Doom Puppet

The dangers of letting A Big Idea take hold of you became apparent this weekend.

I set my little heart on designing and staging a puppet show based on urban living with custom-built marionettes telling the tales of the city. I researched puppets. I researched ventriloquism. I accidentally applied for a job at the Jim Henson Creature Shop in America. I made outrageously high bids on eBay to obtain a puppet (£15.72) and a vetriloquist's dummy (£34.22).

Thanks to the combined efforts of '3dwerkstatt', 'phillipmorton' and 'leeroyking' I have lost out on not only a 1960s Magic Toy Shop Socco puppet but also a fabulously hideous Mr Parlanchin dummy (with detachable moustache) which sold for a piss-taking £45.00.

So it's back to the (still somewhat blank) drawing board...