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Whew! I'm not too old then. Just like you, I've had an interest in puppetry for years and have gotten sidetracked with "life in general." Its nice to know that you don't have to be a "kid" to get into the business, just a "kid at heart." Jason

Eye questions Ok, this project is getting bigger as I work on it. 1. If I were to make a winking or blinking eye mechanism, or even an eyebrow mechanism, is it easier to work the eyes with the controls on a rod or built into the head's mouth cavity? Also, how do you attach the eyelets or...

old style muppet figures What keywords should I use? Also, was there a Dr. Teeth and the electric Mayhem set? I thought at one point there was a whole set with the band and Bunsen and Beaker and a few other more "obscure" characters.

I'm not talking about the new sets from Palisades. These were made back in the 70's and early 80's by Fisher-Price. They were the "classic" muppet show characters and they each had different features. They had these white sticks you could put in their back and work them like miniature rod...

Stupid question Is the waldo system where the puppeteer uses the Henson control system to work a cgi character? If that's what they're going to use, I hope they get a good CGI rendering of characters. I'd hate to see the babieslooking like a videogame.

neck construction As long as we're talking about neck construction, I have a very newbie question. Is it possible to make a puppet that is a head/neck unit and have a removable body? I was working on a character idea that would require costume changes and I was looking for an easy way to do this.

I am extremely new to puppet making. (I do good to make sock puppets.) I have some construction questions that I know have probably been answered before, but could someone point me in the right direction? 1. I want to make a hand and rod style puppet with a Kermit-shaped head, but with...