Moving the Set

[D'Snowth]

I know a lot of people, including Caroll Spinney have mentioned about how the Sesame Street set moved in 1992 from Teletape to the Kaufman Studios in Queens; my question is exactly HOW did they move a huge set like that, or did they tear down the old one at Teletape and build a new one at Kaufman?

 

[Ilikemuppets]

I wonder this, too. The set did start looking different around that time though. A lot cleaner and stuff, but I heard that was to compeat with Barney and things.

 

[mikebennidict]

What does changing the set have to do with competing with Barney?

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Well, Barney was beating it in Merchendise that first year it came out on PBS. And they made the set look cleaner to look a to look more like the way it did and also gave it a new part of the set to pretty soon. But it only lasted a couple of years before they made it look older again.

 

[BEAR]

So that was around the time that Around the Corner came about?

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Well yes, but the set started looking cleaner about a year before that.

 

[travellingpat]

Im pretty sure they rebuilt it

 

[D'Snowth]

In my humble opinion, the set looked the cleanest between the years of 1993 (around the bend) and now, because the set is starting to look just a little dirty again.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

But it started looking really different during season 33.

 

[D'Snowth]

But it started looking really different during season 33.

Yeah because that's when it went under it's own little "extreme makeover".