Bobo: Hand rod or live hand?

[Muppet Frog]

Is Bobo a hand rod or a live hand puppet becaue I can't tell?

 

[dwmckim]

Live hand.

 

[Beauregard]

For some reason I always thought that there were different size Bobo's. The full-body Bobo and a head-and-shoulder's Bobo that was controlled like a normal puppet. Now, is this just something I made up or imagined or read somewhere inaccurately or made up? Or is there any truth to it?

 

[dwmckim]

Bobo started as one of the bear puppets from Muppets Take Manhattan and was both a costume puppet and "upper body" puppet. I don't think they've ever used the full body variation since it was modified into Bobo.

 

[Beauregard]

Gosh, I am so smart...

 

[LamangoNumber2]

Wasn't the Bobo on Muppets tonight a bag muppet like Cookie or Rowlf?

 

[dwmckim]

What do you mean by bag Muppet?

 

[LamangoNumber2]

What do you mean by bag Muppet?

Where the arms aren't de-tached from the body, ala Count, Dr.Teeth, and Fozzie, and the arms seem to come up and the muppets have a baggy body, like Rowlf, Cookie, Herry, Oscar, Telly, and for Muppets Tonight, Bobo.

 

[cahuenga]

In Muppets Tonight season one Bobo is a bag muppet, but starting in season 2, Bobo have shoulders,and seems more big than iin his previous appearances. I think....

 

[LamangoNumber2]

I enjoyed his 'baggy body' personaly.