Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Jim Henson Company sold off the Muppets to Disney in 2004 for a cool $75 million, but not everyone thought it was a good deal.

“Disney and Henson is such a convoluted story,” Jim Hill, theme park historian and host of “The Disney Dish” podcast, tells SFGATE via phone. And that story, which goes back to the 1980s, includes a ...