International Sesame Street toys

[Curator]

Hello all!
I just became a registered user to this forum! I do have an important question to ask all of you. I am a Curator at the Children's Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana and we are hosting a traveling exhibition on Sesame Street opening in June 2006. I am in the process of trying to find international puppet characters, but I am having no luck! I was hoping to pick all of your brains and maybe you can lead me in the right direction. I have visited the Sesame Street Workshop website's international character section and interested in purchasing some of these characters toys (if they are available) for our cultural collections. Please, please, I need help!! I would appreciate any suggestions on where to find these items!! Thanks so much!
Jennifer

 

[Pino]

You have luck.. I'm a big international collecotr and have some double toys... If you like to mail me about it.. please do
Greetings Paul

 

[twidddlebug]

Please, please, I need help!! I would appreciate any suggestions on where to find these items!! Thanks so much!
Jennifer

just found this on ebay,,pretty neat,,
6042858809 (ebay's item number,,cut and paste into ebay search box, i cant post url's yet)

 

[Effralyo]

Does anyone have Zeliboba? Does anyone have Zeliboba?????? Please teeeeeell me!... He's my dream already for ten years......

 

[Pino]

Do you know they made the russian sesamstreet pvc? I never saw a picture from them.. sure hope to find them

 

[twidddlebug]

Russian PVC's??

Do you know they made the russian sesamstreet pvc? I never saw a picture from them.. sure hope to find them

I've never seen them or heard about them. I would like to see them myself!

 

[Effralyo]

Must say, they had never made anything alike! I 'd seen only a Zelly plush doll in a certain article in 1998... By the way, there were two versions of him - in a solid mantle /Mattel/and in a "spaghetti" mantle /TYCO/.

 

[Camellia]

Hello Curator,

There used to be a Sesame Street store in Japan, but I believe that was closed a long time ago. Could try researching that. Germany made a lot of Sesame toys in around 1999, most were by the company Junior Toys/IGEL Toys. I'm not sure if they're still in business but you could look it up. Plaza Sesamo (mexican Sesame) did bean bags in about 1999, by a company called Play by Play, I think?

Otherwise, try the search engines and ebay, and good luck!

 

[Camellia]

Hi again, there's a person with the ID of "ceestopcat" at eBay. It's a toy store in The Netherlands/Holland that was selling lots of the Junior Toys/IGEL sesame and muppet line.

 

[Curator]

Thank you for all your suggestions! I have been looking on ebay and the internet for sometime, but haven't had any luck! Now I have specific company names, and I want to thank you all for that!! I truly appreciate it!