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I think I've figured out a way to use the styroEPSfoam under the eyelids without touching the glue to it. I'm going to try that. If my next post is not full of blanked-out swearwords, I'll have met with some success. Buck-Beaver, thanks for the advice. I'll look into those adhesives you...

I've looked at them--this morning, in fact!--and been tempted, but then I see all the complaints against them. Better Business Bureau gives them a F rating. Still, those are tempting. You say they make good eyes?

I don't have a low setting. Mine is a cheapie I got over 20 years ago. The glue doesn't get molten and dribble around (although if I set it down a little will ooze out the tip) so I don't think it has a "very hot" setting. My main issue is that hot glue is thick and builds up easily, plus...

Gorilla glue and another adhesive I tried last night ate holes in the foam. It was like I'd dripped acid on it. I'll try hot glue next. I don't like how thick and drippy it is, but sometimes it is the right tool for the job.

I did use styrofoam with both Janken and Shonky. Their eyelids aren't wonderful, but they didn't get messed up like this one's did. I don't know why. But, anyway, I'm looking for another way to handle the problem. It's a good thing I bought a big bag of eyes, otherwise I'd be upset over...

So I've been working on the eyes. Here are the elements: half-sphere eyes from Out Of The Box Puppets, wired together with wires sticking out the bottom edges, and 2" styrofoam balls covered with fleece eyelids. Just have to put the halves together, run the wires through the head and twist 'em...

Those puppets amaze me. They put in working eyes, and a mouth that can enunciate, like they were trying for good puppetry, but then stick the head on a giant, bloated body and use awful wrinkly gloves for hands. As for the quality, of the puppetry, well, that speaks for itself. You can buy...

It really is wonderful, putting on a puppet and having people talk to the puppet, treat it like it was a real person. I walked around Dragon*Con last year with my Janken puppet, and you should have seen people of all ages light up with joy on seeing a Fraggle in the "flesh." I hope you get to...

Now that's a good idea! Much better than scalping Gobo dolls.

The more you know. And sorry if it looked like I was shouting at you. I found out the hard way about how badly fake fur and Rit dye get along. My puppet Shonky is a poster child for that. However, I can still sometimes get Rit dye to work if I just need a color nudged slightly. The fur for...

ACETATE dye, I said. Made for acetate materials like fake fur.

(Googlegooglegoogle) Peaches first appeared in Super Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, Pac-Man Arrangement, Pac-Man World, and the Pac-Man Championship Edition games. (Root) Beer was in Jr. Pac-Man. In fact, in that game Jr. Pac-Man ate a lot of weird stuff: a kite, a drum, a cat, and even a bike. Wow.

I hear you about the colors. I've taken matters into my own hands and gotten some acetate dyes. Let's see if I can get a good reddish-orange.

Hey now, Super Pac-Man was a great game, and if you learned to control the giant Pac-Man he was great. Hit the speed button and chew right through walls! Mwaahaahaahaa! IIRC, the fruits in Ms. Pac-Man were: cherries, strawberry, orange, pretzel, apple, pear, banana.

Yeah, that was the one. Sue had earrings even though she had no ears. She had a pierced head, I guess. But she had no hat and she had to decorate her head somehow. I'm nerd enough to be able to compare the game ghosts' personalities with the cartoon ones. Pinky was the straightforward...

You big ol' nerd! You and your nerdy cartoons. Not like me; I watched cool stuff like Pac-Man.

Izzatafactnow? ;) The mouthplate is covered by self-adhesive felt, the kind with the paper back you peel away. I stitched the skin to that using orange thread. It's fussy, and the needle gets all sticky-nasty with the adhesive, but in the end you have a nice, firm, even lipline. I use the...

I've bought from both sellers, and the Punky Muppet fur is identical to the Luxury Shag. Same fur, same manufacturer. If the fur's too neat for you, you know what you can do to give it a nice woolly texture.

I've only seen the first two seasons of FiM. If they were in the third season, or in the other series, then I never saw them. Alternate explanation: Matt is unaware of the sea ponies. He was only writing about the terrestrial (and aerial) ones.

Go for it.