Kimberly Mikado puppet characters.

Hangdogroad

Anyone remember these? Used to find them kind of creepy. Looking at it again just what was the female one supposed to be? I used to think she was a Japanese/Asian woman but in retrospect she looks like a sort of humanoid penguin.

https://twitter.com/AdsIrish/status/1294767362739249163

George White

a bit Sid and Marty krofft.

Hangdogroad

I'd forgotten this one. The versions of the puppets here are more cutesy and Muppet like in contrast to the unsettling life sized ones. Can't see the un-pc Chinese one going down too well today though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRQAa7eA9l4

whisky_galore

Some Japanese geisha thing going on, although the other has the Chinese "queue" pigtail. Probably a weird play on Mikado, whoever designed the characters got China and Japan mixed up.

Where was it filmed? Westport house?

Hangdogroad

whisky_galore wrote: »

Some Japanese geisha thing going on, although the other has the Chinese "queue" pigtail. Probably a weird play on Mikado, whoever designed the characters got China and Japan mixed up.

Where was it filmed? Westport house?

I don't recognise the location. Yeah I had a feeling the female puppet was Japanese.

George White

Anyone know where it was filmed? It looks like they're trying to evoke America, but it probably wasn't.

Hangdogroad

It could have been shot on the Continent, somewhere like Spain.

https://youtu.be/pzbw0pJkJTU?si=poYWem25vcsrsKMJ