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I know that the Jim Henson company create and built the muppet characters for Sesame Street. My question is do they also build the muppet characters for the internation versions of Sesame Street? (I know they do with Pino, the "Big Bird" from the Dutch version).
 

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origianlly no, but about 6 years or 7 years ago they aquired the rights to build all teh international sesame puppest ,

we redesigned many of them while i was their to make them loook more like thier american cousins, pino, samson, among some of the ones that come to mind, as well as building the puppets for the new productions
 

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ravagefrackle said:
we redesigned many of them while i was their to make them loook more like thier american cousins, pino, samson, among some of the ones that come to mind, as well as building the puppets for the new productions
We? You work for them?
 

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i did , from 98 to 2002, u can see some of the stuff i worked on at my site , click below
 

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Oh yeah, NOW I remember you, I saw that site before. Awesome work!
 
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