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

Mint In Boks said:
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?
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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.
 
NORM said:
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.
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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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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NORM said:
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.
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Will never get those amazing playsets, though. Why I ever got rid of my Swedish Chef kitchen set is beyond me. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
 
joshsquash729 said:
You really bork'd that one up, my guy.
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Dude, you have no idea. I had everything. Every. Single. Thing. Lab playset, the Kitchen playset, Sweetums (that was a store exclusive to a now defunct online retailer). The only thing I had trouble tracking down was the Backstage Playset.

I am not joking, you know what I did?

I GAVE a shit ton to a friend that I'm not even in contact with anymore. He told me one day at work what a huge Muppets fan he was, and I was like "Oh, dude. I have these figures in storage. Let me give these to ya".

Thinking one, they're just sitting in storage, and I'm not enjoying them right now. At least give them to someone who will appreciate and love them more than me right now.

And two, there is no way possible than in 5 years time, Palisades will be going under and these will be going for an arm and a leg. I can always pick them up later.

GAVE them away, trying to be a good friend. To a friend who ghosted me the moment I left that job for greener pastures.

Borkin' borkhead, indeed.
 
I have all my figures but prob gave the playsets away. I never had room for that & I really disliked that model. Particularly locking Rowlf, my fav Muppet, behind a hard to get playset. I eventually paid $ for him loose on eBay
 
I think I'll have to figure out how to do a full Muppet Stage diorama for these. I've wanted to do that for some time with my DST Muppets, but never got around to it.
 
The only playset I ever displayed was the original Pee Wees playhouse. Then when I was moving 10 years ago I had it stored in my garage and it flooded. Totally ruined it. I just chucked it. Shit day. Moving sucks for us collectors.
 
I still have all of my Palisades collection, which focused mostly on the Muppet Show. Didn't get many of the variants like Treasure Island or Muppets Tonight specific characters. I did have all of the playsets though. Muppet Labs, Electric Mayhem drum stage, Swine Trek, Swedish Chef's kitchen, Backstage. They are still prized possessions, but are just melting away in my attic. I've checked on the collection and they all still seem to be in good shape, perhaps a bit dusty, but in bins. Favorites were Sweetums, Uncle Deadly, the penguins, the band (even had Lips! Only one I got on secondary, and had to pay a lot), Beauregard, Pops, Newsman. I'm glad there weren't really any notable gaps. They completed Pigs In Space, Mayhem.. It's a very satisfying collection. But that dated articulation is what makes me want NECA's attempt. Can't wait to see how they do.
 
I actually WISH I had given away my World of Springfield Simpsons collection. I was doing a purge, and there was an antique/collector shop that was buying collections, and I sold off my carded Marvel Select and Marvel Universe collections, and my entire loose Simpsons collection for pennies on the dollar. Then a buddy of mine who didn't collect Simpsons expressed an interest in the figures and had been ebaying lots here and there, and I instantly regretted selling mine off. I would have given them to him for free. I'd know they were going to a good home and wouldn't just be picked apart piecemeal.
 
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