Fraggle Rock Float

[Erine81981]

At which point in the presentation was it?--didn't quite make it out the first time around.

Also, you have to wonder how some of the schematics for the float worked, if there were puppeteers underneath it somewhere or if it was largely remote controlled.

I think there were some puppeteers under the float. Some of the actions that they do would have to be preformed by them.

 

[Beauregard]

I was wondering about Puppeteers. I think it's a big enough float to have some.

Am I the only person who found Junior Gorg entirely frightening on that thing?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

That's too cool.

Check out the resume here. This is one of the Gorg's puppeteers:
http://mservers.net/members/gabriel/index.html

Cool, huh?

I noticed something else, too: There was a video download thread a while back to A is for Asthma, and this is the same puppeteer for Dani on that special.

Anybody know a link to that thread? I'd like to keep all this information connected!

 

[Beauregard]

Oh, here's something interesting that crops up from time to time, "Jim Henson starts an acting class for those people he believes show future potential. (Of which Gabriel is one). He hires a drama teacher, Gates McFadden (Beverly Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation) to teach his private acting class."

It's always amused me that one of my favorite Star Trek characters was also connected with my favorite guy in history (Jim, naturally.)

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I also always found it interesting how many times Muppet performers cameoed in movies that starred Season 1 SNL cast members! We discussed this last night.

Also, that Joe Raposo wrote for You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, a tie-in between Muppets and Peanuts, two of my favorite things. We all know Frank Oz was in The Blues Brothers, another 2-way tie-in of things I love. If I could only get it all inclusive of the Wizard of Oz books and Ghostbusters now...

The Gabe voices: I enjoyed Fozzie and Bert very much--very much like Frank's in the good ol' days when we knew the characters better.

Still waiting on those links to the SW videos download pages where the A is for Asthma was. I'm interested in seeing it now that we have all this Fraggle video, website, and such going on.

EDIT: Found this link post here:
http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showpost.php?p=497622&postcount=1