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I am Mighty Dragon........or Hissing Snake - I checked it twice!

Hi all! Has anybody else seen these on ebay? They are the hard-to-find (well, I've never come across them!) Wilkins & Wontkins puppets from the famous series of commercials Jim Henson did for Wilkins Coffee in the 50s and early 60s. The auction closes around 5 pm EST today. Check it out if...

"Sesame" is a cultural icon - it's as ripe for spoofing as "Star Wars" but as we've all said, the upset people ARE IN THE WRONG COUNTRY! That aside, it's not even a very well done editorial cartoon. Free speech is such a bad thing in the wrong hands (sigh).

I agree with Emmy's sigh. Has all of America completely missed that this is only affecting the South African version of the show? Have I missed something? Do these people who are freaking out know where South Africa is? Do the lawmakers realize PBS has virtually nothing to do with the...

Oh you are not imagining - I think this was discussed at great length on the old forum. I think even the original VHS release was cut a bit from the 47 minute TV version - can anyone confirm? The only way I know you can get the one, true and original special is to find someone with a copy of...

Emmy, you know what - I think Ed just wants a fight. Phillip and several other members are right - we should steer the discussion back towards something directly Muppet-related. If Ed wants to prohesize his beliefs - and that is certainly his right - the internet offers a multitude of other...

We were all discussing South Africa? lol Seriously, I think this is a very good idea in South Africa and probably well overdue there. AIDS is on the verge of wiping out much of the population of Africa and South East Asia. It's a disaster that is made worse by Western Nation's reluctance to...

We usually sketch out ideas, at least roughly. I am by no means an accomplished artist so my personal drawings tend to be either fairly crude, or computer rendered (I don't do computer renderings very often though). All I try to do is convey a basic idea of what the character should look like...

Does this mean hetrosexuality is a fetish too? lol Using Webster's dictionary to defend a religious position - this keeps getting sillier and sillier - poor Ed, tricks are for kids! :p

I generally don't wade in to these sorts of raging debates and certainly don't discuss my religion alot, but I've read your hateful and inflammatory posts and well-intended but misguided holier-than-thou righteous schtick with an increasing sense of alarm and outrage, both as a human being and a...

Re: Hey, I honestly don't know from foam Warrick. We just go to a big foam warehouse that's on the way to our studio and we walk through, see what they have and buy a lot of what we think will work (they don't stock foam consistantly). They can't tell us manufacturers or PPI (pores per inch)...

It's not the same at all - plus, the foam is usually cheaper than clay!

You should start with a block of foam. We like light-weight, dense foam is we have to carve, but we don't carve foam very often. Foam dulls blades quickly, so it's good to keep that in mind when you are buying supplies. Carving with a fish-filleting knife is good, but you'll need to have a...

You can see examples of some of our puppets at omlemedia.com and over at OMCS Some good places on the web for puppet building info are The Puppetry Homepage and Puppetbuilder.com. Good luck!

To answer your questions: 1) Is this an educational or entertainment production. I can see that it's both but was more interested in the thrust and purpose of the project? It's interesting that you ask, because that is the very question being debated here right now. The goal of the show...

Re: *oink* *baa* = looks cool Thanks! Glad you like Pig and Sheep! The show is going to be a mix of all-puppet segments shot in a studio and "live action" segments shot on real farms. We're actually shooting the on-location(farm) stuff first because we have to get it all in before the end...

The camera is whatever kind of camera is being used on the shoot. There is also space on the puppeteering dollys for monitors for the puppeteers. I don't know if they use this type of dolly on "Sesame Street" (probably only for outdoor stuff) but I do know the puppeteers often use small...

I think it probably varies, depending on way the scene is being shot (and where). I know they use special little low-to-the-ground stools on Sesame Street quite a bit - this was seen briefly on the A&E Biography special on SS. Some productions use special puppeteering dollys which have a...

Hi Gang! As promised, we're slowly but surely putting the "Puppet Bin" section of our website back together. The "Puppet Bin" is a (sometimes) monthly feature where we explain how we went about doing different puppet building projects and explain our approach to solving common problems like...

I think Kevin Clash's official title is "Puppet Coordinator" - from what I've heard he does some of the workshops the Muppets do to find new puppeteers from time to time, reviews tapes of potential puppeteers and sort of acts as a "puppet captain" on alot of the Henson sets. Rickly might be a...