friend’s universal horror nights photos

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

This is my mom's vintage Kermit the Frog watch from the 90s. I cannot for the life of me find a single scrap of information about it anywhere online. The only result that confirms this watch even exists is a long dead listing without a price on an auction house website (apparently you can pay a subscription fee to see the price, but I'm not doing that). This watch isn't listed on the Muppets wiki with the othet pieces of the Kermit Collection, and it doesn't have any manufacturer info on it, just the copyright for the Henson company.

My mom has kept this watch in storage for years, I haven't seen it since the early 2000s, and I misremembered what condition it was in. I knew something was loose inside, and I thought one of the hands had snapped off, but it was actually the border of the mirror Kermit is looking into. I thought it was damaged beyond repair, but that's a super easy fix. Pop the glass off, glue it back into place, pop the back off, put in a new battery, good as new!

I have no clue who made it or when. This is the entire text on the back:

STAINLESS STEEL BACK ↑ JAPAN ⚡377 WATER RESISTANT V-246 HENL6616

KERMIT COLLECTION

TM & © Jim Henson Co.

And the strap just says

©Henson

GENUINE LEATHER

HONG KONG

I assume HENL6616 stands for Henson model 6616, but according to google, bing, and duckduckgo, that code has never been written on the internet before. It's hard to see on the fifth photo, but it's definitely 6616, not 6676.

⚡377 is the battery, an AG4 377

I have no idea what V-236 means. I'll pop it open later tonight and see if there's anything written inside. Hopefully the battery compartment isn't corroded to hell. If not, I could have it up an running in a matter of hours.

Her birthday is in October, and I think this is the perfect gift. Fingers crossed it still works.

[galvanic-witch]

just to make something clear

i’m being funny but i’m also right

[f1zzlest1ckzz]

i love the pictures of big bird and bear cuddling

[ben-the-hyena]

VHAHSHZHSHJZJZZ??????????

POTENTIAL NEWS FOR A POTENTIAL SEASON 2????????????

[nathsketch]

An original one specially for today!

Happy birthday dear sir! 🐸🐽

[mythicalgeek]

The fact that Persephone has stretch mark's, a tummy roll, a curvy body and seen as beautiful is something deeply personal to me 💕

[shutupcrime]

If you need a reminder we’re in the darkest timeline look no further than the outline of the adaption of into the woods we could have had back in the 90s

This version also would have had all the creatures in the movie played by puppets made by the Jim Henson company.

WE WERE F@*%#<€$¥ING ROBBED

[w3mb13r]

god nerfed jim henson bc he would've been too powerful on tumblr

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #745

Tim Curry starred in the unaired pilot for Madness Reigns, a 1998 sitcom produced by the Jim Henson Company. The show followed Curry as King Nicholas Serge Rudolph George Leopold Ludwig Von Ebelskiver of Lichtenbourg-Hvoristan who was exiled from his country and now living in New York City with his family, many of whom were puppets. The show was never greenlit.

Sources:

"The Man Who Would be King." The Transylvanian Tymes. By Bill--"Brad Majors." Volume VII, issue 5. May 30, 1998. Page 2.

"Madness Reigns! Shooting Draft 1998 Tim Curry Pilot TV Script Rare Unproduced." WorthPoint.

[snufflysam]

art that I did for @/urdrupe on twitter as part of a valentines day art swap!

[ambersadventuresinwonderland]

Got a nice discount on this figure today because it's my birthday!!! 🖤

[darklinaforever]