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Mario creator visits Jim Henson’s workshop

Behind the scenes of Nintendo’s wacky E3 digital event.

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The most imaginative man at Nintendo visited the home of some of the best creature creators in entertainment history.

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Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind the Mario and Zelda franchises, paid a visit to Jim Henson Studios to provide a look into how the puppets from Nintendo’s E3 digital event were created. The puppets were mostly an advertisement for the new Star Fox Wii U game, but they popped up a few other times during the event.

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Miyamoto, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, and Nintendo of America President and Chief Operating Officer Reggie Fils-Aimé, were all puppetized. Star Fox heroes Fox McCloud, Falco Lombardi, and Peppy Hare rounded out the puppet show.

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Nintendo also had the puppets on display at the entrance to the VIP section of its E3 2015 presence. 

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