To celebrate next week's opening of the Wildlife Explorers Basecamp attraction at the San Diego Zoo, Jim Henson's Creature Shop unveiled its Percy the Porcupine puppet - and it was a big surprise.
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The creators say it's "the world's largest puppet ever conceived," standing at about two stories tall.
The porcupine's nose is reportedly the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
Hundreds of students were able to see the puppet at its Griffith Park stop on Tuesday.
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"One of the hardest things is to try to create something that's cute on such a large scale," said Peter Brooke, the creative supervisor for Jim Henson's Creature Shop. "To try and keep the cuteness on such a huge scale, that was the hard thing to keep the character."
The Wildlife Explorers Basecamp was created to teach families about the interactions of humans, plants, animals and their habitats.