Finishes: Colors & Stains

Why so colossal? "We wanted the small children who were watching it to think we were the same size as them," Smedley said. "To get those proportions right, we had to be really tall, and then everything around us had to be really enormous."

In Teletubbies, Tinky Winky and Dipsy are male, Laa-Laa and Po are female. In addition, each of the "real-life" videos have an equal representation of females and males on a whole when totaled, though a particular episode may show only females or only males.