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Category: Hints and Tips

Positioning your Puppets Hands

October 9, 2015 TheDummyShoppe Leave a comment

Something that comes to our attention from time to time is the way that a puppets hands are used. Just like your hands, your puppets hands can be used to help express a point in conversation.

Too often we see puppets who are allowed to just let their hands just dangle at their sides giving them the look of being either dead or disabled.…

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Posted in: Hints and Tips, Puppets, Ventriloquism

How do I make my puppets sit up straight for display?

October 2, 2015 TheDummyShoppe 1 Comment

Many people ask the question of how do they get their puppets to sit up straight for display.

There are a couple of things that we can suggest on how to do this. Take a small stick and put it up inside your puppet.…

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Posted in: Hints and Tips, Puppets, Ventriloquism

Time to get your reservations for Vent Haven 2016

September 25, 2015 TheDummyShoppe 2 Comments

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Last week I had occasion to have a good long talk with our good friend Mark Wade, the Executive Director of the Vent Haven International Ventriloquist ConVENTion.

Much of what was said that I can’t go into, but I can tell you a few things.…

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Posted in: Hints and Tips, Puppets, Ventriloquism

VENTRILOQUISM TAKES IT ALL – AGAIN

September 18, 2015 TheDummyShoppe 1 Comment

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Greetings fellow Vents. It appears like we stuck together as a community and pulled of the vote for our friend Paul Zerdin.

Here is the video of his winning performance.…

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Our Good Friend William Matthews

August 21, 2015 TheDummyShoppe 3 Comments

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Several years ago we became aware of several of our friends who were having problems transporting hard figures on airlines. Seems like the Security Folks might not be very good at catching bad guys, but they play the dickens on little old ladies and puppets.…

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Good stuff from the other side of the Pond

August 14, 2015 TheDummyShoppe 2 Comments

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Among the many great things to come out of this years ConVENTion is that we finally got to meet a good friend that we had conspired with to build his puppet.

Shane West is both a gifted Ventriloquist AND a Magician.…

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