I was a little older than the target audience when Fraggle Rock-mania first hit the States, but I always appreciated how popular the odd little guys were. The world’s going to have at least one more chance to ponder the relationship between the Fraggles and those little construction worker bug things sometime next year when the Fraggle Rock movie hits theaters. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when the daughter of the greatest puppeteer ever teams up with the son of one of the most influential musical artists of the last century to teach kids how to llive together in harmony.

Lisa Henson, daughter of the iconic late Sesame Street creator and now co-CEO of the family company, told the Hollywood Reporter Thursday that she and her brother (and fellow CEO), Brian, invited Zappa over to talk books and movies—and the project just grew from there.

“During that conversation, I had an intuition that he might be a Fraggle Rock fan,” she told the trade. “He jumped out of his seat when he heard our idea of making Fraggle Rock into a feature-length movie.”

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