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Hi all,
New to these forums, wanted to say howdy.
I loved the Palisades toys, but when the line went under and I moved to a new house shortly after, I just never unboxed them.
A couple of months ago, I lucked into a great deal on some harder-to-find figures which I'd never owned, and when I uncreated the others to put the new ones in, I rediscovered how great this line was.
When they were on shelves, I was hesitant to create customs for fear an actual version would come out. I did make a custom Dearth Nadir figure using a Gonzo and a Darth Vader PEZ dispenser head, after an email exchange with Palisades' Mike Horn convinced me they were unable to secure the license(s), but not for lack of trying.
But now that there's no fear of having real versions offered, I've begun making several other custom figures, like "Princess Loina", Scooter-as-Simon-Smith, Link Hogthrob as the desk sergeant from Bear on Patrol, etc.
(I even used my customising skills to perform miniature hip replacement surgery on a broken Vaudeville Statler.)
And of course, from custom figures it's only a short hop to creating custom environments. I've been having fun watching my DVD's of the Muppet Show with an eye toward grabbing frames and cutting and pasting empty versions of the backdrops, then printing them.
Now my diorama is growing even larger, as I've begun fabricating a Muppet stage to go with my backstage playset. I found some perfectly-scaled hardwood flooring and vinyl brick wall pieces at Hobby Lobby, and a company called Mayberry Street makes some great little accessories...
I bought a candelabra for Rowlf's baby grand, a potted plant to serve as Statler's African berry bush, and a brass hatrack virtually identical to the fragile plastic one that came with the Backstage playset.
I even found a miniature cheesecake, and since Dr. Teeth's "Cheesecake Munching on a Cheesecake" song is a personal favorite of both mine and my youngest son's, that was a no-brainer.
Luckily, I already had an upright piano, an antique dollhouse piece which I won in an auction to use for Rowlf. (To my delight, when it arrived I discovered it was also a music box that plays "The Entertainer"!)
Anyway, I've been posting pics of all these projects on a Star Wars collecting forum's miscellaneous categories, but the reaction (though favorable) is pretty quiet. So I thought I'd share them with folks who would really appreciate them... and who better but the Muppet fans here?
DN
New to these forums, wanted to say howdy.
I loved the Palisades toys, but when the line went under and I moved to a new house shortly after, I just never unboxed them.
A couple of months ago, I lucked into a great deal on some harder-to-find figures which I'd never owned, and when I uncreated the others to put the new ones in, I rediscovered how great this line was.
When they were on shelves, I was hesitant to create customs for fear an actual version would come out. I did make a custom Dearth Nadir figure using a Gonzo and a Darth Vader PEZ dispenser head, after an email exchange with Palisades' Mike Horn convinced me they were unable to secure the license(s), but not for lack of trying.
But now that there's no fear of having real versions offered, I've begun making several other custom figures, like "Princess Loina", Scooter-as-Simon-Smith, Link Hogthrob as the desk sergeant from Bear on Patrol, etc.
(I even used my customising skills to perform miniature hip replacement surgery on a broken Vaudeville Statler.)
And of course, from custom figures it's only a short hop to creating custom environments. I've been having fun watching my DVD's of the Muppet Show with an eye toward grabbing frames and cutting and pasting empty versions of the backdrops, then printing them.
Now my diorama is growing even larger, as I've begun fabricating a Muppet stage to go with my backstage playset. I found some perfectly-scaled hardwood flooring and vinyl brick wall pieces at Hobby Lobby, and a company called Mayberry Street makes some great little accessories...
I bought a candelabra for Rowlf's baby grand, a potted plant to serve as Statler's African berry bush, and a brass hatrack virtually identical to the fragile plastic one that came with the Backstage playset.
I even found a miniature cheesecake, and since Dr. Teeth's "Cheesecake Munching on a Cheesecake" song is a personal favorite of both mine and my youngest son's, that was a no-brainer.
Luckily, I already had an upright piano, an antique dollhouse piece which I won in an auction to use for Rowlf. (To my delight, when it arrived I discovered it was also a music box that plays "The Entertainer"!)
Anyway, I've been posting pics of all these projects on a Star Wars collecting forum's miscellaneous categories, but the reaction (though favorable) is pretty quiet. So I thought I'd share them with folks who would really appreciate them... and who better but the Muppet fans here?
DN
