User blog comment:KoopaGalaxain/Interesting facts which I learned!/@comment-3367060-20140504065954/@comment-1030114-20140505102939

I'm not exactly sure how they pulled it off. They may have used a mixture of puppets and figures, but I think they used more puppets. I can recall someone on a website saying that they were able to purchase one of the props after the film was finished, but I'm not sure how truthful that is.