A Muppet Family Christmas $$$$?

[wall1a]

I love the movie and I would like to add it to my Muppet collection but it is so expensive ($100+ for a DVD). Why? Does anyone have a clue?

 

[tennisfan]

According to Amazon it is discontinued by the manfacturer so very hard to get hold of.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

Yep. I think it was only available for a couple of years on dvd. It was originally released in 2001 and I haven't really seen it out since then.

That's why it's so much.

You might try ebay or half or some other second hand sites.

 

[agnes!]

I'm not sure how legit the copies are, but

vendio.com has it for $14.95
EBay has copies available starting at $1.98

Here's what I found on the muppetwiki (who *knew* that such a thing existed?)

A Muppet Family Christmas has been released on video in both 1994 and 1998 and on DVD in 2001. However, every commercially available version in the United States and Canada has scenes edited out due to music rights problems. When this special originally debuted on television, the full rights to the songs were only secured for television. Because the US song rights are different than for other countries, the PAL video release available in Europe does not contain the music edits the NTSC videos suffer. All video releases derive from the 1989 edit, which contains less incidental music, and puts dissolves between scenes that originally faded to and from black for commercial breaks. (NBC added their own fades when airing the special.) The 2001 DVD is a shorter cut of the 1989 edit.

agnes!

 

[wall1a]

Thanks for the info.