Muppets (including The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock)

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So when you guys are displaying your NECA Muppets and Sesame Street figures… you gonna include Earl and Baby Sinclair and the movie Turts? Or is that too far?

I’ve considered it! I still have Dinosaurs I found on clearance that I haven’t opened yet. I think the main problem is scale.

 

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Oh I don’t think I’d ever sell my Palisades collection. But I haven’t displayed it for 15 years. I haven’t had a reason to even dig out figures from the storage bin until NECA made these Sesame Street figures. I will always give credit to Palisades for what they did with that line. Sculpts, paints, accessories, PLAYSETS. The only area they faltered in was articulation, and only case by case. It seemed like the main characters got jipped the most, while peripheral characters got some PoA that could even hold up today.

The early series of the Palisades figures really are lacking in articulation, which unfortunately includes most of the main Muppets. It will be nice to have updated versions of those characters.

I remain partial to the Palisades line becausr I don't see any way the NECA line could get as deep as Palisades did. From what Ken Lilly, the line lead, has said, those last few wave of figures were really small runs, hence why the line ended. Since some portion of potential buyers is already set with the DST and/or Palisades lines, I assume the NECA line would run into low sales much earlier. I could be totally wrong on that. Either way, I'm excited to see what NECA is able to make.

 

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I'd put Sesame Street, Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock and maybe Emmit Otter as the potentially interconnected Henson properties that are "Muppets" while things like the Storyteller, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Farscape and Dinosaurs use puppetry but aren't part of the "Muppets" universe, at least to me.

I also would be surprised if NECA could match Palisades for scope (although a lot of their scope was sublines like the Treasure Island figs, the tuxedo figs, the vacation figs and the sketch figs - I could see NECA getting through the two dozen or so main recurring characters), but given they are trying to relaunch the Muppet Show itself, maybe it could sustain a line for awhile?

 

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If NECA can keep the price reasonable, there’s no reason they couldn’t go as deep or deeper than Palisades. Look at their TMNT line(s). Never thought we’d see that many figures, cartoon style, movie style, three distinctly different comic styles! They can do that with Muopets. People just have to support.