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Axtell Expressions Puppets & Magic JPG
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President & Creative Director of Axtell Expressions, Inc.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Blackpool's "International Chidren's Entertertainers" Winners!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS to The BLACKPOOL MAGIC CONVENTION Winners!
(Blackpool England, Magic's largest convention)

Children's Entertainer World Championship Awards go to:

John Kimmons (right) 1st Place &
Ken Dodd Comedy Award!
2nd Dave Allen (left) -
3rd Andy Clockwise (right)

1st PLACE - John Kimmons
(used Willie the Kid)
He also won the Ken Dodd comedy award for outstanding comedy performance at the convention
No one before now has won both, even seperately...this is a huge accomplishment!

2nd PLACE - Dave Allen
(Used the Remote Control Magic Drawing Board and a Youcan Toucan puppet)

3rd PLACE - Andy Clockwise
(using the Axtell Neurotic Rat and a Dodo bird)

Axtell Creations were a major element of all the acts that won!!

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Prices Announced for the Hands-Free Puppets!

We have posted the prices for the Remote Control puppets at http://www.axtell.com/remote.html

Take a look now and sign up for the mailing list. Once we send out our next mailing announcing that we are ready to take orders, we will begin to make a waiting list! Hundreds are already waiting for that moment.

Ax

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Do you get the Axtell Newsletter?

Are you a subscriber of the Axtell Newsletter? No??

Here is our January issue....

http://www.axtell.com/axnews/jan08.html

Subscribe today.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

VOTE for your favorite Hands-Free Character

Help us prepare for production by voting on your favorite character & style....Take our poll on the HANDS-FREE Page here

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

AxCHAT every day at 4 PM

Come join Steve Axtell and other customers in AxCHAT a cool new chat room designed for puppet talk.

CLICK HERE TO JOIN AxCHAT

Friday, November 16, 2007

Axtell "Hands-Free" Animatronic Puppets

We have been in development on some very exciting exclusive remote control puppets with robotics expert Ron Palmer using new proprietary technology. Here is what we are coming out with....


REMOTE CONTROL VENT PUPPETS
for Ventriloquists or those who want to provide their own live voice.

The vent style characters will be operated by a control (like you would beep your car doors with). On stage with you the puppet always looks alive automatically active "Auto-Alive" and slightly moving, watching your audience and your show. When you want to control him, just push one button to "look over at you" and the next to "move it's mouth"! Then when you are finished with this puppet speaking, return it to it's "Auto-Alive" state. You can now work with a puppet in your hands, and also with the tiny control hidden in your other hand, also control the remote puppet from a distance!



REMOTE CONTROL MAGIC PUPPETS

This is great for the non-vent, Magician, Puppeteer, Educator, Comedian.

This is controlled by a tiny remote. Each track in a playlist controls both the voice (and any music) ...and...the movements. In between the desired "active" programmed tracks, the puppet returns to an automatic animated state called "Auto-Alive" (looking around naturally, at you & your audience....never looking dead).

Ready for his next "active" program?....just secretly play the next track and the character starts in!

TOTAL CONTROL

This will be upgradeable to a headset microphone that will move the puppet's mouth when you speak by automatic voice activation called MotorMouth. No joystick needed for the mouth (but it's still an option). Also you can use a larger RC Transmitter (two hand unit with an antenna). You have live control over any other movements like head rotation, arms, etc. Nothing is animated in this mode.

For more info see Web Page

ENJOY!

Monday, October 1, 2007

Axtell Expressions New Products!

We have just finished a ton of new products (Puppets & Magic) for entertainers.

The Jack-O-Lantern Puppet is here in time for the Halloween season. Imagine the fun bringing out a mystery bag and pulling a pumpkin out of it. Hold up a knife and start to carve a face into it and BOO! Your pumpkin comes to life as a talking Jack-O-Lantern! This latex puppet will serve you well every year...very commercial.

Instant Magic Holiday Turkey! This magical latex production item can be produced from magical boxes and apparatus. It looks like a real plump Butterball turkey fresh from the oven ready for a Thanksgiving or Christmas feast!

Fred the Fried Chicken / Cooked Holiday Turkey Puppet Imagine the fun you'll have bringing out a poor cooked turkey (or fried chicken)latex puppet to sing or talk to in your show. He might sing his "last song" for your audience... Very funny - not for the very young of course.

Splash the Dolphin Puppet! Flipper has come to life as a latex puppet!

The Big Bee Puppet! Catch all the buzz with the Bee Movie coming out. Bee Kind, Bee Happy....lots of ideas.