As you can imagine, I was absolutely devastated when I found out the episodes were lost. You could also sell it for a high price on the internet, since it is so rare. He also did some narration for the show, as well as composing some music for the show. If anyone out there has a copy of "Peppermint Park", PLEASE convert it to DVD and post the episodes on YouTube. Dann O'Quinn is an American puppeteer who designed and created some of the puppets for Peppermint Park. However, the theme song at the beginning is quite catchy. It literally sounds like they could have come up with the lyrics at the last minute. Yikes! The music is horrible, with uncreative lyrics, with the Rhino Song being one of the worst. The puppets look like they are thrown together with anything the creators of the show could find (they look like burn victims), plus some people believe that they all wear gloves so they won't leave DNA evidence on your corpse. Set on 1,500 acres in the rolling hills just outside downtown Austin, Circuit of The Americas has hosted the biggest names in racing, action sports, and music since 2012. ![]() It is notorious for being creepy and a total rip-off of Sesame Street. You can find a few videos on YouTube of scenes from certain episodes. It was released on VHS in the 80's, and it's unknown if there are any surviving copies today. It is such a shame that this show is lost. It's one of those "it's so bad it's good" kind of shows. So, here I am to give you some info and my opinion on "Peppermint Park". You're probably here after seeing blameitonjorge's video, "Top 20 Unintentionally Disturbing Kids' Characters from Around the World". A bizarre curiosity for those who want to laugh at it, but nothing more. This cannot be called art as it fails on every aspect of the term. The incompetence seems to pile up as "puppets" are overloaded with misery and creepiness, puppet manipulation done with extreme ineptitude, acting is abismal and the general quality horrendous. As entertainment, it's equivalent to a good children's show as vomit is equivalent to food. ![]() As an educational piece it's pedantic, condescending at best and criminally irresponsible at worse. This abomination package of anti-joy has no redeeming values. ![]() Peppermint Park is what we get when the mediocre or the insane attempt a puppet show: failure, pain, awkwardness and discomfort. There is a reason Jim Henson was a genius and his work and his crew lauded as the best in the industry: it takes a lot of work and talent to do it right. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. It is known that he has (or had) a daughter, Alyssa Horton. I watched two volumes of this Kafkaesque nightmare turned into "children entertainment" in complete and utter disbelief. John Horton is the director of Peppermint Park.
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