The Ernie, Bert, Count and Roosevelt Franklin puppets have vinyl cast heads and hands with Bert, Ernie, and Count having foam stuffed arms (Roosevelt having unstuffed arms). The Grover and Roosevelt come with a plastic "wand", which can be attached to the puppet's wrists to be used as an arm rod.
The Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch puppets are made of plush with hard plastic eyes, and they have a string with a ring attached that can be pulled to move the puppets' arms.
The Big Bird puppet is a full-body plush with plastic wired legs that can open its beak, flap its wings, bend its neck and legs, and walk.
Two different variations of Grover were made, one with a fabric, unstuffed head and a fully red mouth and the later release with a rubber skull covered in fur and a fully black mouth.
The Count von Count puppet was only available in Canada. The puppets have varied fabric textures which are shown below.
In the 1972 Topper catalog, two different Anything Muppet puppets are listed as being new products for the season, though only prototypes are known to have existed.
In 1973, Questor acquired the license from Topper, and produced a new line of Sesame Street puppets under the Child Guidance label. Questor's 1973 line borrowed a lot of elements from Topper's, and used similar "How to play with this puppet" instructional material on the boxes.
instructions explaining how Cookie "eats" the cardboard cookies on the back of the box
Canadian short fur variation
Ernie[]
box
side artwork of Ernie's box
top of Ernie's box
back of Ernie and Bert's boxes
Ernie's instructions
Oscar the Grouch[]
box
side of Oscar's box
top of Oscar's box
back of Oscar's box
Oscar's instructions
Canadian short fur variation
1972 Additions and Changes[]
Ernie box
Bert box
side of Bert's box.
top artwork from Bert's box
back of Bert's box
Oscar's box
Oscar's box side
top artwork of Oscar's box, taken from the 1971 Big Bird box
Oscar's box back
Cookie's box
updated instruction sheet for Big Bird
Roosevelt Franklin
Roosevelt Franklin in his box
side of Roosevelt's box
top artwork of Roosevelt's box
the back of Roosevelt's box
Grover (first version)
inside of the first Grover's mouth
Grover in his box
side of Grover's box
back of Grover's box
Grover (version 2)
inside of the second Grover's mouth
second Grover's tag
Count von Count (without tongue, with smooth white and black fabric)
with tongue and ribbed white fabric
with tongue and ribbed black fabric
with cape
The Count was supposed to come with a monocle, though it is unknown if he was ever released with one. The puppet has a molded divot by his left eye in which the monocle was supposed to sit.
the puppet next to a cast metal mold for his head.
photo from a Canadian catalog showing Count (sans monocle and with cape) with the Topper Ernie, Oscar and Cookie Monster puppets, and a prototype Child Guidance finger puppet gift set
photo from the 1972 Topper catalog stating Grover and Roosevelt were two new additions to the series, as well as listing two different Anything Muppets
Prototypes[]
Ernie and Bert prototypes with different shirt patterns and Ernie sporting a black collar
Big Bird prototype with a shorter torso
Roosevelt Franklin prototype with a different shirt pattern and a different collar material
Grover (version 2) prototype with a tongue
Anything Muppet Prototype using Bert's hand mold
photo from a 1971 catalog showing prototype images of all five puppets from that year