Category Archives: Ventriloquism/Ventriloquist

I have never had nor have I seen a ventriloquist figure that had fingers or thumb that moved by way for any controls. As matter of fact I actually think that might be a rather hard thing to make function … Continue reading →

All of us in the ventriloquist world love Jerry Mahoney as a character and in our minds we always picture Jerry the way Paul Winchell redid him with his heavy eyebrows and heavy eye liner. But this picture (above) shows … Continue reading →

Yesterday I wrote a blog about the pivot point of a ventriloquist figure’s mouth and Bill Matthews asked for a picture or diagram. Our good friend Greg Claassen (author of McElroy Magic) sent us this page out of his book … Continue reading →

It really is amazing how bad some figure makers did when it came to placement of the mouth in the figures head and how the mouth palate worked once done. A great example of how not to do a mouth … Continue reading →

Many times you hear folks (builders) say that their figure has a head lock. What is a head lock? Of all the figures that I have in the Ventriloquist Central Collection I have only one figure that has a true … Continue reading →