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They are literally dating at this point, change my mind 🗣

valentin does a magic trick (and summons his boyfriend)

Him and Valentin Ruky are so cute, I wish I saw more of their shippers or just people who love Raťafák Plachta in general 😿

Can you tell us more about Slniecko and Ratafak Plachta's origins in Czechoslovakia? The only information that I have about the show is from blameitonjorge's YouTube video

Unfortunately most of the info I know also comes from blameitonjoge’s video (mostly because I don’t speak Czechoslovakian akld;fj). Uhh, let me see if I can remember/dig up anything else…

Slniecko approximately translates out to “little sun”

in one episode he just casually removes his head (also you can see the two heads of his puppeteers really easily here)

The designer who made him as quoted as saying “He is an eyesore, he’s ugly. I think the TV station was avant-garde in a way because they were not afraid to show [an] unlikable (in looks), not pretty puppet on screen.”

(Though to be fair, he’s supposed to look kind of ugly, like a caricature of an old man, not necessarily outright terrifying)

Other characters on the show are named things like Donkey Pete, Piggy Oink, and Bear Grow

He has two puppeteers - Marta Žuchová (left hand) and Dušan Štauder (right hand, head, and voice)

The infamous “angel” video was after someone found him in a dumpster around 2008 - it was not a part of the actual show

Has canonly kissed a mime from what I understand

I don’t have any other info but here’s an out-of-context shot of him making a heart