Limited Edition Bobo Marionette
Limited Edition Bobo Marionette
Bobo is back! In celebration of BBMT’s 57th anniversary (and 1st anniversary of our new home), you can now purchase a beautifully handmade Bobo of your very own.
This limited edition, collectible marionette is crafted in-house at BBMT and based on an original design that Bob Baker himself created more than 50 years ago. A piece of LA and puppetry history and a legacy of our Theater, Bobo has not been commercially available for decades and we are delighted to bring him back now, just in time for the holidays.
Every artisanal Bobo puppet represents dozens of hours of work and is constructed from a total of nearly 40 handcrafted components and requires over 100 separate distinct manufacturing processes from cutting and sanding to painting and glueing. Not only a beautiful object and touchstone in puppetry history, each Bobo puppet is fully manipulatable with intricate stringing and perfect weight to give it a true illusion of life in movement and pose.
The final result is a puppet unlike any other — aside from those Bob and his team of fabricators produced decades ago.
