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How Five Nights at Freddy’s Brought Friendly Yet Frightening Vibes to Its Puppets
They did it, they really did it. The Freddy Fazbear Pizza band from Five Nights at Freddy’s has been made real, and of course Blumhouse got the Jim Henson Creature Shop to do it. io9 sat down with Five Nights at Freddy’s director Emma Tammi and project supervisor and lead designer Robert Bennett to discuss…
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We Tried The Muppets Pickle Milkshake at Walt Disney World So You Don’t Have To
Fans of The Muppets know that representation of the Jim Henson Company’s famed icons at Disney Parks or on Disney programming (The Muppets Haunted Mansion forever!) comes few and far between all the Marvel and Star Wars blockbusters. So when a presence was announced for Disney Parks’ International Food and Wine Festival at Epcot, we…
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Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock’s First Trailer Digs Deep for Nostalgia
Apple TV+ series Fraggle Rock: Rock On — a series of short videos starring the franchise’s signature Fraggles navigating their subterranean, cave-dwelling lives in the era of social distancing — worked as a way to introduce to characters and their imaginative world to a new generation. Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock might look and…
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The Major Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anniversaries of Winter 2021
Let’s face it. We’re all old. Even if that’s not technically true, there’s always something a person can say or do to make you feel that way. One of those is when we realise a movie we feel an affinity for is way older than we remember it being. The best course of action? Use…