Pinocchio's wetdream

This strange and wonderful video shows the most amazing puppetry I've ever seen. The fact that they did it all with antique hardware (rope, block & tackle, wood) makes it all the better. (Apparently a bunch of Frenchmen, performing in London; go figure.)

This is something Leonardo da Vinci would have designed if he'd been a pedophile (especially that popsicle-licking thing) instead of (so they say) being gay...