Little Mermaid's Island

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Little Mermaid's Island

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Has anyone else here heard of Disney/Jim Henson's Little Mermaid's Island? Saw this footage for the first time today:

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Heard of, no, but looks like Disney's first collaboration with Henson, in '89-'90 (back when HA was still using puppets and not CGI)
Seems like a pilot that was later turned down in favor of the Mermaid animated series, but the idea of a Henson collaboration was saved for the puppet stage show at the Disney Studios park.
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Wow. I had never heard of this. Neat. But no hard feelings that it never made it to series.
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While it's quite elaborate it does seem quite confused, which is why it probably didn't happen. I knew about this, but only so far as a "Disney and Henson teamed on an abandoned idea based on The Little Mermaid" reference I read somewhere some time ago. Interesting but easy to see why it didn't get made.
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