Adorable little baby Toby (Toby Froud, the son of one of the Labyrinth’s makers) grew up to be this guy:
Who’s probably around 25 now. His current career, according to his bio, has been “working as a stilt-walker and dancing bear with a troupe that performed throughout England this summer….Toby has become a master stilt walker.”
A master stilt-walker, people.
Also, is dad is Brian Froud - aside from working on Labyrinth, Daddy Froud also illustrated the Smooshed Fairy Book (actual title: “Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book”, but that’s what I called it when I was a kid). You’ve probably seen it at one point:
(fairy: “Ack!”)
Speaking of sons, Jim Henson’s son Brian was the voice & one of the puppeteers of the fugly Hoggle:
That’s his character with little 15-year-old Jennifer Connelly, who I always thought was a huge brat in Labyrinth, but I sorta liked her anyway. TRIVIA!
I’m not all that surprised that puppeteers & their offspring tend to stick to creative fields. Once you go puppet, you never go back. CGI be damned!
I’m watching the Making of Labyrinth right now and it is continually blowing my mind! The way they did all these puppets and effects is insane!
And you know what I realized while watching this? The guy who played Ludo, this big sweet furry thing that I loved when I was little:
….is Ron Mueck, the sculptor! He’s the same guy who nowadays makes these weird giant lifelike statues:
That’s him working on one in the pic above.
He was a good-lookin’ dude when he was younger, too! What an awesome career he’s had, huh?
