ANNIE SUE PIG Miss Piggy’s protégé and rival, Annie Sue is very similar to Miss Piggy, except that she’s younger and wears tight sweaters to get Kermit’s attention. She was one of my first customs, and could really use some reworking. It was my first attempt at using Sculpey to make an afro, and her resculpted snout and skirt could use some work too. Sucks to be her.

BEAUTIFUL DAY MONSTER A fairly obscure monster that predates The Muppet Show, but is sometimes seen there as well—his name comes from a sketch he did on the Ed Sullivan Show with a little girl where he tries to ruin her Beautiful Day. He’s the torso and legs of an Invisible Fozzie, with a head and arms sculpted from scratch.

SEVEN FOOT TALL SINGING CARROT From the Gilda Radner episode of The Muppet Show, he’s more than a foot tall. He’s made from a polystyrene cone with Plaster of Paris and Sculpey on the outside, with sprigs of some plastic plant for the carrot top. He’s also the biggest pain in the neck custom I’ve ever made, taking more than a year to figure out how to do him right.

DINER RATS FROM “THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN” Yolanda, Tattooey, Masterson, and Chester, along with Rizzo, were one of the highlights of The Muppets Take Manhattan. I took four Rizzos and turned them into those four rats with some Sculpey and paint…didn’t redo a Rizzo for the lineup, since I figure the changes to him would have been minimal anyway.

GAFFER, THE BACKSTAGE CAT Gaffer is a one eyed, gimpy looking cat that hangs out backstage…before we got one the size of a hamster with the Pops action figure, I made this one from scratch. He’s not great. But he’s closer to the correct size than Palisades’ was.

GLOAT I had a headless Gonzo kicking around (someday I’ll find that head, and that will be even more disturbing…), and decided to make this guy, who looks somewhat like a vampire Kermit, but is actually a Frackle named Gloat. You see him in the opening credits of the Muppet Show…and that’s about it.

MERMAID MISS PIGGY Busted off one leg, put the other inside a Sculpey fish tail for a new kind of Surf-n-Turf. The iridescent scales on the tail are from some fancy wrapping paper. Not that fancy.

MORMON MISSIONARY BUNSEN & BEAKER I did two years of time as a Mormon Missionary in Germany, and these two dorks are a tribute to that…really just simple repaints of Bunsen and Beaker, with name tags attached.

“WIZARD OF OZ” MUPPETS This is another early batch of customs, done before Disney’s “The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz” was ever even announced. This is based on a 1981 Henson TV Special, “The Muppets Go to the Movies” and had this kinda lineup for the classic MGM movie. I like it, but I’d like it more with Foo-Foo as Toto.

OCTOPUS Another custom built from scratch—he’s all Sculpey, all the time. I like him.

PENGUIN And another one completely from scratch—I feel like one of the few gaping holes in Palisades’ fantastic lineup is that we didn’t ever get any penguins—hopefully we will in 2005, but for right now…we’re without penguins. They’re such a crucial part of the Muppet Show and movies…this is my version of one. He needs friends.

SPAMELA HAMDERSON This is of course a parody of Pamela Anderson that was on “Muppets Tonight” in a sketch called “Bay of Pigs Watch”…not a very funny parody, but it introduced another (short-lived) female character to the Muppets. Piggy with Sculpey—I may try this one again someday too, if I ever learn how to sculpt.

“WILD” CLIFFORD Talk Show Host Clifford sucks. “Wild Clifford,” the way I first met him back on The Jim Henson Hour, was a fun character. So I funkified him with a feather boa, some stripey pants, and an open silky shirt, and if he looks a little too Lenny Kravitz—well, that’s a good thing.

STATLER AND WALDORF AS JAILBIRDS There’s an episode of The Muppet Show that ends with Statler and Waldorf jailed in their balcony box…and they’re in the old-time stripey jailbird clothes. I figured they look great in those, so I took a Vaudeville Statler and Waldorf and sliced and diced and Sculpeyed them. Added some Balls and Chains made from Animal’s collar and chain, and voila. There it is. No one’s ashamed.

VACATION MUPPETS We got a Vacation Pepe and Vacation Fozzie in the line, I figured some others should go along with them. I eventually want to make more of these, but Gonzo, Piggy, and Kermit are a good start.

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