Displayed as lamps, the puppets delight the children and are decorative accent.

If the puppets are of uniform size, you can change them in accord with your child's whims.

* the mummy type-where androids are made of " dead things " or " stiff, inanimate, natural material ", such as mummies, puppets, dolls and statues

Like Henson's Muppets, the Feebles are animal-figured puppets ( though some were people in suits ) assembled together as members of a theatre troupe.

Since the puppets are carved from wood, their facial expressions cannot change, but are stuck in the same exaggerated pose, which helps to deter any sense of realism and to distance the audience ( Crone 1065 ).

Models of characters are puppets.

In Stargate SG-1, the Asgard characters are puppets in scenes where they are sitting, standing, or lying down.

They also variously include lion dances and dragon dances ; human-occupied puppets ( often of the " Seventh Lord " and " Eighth Lord "); tongji ( " spirit-medium ; shaman ") who cut their skin with knives ; Bajiajiang, which are Kungfu-practicing honor guards in demonic makeup ; and palanquins carrying god-images.

Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.

The Jim Henson Company was largely responsible for the various alien makeup and prosthetics, and two regular characters ( the animatronic puppets Rygel and Pilot ) are entirely Creature Shop creations.

These are " life sized " cloth-and-wood puppets manipulated by a team of people, supporting the dragon with poles.

In the Delta Green setting, the " Greys " are puppets remotely-controlled by the Mi-go.

" A point reiterated by a foreign diplomat in Bahrain in November 2007 who told the Independent newspaper that Shia Bahrainis are " loyal, patriotic, and looking after their own interests " and warned visiting journalists that it was completely misguided to see them as " willing agents and puppets of a malevolent Shia regime in Iran ".

* Harlequin ( Arlecchino ), Punch ( Pulcinella ), and Signora Rosaura: Harlequin, Punch, and Signora Rosaura are puppets at the Theatre who embrace Pinocchio as their brother.

They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience.

Many, including Afghan President Hamid Karzai, claim that Mullah Omar and his Taliban movement are used as puppets by the Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) in Pakistan.

We are taking over foreign countries, setting them up with our favorite puppets " in charge ," controlling their economy, their movements, their dress codes, their defensive projects, and their dreams, solely because we love them, and apparently can ’ t live without them.

As Surrett has installed one of his puppets as sheriff, the other citizens ' hands are tied when it comes to arresting any of the evildoers.

In many cases, the puppets were modelled on the actor voicing the role ; two good examples are Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds, which closely resembled Sylvia Anderson, and Captain Blue in Captain Scarlet who looks like his voice actor Ed Bishop ( although the latter was reportedly coincidental ).

Although efforts were made to minimize this, the strings used to control the puppets are often visible ( more so on high-definition sets ), though the production teams ' ability to mask the strings ( and the fineness of the strings themselves ) noticeably improves through the various series.

* In 2006, the 200th episode of television show Stargate SG-1 includes a segment in which SG-1 and crew are featured as puppets in this same style.

The puppets are built out of wood and the shows are performed in a waist high pool.

In the Tang Dynasty houses of pleasure, where drinking games were common, small puppets in the aspect of Westerners, in a ridiculous state of drunkenness, were used in one popular permutation of the drinking game ; so, in the form of blue-eyed, pointy nosed, and peak-capped barbarians, these puppets were manipulated in such a way as to occasionally fall down: then, whichever guest to whom the puppet pointed after falling was then obliged by honor to empty his cup of Chinese wine.

The live-action Thunderbirds film was met with poor reviews, and Team America: World Police creators Stone and Parker slated Frakes's live-action approach as " a terrible miscalculation ": " I mean, if you aren ’ t using puppets, then you ain ’ t got nothin ’.

From then until 1988, the titular Presidents were essentially army-installed puppets of Lt. Col. Bouterse, who ruled as a dictator with few practical checks on his power.

Sometimes the showman would perform for a crowd with puppets or pictures outside the box and then charge people extra to look through the holes.

