{"id":13351,"date":"2022-06-14T00:41:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T07:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/?page_id=13351"},"modified":"2022-06-14T00:49:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T07:49:09","slug":"mrr-13-roosevelt-franklin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/mrr-13-roosevelt-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Muppet Replica Resource – 13 Roosevelt Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"

MUPPETS MAIN MENU<\/a> | KERMIT<\/a> | ANIMAL<\/a> | GONZO<\/a> | MAHNA MAHNA<\/a> | ROWLF<\/a> | OSCAR<\/a> | ROBIN<\/a>
BEAUTIFUL DAY<\/a> | GLEEP<\/a> | PRAIRIE DAWN<\/a> | BABY JAVA<\/a> | COOKIE MONSTER<\/a> | ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN<\/a>
GROVER<\/a> | SUPER GROVER<\/a> | THE COUNT<\/a> | NATE ATEZ<\/a> | BACKSTAGE BONUS<\/a> | MUPPETS IN ACTION!<\/a>\r\n<\/h4><\/div><\/div>
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Character: Roosevelt Franklin<\/p>\n

Hand type: Rod<\/p>\n

Builder credits:<\/p>\n

Pattern \u2013 Wally Wingert, Alex McGee; Alex In Wonderland<\/p>\n

Foam head sculpture \u2013 Wally Wingert<\/p>\n

Mouth plate fabrication \u2013 Wally Wingert<\/p>\n

Seamstress \u2013 Alex McGee; Alex in Wonderland<\/p>\n

Shirt design and fabrication \u2013 Alex McGee; Alex in Wonderland<\/p>\n

Shirt fabric design \u2013 Scott Sebring<\/p>\n

Additional hair work \u2013 Sergio Lopez<\/p>\n

Height (including his hair): 21\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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When I was 12 I collected Muppet toy puppets, and one of the ones I enjoying using to entertain my kid sister was Roosevelt Franklin. We enjoyed watching his \u201cRoosevelt Franklin Elementary School\u201d vignettes on \u201cSesame Street\u201d quite a bit, and I enjoyed reenacting those segments live for her in her room.<\/p>\n

But after being deemed \u201ccontroversial\u201d (for some insane reason) the character left the airwaves after only a few seasons. But I\u2019ve always held a great love for the little teacher\/student who danced into the classroom to his own, custom riff.<\/p>\n

After seeing the 2021 documentary \u201cStreet Gang; How We Got To Sesame Street\u201d and hearing the behind-the-scenes story about the ridiculous demise of Mr. Franklin, it renewed my interest in the character.<\/p>\n

As a kid I was never aware that the character had any sort of racial attributes; he was simply a puppet. He was just a kid who knew a lot of great stuff, talked really cool and danced into class. At that point in my life I wasn\u2019t even really interested in GOING to class, let alone dancing into class.<\/p>\n

Thanks to my pal Scott Sebring, and the on-line fabric printing company called Spoonflower, we landed on the perfect fabric design to replicate Roosevelt\u2019s groovy, striped turtleneck sweater.<\/p>\n

Using roughly the same pattern I used to create Prairie Dawn\u2019s head, I began working on him on Christmas Eve of 2021, during my annual \u201cCreative Christmas\u201d celebration.<\/p>\n

Unlike any of the recent replicas I built, Roosevelt would need a small device inside his hands that would make his fingers poseable. I wired up contraptions to make bendable fingers bend in several of the replicas I made when I was 19, but I hadn\u2019t done it recently.<\/p>\n

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My cousin Willy Wingert and I prepare an impromptu puppet show during one of his visits.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is the Roosevelt Franklin “skeleton” hand fabricated with armature wire and Magic Sculpt putty.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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QUESTIONS AND QUERIES? COMMENTS OR COMMANDS?
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