Melissa & Doug King Puppet

I've purchased, I think, eight or nine of these puppets for my autistic son, plus their kit for making his own puppet. For the first two or three that we received I truly had the thought, "Man, we must have gotten lucky and the person making this one was having a good day!" but have now come to see that every puppet is is made on a good day.

They look really cool, are the perfect size, are made really well. I'm one of those people that believes that you get what you pay for so am still a little queasy when paying so little, but in this case you just simply get much more than you pay for. I swear that that's true.

I think it's important to try and put honest pros and cons in the reviews, but despite trying really hard I can't come up with any cons. They are packaged well, shipped quickly, beautiful, high quality products...man, I can't really find anything to criticize.

I feel really good every time I give them my money and I can't imagine ordering from... Read more

I bought this puppet and 3 similar M&D puppets (the knight, the dragon, and the princess) and my fingers tend to slip out of the mouth when attempting to make the lips move. For this reason, I've yet to put on a performance that doesn't end with the puppet cussing. My fingers (average size male) simply can't get a grip on the inner mouthpiece! I agree these are great quality, very whimsical and well appointed--but FUNctionality gets a 2/5. I'm surprised not more people have mentioned this flaw.