Pong Pagong

Pong Pagong is a muppet-style character developed by the Children's Television Workshop for the Filipino children's show Sesame!, a co-production between CTW and the Philippine [Children's Television Foundation] which debuted in 1983. Pong Pagong is an anthropomorphic turtle, similar to Big Bird of Sesame Street, standing over six feet tall and towering over human co-stars and aged to be around six years old. Together with its co-muppet, Kiko Matsing, the characters were custom made in New York for Sesame. Both characters were inspired from a Filipino fable, "The [Monkey and the Turtle]", which was annotated to English by José Rizal in 1889.
After the cancellation of Sesame in 1984 due to the cancellation by CTW of the co-production venture, both characters appeared in its 1985 replacement show, Batibot, under a license arrangement with CTW. Both characters were returned to CTW in 1994 and never used again.