Noteworthy events included a June 2004 event CNI co-sponsored with the Council on American-Islamic Relations a presentation on “ The Muslim Vote in 2004 " where independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader complained that “ Muslim Americans are only the latest religious and ethnic group to feel the brunt of political hysteria and abuse ” and commented about Israeli leaders " The days when the chief Israeli puppeteer comes to the United States and meets with the puppet in the White House and then proceeds to Capitol Hill, where he meets with hundreds of other puppets, should be replaced.

The puppets are made out of wood and then lacquered.

The puppets are made to appear and then leave the stage through the small black curtains.

Pinhead grabs Neil's head, then the puppets murder Neil.

Rod puppets require one of the puppeteer's hands inside the puppet glove holding a rod which controls the head, and the puppet's body then hangs over most or all of the forearm of the puppeteer, and possibly extends further.

The Puppet Master uses radioactive clay to make puppets of people that he can then control, attaching them to strings and moving them as puppets ; presumably he has some sort of psionic ability that enables him to do this.

3D storyboards can be constructed using 3D animation programs or digital puppets within 3D programs.

Consequently, the puppets no longer required oversized heads and could now be constructed using natural proportions to produce a less caricatured design.

The filmmakers constructed 227 puppets to represent the characters in the movie, with Jack Skellington having " around four hundred heads ", allowing the expression of every possible emotion.

The main character puppets for first season were constructed by Bob Flanagan's company Den Design with additional puppets built by BJ Guyer, Carol Binion, Rick Lyon, Ron Binion, Jim Kroupa, and Artie Esposito.

The heads and hands of traditional puppets are carved by specialists, while the bodies and costumes are often constructed by puppeteers.

They are constructed similarly to wayang kulit figures, but from thin pieces of wood instead of leather, and, like wayang kulit figures, are used as shadow puppets.

The puppets used in the film were not constructed of wood, but a specially-made plastic, which allowed for a more detailed modeling of faces.

It subjects were also Australian politics which it attacked through various political impersonations ( including John Howard, Paul Keating ), and also using the political puppets, Rubbery Figures, previously seen in small segments on the ABC, and based was based on Peter Nicholsons political cartoons.

Aylesbury hosts the Roald Dahl Festival, a procession of giant puppets based on his characters, on July 2.

The puppets ' lines were mostly invented by the voice actors, based on cues from the physical actions of the puppets, which were filmed before the voice work.

A play for puppets and actors was based on the novel, adapted by Greg Carter and directed by Sheila Daniels:

In 2007, both the Rudolph and Santa puppets were restored to original condition by Screen Novelties, a Los Angeles based collective of film directors specializing in stop motion animation.

Throughout 1949, Trnka also made ​​ three short films with animated puppets: Roman s basou (" Story of a Bass ," or " Novel with Bass "), adapted from a story by Anton Chekhov ; Certuv mlýn (" The Mill Devil "), and Arie prerie (" Song of the Prairie "), a western parody loosely based on The Diligence by John Ford.

The following year he produced his third feature Trnka animation with puppets, Bajaj (" The Prince Bayaya ", 1950 ), based on two stories by writer Bozena Nemcova.

From 1982, several television movies were based on the strip: Miss Peach of the Kelly School featured a live actor as Miss Peach and puppets as the children ( some voiced by Martin Short ).

Thunderbirds Are Go is a 1966 British science-fiction film based on Thunderbirds, a 1960s television series starring marionette puppets and featuring scale model effects in a filming process dubbed " Supermarionation ".

For a short time, fans could buy a line of toys based on characters from the films such as Shrieker, Radu from Subspecies and the Puppet Master puppets as well.

In one issue of The Batman Adventures, the comic book based on Batman: The Animated Series, Wesker tries to reform by working puppets in a children's show with " Froggy ", a new, friendlier puppet.

Plays done with shadow puppets are often based on traditional stories, especially tales from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.