corellian77 said:

SilverWook said:

I think it's been documented that Yoda's original latex skin rotted away years ago.

There was a photo of an ILM storage area in Smithsonian Magazine in the 90's and a half rotted Yoda skin could be seen lying on a work table. Kind of a gruesome sight!

I believe you're correct. If memory serves, there's a photo in my Lucasfilm Archives book that shows the original muppet, and the latex was in pretty bad shape at the time the photograph was taken.

Did Yoda ever appear on The Muppet Show??? ;-)