Labyrinths Lost Puppet Bizarre Story Of What Happened To Hoggle

Labyrinth’s Lost Puppet: Bizarre Story Of What Happened To Hoggle

Hoggle went on a strange and tortuous journey in Labyrinth, but he embarked on an even stranger one after the film wrapped when producers lost him.

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Labyrinths Lost Puppet Bizarre Story Of What Happened To Hoggle

Jim Henson’s quirky puppets have become beloved over the years, but the Hoggle puppet from Labyrinth became lost after the film wrapped in a bizarre turn of events. Labyrinth sees a young girl named Sarah wish away her little brother, Toby, to the Goblin King, only to discover that he’s real and she actually wants her little brother back. The Goblin King places Toby at the center of his labyrinth, which Sarah has to navigate while meeting friends, foes and oddballs along the way. Of this varied cast of characters, Hoggle is undoubtedly one of the most beloved, making the puppet’s disappearance all the more inexplicable.

Hoggle is the first creature that Sarah meets on her quest to enter the labyrinth. He’s a short and grumpy creature with a strange affinity for jewelry. The Goblin King, iconically performed by David Bowie, orders Hoggle to trick Sarah and lead her back to the beginning of the labyrinth, and Hoggle is constantly caught between caring for Sarah and sabotaging her. His moral ambiguity and clash of alliances make him a complicated character who drives a central point of the narrative, and his story arc was a large part of the film.

Despite his status, however, Hoggle’s puppet wasn’t necessarily treated with the respect it deserved. Upon finishing filming for Labyrinth, Henson boarded a plane with Hoggle in tow, and the airline lost him in transit. Hoggle wasn’t needed for any more filming, thus nobody from the crew enquired into his whereabouts. When he was eventually found in unclaimed baggage, he was damaged and looked as though he was rotting. Hauntingly, parts of the puppet’s face were torn away, revealing the mechanisms underneath.

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Labyrinth was released in 1986, when CGI was not a prevalent as today. Subsequently, Henson’s crew relied heavily on puppets to tell the story (shockingly, Kermit riding a bicycle was not special effects trickery). When Hoggle was originally created, he was quite a complex puppet. It took five people to operate him, which required the puppeteers to rehearse with each other frequently to achieve seamless synchronization. Hoggle’s fluidity and life-like appearance is a result of hours of concentrated hard work. It is odd, then, that the disappearance of such a time-consuming puppet wasn’t looked into. Luckily, somebody recognized the puppet and Hoggle was bought and then restored to his former glory. Parts of his face and body had to be reconstructed entirely due to the damage sustained in the years he had been lost. Currently, he is owned by and on display at the Unclaimed Baggage Centre in Alabama, and not owned by the Henson estate.

Hoggle’s uniquely lovable personality has made him a favorite in the years in which the film has become a cult classic, with Labyrinth even having a sequel in the works now. While it is a bizarre story, it’s comforting at least to know that he’s still around and on display for people to see. Should he be needed again, filmmakers will at least know exactly where to find him.

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