[RStar]

I definatly feel that Jim Henson was the heart of the Muppets, and particularly Kermit. Jim was the creator, and the voice of Kermit, and much the way Walt Disney was the voice of Mickey that launched the Disney Empire, Jim's Kermit launched the Hensen Empire (no Yoda pun intended).

The problem is not just writers, or actors reading a script. The heart that was Jim Henson could carry on only so far after his death (the same may be said about Walt). Most of the shows afterward could be funny and intertaining, but with a hollow, empty heart. I mean when Kermit sang "it's not easy being Green" you felt for the little guy, and he seemed so real and so alive. That magic just hasn't been there post Jim, in my opinion.

And if I go see the Muppit Mobile tomorrow, it will be out of curiosity for the technology, not for the Muppets.