Updated with Monsters, Inc. coaster info Aug. 13, 2024. Originally published Nov. 2, 2023. The Walt Disney Company purchased the Muppets in 2004. However, Jim Henson and then Disney CEO Michael Eisner had announced plans for the acquisition much earlier: all the way back in 1989. The timeline of what transpired between 1989 and 2004 reads like an HBO drama. Perhaps youll learn something new as...