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Cairo
Cairo

Appearances

Puppet Master 2, Toulon's Revenge (mentioned), Retro, The Legacy (archive footage)

Location

Cairo, Egypt

Filming Location

California (Puppet Master 2), Bucharest, Romania (Retro)

Cairo is the capital city of Egypt and has a very important role in the Puppet Master franchise.

Many centuries ago a select few Egyptian men who studied magic were given the power to give life to inanimate figurines. Afzel, a sorcerer stole this secret of life from Sutekh's tomb. In Egyptian mythology, the God of the afterlife is Osiris but his evil brother Set or better known as Sutekh, the God of disorder, storm and violence murdered him, it could be the case that Afzel was a follower of Osiris and wanted to get it out of the hands of evil. Afzel steals a scroll containing the secret from the tomb and kills two wizards who try and stop him, but he was much more powerful than them.

Sutekh resurrected three mummies back from the dead to track down and kill Afzel. Afzel would later escape to Paris, France during 1902 and give Andre Toulon the magic.

In the year 1912, Andre Toulon and his wife Elsa Toulon did a world tour of puppet shows, they went to Cairo, Egypt where they put on the show Faust with his stringless puppet Mephistopheles. It was during this time that Toulon purchased a dress for Elsa which quickly became her favorite dress. Toulon's puppet theater was burnt down by a strange wizard, who then sold Toulon the secrets of his Homunculus creature which were a more refined version of the magic he had learnt from Afzel.

Appearances[]

  • Puppet Master 2 (Dream)
  • Puppet Master 3: Toulon's Revenge (Mentioned)
  • Retro Puppet Master
  • Puppet Master: The Legacy (Archive footage)
  • Eternity Comics

Trivia[]

  • In the unmade Puppet Wars trilogy, Egypt has a major role.

Gallery[]

Sutekh's Temple
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Appearances

Retro, The Legacy (archive footage)

Location

Cairo, Egypt

Filming Location

Bucharest, Romania

Sutekh's Temple is an old Egyptian temple in Cairo, Egypt that the sorcerer Afzel had stolen the secret of life from, many centuries ago. Two wizards tried to stop Afzel from stealing the secrets of the Gods, but their magic was not powerful enough against his.

Appearances[]

  • Retro Puppet Master
  • Puppet Master: The Legacy (Archive footage)

Faust
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Appearances

Puppet Master 2, Toulon's Revenge (archive footage), Puppet Master 4 (pictured), The Legacy (archive footage)

Faust is a German folklore story that is about a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he decides to make a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. In response to this the Devil's personal assistant, Mephistopheles appears. He makes a bargain with Faust; Mephistopheles will serve Faust with his magic powers for a set number of years, but at the end of the term, the Devil will claim Faust's soul and Faust will be damned for all eternity.

Cairo Exposition[]

In 1912, when touring in Cairo, Egypt Andre Toulon and his wife Elsa put on an adaption of this play. The Mephistopheles puppet moves without strings and without a human controlling it, it's never revealed if this puppet was alive or Toulon was using another form of magic or trickery to produce this effect. A mysterious Egyptian wizard who is in the audience, sets fire to Toulon's show and then invites him to his tent to exchange an ancient Egyptian secret which will change Toulon's life forever.

After Toulon's Mephistopheles puppet was burnt, he kept the head and in 1941 he may have recycled it and used it for his new Blade puppet.

It is possible that Toulon did another Cairo show many years later, as Rick Myers discovered another Faust poster, this time depicting Toulon as an older man with a beard. It is also possible that this poster was painted for him as a tribute by a friend or a fan in Berlin.

Appearances[]

  • Puppet Master 2
  • Puppet Master 3: Toulon's Revenge (Archive footage)
  • Puppet Master 4 (Pictured)
  • Puppet Master: The Legacy (Archive footage)
  • Puppet Master: The Game (Pictured)

Gallery[]

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