Television & MoviesEdit

• Sesame Street season 44, September 16

AppearancesEdit

• Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Animal on Good Luck Charlie, April 28

Live AppearancesEdit

• Big Bird at Qualcomm's CES 2013, January 7
• Alan, Bob, Gordon, Maria, Gina, Rosita, Grundgetta, and Herry Monster at From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook, January 28
• Sonia Manzano, Joey Mazzarino, supervising producer Nadine Zylstra and researcher Autumn Zitani, "Master Class with Sesame Workshop: Inspiring the Global Child", TIFF Kids International Film Festival, April 19 (full event April 18 to 21)
• Miss Piggy, Gobo Fraggle, Oscar the Grouch, Caroll Spinney, Eric Jacobson and John Tartaglia at MOMI, May 21

International AppearancesEdit

• Ernie on DAS!, January 2
• Pferd & Wolle on DAS!, January 3
• Ernie and Bert on DAS!, January 4
• Elmo on DAS!, January 5
• Finchen and Wolf on DAS!, January 6
• Ernie & Bert on German NDR Info radio (video available), January 6
• H. Melvin Ming, Cookie Monster (David Rudman), Pferd, Wolle, Finchen, Elmo, Ernie & Bert at Sesamstrasse's 40th anniversary press conference birthday party, Samson, Ernie & Bert at the 40th anniversary live concert (Hamburg, Germany), January 7 (live appearances)
• Ernie, Bert & Elmo on Hamburg Journal, January 7
• Ernie & Bert on German N-JOY radio (video available), January 8
• Ernie & Bert on TV Total, January 31
• Miss Piggy on Red Nose Day (Pepe in promos), March 15
• Ernie & Bert on SWR3 latenight (Germany), April 12
• Ernie on Hamburg Journal, May 14
• Ernie at 40 Jahre Sesamstrasse exhibition opening night launch party in Hamburg, Germany, May 14 (live appearance)

International Television & MoviesEdit

• Treehouse TV will give up the rights to Sesame Street and its spin-offs

BooksEdit

• Labyrinth graphic novel, April 9
• Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet: Where No Muppet Has Gone Before, May 14
• Down at Fraggle Rock: Lost Treasures from the Jim Henson Archives, September 10
• Jim Henson: The Biography, September 24

StorybooksEdit

• The Muppets: For the Love of Miss Piggy, January 2
• Elmo's Daddy, January 8
• Sesame Beginnings: It's Time!, January 8
• Tuck Me In, Elmo!, January 8
• The Muppets: Easter Eggstravaganza!, February 5
• Elmo at the Zoo, February 5
• The Muppets: Fozzie's Funny Business, April 2
• The Muppets: Bunsen and Beaker Save the Show, September 3

Home VideoEdit

• Elmo's World: All Day With Elmo, February 5
• Fraggle Rock: The Complete First Season (re-release), March 12
• Fraggle Rock: The Complete Second Season (re-release), April 16
• Elmo the Musical, May 7
• Fraggle Rock: Meet The Fraggles, May 14
• Fraggle Rock: The Complete Third Season (re-release), May 14
• Fraggle Rock: 30th Anniversary Complete Series Collection, May 14
• Fraggle Rock: The Complete Fourth Season (re-release), June 11
• The Jim Henson Collection, June 11
• Arts and Crafts Playdate, July 9
• The Muppet Movie (The Nearly 35th Anniversary Edition), Blu-ray, August 13

International Home VideoEdit

• Eine Möhre für Zwei DVD 7: Die neue Brille, February 8
• Eine Möhre für Zwei DVD 8: Alles Schrott?, February 8

Video gamesEdit

• Kinect Sesame Street TV, season 2, January 7

ComicsEdit

• Sesame Street Issue #1 - I is for Imagination, May 1

MerchandiseEdit

• Muppet bobblehead dolls (Funko)
• Muppet Vinylmation, series 3, July 26

Theme parkEdit

• Spaghetti Space Chase, indoor Sesame Street ride at Universal Studios Singapore, March 1

PeopleEdit

• Jane Henson dies, April 2

EventsEdit

• 40 Jahre Sesamstrasse anniversary exhibition
  • Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen (Berlin, Germany),
    December 13, 2012 - April 7 May 5, 2013 (extended)
  • Altonaer Museum (Hamburg, Germany), May 15, 2013 - March 16, 2014
    (as Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 40.! Ein Ausflug in die Welt der Sesamstraße)
• Sesamstrasse 40th anniversary birthday party & concert (Hamburg, Germany), January 7
• Original National Children's Museum opening; the museum and its Sesame display were bumped up to December 2012.
• Fraggle Rock 30th Anniversary boutique at FAO Schwarz in New York City, April