Parts of a Marionette

• Head. The heads of marionettes are made from wood, porcelain, cloth, paper mache, or plastic.
• Hands and Feet. The extremities of a marionette are made of wood, porcelain or hard plastic and are weighted at the wrists and ankles for control of their movements.
• Body.
• Strings.
• Cross Bar.
• Costumes.

marionettist
A marionette’s puppeteer is called a marionettist. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or revealed to an audience by using a vertical or horizontal control bar in different forms of theatres or entertainment venues. They have also been used in films and on television.

The marionette costs nearly eight thousand dollars (and Nettie takes an additional two thousand dollars to live on for a while), leaving the couple with a mere five thousand dollars in their once-cushioned joint bank account.

Key Difference: A puppet is a movable figure which represents a person or animal. It is controlled or manipulated by a puppeteer. Marionette is a puppet which is animated by using wires or strings. Puppets are available in many forms like Marionettes, hand or glove puppets and rod puppets.

Charlotte Emily, later known as The Puppet and Lefty, is a major character in the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise. It was a security robot specifically designed to protect children at a Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza that failed to protect Charlotte Emily from being murdered outside the restaurant.

Key Difference: A puppet is a movable figure which represents a person or animal. It is controlled or manipulated by a puppeteer. Marionette is a puppet which is animated by using wires or strings. Marionettes possess articulated limbs and are manipulated using strings.

Marionettes can be made of a wide range of materials: wood, paper, fabric, foam rubber, etc. Marionette combining two characters – sometimes more – which are usually placed side by side and attached to the same control.

A doll or figure controlled by a person so that it appears to be moving on its own is a puppet. Sometimes puppet means someone who is controlled by others: “He was president, but he was just a puppet for his political party.”

William Afton
Origin. The Security Puppet was made to keep children safe in Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. However, when a child is locked outside in the rain, they are killed by William Afton, as shown in the Take Cake to the Children’s death minigame from Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.

Sturdily constructed of hardwood, felt, fabric and leather, all of our marionettes achieve an exciting, magically realistic movement with a simple, one-hand operation.

There is a complete range of puppets, from the ones for beginners that are inexpensive and easy to control, to wooden marionettes what can be used by professionals. It takes some practice to control them, but it is easy to learn how to do it.

Under Ted’s direction, the New England Marionette Opera quickly grew to become one of the foremost marionette productions in the world. Then, on January 1, 1999, this great company came to a sudden and tragic end when a fire destroyed his theatre and nearly all of his hand-made marionettes, controls and equipment.

One is called “ANY”, it is a simple and well balanced marionette that comes with DVD instructions. The other one is a “Neutral” marionette, on strings and with more joints. Don’t hesitate and choose your Pinocchio, Elf, Mermaid, Jester, Devil, Wizard, Fairy, Clown or any other character you like.