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QUEENS, N.Y., Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tours of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop in Queens, NY, continue to sell out with five-star reviews and comments like “What an absolutely magical experience!” “So cool to see the stars of my childhood,” and “Go. Please, please, please go.” Tickets for weekly Saturday tours and monthly Sunday tours are now on sale now through December at www.JimHensonExperiences.com). Creature Shop Tours are ready for the season, whether it’s back-to-school, Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas, with special puppets and archival items on display.
September is back-to-school time, and it is also Jim Henson’s birthday. The Shop will be celebrating with a look at the life of the Shop’s founder and inspiration, and will have additional tours on September 26 and 27.
From monsters to Skeksis, the Shop has always had its own kind of spooky, and October is the perfect time to get ideas for your own Halloween. There are also tours available over the weekend of New York Comic Con, for fans who may be making a special trip to New York.
November will explore the 2015 Thanksgiving special “Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow” which is based on an idea from Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl and features four monsters built by the Creature Shop.
And this December, the Shop will display work from some of our favorite holiday projects including Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas and our newest addition to the world of Fraggle Rock, Princess the baby Gorg.
The tour also includes a walk-through of the award-winning Creature Shop, special photo opportunities of beloved and iconic characters, a puppetry demonstration from an actual Henson puppeteer, a meet and greet with one of the Creature Shop’s master puppet builders, and other special surprises. There is also exclusive merch available only at the Shop, including collectibles, apparel, and the very popular “Scrap Bags.”
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop is where award-winning artists and makers create hundreds of the world’s most famous puppet characters including stars from Fraggle Rock, The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, and many more. New York City is the original and longest home to the workshop and specializes in the renowned Henson style of puppets and walkaround characters.
Tickets to visit Jim Henson’s Creature Shop in New York are $150 (plus tax and fees). All available dates are on sale now at www.JimHensonExperiences.com, a new initiative from The Jim Henson Company that features a variety of in-person experiences and live theater productions. Join the newsletter to receive updates on all the Company’s events, stage shows, and experiences.
About Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™ provides animatronic creatures, digital puppetry, and soft puppets to the international film, television, theater, live event and advertising industries. Recent credits include the wildly popular music video “A Boggart Ballad” for Magic: the Gathering, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock (Apple TV), for which it won an Emmy, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix), the Blumhouse horror franchise Five Nights at Freddy’s, and a recent all-puppet episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The Shop is renowned for designing and building some of the world’s best-known characters including the Sesame Street puppets, the classic Muppets, and characters from Dinosaurs, Farscape, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and more. Additional credits in film and television include The Naked Gun, Nine Perfect Strangers Season 2, Lost Ollie, Come Play, Julie’s Greenroom, and Where the Wild Things Are. The shop is also known for its performance work for theatrical productions including My Neighbour Totoro, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Jim Henson’s inspired Silliness, and Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, as well as for its partnerships with commercial clients like Snuggle, Topgolf, and General Mills, and with artists like Coldplay, The Avett Brothers, Cee Lo Green, Ben Rector, Lady Gaga and Deadmau5.
A recipient of multiple Emmy Awards for its outstanding work building puppets for Sesame Street, the Shop also received an Academy Award for its visual effects work on the film Babe. Other awards include a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award for the Henson Performance Control System, a powerful custom-based interface for puppeteers, and an Emmy Award for its work in developing the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio, a patented control system technology that enables puppeteers to perform a computer generated (CG) character in real time.
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