The Age of Aquarius!

Aquarius toys has new licence with the Jim Henson Company. 

The first few items are The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth playing cards and puzzles.


Dark Crystal Playing Cards:

Dark Crystal Jigsaw Puzzle (500 Piece):

You may notice that The Dark Crystal puzzle above doesn't link to Amazon.That's because they sold out and they removed the link. It was also available from a couple other sites, that sold out of them already as well!

Luckily, it it also available though GameStop.
Labyrinth Playing Cards:

Labyrinth Jigsaw Puzzle (500 Piece):

Remember the Dark Crystal lunch box we told you about last month? It also from Aquarius. So maybe we'll see a new Labyrinth lunch box from them soon as well. 
From what I've seen on the fan forums, these have been big hits. In fact, many of the initial pressings are selling out, but I'm sure more will be made as demand increases. 

Again, these are available, but selling fast, at the links above.   

Muppet Thought of the Week - Janice's Key to Staying Young!

For this week's Muppet Thought of the Week, Janice shares her key to staying young...

Adorkable Rachel Explores The World of The Dark Crystal!

Just in time for the film's 35th anniversary, our friend Adorkable Rachel takes an on location look at The Dark Crystal!

Also of note, tomorrow's the last day to see it in US theaters, which we HIGHLY recommend going to see.

The 4K restoration is simply stunning. My only qualms were that for some reason Universal hasn’t given the Henson’s/ Sony a remastered version of their logo. It looks really worn and dated - and really stands out as it should be an easy fix. 

Secondly, the title itself looks muted and soft. Just like the blur-ray does now. 

Title shot from 2009 Blu-ray.

When you see the rest of the names in the opening credits the different is very apparent. The names really stand out and shine, the the big reveal of the title? meh. Again, an easy fix that should have been dealt with for this 4K restoration.

Other then then those two things - both of which happen less than 2 min into the film  - everything else looks amazing and we can't recommend seeing this restoration on the big screen enough. 

However, if you can't make it to the theather, The Dark Crystal's 35 Anniversary Edition 4K and Blu-ray hits store's tomorrow!

New Muppet Babies Shorts!

In advance of the March 23 premier, Disney Junior will be releasing Muppet Babies shorts titled "Muppet Babies: Show and Tell" to help promote the show. 

The first appeared online today with two elderly gentleman sitting in a familiar looking box:

More are scheduled to premier tomorrow on Disney Channel, Disney Junior YouTube, and the DisneyNOW app. But why wait, we have more below!

The new Muppet Babies makes it debut with back- to-back episode March 23rd on Disney Channel, and the DisneyNOW app. 

'Labyrinth: Coronation #1 Now Available!

Archaia's ongoing series about the origins of Labyrinth's Goblin King, Jareth begins today. 

In addition to the first few pages we already showed you, we now have a look at the subscription variant cover:

As well as a Comic Pro variant cover by Mouse Gaurd author and friend of the blog, David Peterson:

Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation #1 is available now through comic shops and  Amazon today. 

Muppet Thought of the Week ft. Uncle Deadly!

Uncle Deadly fashions a fine bit of wisdom for this week's "Muppet Thought of the Week."

The Muppets Take London's 02!

Last year they took, the Bowl. This year The Muppets are scheduled to take Santa Barbara, New Zealand, and now a new venue has been announced, London's 02 arena!

Their quest make "millions of people happy" is heading across the pond for their first live shows " in London .. or Europe"!

Kermit and Miss Piggy made this video to announce the show:

The shows will be July 13 & 14th and tickets go on sale 9am (London time) Wednesday February 28th through AEG.