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Re: How to Train Your Dragon Puppet Posted in How to Train Your Dragon Puppet on May 18, 2012
impressive.
Re: A few pics Posted in A few pics on May 05, 2012
Great  work , Such times always generate memorable   experiences.Bless you.
Re: Am I a crank? Or: "muppets" Posted in Am I a crank? Or: "muppets" on Apr 27, 2012
I thought 'Muppets' was  from  'Monster Puppets'... well, at least that is what I remember Jim Henson saying in an interview once. That name stuck for a great number of years, and broadly described any kind of puppet that  might fit into the 'Muppet Show', but then Disney  bought the Muppets in 2004 I think it was, so it is now loosing its strength as a term, because more people are  realizing that Disney owns the 'Muppets' now and so the  term does not refer to anything the Hensons might make any more, and so 'Puppets' the correct term, is now  making a comeback, and freeing us all from the Henson  monopoly on Puppetry (he's my puppetry hero actually). The question will be whether Disney will manage to keep the term alive. I somehow doubt it, because Disney is Disney, Henson was Henson , and there is a lot of new talent in the wings who will give  Disney a run for their money, even though Disney will put puppetry back on the map after a few decades of quiet by investing lots of money in promoting their new form of 'Muppets'. Disney, merely by trying to protect the term, will destroy the hold it had, because no-one but they are allowed to use the term, so everyone else must use another term, and in sodoing, weaken the term 'Muppets', and getting back to 'Puppets'.