Flack
04-24-2009, 01:40 AM
Did anyone here collect or have puppets as a kid?
I had a pretty big collection of damaged Sesame Street puppets as a kid. I'm not sure where my mom got them -- I think maybe at a garage sale or someone was throwing them away or something -- but I had Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, Animal from the Muppet Show, and several others. The Bert one was terrible; someone had peeled his hair and eyebrows off. The Cookie Monster had the white eyeballs but no black pupils (I drew some on). The Animal was in great shape. Cookie Monster had a "slit" in his mouth so you could put food in there and it would fall out through the bottom.
At the 1982 World's Fair I got a "professional" quality puppet -- one of those with the big heads and metal sticks to control the arms and stuff. He had short blonde hair but I had a couple of wigs for some reason so sometimes I would put wigs on him.
When my friends would come over we would come up with puppet shows and put them on for our parents. I remember one time we did a musical ... like each person had a puppet and we would set up a background and someone would start a song on my record player and we would play the whole song. I remember we did that one time for our parents and when we were done and came out to take a bow all the parents had left a long time ago. So sad.
My favorite puppet as a kid were these giant monkeys that would wrap around you ... their hands and feet had velcro and so it looked like they were hanging on to you (if you've ever seen Hardware Wars, it's the same thing they used for Chewbacca ... er, Chewchilla, the Wookie Monster). I got mine for selling cheese as a fundraiser for school. I had (er, have) two of them -- a brown one and a white one. I was a cheese selling mofo, I tell you.
I have all of these puppets out in the garage in a big box. I've let the kids play with some of them but, like some of my other old toys, they don't seem to be overly interested in them (especially the Bert with the missing hair).
I had a pretty big collection of damaged Sesame Street puppets as a kid. I'm not sure where my mom got them -- I think maybe at a garage sale or someone was throwing them away or something -- but I had Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, Animal from the Muppet Show, and several others. The Bert one was terrible; someone had peeled his hair and eyebrows off. The Cookie Monster had the white eyeballs but no black pupils (I drew some on). The Animal was in great shape. Cookie Monster had a "slit" in his mouth so you could put food in there and it would fall out through the bottom.
At the 1982 World's Fair I got a "professional" quality puppet -- one of those with the big heads and metal sticks to control the arms and stuff. He had short blonde hair but I had a couple of wigs for some reason so sometimes I would put wigs on him.
When my friends would come over we would come up with puppet shows and put them on for our parents. I remember one time we did a musical ... like each person had a puppet and we would set up a background and someone would start a song on my record player and we would play the whole song. I remember we did that one time for our parents and when we were done and came out to take a bow all the parents had left a long time ago. So sad.
My favorite puppet as a kid were these giant monkeys that would wrap around you ... their hands and feet had velcro and so it looked like they were hanging on to you (if you've ever seen Hardware Wars, it's the same thing they used for Chewbacca ... er, Chewchilla, the Wookie Monster). I got mine for selling cheese as a fundraiser for school. I had (er, have) two of them -- a brown one and a white one. I was a cheese selling mofo, I tell you.
I have all of these puppets out in the garage in a big box. I've let the kids play with some of them but, like some of my other old toys, they don't seem to be overly interested in them (especially the Bert with the missing hair).