The Princess Blog

The Jim Henson Company is no stranger to princesses. There have been a number of fairy tale specials featuring princesses alongside his famous Muppet characters. However, the princesses in these specials are usually human women interacting with puppets . The reason for this is probably that princesses are generally perceived as elegant graceful women , while puppets tend to be used for comic relief. That was not the case, however, in Jim Henson's 1982 classic film  The Dark Crystal . This movie created a much darker and more serious take on the original puppetry style of storytelling he became famous for in an epic fantasy setting. This weekend, Netflix premiered its Dark Crystal  spin-off series  The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance , which marks the first time that I have ever seen the Jim Henson Company use puppets to portray fantasy princess characters. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance contains three princess sisters named Seladon, Tavra, and Brea. Each o...

The Labyrinth of Jareth Masquerade , one of the best princess events in existence, was inspired by the 1986 Jim Henson movie, Labyrinth . Though the protagonist Sarah is not a princess, the most iconic scene is when David Bowie 's character brings her to a royal masquerade ball where her dress is transformed into a magnificent ballgown. Throughout the movie, Sarah interacts with puppet characters on her quest to recover her baby brother from the Goblin King's labyrinth. Jim Henson has always shown muppets interacting with humans, but it is not too common to see them in princess stories and even less common for princesses to be portrayed as puppets. Jim Henson made a handful of fairy tale muppet specials with mixed results. The best by far is  Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince  from 1971 based on the classic fairy tale with a few fun twists. Melora is a beautiful human princess who is cursed to have her words twisted so her father can't understand her when speaks. ...