If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
-- Jim Henson
   
Jim Henson   Name:
Jim Henson
Type:
Entertainer
Nationality:
American
Birth:
September 24, 1936
Death:
May 16, 1990
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