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Hi! I just want to thank you SO MUCH for the absolutely amazing Labyrinth stuff you create, I’m literally in awe of your prop reactions, and I love them so much! Over a year ago I saved your Firey plush tutorial DETERMINED to make one for myself, because the pattern was beautiful and the pattern (FREE?!? I WAS OVER THE MOON WHEN I SAW YOU DID IT FOR FRE E) was so comprehensive and easy to follow!

Now I’m not quite finished yet, obviously, but I wanted to send you a process picture as solid proof that someone with MINIMAL knowledge in sewing could follow your wonderful instructions. Thank you SO SO MUCH for putting this out into the world!

Ahhh I'm so glad to hear this! The Labyrinth prop replicas are my pride and joy, so it really and truly means a lot to me that you're using the tutorial to make your own Labyrinth goodies! And I'm really glad the instructions are clear, I am always a bit unsure if I'm getting things across clearly enough or if things only make sense to me and me alone. Your Firey is turning out so cute, I love his big fluffy tail! I can't wait to see what he looks like fully fluffed up, please be sure to send me a pic when you finish him!

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I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH YOUR MUPPET PRINCESS BRIDE AU THINGY

In love

It's absolutely amazing, your art is gorgeous!!!

Thank you so much! I'm really honoured folks love my interpretation of the Muppet Princess Bride so much. As someone who's art never really got any attention previously it's almost surreal to know people are now actually looking at my art (And dare I say, looking forward to it?). Thank you again for your support! (Sorry for the late reply on this, I was trying to get a new MPB drawing out before I responded and well, that took longer than I expected ha ha. But I finally got a new one posted, hooray!).

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New Muppet Princess Bride Drawing! I've had the idea for this one for a while but had been second guessing for a bit if it made sense to anyone other than me, in hindsight I'm not sure why I was so hesitant as this is pretty much just the same gag as the original film. 

I think Beaker is a natural fit for the Albino, a beleaguered assistant helping a mad scientist with his experiments? Who else could that have been! In my head Bunsen is there too of course, no way he'd let Beaker have all the fun by himself. But Beaker is the one who gets his memory "jogged" by Fezzik and Inigo (A scene I may have to try and draw one day). 

I know Westley's supposed to be shirtless in this scene, but for some reason drawing shirtless Kermit with the moustache made him feel somehow even more bare then he usually is ha ha.

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It's been a bit since I did a Muppet drawing, I feel like I'm a bit rusty so I wanted to dust off the pen tablet and draw Piggy in the style of those iconic 80s Barbie illustrations. I'm not quite sure I pulled off the style swap but the curls were sure fun to do regardless

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may be pushing it into slightly riskier subject matter but thoughts on s muppets version if the birdcage? ideally if we still had robin williams for the human, but nathan lane coukd also work

I actually haven't seen the Birdcage yet! Not in it's entirety anyways, I've seen enough clips to know that I want to watch it, I just haven't sat down to do so yet. Funnily enough, I just so happened to see a post on Reddit of an artist doing a Muppet/Birdcage mash up! Here's the link if you want to check it out. Based on their responses they have plans to do more drawings. "The Muppet Cage" on Reddit by ArtHoe-Kage I don't know if the artist has a Tumblr, but it looks like they're on Instagram as Butterfacecreations (Though they haven't posted this particular drawing to Instagram yet).

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I just wanted to tell you my friends and I are delighted by the Muppets princess bride. We agreed that Miss Piggy would never break character. However, as soon as the director yells cut, she would take out the Hecklers and it would be hilarious!

Thank you so much! The great thing about the Muppets is that it'd be just as fun watching them make a movie as it would be to watch the final film. I think an ideal Muppet Princess Bride adaptation would include at least a few of those fourth wall breaks as we get to see some of the "behind-the-scenes" goings on... or maybe an entire "making of" documentary?

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Idk if you've cast Gonzo yet, but I would love to see him as Miracle Max and Camila as Valerie

That's my preferred casting as well! I have a drawing started but then got sidetracked by other things, but I'll get back to it eventually

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As a fan of Jim Henson’s works (specifically The Dark Crystal), The Princess Bride *and* Muppet Classic Theatre being some of my favourites, I adore this crossover!! I want this to be real so badly, honestly the ONLY Princess Bride remake I’d accept 😂

Fun fact, my family loves The Princess Bride as well, and we named our golden doodle Fezzik! I think it fits him really well 💖

Aww, what a beautiful pupper! And such a majestic photo of him! I'm hopelessly naive, but I like to think that if enough people show their love for Muppet Princess Bride that Disney might actually listen. Stranger things have happened, right? So if any of ya'll out there have thought about making your own Muppet Princess Bride art, please do it! Maybe someone with the right connections will see it and make some magic happen? Also I'd just love to see other folks' take on the concept, there's so many ways you can cast Muppet Princess Bride that are just waiting to be explored (Not to mention other mediums too!). The more Muppet Princess Bride art, the better!

