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Okay, I totally love Jim Henson. I always have, always will. I have the first season of the Fraggles on DVD and I also love the movies Labyrinth and MirrorMask.  Does anyone else have insane obessions like me?

Not an obsession, but I do like Labyrinth, and also The Dark Crystal. (Couldn't believe when I heard that it had flopped at the box office when first released.)

YES!!!!!

Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? :-)

It's right outside my house! Take a left! ^.^

I love Fraggle Rock and haven't seen it since I was a kid. I even got the tape of them singing. I was a mega Muppets and Sesame street fan as well. Henson is amazing.

I like Labyrinth (and oddly I'm listening to David Bowie right now), but The Dark Crystal was a bit harder to get into, I think because it had only muppets instead of people.

Here's the perfect combination of Labyrinth and Office Space: http://staplerwiththepower.ytmnd.com/

Did you ever see MirrorMask?

No, I haven't seen MirrorMask yet. That's that newish movie, right? I might have to check it out.

I can't say I'm obsessed, but me and my sister very much enjoyed Jim Henson films when we were children. Labrynth was one of your favorite ones. Now though, the movie seems wierd now that we are adults looking at them. It seemed pretty cool at the time. There are a number of other Jim Henson things we watched and liked when we were younger. I can't remember their titles that well off hand.

There was some show he had once, where there was a puppet dog and a guy playing the story teller. Then, some little story epesode came on. I think one of them was with a Giant that had a bee hive for a heart. That's wierd to, now that I think about it.

You really should. That movie was amazing!

I used to watch sesame street and fraggle rock daily, and the Dark Crystal and Labyrinth are two of my favorite movies- especially The Dark Crystal.

This is my first post!  Lienda Balla, when you mention the "puppet dog and a guy playing the story teller," are you talking about The NeverEnding Story?  It had a dragon with a dog's head, and it starts with a kid reading a storybook.  I didn't remember the movie I'm thinking of to have been by Jim Henson, but it was good, nonetheless.  I looked it up in Wikipedia, which says it was German.  
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neveren...%28film%29

As for the other two movies, Labyrinth and Dark Crystal, I loved them both, also.  I had never heard of MirrorMask until now, but I just checked it out on Wikipedia, too, and it appears to be on DVD.  Maybe I'll see it with my niece!

Yeah I love MirrorMask, too. (Had to watch it twice to figure out wtf was going on, but visually it's bloody brilliant and so is the story.)

Sure, totally man.

I'm a member of The Muppet Central Forum. (I'm Muppet Pro)

I should take some pictures of my room. It's all decreated with Jim Henson and Animation membrobillia.

I'm good friends with Sesame Muppeteer Marty Robinson.

I personally know Heather Henson.

I go to the CT O'neil Puppetry Conference every year. That's were you can meet Henson bigwigs like Marty, Heather and even Jim Henson's wife Jane herself. By the way, I'm performing for it this year.

And if anyone is interested,

here's some clips from my public access show

http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=MuppetPro


But anyway the original topic, Jim's fantasy worlds.

I loved The Dark Crystal. That took about 5 years to make and Jim himself credited that as his best work.

Labyrinth was good. But not as great as The Dark Crystal. I think Labyrinth was a combination of the fantasy worlds that Jim wanted to do more of and family entertainment so he can please the audiance because they were more used to his family entertainment like The Muppets.

I haven't seen MirrorMask yet. Though I'm not sure who was invalved with it. Maybe Brian Henson was executive producer or something like that. I know that Brian Froud had nothing to do with it. I would like to see it sometime.

Anyone see Pan's Labyrinth. I heard that if Jim was still alive, this would be the kind of stuff that he would have been doing today. Dark Fantasy.

Unfortunatly because that The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth wasn't successful back in it's day at the box office and reviews, Jim Henson went into depression for almost a year. He was legally seperated from his wife Jane so he could have some time to himself. There were stories that I heard that Jim would be dating other woman and was thinking of divorse but since this is more into his personal life, I'll tend to not talk about it too much because of the respect of Jim Henson. But he tended to feel alot better when his TV series "The Storyteller" was becoming successful in 1987. When his final TV series The Jim Henson Hour (1989) came out, he tended to split the show in half. One half for MuppeTelevision and the other for The Storyteller reruns. Sadly, it only lasted for 12 episodes and I think only 8 aired on it's original network NBC.