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Sesame Street Walkaround List

The Count

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Don't rully know about that one. Guess I'd need some convincing, either from my trusted sources or from myself one way or another. Let's just leave them for further consideration for the next version of the list for now. Got plenty to update, which you'll see when V16 goes online. Course, still sorting through the clips to finalize V16 before posting it though.
Hope this helps answer your question.
 

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Here's one piece of information to help: Michael Frith, a former Muppet design consultant, designed a number of the characters.
 

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Here is the list of all the Sesame Street walkarounds that have existed, you can correct any I missed, both Sesame Place, and Sesame Street Live.

Big Bird
Ernie
Bert
Cookie Monster
Grover
Oscar The Grouch
The Count
Elmo
Prarie Dawn
Zoe
Telly Monster
Rosita
Baby Bear(coming to Sesame Place this year for 25th Birthday)
Mr. Snuffleupagus
Honkers(Different colors)
Twiddlebugs
Yip Yips
Herry Monster
Guy Smiley
Grungetta
Betty Lou
Roxy Marie
Big Bad Wolf
Hoots The Owl
Lulu
Narf
Google
Phoebe
Mel
Barkley
Papa Bear
Mama Bear
Anything Muppets

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Actually, Oscar was both a hand puppet and a walkaround character.

Here's the puppet:
http://community.webshots.com/photo/175624105/175624105CnLQxp

Here's the walkaround:

http://smirc.stanford.edu/~tamara/photos/travel/SesamePlace/OscartheGrouch.JPG

BTW, Hoots and the Wolf were puppets and not walkarounds.
 

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Not 100% sure, but I believe there's a Sesame Place in Mexico, and they have a walkaround Abelardo Montoya (the Mexican Parrot version of Big Bird) as Walk arounds. They may also have Pancho and Lola, but I'm not even that sure.
 

SesameStreetGuy

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muppet maniac said:
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Here is the list of all the Sesame Street walkarounds that have existed, you can correct any I missed, both Sesame Place, and Sesame Street Live.

Big Bird
Ernie
Bert
Cookie Monster
Grover
Oscar The Grouch
The Count
Elmo
Prarie Dawn
Zoe
Telly Monster
Rosita
Baby Bear(coming to Sesame Place this year for 25th Birthday)
Mr. Snuffleupagus
Honkers(Different colors)
Twiddlebugs
Yip Yips
Herry Monster
Guy Smiley
Grungetta
Betty Lou
Roxy Marie
Big Bad Wolf
Hoots The Owl
Lulu
Narf
Google
Phoebe
Mel
Barkley
Papa Bear
Mama Bear
Anything Muppets

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Actually, Oscar was both a hand puppet and a walkaround character.

Here's the puppet:
http://community.webshots.com/photo/175624105/175624105CnLQxp

Here's the walkaround:

http://smirc.stanford.edu/~tamara/photos/travel/SesamePlace/OscartheGrouch.JPG

BTW, Hoots and the Wolf were puppets and not walkarounds.
Yes, you're right about Hoots, but The Wolf was a costume, I've actually seen a photo of him off the float before standing in the parade. :wink:
 

GelflingWaldo

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muppet maniac said:
BTW, Hoots and the Wolf were puppets and not walkarounds.
I'm not sure about Hoot, but the Wolf is a walkaround - I shook the guy's hand before he mounted the float for the parade. This was several years ago so they may have changed since then, but the Wolf was a walkaround (and I think he still might be). I would like to say however he was one of the best looking (in terms of looking like the original puppet version) walkarounds I have seen.
 

minor muppetz

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I wonder how the Two-Headed Monster was performed as a walk-around. It would probably be hard for one person (at least one one-headed person) to wear a two-headed monster outfit without one head looking limb.
 

muppet maniac

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At Universal Studios Japan, there is a pink baby monster-type character named Moppi who appears in the show "Happy Surprise", which you can see on Youtube.

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Moppi

Not 100% sure, but I believe there's a Sesame Place in Mexico, and they have a walkaround Abelardo Montoya (the Mexican Parrot version of Big Bird) as Walk arounds. They may also have Pancho and Lola, but I'm not even that sure.
Yes, they do have Pancho as a walk-around character there as well.

We have 2 more to add to the list...
*Murray
*Abby Cadabby
 

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There's never been a Papa or Mama Bear walk-around... just Aunt Ursula and Uncle Grizzly in the 1-2-3... Imagine! show :batty:
 
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