Muppet plush (Fisher-Price)

Fisher-Price produced the first set of Muppet Show plush toys, beginning in 1977. The packaging design used imagery from The Muppet Theatre, including the curtains, the footlights, the backstage area and the stage door. The color scheme for each character's packaging was also carried over in the packaging for Fisher-Price's Muppet Show Stick Puppets set.

1977

Kermit the Frog doll, with velcro at the wrists and ankles

Fozzie Bear doll, with plastic hat

Fozzie doll tag (front)

Fozzie doll tag (back)

Rowlf the Dog hand puppet, full-body plush

catalogue

Mark Hamill with the Rowlf puppet

1978

Kermit puppet, with moving mouth and velcro hands. This puppet was made from fleece custom-manufactured by Malden Mills; the same fleece was used to make the real Kermit at the time.

Fozzie puppet, with moving mouth and plastic hat

Animal puppet, with moving mouth and opening/closing eyelids, velcro hands, full body

Scooter doll, with velcro hands and plastic shoes

1979

Miss Piggy puppet, with plastic head

alternate box for Miss Piggy puppet

Kermit beanbag plush

Miss Piggy beanbag plush

Fozzie Bear beanbag plush

Beanbag Muppets store display box

1981

Gonzo beanbag plush

Also in 1981, Fisher-Price released the first set of Dress-Up Muppet Dolls, with outfits sold separately.

Notes

Fisher-Price's Kermit doll (right) on Fraggle Rock.

• The Animal hand puppet had a trigger inside his head to make his eyes close. The Animal puppet was rereleased by Igel in 2000 with a new outfit.

• The Kermit plush was seen in the background in a Postcards from Traveling Matt segment from the Fraggle Rock episode "A Cave of One's Own." The Scooter plush was also seen in a little girl's arms in the background in the Traveling Matt segment from "Mokey's Funeral."

• Unlike the other puppets and plushes, the Fozzie Bear plush is not in scale with the others.