Have you been playing the My Muppets Show game on your iPhone or Android? Been enjoying that? Good. Because it’s going away forever.
As announced on the My Muppets Show Facebook page, the game will be shutting down on January 9th, 2015. So you have just a few more weeks to get that song stuck in your head. (“Oh yeah all right! About to lay it down!”)
Personally, I was really into this game for a long time, and I have mixed feelings about its demise. I played several times a day to collect coins and food. I managed to get every character and all the props. I got everyone up to their max level, and I probably listened to each of those songs about 900,000 times. I was a fan until there wasn’t anything left to do, and then it slowly faded out of my life. So I think the game did its job and entertained us while it was around, but at the same time, it’s the best representation of the Muppets in the digital world right now.
If you search for “Muppets” on the iPhone app store, there are two results: This app and the Muppets’ Band-Aid app (which I’m sure you all play with every single day). That’s pretty weak, considering the Muppets are a big brand with next to no online presence. And once the My Muppets Show app is gone, that’s a huge chunk of the larger puzzle missing.
Now, this could all be for naught. It’s possible that there’s new stuff around the corner for our smartphones and they’re just clearing the house to make room for the awesome apps coming soon. Then again, maybe nobody at Disney is making an effort to make Muppets mobile anymore.
In the meantime, enjoy your My Muppets Show while you can, and then fill the void with any number of the great apps featuring the Sesame Street gang!
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by Joe Hennes – Joe@ToughPigs.com
