New Members: Please Post and Introduce Yourself

[Puppetplanet]

Please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your Muppet experiences and interests. Did you get into the Muppets at an early age or just recently? What are some of your favorite Muppet memories, characters, movies, or shows?

Hello!

My name is Michele and I recently just became a member. Wooo! wooo! I'm what I like to call a Domestic Engineer and keeper of the peace in my home. I have three children ages: 10, 5, and 2 years old.

I can remember Sesame Street as far back as 4 or 5 (which is saying a lot for my memory!) However, my favorite show has always been and always will be Fraggle Rock. I was glued to the TV from the first moment that I saw it when I was about 9 and wish that it was still on today. I plan to make an attempt to acquire a set of the shows sometime in the near future. (if they are available).

When I was part of the lay off craze resulting from the September attacks I became a stay at home mom. I put my crafty skills to work and decided to have fun trying to build professional looking puppets. I've only recently started using foam in my building techniques and I'm always looking for new tips and tricks to try, so I can probably be found lingering in the puppetry area.

I stumbled across the site after seeing a puppet that Terry Angus made and was selling on Ebay. I thought I recognized the style and the name so I did a search on the web and after reading several interviews and articles about him I followed a link here. Vola! Here I am.

I look forward to meeting some very ... ehem "interesting" people here.

-Michele

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Welcome home, Michele. You might find it interesting being a Fraggle Rock fan that Karen Prell ---> Posts here sometimes!!

Glad you found your way to the Central, and hope you have FUN FUN FUN!!!

FZ

 

[Super Scooter]

WELCOME Sourpus and Michelle!

Nice to see some new... er, faces.

 

[Cindy]

Hi Michele,

I really like your avatar. I assume that's one of your own? If so, I didn't realize you knew my Great Aunt Mary. LOL It looks just like her. Great work!

Hope you enjoy your stay at Muppet Central, and try not to slouch too much dear. Oops sorry, that's something Great Aunt Mary would say.

 

[Puppetplanet]

I really like your avatar. I assume that's one of your own? If so, I didn't realize you knew my Great Aunt Mary. LOL It looks just like her. Great work![/color][/font]

Yes, Darla was the first puppet I've ever created. She was made from felt and polyester stuffing. Coincidentally, she looks like my great aunt Fran when she was a bit younger and those cats eye glasses were in style. =)

Strangely enough, even though I've learned some really nifty tricks with foam and made some interesting new characters, "Darla" has always been my favorite. Must be the sentimental value of her being my "first" and resembling my great aunt.

By-The-Way..... I am having such a good time with this site!

 

[puppets_etc]

I have been SO remiss! Welcome to all the newcomers, and hello to all the regulars! Hang on to your hats, and be ready to have some fun!(and a whole lotta nonsense, but what fun is it without it?!)

Deb

 

[sarah_yzma]

yes! embrace the silliness!!! I know of forums that have a punishment of death for getting off topic!

enough of me scaring people! hi! hi! hi! hi! hi! hi!

 

[Hat Sharpener]

About Time

OK, it's about time I did this...

My name is Derek, I've been coming to Muppet Central since the early days when everyone was afraid of posting photos of muppets online for fear of copyright infringement! Never really got into the online forum thing, but the Action Figures pulled me in, and I've been posting occassionally.

Let's see... I grew up in a small town with 3 channels, so my main Muppet Memories involved renting the 3 movies over and over and over from the video store, and recording the specials that came on TV. I was, however aware of TMS enough to know that there was something wrong about the fact that Kermit actually LIKED Piggy in the movies... ick, girls!

I had a tape-player that was my favorite toy, and I would hold it up to the TV speaker to record things. I recorded my favorite bits of GMC (which was basically all the songs and the last 3rd of the movie) and listened to it constantly. I still laugh uncontrollably whenever Kermit & Fozzie get mixed up ("No honey, Bears wear hats") However, it's been fun to revisit the movies and get all the jokes I totally missed as a kid - didn't have many visible Hare Krishnas in Southern Oregon.

Along with many others I regarded the 90's Muppet Ventures in the way one keeps loyal to the same baseball team - the players are different, and they're definitely not pennant-winners every year, but you still love them and hope for the best. I think they're getting better recently...

Time travel movies are some of my favorites, and people sometimes theorize about what huge, and possibly terrible changes could be made to our world as the consequence of something not happening - JFK not being shot, Hitler not being born etc. (see Red Dwarf VII, and "Making History" respectively), but if I had a fully functional, Plutonium-powered DeLorean of my own I could honestly not see any harm in going back and saving John Lennon and Jim Henson - two people who could have done nothing but make the world a happier place...

Muppets aren't my whole life, but it's hard to tell that from looking at all the action figures on my desk!

Extra points to first one who pinpoints my nickname's origin...

- Derek

 

[Scooter]

Introduction

Hello--
I'm new to this forum. I've actually been trying to join for sometime but, my older computer couldn't handle it for some reason. I (as everyone else here) Love the muppets and have grown up with them. I am a student and a puppeteer. I'm not exactly what to say here so, I think I will just leave this for now.
---Scooter---

 

[SarahHIYE]

Hiya!

Hi everyone! My name is Sarah and I (obviously) am also new here. I am a student at New York University at the Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major in the Atlantic Theater Studio but I will also hopefully join CAP21 (the musical theatre studio) before my time there is through.

I have loved the Muppets for as long as I can remember. When I was seven me and my friend Eleni formed our "Muppet Sleepover Club" where we would get together every once in awhile for a sleepover and watch muppet movies the whole night long. That solidified our bond as friends and we still get together once in awhile and sing the songs and watch the movies. I can't remember a time when we weren't singing those songs. We would be constantly singing the old songs from the movies and, after each new movie came out, we would always learn the songs before they were out of theater. Our favorites to sing were 'Bless Us All' and 'Something Better'--in which we would take turns singing Jim (who sounds like a girl anyways so it doesn't matter that we are of the opposite sex), and singing Gonzo and Rizzo's part. Being a sort of second generation Muppet fan (my mom used to watch the original show before my birth), I used to watch "Muppet Hour" on Nickelodeon everyday during the summer--and sometimes I would fake sick just so I could watch it (I warned you I am an actress!) I can still even remember the day that Jim Henson died--although I was very young. My mom took me aside to tell me and I thought she meant that Kermit had died... It was a very sad day for me.

The Muppets stuck with me all through high school. During my awful teenybopper years and through SAT prep time, I was known for loving the Muppets--and that was fine with me! It's always been my belief that if you don't keep some part of your childhood you will have a miserable adulthood!

I love EVERY Muppet movie; my favorite changes depending on my mood, just like I love ALL of the characters (although I'm a classic Kermit gal). My favorite songs are 'The Rainbow Connection', 'I'm Going to Go Back There Someday', 'The Magic Store' (because that one speaks to me personally I think--although they all kinda do!) 'Saying Goodbye', 'Bless Us All' and 'Just One Person'. I am also very bad at picking favorites... My favorite Muppet Show guest would be Elton John... or Julie Andrews... or... I'll shut up now!

We'll that's me, I guess. I also love musicals, (especially the PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and Thoroughly Modern Millie among many others), New York (I'm originally from Boston--I love it there too), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (although it's over now ), books (especially Victorian-era: Jane Austin, Phillip Pullman's books and the Vampire Cronicles!), Colin Firth (...don't ask...), my mom and my sisters (two: Caitlin, 14 and Rose, 4--we're a streatch in age! But I get to influence the Muppets onto her! She likes 'Bein Green' and 'Happy Tappin with Elmo' the best) Anything else you want to know? Go ahead and ask, I'm an open book!