The Mechs and Animatronics Behind Fraggle Rock's Doozer Puppets!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- The original Fraggle Rock premiered in 1983, and it was Jim Henson's intention that the Doozers, one of the series' hallmark (and tiny) characters, be puppeteered in much the same way as a normal hand puppet. Jim Henson's Creature Shop creative supervisor Peter Brooke and animatronics supervisor John Criswell walk Adam through the evolution of these characters' mechanics and electronics since those early days, and even let Adam operate a Doozer himself!
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Puppeteering is clearly both art and science. Really fantastic work.
One of my favorite things about anything from the Henson studio is they don't dumb things down, they talk to kids like intelligent beings. And even after all these years, they still are full of love and enthusiasm for their craft.
This is the best series Adam has ever done, I love seeing what's behind Jim Henson productions, its lifting the vale on my childhood.
Wholeheartedly agree! I've been tuned into Tested since the very beginning, and out of everything that has been posted this video (and series) has made me say WOW out loud more times than anything. You have to admire Jim's tenacity for wanting to do something a specific way and then physically creating the ability for it to be accomplished. Hats off to anyone who has ever worked for JHCS, past present and future. The drive to innovate and keep this magic alive is something everyone needs to appreciate!
@@cwilliamsphoto Have you ever seen Jim Henson’s Animal Jam?
I literally laughed out loud when Adam said “hello” and that little mouth moved along. 😂
I'm Loving all these Henson videos recently. It's amazing to see how this all works, with Adam's great questions and obviously the massive love all these folks have for there work and Jim's work that led to it all
I will never not love Adam's enthusiasm, curiosity, and genuine love for seeing how other makers do their craft. His joy in this series has radiated from the screen!
Fraggle Rock was my childhood. Such great memories!
The waldo in remote devices, named after the character Waldo from the story of the same name by Robert A Heinlein!
i remember when fraggle rock first came out and had no idea they were still filming episodes. back then the doozers were what made the show for me as a teenager even though it was intended for children.
Love the Fraggles, Doozers too but seeing The Country Bears in the back was just the icing on the cake for me🤣♥️
Plot twist: the puppets are actually alive and just syncing and playing along when the humans move their hands. Adam has been bamboozled.
Plot twist twist:
Adam was never there; that was a life-sized Adam-shaped Doozer operated from off-camera...
😉😁
Doozers have always been my favourite Henson creation (I still have a book called "The Doozer Who Didnt" from when I was a kid - spoiler alert that's how Fraggles are created!) and I have introduced my 4yr old daughter to Fraggle Rock and she is MESMERISED! I cant wait for the new series.
The Doozer Who Didn't was one of my favourite books from my childhood!
@@TheMuddySea Have you ever seen Jim Henson’s Animal Jam?
Thank you for more muppet stuff.Puppeteering is one of my favorite things to do. Jim Henson took it to a fantastic level.
I really enjoy these videos where Adam explores something particularly nostalgic for me! I've been fascinated by anything from Jim Henson my whole life, but especially as a kid.
specifically for the parts shown in the video, Printing with Engineering Resin is elevating the whole process, as with the right material its as strong as an injection molded part.
I am so loving this series of puppeteering videos. Thank you so much for sharing, particularly to Adam for being the perfect interviewer for making of any kind.
At this point, this channel is just a Henson stan account... and I'm here for it.
I must thank you on behalf of myself and everyone else who lives on Portland! We are all fraggles, and hippies until the end xx
"It's a delight." is exactly right
The doozers were my favorite when my kids watched Fraggle rock. I''m not ashamed to admit that either. What a great job to have.
John! I remember seeing him for the first time on Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge! Dad and I never missed an episode and I always loved seeing John. Thanks for visiting the Creature Shop and posting these videos, Adam
I remember Fraggle Rock. 🙋🏻♂️ I used to love it as a child. 😁
i loved tge stuff the doozers built with and the fraghles ate it looked like cristal straws and always wanred to try some as a kid 😊
The doozer constructions are made out of processed radishes.
Thank you for these in-depth looks behind the scenes at the Creature Shop. Jim Henson, his team and his Muppets were a big part of my childhood and spending time with my Dad.
The Doozers were my favorite part of the original Fraggle Rock.
All the Fraggle Rock related videos have my young heart soaring!! Such incredible machines!!
So much of my childhood in these videos. I sing the Fraggle Rock theme to myself almost daily. Haha
Adam's kid like "wows" are the real treat. Especially when I'm thinking the same thing to myself at practically the same time
I'm geeking out a little over the Country Bear heads they have in the background. Also, the Doozers continue one of the cutest little workers ever.
