He is changing from a marionette to a table-top puppet, because the later makes more sense and given that his head is so huge, it will work better without strings, at the end of the day he is going to be used mainly for video, where he will be rapping and doing a little jig, table top is a bit easier in other ways too, including transportation.

Still have to work out and build the moving mouth mechanism. I have changed his lower half in that previously it couldn’t bend forward to sit etc, was a bit too crab like allowing only sideways movement, but with the new cuts and joints his lower parts will bend in a more human like way, which will allow for much more versatile movement, amongst other benefits.

Sometimes you just have to go for it and hope things work out and change things when they don’t, which is often the case doing a new build where you don’t see a lot of the issues you haven’t experienced on the drawing board, it can be a bit nerve-wracking butchering what you spent ages making but at the end of the day the priority should be the puppet being able to do what it is meant to do in the best way, so is well worth altering and adapting things in favour of this and learning, through trial and error.