The Iron Chickens and the Froglets

 
The Iron Chicken

The Iron Chicken lives on her cosy comfy spiky nest of old scrap-iron and bits of machinery which she has gathered up in her travels. She is very good at making things. She made Tiny Clanger a Radio-Hat so that Tiny can speak to her by radio any time she wants to have a chat.

The iron chicken is a great traveller and collector, she knows just about everybody in space, even to the farthest galaxies where really unusual creatures live.

Meccano. Nest of collected metallic junk, with some electronic equipment.

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The Iron Chicken
Chicken
The Iron Chicken on her nest of junk in the sky
The Egg
 
The Froglets

The Froglets came to the Clangers' planet in a top-hat which must once have belonged to a conjurer or a magician because the froglets can hop in and out of this top-hat and vanish and appear more or less anywhere on the planet. They can also make other things disappear and appear and do all manner of tricks. Nowadays the froglets live in a lake of pink soup in a cave at the middle of the planet. Oddly enough, this lake is sideways. The surface is like a smooth wall at the side of their cave, except when the froglets dive into it. Then it breaks into upright ripples and waves and splashes. Froglets don't mind about this. Upwards, downwards or sideways are all the same to them. They are just as happy standing on the roof as on the floor.

The froglets are rather odd creatures really but like the Clangers and all their other friends they are quite ordinary and reasonable when you get used to them.

Wood, leather etc...

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The Froglets
The Tablecloth
The Froglets make their appearance in their Top Hat
The Top-Hat
 
The Tin-pecker Birds

Some of the Clangers' visitors are rather a nuisance. Sometimes the Tin-pecker Birds come down in flocks and peck holes in anything metal that happens to be lying about outside. When that happens the Clangers clang down the lids over their holes and wait. Fortunately the lids are too thick and hard for the tin-pecker birds to break through so in the end they fly away.

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by John S. Fletcher
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