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Fishbone, you should consider joining the LA Guild of Puppetry . It's associated with Puppeteers of America and very active. Their members would probably be able to help you make connections in California.

So how exactly is this figure an "exclusive"? lol

It's a fairly complex area and really you're best to learn by doing. A good place to buy kits to start out with is Blue Point Engineering. They build and sell a lot of kits for animatronics.

Take a look at Mike Brose's Figure Making Can Be Fun website. Under "Fun Stuff" he has a tutorial on making moving eyes and eyebrows for Ventriloquist Dummies. The same techniques can be adapted for puppets. A good place to look for more information would be Chris Hillman's Animatronics...

Will this be rebroadcast. I missed both episodes, but my step-son and I love to watch Millionare. Congrats on the trips and the cash! :)

Will you be making a tape of this? I'd love to see it!

Hi all, Picked up a flyer for the 2003 Canadian Comic/Anime/Sci-Fi Expo in Toronto this year and they say they will have an "exclusive" Tour Animal figure available at the convention. The picture on the flyer looked like the regular Tour Animal figure, but I am assuming this is some kind of...

There was a chain of Muppet Stuff shops throughout the U.S. and Canada. It was started up (and shut down) in the 1980s. I believe the NY store was the last one to close. Here in Toronto we had one at the Scarborough Town Centre and Square One Mall too I think. Outside of theme parks, the only...

This was the best news I've heard all week. :D

I've made quite a few birds over the years. My wife and I did a bunch of pigeons and a Peregrine Falcon for the Chicago Academy of Sciences a few years back. We actually ended up making a ton of the pigeons after that, for pigeon fanciers (did you know there was such a thing?) in England I...

Day 3 and 4 were added over the weekend....day off today so I guess I am on Day 5 today. Progress was held up because I had to redo the mouth and make a bunch of minor adjustments to the head. Just an FYI, but I usually announce updates here (I missed announcing Day 4 for some reason).

I've done quite a bit with animatronics, not really entire characters but more along the lines of building/rigging puppets for certain effects. What do you want to know?

I went to your site, but I do not see a forum Barry. Are you referring to the guestbook?

For any Star Wars fans out there - I stumbled across the 2nd annual Star Wars Fan Film contest over at atomfilms.com today. Voting for the best film is open until July 17th and George Lucas himself also picks one film for an award (the filmmaker gets a tour of Skywalker Ranch and a...

Paul is right, it's very illegal and it appears to have been removed from ebay's database. Ebay has a strict policy against selling items like this. Hopefully the seller won't have any legal problems because of it.

What is the URL? I'm just curious because I haven't seen pics of any of these toys yet...

Beavers can build anything with a little mud and a few sticks.... ;)

Sorry Philip, I should have specified which page I was talking about. It's actually the frontpage at www.muppetcentral.com This isn't consistant though - sometimes if I click reload the images load correctly. Other times it won't be corrected until a few hours later or whenever I log on next...

The website/forum access problems seem to be gone, but yeah a lot of the time the pictures don't load.

Just stumbled across a link to a video of Natalie Portman's appearance on Sesame Street from earlier this year (back in April I think). It's a big .avi file (34.5mb) but almost full screen. For those who haven't seen this, Natalie and Elmo play "the princess and the elephant" and Elmo is the...