Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin, The (1986)
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"The Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin" (1986) (dir: Lee Bernhardi / writer/creator: Ken Forsse)
Rare and surreal live-action puppet Teddy Ruxpin TV Special that aired as a ABC Television Movie. Teddy Ruxpin creator, Ken Forsse (who had worked various puppet shows in the 60's and 70's including with the Sid & Marty Kroft company) originally envisioned and created Ruxpin as a puppet property but later developed him as a animatronic toy with a backstory and fantasy world. When the toy took off, and after having success with his company Alchemy II working on Disney’s “Welcome To Pooh Corner”) he was able to get this live-action anthropormorphic puppet costume special greenlit by ABC. Sadly, it proved too expensive to produce as a weekly series and the now well-known cel animated Teddy Ruxpin series was created instead. But thank God at least one of these got made, because it’s an imaginative, colorful, surreal and fantastically fun anomaly of live-action life-sized anthropomorphic puppet costumed characters and creatures traversing an amazingly neat and uncannily intangible world of colorful prop sets, fantasy landscapes and spacious backdrops. Recommended.
1986 / 43mins. / Original Aspect Ratio (1.33:1) / English Language / Color / USA
Picture Quality: A
Rare and surreal live-action puppet Teddy Ruxpin TV Special that aired as a ABC Television Movie. Teddy Ruxpin creator, Ken Forsse (who had worked various puppet shows in the 60's and 70's including with the Sid & Marty Kroft company) originally envisioned and created Ruxpin as a puppet property but later developed him as a animatronic toy with a backstory and fantasy world. When the toy took off, and after having success with his company Alchemy II working on Disney’s “Welcome To Pooh Corner”) he was able to get this live-action anthropormorphic puppet costume special greenlit by ABC. Sadly, it proved too expensive to produce as a weekly series and the now well-known cel animated Teddy Ruxpin series was created instead. But thank God at least one of these got made, because it’s an imaginative, colorful, surreal and fantastically fun anomaly of live-action life-sized anthropomorphic puppet costumed characters and creatures traversing an amazingly neat and uncannily intangible world of colorful prop sets, fantasy landscapes and spacious backdrops. Recommended.
1986 / 43mins. / Original Aspect Ratio (1.33:1) / English Language / Color / USA
Picture Quality: A