I love how Adam always has that 'kid in a sweetshop' look and enthusiasm to him
I just have to thank you, Adam. After many years of careful consideration, I began my academic journey in pursuit of an engineering and manufacturing degree. You and the Mythbusters crew were a massive influence and I doubt that I'd be on this track if it wasn't for you guys. You have my undying gratitude.
I love that Henson's Waldo mechanism has a tongue inside the 'mouth' part and it serves no purpose. A genius but never lost his sense of playfulness. Amazing guy.
Of all the doozers they could of used to demonstrate with, they let him puppet Cotterpin! What an honor!
The one thing that made me adore WALDOs was a short clip from a Fraggle Rock behind the scenes show of Kathryn Mullen talking to her Doozer character with a WALDO. For some reason that small thing made me absolutely adore the devices.
Cool seeing everyone nerding out over puppets in the comment section lol. I'm not into puppets but it's awesome seeing how technical they are and how much goes into them, awesome.
You should do a video on how to make a simple hand puppet, everyone could make. I'd love for you to make your own Adam Savage hand puppet, so people could get an idea how to customize their puppet to resemble themselves or maybe their favorite person.
Love all these Fraggle Rock videos and love how open they share the details about all these characters! Great inspiration! :)
It was great how forthcoming they were with their knowledge and the internal functionality. No gatekeeping at all. That the Doozers are so small and yet so expressive is amazing, and adorable! Every one of these videos I can't help but think how pleased Jim would be with both the forward progress but also how much his original internal designs still inspire the design of the modern inner workings.
So nice to learn about one of my favorite show of that time!
COTTERPIN! My fave! My 52 year old heart is so happy to watch thig. I loved the fraggles so much
I love these videos. The Jim Henson Creature Shop folks are real magic makers, and it brings such a smile to my face to see what they are doing.
I'd love a video that goes into detail of all of the tools in the shop. Even a silent slow pan across every tool would be squee.
Builder learns how the builders build the other builders.
I’m living vicariously through you on being able to see all this cool Henson puppeteering stuff! Love love love these videos!
Doozers have such cute mouths
I grew up with Henson puppeteering. Absolutely brilliant.
Adam is like a child in a candy shop. His energy is palpable. ❤💓🖖
Sometimes I gasp because he's a little rough with things when he gets excited.
@@WoefulMinion Have you ever seen Jim Henson’s Animal Jam?
@@UnicornFairy42 Good point!
@@WoefulMinion Is that a yes?
@@UnicornFairy42 I've only seen a short clip from the show, so I have to say, "no," unfortunately. Jim Henson always liked to stay busy, so I haven't been able to catch everything.
I loved that show as a kid and still sing the song at work occasionally
I love these little guys! haha, when I was a kid these were my favourite characters. :p
Long live the magic of the one and only Jim Henson!!
So weird... I was watching a video from the 80s about how they puppeteered the Doozers just YESTERDAY!
Fraggles always ate their hard work. It was funny and sad all in one. Perfect entertainment.
The Doozers were always my favorites.
Could you do a year of nothing but Muppet behind the scenes? Please and Thank You.
We wish!!!!
@@tested Well congrats! I'm a genie. (No, I'm actually a 47 year old man who's sad he never followed his actual childhood dream of working with Muppets. If I was a genie, this wouldn't have been an issue due to the whole "wishes" thing.)
Good to see John Criswell again
I have so much respect for the Henson Studio's philosophy of combining cutting-edge tech with traditional methods and artistry.
I am currently loving these videos around the Henson shop!!
I have had a love for the Muppets since I was a baby which has crossed over to adulthood .... Today I am what is reffered to as a Haunt actor or Haunt Attraction worker and I once had this fever dream that one of these attractions or at least the actors were ALL basically muppet type characters and it is a bucket list dream to work on!!
BTW because I am curious, there is what appears to be a dog hanging up in the background and that is unsettling!! where is that from?! lol
As a kid watching Fraggle Rock, I always felt sorry for the Doozers getting their constructions eaten by the Fraggles, but it kept them at work 😊
They addressed this in the show... the Doozers love to build and would soon run out of space if the Fraggles didn't eat their constructions. The Doozers make their Doozer sticks out of ground-up radishes deliberately so that Fraggles will eat them.
I dont know why but i love the doozers more than any other muppet, There just so cute
Absolutely awesome thanks for another great video Mr Savage 😁
Thank you.
True nostalgia 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
It totally shows the mentality of the Henson culture that there is a tongue in the old waldo rig.
Content is soo cool, camera work/focusing made me feel quite ill and strained my eyes!
After over 40 years, I now know what the inside of a Doozer Muppet looks like! I’m in absolute awe at the marvel of engineering that goes into these works of art.
