Welcome back to fine-tuning with Drew Taylor,

your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor, whose writings on the

industry you can regularly read over on the ramp and whose musings on the

Mission Impossible movies you can listen to on the Light the Fuse podcast.

I think he's flying back to LA today and when I say today I mean

Sunday October 6th which is when I'm recording this week's episode anyway

Mr Taylor will be back in the saddle here in time for next week's show, fine tuning.

That said, Drew and I were in touch earlier this week when news broke about the possible sale of the chaplain lot out in Florida and just

you know folks the Jim Henson Company is now saying that's not a thing. They actually issued an official statement yesterday, Saturday,

October 5th, saying that, and I quote, this comes straight from the rap by the way.

In regards to recent rumors about the sale of the Lebrayha studio lot,

the Henson company is not in any business dealings with the Church of Scientology,

and that organization is not in

consideration as a potential buyer of the property. It is still the family's

intention to move the Jim Henson company to a new location it can then share

with Jim Henson's Creature Shop, but at this time the family is not an escrow with any buyer and again want to stress this

info come straight from the rap which posted a piece disputing this rumor

yesterday afternoon just putting this out there since we're now discussing Muppet related rumors, it would be great.

If the Walt Disney Company would issue a similar sort of statement clarifying where exactly the Monsters Inc door coaster.

It's supposed to be built at Disney's Hollywood studios because I gotta tell you, rumors

continue to swirl about how that project will potentially negatively impact Muppet Vision 3D.

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