Edit Original From Animator to Illustrator

Ok, so I figured out what I did wrong. On my HP, I set the default to AI to open everything, so automatically it changed all my files to AI which caused the confusion. I reset my HP to factory default settings and boom now it's working like a charm. Thank you for your time and assistance 

Were you able to find an AI file in there? Try opening it directly.

Still didn't work

I just extracted the contents and it still didn't work. Maybe I didn't extract them correctly. Hang tight, let me try it again 

You cannot open a zip in AI. You will have to extract the contents before you can open them directly.

Even  when trying to open zip directly into illustrator I get this message. Although, I can open it directly in Character Animator, but that is about as far as it goes.

Yes, the puppet comes from a zip file. I download from graphicmama.com 

I put these screenshots in order, once I click edit original it goes to download screen, then downloads 10x or until I exit out. 

Is the puppet in a zip file and you've extracted it? I've not encountered specifically this kind of error and I'm trying to figure out what could possibly be the problem.