Does anyone know what happened to the Audrey 2 puppets from Little Shop of Horrors? Are they in a museum or in a landfill?
These Henson Co videos are simultaneously delighting me and making me CRAZY FKN JEALOUS!! 😂
#same !
Speaking of incredible creature animatronics, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) is top 3 in my list.
This series is making me miss the Jim Henson Creature Shop challenge more and more. That, and Face-Off. They were both such great looks at how everything goes on behind the scenes.
I know someone who met Jim Henson, she said he was so nice and really kind! Sad loss!
The reason why they did it like that back then was because they didn't have CNC machines readily available for this application, so it was easier and cheaper to make it practically. That's why most of anything that was made during the '80s to the early till late naughty's was practical, unless you had ILM money...
Oh my goodness I love fraggles
Next generation will be a VR full-body haptic with tiny robot puppets where you see through their faces and your very emotions are carried across the puppet. Maybe.
00:51 That looks like a Kong dog toy in the mechanism!
I'm curious about the Doozer sticks. They must have gone through a lot of them. And how long did it take to build all the elaborate Doozer constructions?
I grin for the entire duration of these videos.
So glad! That was us that entire day.
I forgot doozers were from fraggle rock. To me, that's just what you call any construction worker.
Love these so much, very nostalgic.
And so interesting and cool that you can buy a fifteen to twenty dollar part from 4m4zon or hobbyking to fix a Doozer, haha.
I'm not a fan of proprietary in any of my toys for that exact reason.
It's horrible to have to wait months for proprietary vendor parts, uck.
Thank you so much to the A.S.T. Family and Henson Creature Shop for making these videos possible.
13:27 The detail on those models!! I've bought regular sized clothes off Amazon with worse sewing than these guys have on their jackets!
More Henson videos please
Shame this isn't on TV anymore.
My favorite show as a kid especially because I got to watch it at my grams house.
Heh, I love how the OG control has an actual tongue in the mouth, but the newer ones don't.
It would be cool if they made the controls kinda look like the puppet
Man, this channel is so fabulous. You'd never be able to have this kind of content on commercial TV. In-depth and nerdy, not cut together to be as exciting as possible to a mainstream audience who you can't rely on to understand why it's cool without bashing them over the head with the basics. Talk about a great second act for Adam!
Doozers were my favorite characters in the show...and they made them look so tiny. It always amazed me as a kid. I could get how they animated the Fraggles but the Doozers were somehow...magical...in how they hid the way the operators made them move so well.
They were *my* favourite characters in the show, *too*.
@@michaelweech6432 Have you ever seen Jim Henson’s Animal Jam?
@@UnicornFairy42 Why?
@@michaelweech6432 Just asking, because it's a Jim Henson show.
@@UnicornFairy42 That’s what I thought. Anyway, in response to your question, no, never seen it (I’m not a fan of *all* Jim Henson stuff, let alone characters).
I love how Adam's inner child comes out when checking out all the Jim Henson stuff
Junior Gorg looks like Chum Lee from Pawn Stars
I hope you have some shots if not a video of John’s tool vest/ apron!!! Talk about first order retrieval! I’m curious about the part of his apron on his shoulders and attachment.
Ways art and science interact and feed off each other is super interesting to me, so these Creature Shop videos have been facinating
I wonder why they don't make larger, traditional hand puppets for close-up shots with just Doozers.
I had the pleasure of seeing some of these at The Atlanta Centre For Puppetry Arts decades ago. At the time, I had no idea that they had put in a Jim Henson Installation.
If you've never seen a grown man cry in joy in public, because he got to see a few puppets, you haven't seen true happiness.
Right next to them was an installation of Emit Otter!
One of the best days ever!
If you're every in the Atlanta area, DO NOT miss out on this gem. It's easily overlooked in such a crowded city, but it's there!
For you more mature folks, they used to perform shows that were for adults only and they served cocktails. Definitely one of the best places ever to take a loved one.
The tour is self guided and constantly changing! I even got to see an original Skeksis and "Pigs in Space"!
Thank you for sharing this with us!
True fans are loving this!
Backstage Henson is fantastic ❤ I hope Adam got references from da bears. Those were some of my favorite builds 😊
Thank you for these videos Adam, absolute treasure seeing more inside of Henson's
I have a question for you Adam. Mythbusters busted the myth of a cigarette igniting fuel blowing up a gaurd shack. My brother and I think it could. What about a chain smoker flicking the ashes or dropping it?
I squeed when I saw Cotterpin.
I know the movie got mixed reviews but seeing the Country Bears in the background there is such a treat!
wuh ? doozers arn't built , they do the building !
...my world must remain intact !
im in love with those cute little guys!!!! i want one so bad!!! so freakin cute!! and cool