
Poking my head in to bombard the crowd once more...
The above is a human footprint in the sand next to Patty's print. When the human foot goes into the rubber foot, guess what happens? Yeah... mid-tarsal breakage. Same as it ever was.

The GORN feet and hands.... Janos Prohaska and son wearing their bear suits.... same latex that bends the same way as Patty's does in the film and tracks. Janos puts his toes to the top of the fake foot and points his toes to bend them forward in this photo. When he walks in it he makes the "mid-tarsal break". Latex feet work like that.

Since we know Janos, Wah Chang and John Chambers used padding and latex in suits in precisely the method shown in "Patty" then we should be able to comprehend the fact that, YES, we did make such things in 1967.

So... I found the head Wah sculpted in '63 sitting in Bob Burn's basement. I found that the head and feet of the Gorn had been auctioned off and then sold again in 2001.
I recall an episode of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER in which I worked with a guy who owned a bear suit that looked amazingly like the bear suits Janos owned back in the 60's. Turns out that not only does it look like it, IT IS the same suit. He obtained it from Janos' family. He also obtained others. I'll be hooking up with him in the new year to find out just WHAT ELSE might have survived the 1960's to be refurbished and used or stored. Who knows what we may find? (Buffy is on bottom right and Janos on bottom left... sorry it's so dark)

Janos said in his interview for the Ron Olson/Patterson documentary that he didn't know where they could find anyone to fit into such a suit. Yet he worked with the guy who wore the mask on Star Trek, Buck Maffei (shown here at Corriganville - home of gorillaman Crash Corrigan and also the haunt of a certain rodeo cowboy who was seen giving rides for money to little kids on tiny ponies). Maffei and the usual big boys Janos worked with were all bigger than Patty was claimed to be by Patterson.
QUESTION: Is it coincidence that the short rodeo cowboy seen giving rides to kids in the early 60's at the western movie town that Patterson partner Jerry Merritt would later imitate down to the exact number of shows and buildings would happen to show up at Bluff Creek with the very mask worn by Corriganville performer Buck Maffei?
Is it coincidence that Maffei, Janos and the rest all worked together on the same creature fx laden shows with John Chambers and Wah Chang?

On the face of it... I'd say there might be something to learn there. Certainly more realistic an investigation than making up goofy excuses for what we wish to be real (the PG flick).
Reality is something you can hold in your hand (like a mask that perfectly matches Patty's features) or make footprints with (like rubber feet of the type used by Janos). Fantasy is claiming dermal ridges no one has ever seen before can only be attributed to a real foot no one has ever touched before.