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Bob Flanagan Original SNL Screen Used "Toonces The Driving Cat" Tooncinator Puppet.
This the original Toonces the Driving Cat "Tooncinator" puppet created by pioneer puppeteer Bob Flanagan of Den Design Studio in NY, who worked alongside Jim Henson in the New York Muppet Workshop. The "Tooncinator" built by Bob Flanagan, appeared on the 11/16//91 Saturday Night Live episode with Linda Hamilton from the hit movie "The Terminator" where she, as Sarah Connor and John Connor, her son, played by Edward Furlong are trying to escape the Terminator played by Phil Harman, who insists he is trying to save them from the Tooncinator, the robot cat, who is out to get them.
The great puppeteer Bob Flanagan not only built Toonces, but he played him (or manipulated him as a puppet) as well.
This incredible "Tooncinator" metal robot puppet, comes from the personal collection of pioneer puppeteer
Bob Flanagan, who from the Muppets, to SNL and Off-Broadway conquered it all! Bob Flanagan who worked alongside Jim Henson at the New York Muppet Workshop. The Muppet was created using the exact specifications of Jim Henson's Muppet Workshop. This incredible original puppet comes from the personal collection of pioneer puppeteer Bob Flanagan, who from the Muppets, to SNL and Off-Broadway conquered it all! Bob Flanagan has been making puppets since the “glory days” of puppetry—working alongside Jim Henson making characters for the Muppets and Sesame Street—as well as 27 seasons of Saturday Night Live.
Bob Flanagan, who passed away this year, was a puppet builder who worked in the New York Muppet Workshop with Jim Henson in the 1980s. As part of the Sesame Street team, he shared in a Daytime Emmy Award win for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design. Robert also created Puppets for the hit TV Series "Fragile Rock", "The Muppets take Manhattan", "Follow That Bird" "Twisted Puppet Theatre" and more, Flanagan operated his own company, Den Design Studio, which supplied puppets, costumes, and specialty props for Saturday Night Live and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (including Sesame-style puppets on the latter). He also worked extensively on stage productions, including puppets and props for the Broadway production of Wicked (including the Time Dragon and Lion Cub) and puppet and mask designs for off-Broadway shows Beowulf, The Hairy Ape, and The Emperor Jones (the last earning a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Costume Design).
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