Vic Romano's Weekly Creative Muppet Visuals

[The Count]

You keep it in the freezer? Wow, what a revelation. Wit till Officer Foz learns the blood trickling out from the slip beneath the closet is nothing more than a red herring!
*Runs off to squeal to da' Foz. *Evil laughter.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Beau--Body in the freezer?? Now, I have to question that chili you cooked not long ago...

 

[The Count]

Well, if he made that chili South Park style, I think that should've been your first er, furst clue.
Oh, and check out the Muffins of Our Lives thread in Friends & Family Foz, you'll get the reference.

 

[Vic Romano]

A VERY Merry Muppet Christmas

In honor of the giving holiday spirit, this holiday visual is going up early.

Christmas is a time when we all get together, but thanks to legalities and all that crap, our beloved Muppets can't do that, not publicly at least, and so it's up to fans like us to make sure they do get some time together. Today's visual is my personal Muppety favorite because of how well the Muppets have always embraced this holiday season, and when I watch Muppet Family Christmas and see the three biggest Henson worlds come together, I feel perfect peace and harmony, so I wanted to recreate that in today's visual. This visual doesn't contain characters from just "The Muppet Show", "Sesame Street" and "Fraggle Rock" alone, but also boasts an amazing sixty-seven Muppets included from "The Dark Crystal", "Labyrinth", "Bear In The Big Blue House", "Sam & Friends", "Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas", "Wilkins & Wontkins", "The Jim Henson Hour", "Muppets Tonight", "The Story Teller", "Dinosaurs", "Muppet Babies", "Dog City", and even the "Muppet Meeting Films" as well. I have to be honest though that my initial reaction to this visual was: "It's too crowded, I don't like it". But then I realized I could make it a "real family" photo and that's where Animal came in. I took him away from his original spot; buried deep inside the crowd, and threw him right up front, vying for attention. Now this is Christmas.

A VERY Merry Muppet Christmas
Be sure to click the image for a "full view"

*Special Note - This Christmas visual is sized to 1024×768 for the perfect fit for your computer desktop!

Muppet Central Morsels

• This visual is so jam packed with Muppets, that there is absolutely no "background" visible.
• As mentioned, Animal was a part of the "crowd", but Gonzo was also originally hidden several times throughout the visual, but in the need for space, he has been reduced to appearing only once, but the real question is; can you find him?
• Do the presents up front look familiar? They should, they're the same ones from last years Blue Christmas visual!​

***More info you may or may not feel the need to read!***​

Upcoming Visuals!
We keep the suspense rolling by giving you a look at not just the next visual, but weeks ahead too!
Next Week: Tune in next Friday, December 29th to see the last visual of 2006 as a sombre snowy evening comes with a lonely sax solo in a "Happy New Year 2007". And then:
January 5, 2007 - Jim Henson – The Legend
January 12, 2007 – Muppet’s Movie Parody – Mean Girls
January 19, 2007 - Muppet's Movie Parody – Scarface

High Resolution prints of "A Muppet Family Gathering"
Prints of November 3rd's premiere visual have been made thanks to Trinity Creatives and are currently in production. Shipping rates are the main hold up at the moment. We are trying to fairly price shipping for the US, Canada, the UK and Austrailia. PLEASE KNOW that this is a priority and very special offers will be er … offered to the first few orders. A separate thread will be made in the “For Sale And Trade” section of the forum hopefully very soon.

This really is coming soon!!!

Check out all VRWCMV here!​

 

[redBoobergurl]

Wow! How great to see all the Muppets together for Christmas! And Animal in the corner going "presents" is just great!

Very excited to order my copy of a Muppet Family gathering. I've got big plans for where that's going in my house!

Good work as usual Dave and a very Merry Christmas to you!!!

 

[Erine81981]

Wonderful Dave. You alway out do yourself. I love it and can't wait to put it up on my background on the computer.

Just hope my parents don't get tired of it and take it off. Thanks again and keep them coming!

And a very Merry Christmas!

 

[Vic Romano]

More Muppet Morsels I forgot to add
• All 5 Fraggles are indeed present plus Uncle Matt and Cantus. But you're saying "Not Boober!". Boober is there but tucked away so all you can see is his hair, You'll find him in the upper right, just behind Earl Dinosaur, between Zoot and Annie Sue Pig. Wembley's hidden well too, but if you look closely, you'll see him.
• Just to the right of Uncle Deadly, you'll see a blue Muppet that you might not recognize, but that's only because his nose is hidden. No, it's not Gonzo; it's Seymor the Elephant.
• This is the first visual that's included a lot of Muppets I've never used before, but most noticeably; this is Clifford's first appearance in a VRWCMV.
• That thing sticking up almost in front of the Story Teller's dog's face is Sir Didymus' staff.
• While some Muppets heads may be cut off, they are in fact all wearing Santa hats. Aside from Animal and Piggy though, only one other Muppet is hatless. Can you guess who?
• Beauregard is the only one wearing a home-made thermal Santa hat. If you look closely, you'll see the white around the hat is sewn wool, whereas all the other Santa hats are the traditional white fur.
• The two largest Santa hats sit atop Sweetums and the White Lion's head. Thog's is the third largest.

 

[Beauregard]

What I've always loved is the attention to make everyone interact, even in small ways, in your visuals! Pepe, Animal, Robin, Mokey. All looking exactly as if they belong there! I adore how you have customised hat positions (Fozzie's over his eye, Beau's wrinkled, Bean's with an ear sticking out, etc! I just love it! Fantastic Muppet crowd!

Also...Piggy looks SO attractive in that get-up!

EDIT: Ziffled! I did indeed notice Beau's hat was different! It's adoreable!!!

 

[zns]

You've done it again Vic. Huzzah

 

[crazed gonzo fa]

Amazing! Vic you're such a crowd pleaser, thanks! I was hoping you'd put Jen and Kira in there. Fizzgig is only other character not wearing a hat. Thanks again! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!