Does Puppet Heap build The Muppets now?

[monkeyjb1988]

I think the foam latex stuff happened around the mid 1990s because if you look at the characters from The Muppets Tonight time through out the last few years of The Jim Henson Company owning The Muppets, the characters looks seem to be the same. And of course they couldn't have been using the same puppets because foam
disintegrates quickly. So I think the Foam latex thing was one of the things they

were working on during the time I was there. I even seen Gonzo's head in this clear diner plate glass. It was weird but cool. I think they showed me Miss Piggy too on a stand. It was one of the greatest times of my life.

Plus it was around the time when they were still building the puppets for Elmo in Grouch Land and they were building all the other grouches and the skulls where all foam latex molded instead of the traditional carving a block of foam and stuff.

I remember I asked where were all the Muppets from The Muppet Show or even Muppets Tonight and they told me they were in storage. I think that's when I found out that Muppets Tonight got canceled. Which was a shame, AWESOME SHOW!

That was a surprise. Thank you for sharing, lucky son of a gun.

 

[fluffykins]

I think all of the new muppets look great with the exception of piggy, her ears are too pointy, too large, too close together

 

[muppetperson]

What the...? All the characters were cast in foam latex? News to me. When did this happen? Pretty cool.

Not cool? Puppet Heap did great, but you can't kick the Muppet Workshop out like that? Too bad on that.

News to me, too. A former Henson employee has told me that the only heads
that are cast are Miss Piggy, Statler and Waldorf. All the others are hand carved and made from patterns.