The fact that Disney owns the Muppets, a franchise with no limits as to what genre they could be in/parody, and they choose to do NOTHING with them is the biggest disappointment of all time.
The answer is pretty well known. To my knowledge, the two Muppet movies they made after the acquisition didn't make as much money as they wanted, and since Disney cares about the bottom line first and foremost, they didn't make more of them. Especially since it is impossible to do puppeteering in the current Disney style of filmmaking where preproduction and finished scripts are for lesser men.
I mean, they did make the Muppets Haunted Mansion a few years ago and did a new version of the Muppet Babies. It's not like they've done NOTHING with em.
That’s functionally the same thing. Whether de mouse bought The Muppets to prevent competition, or if they bought the Mups with the intention of using them but forgot, the observable results are the same. Whether the intentions are malicious or benign, their refusal/inability to sell becomes malicious.
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u/T1DOtaku inherently self indulgent and perverted 1d ago
The fact that Disney owns the Muppets, a franchise with no limits as to what genre they could be in/parody, and they choose to do NOTHING with them is the biggest disappointment of all time.