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I've only ever sculpted puppet heads and bodies out of block foam, except the one time I built a full-body puppet. I used a serrated steak knife for big cuts, a super sharp x-acto knife for fine cuts, and a pair of "Fiskers" like scissors for most of the sculpting. It took soooooo many...

Great work! Very expressive, nicely finished puppets. -Scraps

When you guys say "electric carving knife" are you talking about the battery powered, heated metal filament that melts its way through foam, or what my father-in-law calls the "household chainsaw," a double bladed knife you would use to carve up meat? -Scraps

... Oh, and they sometimes sell off leftover foam scraps for cheap. I still check fabric stores in my area for scraps - some habits die hard. -- Scraps "I don't sell for cheap" Flippy

In my college days, living in Arkansas, I bought sheet foam and block foam from Hancock Fabrics. I don't know if they have a Hancock Fabrics in your neck of the woods. To be honest, I don't know if this is the best foam to use for puppet building. I sure got mileage out of it. --Scraps

2. Spend all day working on your tax return 1. There's this concept I ran across in the works of Arthur Lessac (a voice and diction instructor from some big ivy-league school who wrote a killer textbook called "The Use and Training of the Human Voice" .) The idea is that your voice can...

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Top Ten ways to Speak Gravelly - 10. Gargle with rusty nails 9. Channel the spirit of Leonard Cohen 8. Channel the spirit of Tom Waits 7. uh - uh - little help, please?

Y'know, even if HIT isn't the biggest distributor in the world, who cares? I think the deal they made with Henson could lift them up to a whole new level. If I may put on my Capitalist hat for a moment ... Our job is to make sure there is a ton (or tonne - this is an international forum)...

Hey - IM Buck if you want to talk directly to Buck. Or, if you are such great "friends" pick up the telephone. Don't air your dirty laundry here, and don't patronize us. "I was NOT trying to manipulate" indeed! This is a public forum, pal. You just hatched an open-letter to Buck accusing...

YAHOO! Although I was afraid this was an April Fools Day joke at first. --Scraps

:excited: RED! :excited: 'cause Karen Prell is cool. ... and 'cause my wife's nickname growing up was "Red" ... and 'cause those pigtails are the bomb, yo. - Scraps

Great offering - - but sheesh! get your facts straight, seller! Kermit evolved from Wilkins? What? Betty Henson? Huh? Would be cool to have, though. - Scraps "Fyap" Flippy

Thanks for the heads-up, Buck! As per usual, I am impressed at how you always manage to know what's going on in L.A. (from your home in Canada) than I do (actually living in L.A.) --Scraps

I have one of the older ones as well, and played a nice game of chess on Sunday with one of my puppet nerd friends ( ;)) Since the pieces are made of some kind of soft plastic/hard rubber, I've been able to bend the Rizzo pawns so that they stand up straight and don't fall over. One thing...

Another thought - in the book Jim Henson: The Works, there's a great picture of Richard Hunt standing around as puppet builders build the under structure of a full body puppet on him. If you take a look at it (I think it's in the Muppet Show chapter) it will give you a good idea how the pros go...

Does WDW have Bear in the Big Blue house "fuzzies" (The walk-about mascot-style full body costumes?) The BITBBH puppets we use in the live show at Disney's California Adventure are the real deal - Henson Creature Shop built, including bear himself. Since our show is modeled on the WDW show...

In college I made a full-body, hot pink and tan gorilla. I built the whole thing out of 3/4 inch sheet foam, using (actually, lucking into after some trial and error) the "wedge method" that Buck Beaver details in his wonderful puppet building tutorial on his website. I built gorilla feet...

Hey - Scrapsflippy here looking for other Disney employed puppeteers, past and present. How many of us are on this forum? Post away! To get the ball rolling, I'm at "Playhouse Disney - Live On Stage" at Disney's California Adventure. I've been there since October '03. (I'd also...

Maybe Shynee can back me up on this one. I haven't bothered to turn the otters inside out, but I believe the lining goes all the way up - I think that the "sleeve" is just sewn to the inside of the fur before the puppet is actually assembled. So, in other words, you cut your pieces, flip them...