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I wanted to share a story you reminded me of: Working on our first project years ago, a writer on the show (who I must add HATED puppets) brought in one of those "funny outtakes from TV around the world" Fox specials to show the puppeteers. Along with the requsit Japanese game shows and nude...

Hi Scary Larry, When we're putting wigs on puppet heads the method varies depending on how permanent the wig is, how much time we have and just how lazy we feel on that particular day. :-) If it's permanent we usually either sew the wig on (make sure you pin it in place first) or hot glue...

As far as I know (though there may be others more "in the know" than I) they don't build Muppets for private individuals or anyone outside the company. I know there have been exceptions over the years, but in most of those cases the receiver had some sort of personal or professional relationship...

Yeah, big companies like JHC sometimes come across as huge greedy corporations when they crush small well-intentioned fan activities. What most people don't realize is that if they don't stop a daycare from having unauthorized murals of Big Bird on their walls then some overseas bootlegger...

Hey, we build custom puppets! Check out our site @ OMCS *Unfortunately we can't copy copyrighted characters, but we can build virtually anything original!

Thanks for the tips rickly, we're still not sure why we had the problem, since we dye fleece all the time with no problem but we're chaulking it up to either a fluke or the idiosycrocies of 14 oz fleece (we like to use 12 oz). Normally we would have just dyed some more fleece, but in this...

The exclusive boxes in Canada are also at Shopper's Drug Mart (if you have one in your area). I see alot of Muppet plush toys at the Toys, Toys, Toys chain in & around Toronto and at the two Animal House stores at the Toronto Eaton Centre. If you are not from the Greater Toronto Area, what...

Hi Terry! Awesome Shark puppet! What is he made from, just painted scott foam? Everyone at our little shop here in Toronto loves all your puppets...if I checked messages on this board more frequently I'd have a chance to bid on one (sigh). I love all your fish puppets - the shark and the...

Hi all, Help out a nice little puppet building shop with a big problem! We have been building some puppets using 14 oz antron fleece (as opposed to the lighter 12 oz fleece) and we are finding for the first time that it is pilling horribly as soon as it is dyed - this is not a problem that we...

Hey Frogboy! Great to hear about the guild and all the stuff happenning in the Bay area...quite the little hive of puppetry from what I understand. Makes me jealous to be stuck up here in cold, rainy Canada! lol

Actually David, Grey Seal has the videos available now. Ordering info is on their website at www.greysealpuppets.com

Hi Warrick, Ideally, I'd suggest using sheets of 3/4" foam (scott foam is best, but the regular stuff for upholstry is OK too) they can be glued together using contact cement gel (I recommend LePage's Premium contact cement). Some people also use Barge. Make sure you have a respirator with...

Cool stuff David! I especially love "Nagg" and "J.P. Giraffe." Anything happening with your "Here We Grow" TV pilot?

Just some food for thought, but you might want to consider not doing this. Publiclly performing a "Muppet Show" using Muppet characters (even if you made then yourself) would constitute a very serious violation of copyright laws and you could get in a lot of legal trouble with the JHC.

The answer is yes...and no. We have done it at our shop but the success seems to depend on the type of foam you are using. Certain varieties of polyurethane foam (that's the stuff you get in sheets at upholstry stores and fabric places) seem to dye very nicely using regular dyes just like...

Hi all! Just a heads up - Noggin is reairing the classic Sesame Street episode with R2-D2 and C3PO on May 16th. I don't get Noggin here in Canada, so all that I know is in the press release - if you want to read it in full go over to the "TV Appearances" section where I posted a copy...

OK, so they aren't exactly Muppets - but they are visiting Muppets. The following is a copy of a Noggin Press Release I read over at theforce.net: NOGGIN GOES INTERGALACTIC MAY 16, WHEN THE EDUCATIONAL KIDS CHANNEL AIRS RARELY SEEN VINTAGE SESAME STREET EPISODES FEATURING STAR WARS DROIDS...

Did anyone else catch CNN's "Live From Skywalker Ranch" earlier tonight? Connie Chung interviewed key cast & crew members from the new Star Wars film live (from Skywalker Ranch in Calif). Frank Oz was interviewed via satellite from New York about his role as the voice of Yoda on AOTC and his...

The Simpsons and the Muppets...quite possibly the world's two greatest form of entertainment. `Nuff said

They need to start winning again! TY for the beaver compliment, nice fox you've got there yourself. Something you made yourself?