After the nerding

Even though Harv and I were unable to attend ComiCon this past weekend we were lucky enough to see what had to have been the highlight of the convention for all of the stop-motion nerdlings in attendance. Our dear friends Mark, Seamus and Chris of Screen Novelties were comissioned to restore actual puppets from the actual Rankin Bass Christmas special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". We got a sneak peek of the duo before they went down to San Diego.
Needless to say, the puppets were amazing and the SN fellows along with Sea's wife Robin, did a wonderful job bringing them back to their original glory. Apparently the puppets were in the possession of a former Rankin Bass secretary who put them out every Christmas so they could be battered and abused by who knows how many sticky fingered, gift happy children. We'll see if we can weasel some "before" pictures out of Mark, Sea and Chris to show you the horror.