[fishtank]

ping

[RoughDobermann]

"My High Silk Hat!"

[AppyPappy]

Drat!!

[VermiciousKnid]

Oh, this is really too bad!

The Veggie Tales movies are terrific for kids. I wish them luck in their next endeavor, whatever that may be.

Regards,

[lugsoul]

If you like to talk to tomatos...

[kimmie7]

Noooooooooooooooo

We LOVE VeggieTales. Hope it doesn't get politically corrected to death.

[jbstrick]

Like the article states. I bet management decisions were the problems here. They have a great product.

[N. Theknow]

VeggieTales sold to the same company that owns The Lone Ranger.....Can Ranch dressing be far behind?

[cyborg]

Too many parents are oversophisticating their children. Many kids I know would laff at talking vegetables. I liked Veggie Tale's.. esp. the Jonah one.

[Snuffington]

Arrrgh!!! This does not bode well for my favorite kids entertainment series.

Sounds like Vischer should have hired a president to run the company with a little more business savy, while he concentrated on the creative stuff. Of course, this little gem didn't help matters:

Big Idea began looking for a buyer this past summer, after it lost a lawsuit brought by Lyrick Studios, its distributor until 2001. ...Vischer defended the decision to leave Lyrick, claiming that three years of negotiations with them had failed to result in a signed contract.

A good president would have let his lawyers make that decision, rather then going with his gut. I hope he learns from this mistake and is more successful in future ventures. In the meantime I hope the new owner doesn't screw up Veggie Tales.

[VRWCmember]

In April, a Texas jury awarded Lyrick $11 million in damages, deciding that Big Idea violated a verbal contract with Lyrick.

I think that's a big part of the problem. I thought verbal contracts over $1000 weren't enforceable, and a jury awards $11 million based on a violation of a verbal contract.

[68skylark]

I HOPE this means the former owners just aren't good at business, and that they will now be free to concentrate on the creative side of the business. If so, I guess this could be good news -- their product is really wonderful.

[ZinGirl]

The Jonah film, which cost an estimated $10 million to $20 million to produce

well, that's a pretty big spread... "it was somewhere between $10 million and $20 million to produce....we're not sure"

no wonder they're having cash problems.

[ZinGirl]

The Jonah film, which cost an estimated $10 million to $20 million to produce

well, that's a pretty big spread... "it was somewhere between $10 million and $20 million to produce....we're not sure"

no wonder they're having cash problems.

[egarvue]

My kids and I liked the Veggie Tales...for a while. Then I noticed something that started to bug me, and now I can't stand them - these videos are hawked as a "Christian" video series, promoted in Christian bookstores and Christian churches. Yet in not one of their videos do they talk about Jesus or Christ or the Gospel; not a single story or video based on events in the New Testament. Not very Christ-ian at all. The movie was terrible. As Law-oriented morality tales, they're pretty good, but the company should've really stopped trying to market them as something they're not - heck, the Veggie tales could've been a Jewish or Muslim series, because all they ever got around to talking about was some vague references to moral "God", used in the generic sense. Don't get me wrong, I thought they were very funny, and a whole lot better than 99% of the crap on kids TV (Larry's Silly Songs were classic), but I'm not all that sad that they're going. Hopefully, someone will start making and marketing REAL Christian videos for kids that can break into popular culture, ones that have the guts enough to witness about Jesus.

[steveo]

Sing with me now!

"Barbara Manatee, Manatee, Manatee,
You're the one for me, one for me, one for me,..."

[doc30]

Hopefully Classic Media LLC isn't a PC indoctrinated company. If they are, I fear for future videos. A transgendered tomato on the horizon?

[Godzilla]

This could be a job for....

Larryboy!

[JenB]

Drat!

My brothers have watched VeggieTales since they were toddlers. It's the only thing I'd put on for them; their other videos were just too stupid.

Here's hoping they don't go away...

[Our man in washington]

Declare bankruptcy? Are they just a bunch of dead-beets? Couldn't they have everyone take a 10 percent cut in celery? That would a-peas the creditors! I'm sure business will turnip soon.