Do you think sesame street would "buy" a puppet that wasn't a mari!
Question: "buy" in the sense of, hiring the puppeteer that created the puppet and adding it as a character on the show. and buy the rights to it and everything too...
because all of their puppets are marionettes, except for big bird and snuffleupagus, right? if they did use a non-marionette puppet, would a hand puppet's puppeteer need to be a ventriloquist?
Answers: "buy" in the sense of, hiring the puppeteer that created the puppet and adding it as a character on the show. and buy the rights to it and everything too...
because all of their puppets are marionettes, except for big bird and snuffleupagus, right? if they did use a non-marionette puppet, would a hand puppet's puppeteer need to be a ventriloquist?
I think you've confused your puppet types... The puppets used on Sesame Street are "muppets". Marionettes are the ones that have strings. Big Bird and Snuffleupagus are both costume puppets, meaning that there are actors inside the costumes. Muppets are similar to ventriloquist puppets, in that you lipsynch with the movement of the puppet's mouth, in order to make it appear as if it were talking.
I doubt they would ever use anything other than those types of puppets, mainly because the muppet design was by Jim Henson, and the Henson company is the one producing the show.
I very much doubt it,. but not for that reason,. I mean they probably have people that are ***paid*** to come up with new characters, the chances that they would even view a new character on paper sounds like a legal nightmare (like with publishers not accepting "unsolicited material" - that is to say, if they haven't asked you to send it in, don't...)
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