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I should have all of my puppets at Comic-Con in 2010. I took 2009 off this year. ;)

Ah! Believe it or not, but back when I was trying to make mine, Harry Potter wasn't even around, yet! ;) I agree -- the lighter color is fine. Do you have any pocs of the other puppets you've built?

Good start! I tried building a Scooter years ago as well, but only got as far as sculpting him. I still run across the thick white yarn I saved (and was going to dye red) for the project. I love the glasses! Did you fabricate those as well. The ones I was using were made from a watercolor...

Just an unrelated side note -- The fabric store I go to sometimes in Marina Del Rey's owner (who has been in business there for over 40 years and has some of the wildest assortment of fabrics I've ever seen) told me that the Kroftts got all of their fabric for HR Pufnstuf from her back in the...

I was told that the original Kermit was an off-the-shelf RIT dye, but it looks a lot different in real life because the studio lights make it look a lot brighter. In order to match Kermit's color, you have to mix colors -- but every time I ask about this, the stock answer is "experiemt -- no two...

I finally tracked down a video from our little performance. Sorry about the quality, but I'm happy someone had a cellphone handy when we did it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pFaCPATd5c

Our little "performance" went great! We were lucky in that most of the people there had never seen the original. We got a lot of comments like "you guys should perform this professionally!" Of course, we had to tell them that we would -- if we weren't ripping off an old Jim Henson bit in the...

So, this weekend, my wife and I were invited to a barbecue and found out about 24 hours prior to the event that each family was expected to perform a little skit. Originally, we weren't going to do anything, but a couple of months ago, I had to replace the tubing on my dryer and still had...

I think this looks great! The greatest thing about him is that he doesn't really fall into that "mistaken for a Muppet" thing. I could see this becoming something akin to a Furby, to tell you the truth. Great job!

That was great! When I was a kid, I made a Number Five out of a couple of the Robotix sets I had. If I remember correctly, the head was made out of poster board (with a couple of film cannisters with Yatzee chips for the eyes), as was the laser gun, but the bulk of the body was functional using...

I looked at the first three or four of your videos and really couldn't tell what was going on. I wouldn't show everything I'd ever done -- maybe just 2 or 3 of your best work. You could write up something like: My character Arthur sings along to "Blue Moon" link Arthur tries to get mail out of...

Maybe a brief synopsis would help? I know what you mean, though. I did a webcomic for years and the few fans I had weren;t exactly the most vocal... but they were there. I've always operated under the idea that I'd keep doing what made me happy and other would find it. It just takes time...

I know that whenever we used kid's clothes for puppets, there was always a lot of tailoring that had to be done to make them look right (mostly in taking out the shoulders). Also, if it's a live hand puppet, you have to worry about where the puppeteer's arm is going to go into the sleeve (and...

You know, your Wembly isn't that far off at all! On one of the Fraggle Rock documentaries on the Season sets, one of the builders says that there's a plastic ball in Wembley's nose to keep its shape. That might help fill it out better, with very little adjusting to your current pattern! Good...

But did you make it from one piece of reticulated foam? Sorry. Had to keep this joke going. ;)

I wonder if you could make it out of an inflatable beach ball attached to a foot punp? Just make the body hollow (and light) and insert the uniflated beach ball inside. The ball would start out partially inflated, but get bigger as you added more air. I have no clue how to do the shrinking...

I just signed my wife up as a birthday gift. I'll be sure to look over her shoulder as she takes the course so I can take advantage of this great resource, too! From what I've seen of the outline and Andrew's work in the past, I'd say that 90% of the people that post on this forum should sign up...

I wouldn't do too much in the form of directions. I would identify what's a dart and what's a mouth or neck hole. I would think that most people could figure it out from there.

I've kind of wondered the same thing about my modified Muppet puppets. Now, I realize that they've never produced a Gonzo puppet, but I have had some pretty good success in converting an Eden Toys Gonzo into something that's more on-model with the real Gonzo, and is now a puppet instead of a...

Wasn't there a story about Jim Henson hearing about a non-licensed Kermit being sold in Mexico? It was either that someone bought it for him or he bought it himself. I could be mistaken, though. It might have been Walt Disney or Charles Schulz I'm thinking of.