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>group behindSo not the Jim Henson company. Whichever soulless entity purchased it last.
>>152811609>Universal Studios Japan is closing it's Sesame Street area, likely for the Pokemon attractions announced a while ago.>Sesame Workshop is now suing SeaWorld Entertainment over licensing mistreatment.What the fresh hell is up with Sesame Street and theme parks literally killing them?
>>152811609SeaWorld is still alive?
>>152811713>What the fresh hell is up with Sesame Street and theme parks literally killing them?In SeaWorld's case the most noticeable thing park guests will see is how poorly-maintained Sesame Street Land is, if Universal did that for Nintendo's themed lands they'd do the exact same thing Sesame Workshop's doing.
>>152811633Sesame Street was always a joint project of the Jim Henson Company and the Children's Television Workshop. The Hensons just gave them full custody of the characters in the 90s since even when Jim was trying to sell his company to Disney, Sesame Street was never meant to be part of the deal since he knew Disney would have corrupted their educational purpose.
>>152811813all my homies love Six Flags
>>152811609I'm going to guess this is at least partially motivated by the state funding spigot being turned off. Now they have to maximize every other source of revenue.
>>152812153Sesame Street hasn't been state funded for a while now, that's what the HBO and Netflix distribution deals were for.
