Jim Henson's legacy is carried on in different forms today. Teeth, as of 2005.ДЄccording to, Henson was cremated and his ashes were scattered at his ranch outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. However, following his death, Rowlf the Dog was kept completely silent until episode 2 of Muppets Tonight, on which Rowlf briefly broke his silence thanks to the vocal help of Bill Barretta, who now voices the Swedish Chef, Mahna Mahna, and Dr. Teeth had been officially taken over by John Kennedy, however, the character only had made brief appearances with very little dialogue. Waldorf, in 1992, had been taken over by Dave Goelz. Steve Whitmire then took over for Kermit the Frog, only months after Jim passed away, then he took over for Ernie in 1993 to Frank Oz's Bert on Sesame Street. on Wednesday, May 16th, 1990, approximately 20 hours & 23 minutes after checking himself into the emergency room at New York Hospital, not realizing how sick he really was. Jim became infected with a very rare bacterium called Group A streptococcus in May 1990, which was discovered too late for him to receive any proper treatment. After Henson's sudden and untimely death, negotiations went awry, and Disney would not acquire the Muppets fully until February 2004, which it now controls through the wholly owned subsidiary The Muppets Studio. The other last project was Jim Henson's Muppet*Vision 3-D, a three-dimensional attraction currently located at Disney's Hollywood Studios. On May 6th, 1990, The Muppets at Walt Disney World premiered, as a special about the Muppets going to Kermit's home swamp and soon after, Walt Disney World. Two of his very last projects actually involved Walt Disney World in one way or another. Wanting to become less of a businessman and focus more on the creative side of the production, he entered into talks with Michael Eisner to sell his company and characters (minus Sesame Street) to the Walt Disney Company. In late 1989, Jim Henson made a radical change in his career.

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