HE chats about sports (but not being overly competitive), art and throwing the occasional BIG party. He too has suggestions for how kids who embrace the Fraggle lifestyle can be happier and healthier. Wembley, the youngling of the group has learned a lot from his older friends. The memories were a rosier colour than the actual set pieces and Fraggles, but this 21st century gang reminds you in blinding spectrum of hues that the world isn’t always a dark place. The original 80s version reflected the subterranean setting a little more. This new generation of Fraggles comes at such a perfect time. So it helps to reach out to people and find out how other people struggle.” Because sometimes when you're struggling, you can feel really lonely. And sometimes just even knowing that, that you're not alone in your struggle, is everything.
Mokey, as the spiritual heart of the Fraggle entourage gives some sage advice to those Outer Space creatures dealing with stress in this crazy time. Their core belief reflects that one specific strange creature from outer space (what all humans are known as to Fraggles), the one better known as Jim Henson.
They may better match the technicolor update that Apple+ has given the aesthetic of the show, but they remain the same on the inside. FilmSpeak recently got the opportunity to literally talk down to two of those key Fraggles, Wembley and Mokey (literally down a Fraggle hole where they can only hear the voice of FilmSpeak’s Managing Editor, Michael Winn Johnson) The two staples of the Muppet catalog may have changed slightly on the outside (Mokey got a 21st Century ‘glow up’ with a new brightly-colored hairdo and fresh wardrobe).