The Man Who Became Big Bird

Mr Spinney did a Reddit AMA yesterday too: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/356sal/hi_reddit_im_c...

The top question/reply in that thread (I doubt it will be replaced, but it's the reply that starts "This is a very sad story, but it's real.") has made me randomly tear up every so often for the past day.

Apparently http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Big_Bird#Trivia the Big Bird costume was originally going to be even harder to operate: Jim Henson's original plan was to have the actor facing the opposite direction to Big Bird, so that the legs would look more realistically birdlike.

As a child I loved to see Big Bird and Snuffleupagus engaging each other over some very basic point.