The difference being that puppets with strings are properly called marionettes, yes.   One is the genus and the other is the species.      There are also hand puppets, rod puppets, stick puppets, shadow puppets, etc.

Sesame Street-type Muppets are usually hand-and-rod puppets, even though Muppet is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet".  The name doesn't actually mean anything but it's memorable and that's what matters in a brand name.   I assume Roduppets didn't sound as good.

But I'd be surprised if there aren't marionettes in Dark Crystal somewhere.  I may not remember the movie that well, but I paid more attention to the making-of documentaries and books, and they pretty much used every kind of puppet.  Quite a few are actually costume characters (yet another species -  one that some puppeteers don't even consider to BE puppets although I'm okay with it).   

So I don't think you can define any movie more precisely than "all-puppet" since it's a pretty good bet that there's going to be a mix of puppet techniques on display.   We used rod puppets in Team America every chance we got, because marionettes are kind of a pain in the ass. 

Well, Farscape was 17 years after Dark Crystal, and in those 17 years the Creature Shop did Labyrinth, the Dinosaurs tv show, the Ninja Turtles movies and a slew of other things.  I dunno how much there was left to prove by the time they got to Farscape. 

And even Dark Crystal was pretty much universally acknowledged as a great technical and design achievement for the Creature Shop and Brian Froud etc... it just didn't catch on with audiences.   For me, I remember the coffee-table books were far more interesting than the movie itself.

That's a Teague question.  But I can say that your hotel is about 5 miles from FIYH Central and it's an easy route to get from one to the other, so that shouldn't be a problem.

If Teague says we're doing this then I'll give it the movie second watch and see how it compares to my memory of it from 30 years ago.

Sure, why not. We're recording The Dark Crystal on Wednesday night, everybody! Drinks all around!

Sure thing.

For once, I think I'll be able to make it. It'll be cool to watch The Dark Crystal again.