Tom Newby

Tom Newby was part of the electro-mechanical team at the New York Muppet Workshop. He was originally hired by Faz Fazakas. Although he built a few characters on his own, Newby was primarily responsible for mechanisms (including radio control) that enhanced the Muppet characters as well as structural and mechanical components of the walk-around characters. He also supervised and designed puppet rigging for various Henson productions.
Newby appeared onscreen in The Jim Henson Hour episode "Secrets of the Muppets."
==Muppet/Henson credits==
*The Great Muppet Caper: Muppet designer and builder
*Fraggle Rock: Muppet special effects
*Rocky Mountain Holiday: Muppet special effects
*The Muppets Take Manhattan: Muppet special effects
*The Tale of the Bunny Picnic: Mechanical design
*Labyrinth: Creature workshop teams: Hoggle, Nipper Sticks
*The Christmas Toy: Mechanical designer; co-built Bleep and Cruiser (both with Norman Tempia)
*Muppet Babies Live!: Builder and animator of heads
*Inner Tube: Muppet mechanical design
*A Muppet Family Christmas: Muppet design group
*The Jim Henson Hour: Muppet special effects
*Dog City: Dog effects and cars
*The Muppet Christmas Carol: Muppet electro mechanical effects; Designer and builder
*The Secret Life of Toys
*The Animal Show
*Sesame Street (credited on-and-off since Season 26)
*Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
*Muppet Treasure Island: On-set technician; Electro-mechanical effects senior designer
*Muppets Tonight
*Aliens in the Family
*The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss
*Muppets from Space: Muppet effects coordinator
*The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland: Electro-mechanical effects
*Carnival
*Kermit's Swamp Years
*It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
*Animal Jam
*The Muppets' Wizard of Oz: Muppet electromechanical supervisor
*Sesame Beginnings
*Pajanimals
*A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
*The Muppets (2011): Puppet mechanical effects
*Muppets Most Wanted: Animatronics supervisor (puppets)
*The Happytime Murders: Los Angeles puppet fabricator and wrangling team
*The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo
*Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock: Muppet builder
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