Gathering toys

Just like a doll's house.

I saw the puppet show.

Are you taking me for a puppet doll or something?

Oh, this is how you make puppets.

And the dummy fell for it.

Muppets and Middle East Peace

These are three year old dummies, by the way.

Puppets is the way we communicate.

And it uses the imagery of dollhouse furniture.

They make spoons, puppets to be hidden away.

Maybe that's where the whole inspiration thing started from, puppets, right.

I was just playing dolls with stars, that's all.

A mysterious thing happens in puppetry.

Can we go see the puppet show again tomorrow?

Those little puppets of yours will tell us who's pulling the strings.

Their traditional stride is perfect for puppet style animation.

The toys need an idea and a system built around it.

Hey! You know how difficult doll vending machines are.

The Mexico Antique Toy Museum has organized several events with the aim to bring together collectors and rekindle the interest for locally produced products such as toys.

But, like all puppets, it has other attributes.

Isn't it? Lately that webtoon has been really popular.

I think in good time she should be amongst some of the most popular cartoonists.

This... Seung Jo got it for me, from that doll vending machine.

These puppets are made out of recycled World Bank reports.

You know one of those marionette things. All strings and joints.

One of my sons is driving it. With two dummies in the back.

no more puppets, no more practical effects or nothin'

And even in stillness, puppets maintain a kind of aura.

They get presented with a little puppet, and they all hover around like a pack of excited dogs, fighting for a piece.

Hey, in her webtoon your character is the most popular.

Hi, I'm Jessica Donnor, Director of the Collaborative for Building After School Systems with your tenth tip.

I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer.

Puppet animation is a relatively quick solution to creating 2 D animation of a hand drawn character.

It's a completely empathic solution apart from the fact that teddy's probably not loving it.

And very, very quickly I love puppets.

And I think this is what makes puppets so captivating, it is that they are utterly genuine.

They wouldn't drop dummies unless it was to divert our attention from something else.

But it was when LEGO first launched the great Ferguson tractor, that the plastic toys became a success.

Often times, puppet animation is done as straight ahead action, which means moving a character frame by frame from beginning to end.

And here you can see these wooden effigies of the ancestors, so these are people who have already been buried, already had a funeral ceremony.

I'll give you one such example toy preferences, is typically the example that social scientists use to demonstrate that we are socialized to be consumers.

Like the music, from an instrument, a life thing is generated when a puppeteer brings forth the essence that is already built into the puppet.

AK Yeah, it's basically a dead object, as you can see, and it only lives because you make it.

Fortunately, with the help of the international community, those Congolese puppets and Ugandan bandits will not be with us much longer.