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    2013 Muppet Madlibs

    Verb: cringe Verb: sneeze Number: 9,792, 864 Verb (past tense): ate Verb: Twisted Noun: Wembley Food: beets Verb: paint Verb: Number: Verb (past tense): Verb:
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    2013 Muppet Madlibs

    Verb: cringe Verb: sneeze Number: 9,792, 864 Verb (past tense): Verb: Twisted Noun: Wembley Food: beets Verb: Verb: Number: Verb (past tense): Verb:
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    Puppet-in-Progress: From the foam up

    Hands. I used to hate, hate, hate making them. Now they're routine, and I sew on 'em while waiting for web pages to load and during video game cutscenes. I developed my own pattern for the skin, and sewing them is an exercise in pure masochism compared to the simple front-and-back...
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    2013 Muppet Madlibs

    Verb: cringe Verb: sneeze Number: 9,792, 864 Verb (past tense): Verb: Twisted Noun: Food: Verb: Verb: Number: Verb (past tense): Verb:
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    New behind-the-scenes book to celebrate Fraggle Rock

    According to Amazon, the release date is April 23, 2014. :(
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    What was the last thing you bought on eBay and why

    A 6-ply white ostrich feather boa. I've since chopped half of it up for Fraggle hair.
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    Fraggle Rock Threadless T-Shirt Contest

    *laughs* We all have goofy brain farts. Mine usually take the form of embarrassing typos in my fic, such as misspelling Doc's name as "Dog" and a certain Minstrel's name as "Canus." (Maybe he's a were-Fraggle.) Thanks for the higher-res version. I wish the contest included the possibility of...
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    Fraggle Rock Threadless T-Shirt Contest

    I like this image! What I can see of it. It drives me nuts that I can't zoom in on it and see what all is going on. It looks like the radishes are called "beets." I must be misreading that, but I can't figure out what I ought to be seeing.
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    Puppet-in-Progress: From the foam up

    Kinda "Night of the Living Dead Fraggles," huh?
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    Round Nose Pattern

    Plastic spoons can make good, inexpensive eyes too.
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    Puppet-in-Progress: From the foam up

    Hair! It is a thing! The beginning: A ping-pong ball wired to the skull the same way the eyes were, a hot glue gun, and a few million bundles of fuchsia feather barbs. It took about a week to make all of those. Argh. Off-camera is a single white feather for the accents. I glued the...
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    Round Nose Pattern

    That was going to be my next suggestion. I do something similar for round shapes like eyelids, tweaking the approach to keep the seams as unobtrusive as possible.
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    Round Nose Pattern

    Does the fabric you're using have any stretch? If it doesn't, that would explain why it's wrinkling.
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    Slackbot's text sketchbook

    That's how I do it. Get a roll of 1/2" foam and some contact cement and go to it.
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    Wembley Fraggle! Squeet squeet squat!

    It's on the complete first season. They have interviews with some of the creators and puppeteers.
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    Crazy Chris's Most Sensantional Inspirational Celebrational Muppet-ational Replica FAN FILM PROJECT

    Ouch. Been there, done that, threw the T-shirt away. Get well soon!
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    Wembley Fraggle! Squeet squeet squat!

    Trial and error! I made 7 skulls for him before getting one with the right shape. It had to have the long, round-ended schnoz, short lower jaw, round cheeks, and overall flexibility of the original puppet. Oh, and the puppeteer's hand has to be able to fit inside it too. That was a tough combo...
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    Wembley Fraggle! Squeet squeet squat!

    Wem has no clue what to wear when he does have his shirts. He'll agonize over which shirt to wear. I imagine the decision is easier when one of his shirts is in the wash...unless he suddenly realizes that nudity is an option...shirt or no shirt? Shirt inside-out or outside-out? And he goes...
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