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Oooh! cheers for that C.J.

Is there any video/pics/whatever of this event? Wish I could have gone... being over the pond has its downfalls.

Also fellow British person, I think Wilkins can be seen in some clips on the "Muppets Celebration of 30 years" video thingy... I think...

I'll look into that Fozzie. I have a question (saves making *another* thread for this already busy forum); for adding eyes and features to furred creatures, should I just stick to the fur direct, or cut the fur down to the backing and then stick? Or just cut all the way through the fur and...

Well, I'm not too sure if it counts as full-body puppeteering but I work for a mainstream food restaurant here over in good ole England and us employees have to adopt the costume of a bear. A mascot - if you like. One big fibreglass head covered in fun fur with a head harness on the inside...

Remember Pinky from the beginning of this thread? Well... he has hair and some paper eyes (for reference while I work on his real ones) see him here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/maxwood/puppets/pinky00.jpg David.

Anyone managed to track down a clip of this appearance of Bert and Ernie yet?

Ooooh now I like that. Cute.

My latest puppet attempts can be found here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/maxwood/puppets/erniepenguin.jpg The first one, a disturbing Ernie/Nicky look-alike, was influenced by Buck's wedge construction mentioned on his website. Using a permanent marker and some synthetic hair samples some...

Yeah, the mohair seems to malt and go everything which I'm not liking, so I think I will stick with synthetic fur. Found a place who does decent fur and at the length I want if my rulers are right. www.creationsdirect.com and its over here! :D

I just got a few samples through the door. The furs are at a reasonable length, but they are mohair! It just tears away so easily I don't think it would work on a puppet which will be used for a three week shoot. So... on with the search for *synthetic* fur...

Not entirely related to the puppets you mention but here are two pictures of Rick Lyon with a naked Rod! and the puppet cast of "Avenue Q" (I think these are posable puppets rather than the performing puppets) - I hope these give you an idea of how the heads are made... well the first picture...

Well it would give me an excuse to give London another visit... Trekkie's fur is very VERY hard to find. Rick Lyon tells me that the guys who did the fur went out of business years ago and he got as much as he could!

They don't really have the colours I'm after... or even the length! I'm after very long fun fur, as in, Trekkie Monster length!

Just downloaded. I loved that. Short and sweet. Loved the cockroaches, reminded me alot like the early versions of Worms from the PC game "Worms" though - but only when they had clothes on, they looked *more* like cockroaches when we could see their ribbed chests... The quality of the video...

I gave the forum a quick search but couldn't find anything... ...does anyone known a good UK supplier for LONG fun fur to use as hair on my puppets?

Oh of course! I thought the safety precautions were common-sense! Glad you're here to make sure people who don't have any know, thanks Buck!

Um, yes, ANYWAY! I'm trying to look for that page but can't find it now... anyone know where/what I'm talking about? But yes - be very careful with the plastic and vacuum cleaner! Make sure its an old one!

I've been finding it hard to find suppliers for thicker fleece in the UK! So if anyone knows a supplier it would be much obligied gov'nor. Cheers for the feedback mate. Its just a demo puppet at the moment... I hope to get some more humany-skin colour fleece (or even a dye) and get that on a...

Not a suggestion to what to get. but a method I picked up somewhere - which I will be doing on my puppet. Vacuum formed eyes - well almost. Get a vacuum cleaner (the nosel bit) and some of that thin plastic put it over the vacuum holder hole then start to heat the plastic up with a heatgun or...