D23 Event "The Muppets 70: A Glamorous Miss Piggy Retrospective"!

Disney announced the expansive programming lineup for their upcoming D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event and it includes one Muppet event.

To celebrate 70 years of The Muppets, the convection is celebrating biggest diva in the troupe, Miss Piggy. 

The Muppets 70: A Glamorous Miss Piggy Retrospective

Join Walt Disney Archives director Becky Cline and The Muppets producer Dani Iglesias for a fabulous look back on the past 70 years of the Muppets... but mostly Miss Piggy! We will dive into the vaults to uncover nostalgic artifacts along with how we preserve this collection today!

The event will take as part of the D23 convention Friday August 9 at 12:45 on the Walt Disney Archive Stage.

You can see the rest of the schedule at D23. 

Muppet Mayhem Comes to NYCC!

After conquering D23 last week, The Electric Mayhem will promote their upcoming series The Muppets Mayhem at New York Comic Con.

 

The Muppets Mayhem:

It’s time to play the music! Coming to Disney+ in 2023, The Muppets Mayhem is a brand-new series that, for the first time in the Muppets’ over 65-year history, focuses on the legendary Electric Mayhem band as they maneuver their way through the music world of Los Angeles with one goal — to finally record their first album. Join the “human” stars of the series — Lilly Singh, Tahj Mowry and Saara Chaudry — as well as co-creators and executive producers Adam F. Goldberg, Jeff Yorkes and Bill Barretta for exciting news, exclusive footage and more!

The Muppets Mayhem will be held on the Main stage Sunday, October 9 from 11-12:30pm.

Sesame Street will also get a NYCC panel with Playbill Presents: Sesame Street The Musical Panel:

Now playing Off-Broadway, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby, Grover, Rosita, Bert, Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, The Count, Gabrielle, and a whole host of Sesame Street favorites have ventured onto the stage to appear in their very own musical– starring… well, themselves. Join us at NYCC as we discuss this all-new stage show featuring live puppetry and classic Sesame Street songs, plus new numbers by Broadway's brightest songwriters! Participants and host will be announced shortly.

Playbill Presents: Sesame Street The Musical Panel will be held in room 401Sun, Oct 9, 2022 from 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM. 

But that's not all. The day before, our friends at ToughPigs will be hosting their own panel about Jim Henson: The Early Years to promote Craig Shemin's new book Sam and Friends: The Story of Jim Henson’s First Television Show.

Panelists include:

Craig Shemin – Muppet writer and author of “Sam and Friends: The Story of Jim                                     Henson’s First Television Show”

Ryan Dillon – Muppet performer

         Rollie Krewson – Master Puppet Designer and Builder, The Jim Henson Company

        Susie Tofte – Archivist / Collections Manager, The Jim Henson Company Archives

        Dave Hulteen – Muppet artist, cover artist for “Sam and Friends: The Story of Jim                                              Henson’s First Television Show”

Jim Henson: The Early Years will be held Saturday, October 8th at 4:45pm Room TBD.

More info about New York Comic Con can be found at NewYorkComicCon.com.

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance at San Diego Comic-Con!

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance made a big splash at San Diego Comic Con last month. 

We previously showed you the amazing booth Netflix had for the series, now check out this special teaser they made for the con....

 as well as the full panel in Comic Con's legendary Hall H!

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance premieres next Friday, August 30th on Netflix!

The (almost) Full Muppet SDCC panel!

As you know The Muppets had their first ever Comic Con panel to promote their new ABC show "the muppets."

The good folks MouseInfo.com recorded the entire of the panel and uploaded it to youtube (minus the 10 minute test footage used to sell the show to ABC.) 

Despite the producers decree that the SDCC audience would be the only audience to see the test footage, hopefully they can make a deal and include it on the eventual Bluray release, so the rest of us can see the amazing-ness as well!