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New Muppet Princess Bride drawing! I know some folks will want Fozzie to have a way bigger role in Muppet Princess Bride, but honestly I feel like the role of Yellin is perfect for Fozzie. This line in particular is already so very Fozzie, I can hear him saying it so clearly in my head.  Fun fact, I had to redraw the second panel because for some reason in my memory it was Westley that gave Fezzik the order to rip Yellin's arms off. I almost wish I left it, just because the idea of dear sweet Kermit asking for arms to be ripped off is kinda hilarious to me. 

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My mom is the biggest Muppets fan ever. And the princess Bride is my favorite movie. Therefore, a family favorite, lol. I showed her all your work on the Muppets princess bride, and she said, "I gotta get in touch with her and tell her i love them!" So this is me, telling you my mom and I love these so much. You are so talented! We love them! Can't wait to see more!

Aww thank you both so much! I'm having an off night so this message helped cheer me up. I will hopefully have a new set of drawings released soonish, I'm currently battling a bit of perfectionism over them but I think I am slowly getting somewhere!

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Bunson: Welcome to Pit of Despair Labs!

I might need to use this, I know I want Bunsen and Beaker in the Pit of Despair but I keep overthinking what to do with their dialogue! (Also apologies for the late reply, and apologies to folks waiting on the next Muppet Princess Bride drawing. The last few months have been a hectic mess of ceiling wasps/various plumbing issues so I've been having trouble focusing on creative pursuits. But hopefully things'll start settling down soon!)

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More Muppet Princess Bride art! The last time I posted a Pepe/Kermit scene an Instagram user (jprmiller) wrote this hypothetical bit of dialogue in the comments, and it was too good not to turn into a full illustration. It's lines like this that have me fully convinced that an actual Muppet Princess Bride remake needs to happen one day, because it sometimes takes very little tweaking to make a perfectly Muppetified version of a Princess Bride quote.

Also, it wasn't until drawing this scene that I realised I totally forgot to give Pepe Inigo's scars... but then I kinda felt like that worked in a fun way... Maybe Pepe spends the entire movie talking about his backstory and showing off his "scars," but no one can see them. But he insists they're there, and they make him look really cool, okay?

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I've finally finished my next Youtube tutorial, this time making a prop version of the poisoned peach that sends Sarah to Jareth's ball. While I can't guarantee following this tutorial will get you a dance with the Goblin King himself, at least you'll feel like you're in the running. Please check out the video to see me turn a generic Styrofoam peach into something that looks like you just plucked it out of the junkyard of a magical man who stole your baby brother.

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One of my earliest Labyrinth prop replica projects was making Hoggle's fairy sprayer, as seen in the very beginning of Labyrinth. Redoing projects is always a really nice ego-boost, as I get to directly contrast where I came from with where I am now. And safe to say, I'm really happy with this new version of my Hoggle sprayer. Not just in terms of the actual prop rebuild, but in regards to the photos of the build itself!

My sprayer was built using a balloon pump, various cardboard tubes, a copious amount of wood filler, foam spheres, and sculpey clay. The backdrop bricks were made out of pink insulation foam, the "Dirt" are two yoga mats covered in alternating layers of glue and sand, and the fairies were actually just one fairy that I photographed over and over (Who's wings were made out of iridescent film ironed over wire, which were glued to a spherical LED light). I'm a bit crunched for time today so I'm not gonna include a write-up on the construction of the sprayer, but feel free to click the "Keep Reading" to see the very un-glamourous "Behind the scenes" picture of this particular photoshoot.

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Here's my latest Muppet Princess Bride drawing! There's some roles in the Princess Bride that seem like they were tailor-made for a Muppet version, like Statler and Waldorf as the Ancient Booer. I knew I wanted them in this role, but it took me ages to figure out a good line for them. Shout-out to my friends for helping me workshop the dialogue for this one (Special shout-out to Jen Yates of Epbot for easing my mind that I was on the right track with this joke to begin with).

Piggy of course, would normally not take this kind of trash talk lying down, but she is a professional actress who wouldn't dream of breaking character on set... that's what she claims anyways.

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PLEASE make Statler and Waldorf in the roles of the kid and his grandpa.

Okay that would be pretty hilarious, and now you have me wondering which one would be the kid and which one would be the grandpa? In my imaginary adaptation I have them cast as the Ancient Booer, it's just too perfect for Statler and Waldorf (you probably wouldn't even have to pay them to play the role, they'd gladly heckle for free).

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Kermit: Where am I?

Beaker: Mi mimi mi. Mi mi mi mimi mi mi.

Kermit: That told me nothing.

Love this, I can totally picture this in their voices! (And I'm glad we're on the same page with Bunsen and Beaker being the assistants in the Pit of Despair)!