How'd They Do That? (elmo in wagon)

[CookieFan]

I was watching an ep on Noggin today where Elmo is pretending to be a plant with Stinky and Big Bird is pulling them around in the wagon. Elmo & Stinky are moving around while the wagon is moving. How did they do that? Remote control?

 

[jeffkjoe]

Yes, there is a remote control-version of Elmo, which is needed when actor's need to carry him around or when he's on a bicycle, etc.

It's the silmiar technique to how they were able to get Kermit to "ride a bicycle" in THE MUPPET MOVIE.

There are other versions of Elmo floating around:

- one where he's got sleepy eyes
- another where he actually has hands (not rod arms) when he actually needs to grab things

 

[D'Snowth]

I know this isn't Sesame Street, but it's still on topic...in the beginning of Kermit's Swamp Years, Kermit, Goggles, and Croaker were all floating in water. They were still moving like any other muppet would, they didn't look like they were done by remote control. How do you think they did this?

 

[Hays]

A La Vietnamese Water Puppet?

 

[Erine81981]

some one is under the puppet same as in "The Muppet Movie" where u see Kermit sitting on a log playing his banjo. They had Jim in a type of waterproufe container and he would get air from someone pumping air in container. W/ Swamp years it was proubly out of the water and had a type of a big bowl of water that was easy for the proformers to work underneath. There hope that helps.