This animatronic Banjo-Kazooie puppet showed up for 1 second in a '90s N64 commercial, only to reappear decades later, sell for $2,100, and haunt my dreams fo…

A '90s TV commercial for N64 classic Banjo-Kazooie featured a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance from animatronic puppet ...
GameSpot

Someone Paid $2,100 For This Nightmare Fuel Banjo-Kazooie Puppet

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In the distant past of the '90s and early 2000s, live-action video game advertisements were fairly commonplace on TV. Nintendo was especially fond of ...
Hackaday

Animatronic Puppet Takes Cues From Animation Software

Stop motion animator and maker/hacker [James Wilkinson] is working on a project involving a real-world furry cat character called Billy Whiskers and decided that Billy’s lips would be moved one frame ...
The Daily Herald

From TV to Dollywood: Puppeteer modernizes animatronics at Columbia studio for worldwide stage

Steve Axtell, puppet designer and founder of Axtell Expressions, moved to Columbia in 2023 and is now bringing his newest work to a local restaurant.
Yahoo

Meet animatronic puppets at Dragon Training Academy, LeClaire

Puppeteer performer Caleb Strutz will present his “Dragon Training Academy” at LeClaire Community Library at 1 p.m. Thursday, June 26, according to a news release. Puppeteer Caleb Strutz (LeClaire ...
Digital Spy

The Mandalorian is releasing a Grogu animatronic puppet that you can buy

Star Wars fans actually have their own Grogu animatronic puppet from The Mandalorian now! Hasbro has brought props from the Star Wars universe to life with lightsabers and realistic helmets from the ...
Filmmaker

“We Only Had One Puppet”: Animatronics Designer/Creature FX Supervisor Gustav Hoegen on Hatching

After designing animatronics for franchises like Star Wars and Jurassic World, Gustav Hoegen and his team scaled back and happily returned to traditional design and puppetry methods for Hanna Bergholm ...