At last I finally got a soft figure. He's a MAT puppet and I have to say I'm very impressed. I've remodelled him slightly to better suit our act so here he is... Tony

Very nice! I like that skin color - you don't see that often.

Are you enjoying working with a soft figure, or do you prefer hard ones?

Actually I'm really liking him. I'm a bit of a traditionalist to be honest and have wrestled with the idea of using soft puppets, but I recognise that's what most audiences want today (especially here in Australia). Mary Ann's puppet has a lot of movement by the way she constructs them so I can get a lot of life out of him which pleases me of course.