How Cookie Monster works?

[Animal31]

I think I posted this somewhere a long time ago, but it's easier for me to just type it again than search for it.

There is no foam for the hand or wrist. There is a full glove sewn to the inside of his mouth that the puppeteer puts his hand into. Especially in the earlier Cookie that we were talking about where there was no mouth plate, that was the only way to control him. Also, it leaves the area where the back of his mouth is open clear to be able to put things down into it.

I always looked at it as an oven mit in the top and bottom jaw for your hand!

It wouldn't surprise me if they maybe ran a thin plastic rod across the back of the mouth for the fur to drape over and keep shape.

You say the mouth had an opening to put things down? It was almays my understanding that the puppeteer crumbled the styrofoam cookies into crumbs giving the illusion they were eaten? Though I honestly couldn't tell you where I read it...

 

[Animal31]

http://img2.pict.com/b0/e1/a6/3702438/0/1277174383.jpg

Cool pic, but it still doesn't look to me like it goes all the way thru?

 

[Animal31]

You can see him swallowing cookies in this vid- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l7KbMVdN7E

I stand corrected, the first one broke up, but the rest clearly disappeared down the back.....good to know

Thanks!