Ask the Pro, Ventriloquist Bob Abdou – Walkarounds

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This week Bob writes about “walkarounds”.

Recently, there was a photo on Facebook of Mike Palma posing with his product “The Hipster”. and some people were asking me what I thought about it. The Hipster is a small ventriloquist performance table that attaches to your hip (hence the name) which is used for walk around gigs. That gave me the idea for this weeks topic: Walk around.

Some of my personal friends are masters at walk around: Chuck Field, Bob Shimer, Neale Bacon and Ron Scherer. You might be one of the masters yourself, or you know some others. Walk around entertainment can be fun, an easy moneymaker and a different kind of opportunity for the client. But it also has it’s challenges and drawbacks. Let’s discuss them, shall we?

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Side To Side Ventriloquist Figure Comparison

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After we I posted the Brian Hamilton figure, which came from Ilene Karnow, I had quite a few who emailed me and even a comment to the blog on how similar the Hamilton Figure was compared to the Jack Coats figure.

I too thought that when Ilene sent me the first pictures of her Hamilton figure but as soon as I unwrapped the figure upon his arrival here at the Ventriloquist Central Collection, I immediately could see that this was without question the work of Brian Hamilton and not Jack Coats.

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Happy Hanukkah From Ventriloquist Central

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Dizzy Dugan wanted me to make sure I let everyone know that we here at Ventriloquist Central wish all our Jewish friends a wonderful Hanukkah holiday.

This year it falls over Christmas which is kind of nice. All the celebrating of the season is done at the same time.

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Mystery Ventriloquist Revealed, Bob Isaacson

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A young Bob Isaacson and Turner Figure

When we put up our last mystery vent I really thought it could possible stump you because he was pictured with a Turner figure but you are all to smart and for the most part guessed correctly. It was Bob Isaacson with his first figure a Turner figure named Archie.

Bob contacted me when I put up the Turner figure for sale on the Ventriloquist Marketplace because that Turner figure so resembled his original Archie that he just had to have it.

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Ventriloquist Central Video Collecting Series – Pre-Charlie Mack Figure

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As we all know, at this point in time, when Edgar Bergen decided to purchase his figure from the Mack’s studio he had to choose from an array of heads. From what I have learned he chose a stock head and then had the Mack’s do some customizing to make it the Irish Newsboy he wanted to use.

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