New SST Finger Puppet Website

[megomuseum]

www.sesamestreetfingerpuppets.com

Hi all. I'm mostly a lurker here. I'm finally officially unveiling a vintage Sesame Street finger puppets website that's been in the works for a long time and details everything I've learned about this line of toys since I started collecting them 5 years ago. I'll be adding more to it, especially via the blog, but this pretty much covers it. Check it out and let me know what you think!

Thanks!
Scott
World's Greatest Sesame Street Finger Puppets
Mego Museum

 

[Dantecat]

WOW! These look so amazing! And So does the site too.

 

[rche]

Hiya folks,

I am also a recruit from the mego museum. I have stumbled across Muppet Central many times in my search for information on Muppet hand puppets from the 70s.


Vouching for Scotts site as a top notch infomercial on the finger puppets from the same era. Awesome photos and some great source pics of really hard to find items from this era. A must see if you are into the 70s Sesame Street licensed items.
Two blue fuzzy thumbs up!

rche

 

[dwmckim]

Awesome job - really brings back a flood of memories - i totally adored the finger puppets way back when, especially just for the fact that they included The Salesman, that was one of my fave toys! As a budding puppeteer, the hand puppets were of course my number one couldn't-be-without toy, but even though i didn't find playing with the finger puppets as much fun (didn't seem like "real" puppets), i still loved them because you could have a big group scene instead of two characters at a time, the inclusion of some rarer characters that weren't part of my hand puppet family, they were more portable to bring on long car trips or the like, and especially the likenesses - i think i spent more time just staring at the finger puppets than playing with them because they were so beautiful and captured the spirit of the puppets and essence of the characters...even a preschooler boy like me could appreciate and be spellbound by such artistic acheivement! I especially love how they so perfectly captured Cookie's mouth - i was always fascinated by the shape of Cookie's mouth - illustrators in the early days were good at getting it right but i loved how the finger puppet got it right in 3-d (the hand puppet didn't, but at least it could eat real cookies anyway so it didn't bother me). Anyone ever notice how earily similar Al Frankin's mouth shape is to the early Cookie Monster mouth?

...and just as an aside since i did mention the hand puppet Cookie Monster with the hole in the mouth so it could "eat" stuff - did anyone else used to do this?: When playing with my Cookie Monster, i always would try to have him eat real cookies whenever possible...of course usually right after the puppet would eat them, i would gobble them up myself! This was not a habit that went over well with my mother! ("But MOOOM, i HAVE to have Cookie Monster eat TEN cookies because that's what Sesame Street is brought by today!")

 

[megomuseum]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. I love your mention of time spent staring at them. As a kid I did that with a lot of my toys and I think that's why I have such a strong reaction to finding old toys I used to have, it's like meeting a long lost friend, seeing a face you used to know better than most humans.

Re: Cookie Hand Puppet. I have a boxed Topper Cookie Monster hand puppet---the back of the box had three chocolate chip cookie drawings with perforations so you could punch them out and "feed" Cookie.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Great work. Welcome to MC! These bring back memories. I had those when I was a baby. Wish I had them back.