General "Did you Know?"s

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I remembered some tragic trivia. Did you know? That Jim Henson(of The Muppets) was at one point going to be one of the creative consultations for Disney animation? In the book 'Michael Eisner: Keys to the kingdom'. It talked about how Jim Henson was looking to Disney for them to buy the rights to The Muppets IP, believing that they'd be in good hands with the Disney company(This was all in 1989). Jim being compared by many as 'The Walt Disney of Puppets', was  already negotiating with Disney to bring future muppet projects with Disney(meaning Disney would televise all muppet related projects). Roy Disney was hoping that Jim would be apart of the creative procress in hopes to bring back some of the lost magic to the Disney company. However, Michael Einser(who had the control over the approval of that) said no to both Jim and Roy. No explanation was given. This happened on May 10, 1990. Six days later, Jim henson passed away.