Editing Meet the Feebles (section)

==Production==
The film was originally conceived as part of a television series, and only belatedly became a feature after Japanese investors proposed expanding it; as such, the script was hastily re-written. The dialogue was recorded before shooting began. Made on an extremely low budget considering the time-consuming process of working with puppets, the film went over budget and schedule. The feature was filmed in [[Wellington]], with the majority of the scenes being filmed on multiple constructed sets places, in an abandoned railway shed (Shed No. 12 to be exact) at the dockyards. Some scenes were filmed outside the goods shed, such as a few external and internal scenes that were filmed at [[St. James Theatre, Wellington|The St. James Theatre]]. During filming, some scenes, including the [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] flashback, were funded by members of the film crew, and filmed secretly under the title ''Frogs of War''. The Vietnam flashback includes a game of [[Russian roulette]] as a parody of ''[[The Deer Hunter]]''. An initial application for Film Commission money was rejected by executive director Jim Booth, who a short time later became Jackson's producer. The Commission eventually granted the production two-thirds of its $750,000 budget, though relationships between the funders and the production soured and the Film Commission removed its credit from the film.<ref name="nzonscreen"/><ref name = "Sex, Drugs & Soft Toys - The Making of Meet the Feebles 1989">{{cite web|url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/sex-drugs-and-soft-toys-1989 |title=Sex, Drugs & Soft Toys - The Making of Meet the Feebles |publisher=NZ On Screen |date=2008 |access-date=13 August 2023}}</ref>

It is often mistakenly stated that there are no human characters in the film; the character Abi is a human. However, there are no ''real-life'' human characters in the film. Director Jackson has a cameo as an audience member dressed as an alien from ''Bad Taste''. Every vehicle seen in the film is a variation on the [[Morris Minor]], including a specially constructed [[limousine]]. Morris Minors also appear in Jackson's ''[[Bad Taste]]'' and ''[[Braindead (film)|Braindead]]''. By presumed coincidence, one of the characters, Harry the Hare, shares a name with the title character of James B. Hemesath's short story "Harry the Hare" (himself a [[Bugs Bunny]] pastiche), written for [[Harlan Ellison|Harlan Ellison's]] anthology ''[[Again, Dangerous Visions]]'' in 1972.