Actually, limited to 2,499 and a half.LOLThat was fascinating. Kermit is now a limited edition of 2,499.
Rest in Pieces, Kermit #2500.
Nice to see........you must have some money to burn if you can afford to do that...or you are bloody good at sewing!Inside Kermit-A Behind the scenes look.
As Master Replicas never got around to doing an insight into how Kermit is made, I decided to do a biopsy of my own and here is my report.For those who are squimish, do not look at the pics!
Here is the front view of Kermit,his head has black cellular fibre, sort of like the filters in the Kitchen exhaust hood.His body is a high density foam, like a nerf ball.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f388/peterstoymuseum/insidekermit001.jpg
Here is a view from the back, showing the foam better.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f388/peterstoymuseum/insidekermit002.jpg
Here is a side view of the head, showing the rubber gasket
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f388/peterstoymuseum/insidekermit008.jpg
Here is the arm wires, which are several wires together,like picture frame wire.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f388/peterstoymuseum/insidekermit007.jpg
Here is the hand.It has a plastic piece across the finger and a type of electrian screw joint where the thumb wire comes off.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f388/peterstoymuseum/insidekermit003.jpg
For the knee joints, each leg has 2 tubes on it to create the place where the knee will bend.(The arms dont have this as you bend the arm where the indentation is which is a squeezed thread)http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f388/peterstoymuseum/insidekermit004.jpg
The feet have plastic disks.http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f388/peterstoymuseum/insidekermit005.jpg
Having studied this photo puppet, I really appreciate all the work that has gone into creating these that you dont see, and I hope you have found this report interesting.But please dont try this at home.
I wish I did have money to burn.Lets just say that I was ancious to get a Kermit in, so I put a few orders in and they all came good.One I am displaying out loose, one is displayed in his coffin box, and I have been wondering how to use the third.So rather than keeping him boxed out in the shed, I decided to use him for a cross section display.He isnt totally ruined, because if I really wanted to, I could get him put back together again, but as I have two already, I wanted a third perspective.Now to go to work and earn some more money.Nice to see........you must have some money to burn if you can afford to do that...or you are bloody good at sewing!