Interesting story, but my Uncle was one of the tradesmen hired to build Mr Blobby's house and the Noddy area. His biggest contribution was the thatched roof of Noddy's house because that is his specialisation; he is a thatcher. I visited that park many times throughout my childhood, so I remember each of the eras. The saddest day for me was when they had to close the sea lion show because of a lack of attendance.
I live about half a mile from the Lancashire 'blobbyland' - it was in a local PUBLIC park called happymount. The whole thing was a fiasco from start to finish, not least because they tried to grab a well loved and used public park and turn it into a private for profit space. From the very start they (both edmonds and our local group of crooks known as Lancaster council) seemed to delight in winding up the locals (that would be me) and the whole thing was resented greatly. Once edmonds had moved in and spent a ton of cash, and so was considered to be in too deep to just pull out, the council tried to extort large payments from the blobby company for various things. A long legal battle ensued, and edmonds sued the council over and over again, each time walking away with MY cash. We learned pretty quickly what mr edmonds is really like when not on tv - he is a very angry, arrogant selfish and really quite nasty character who would not last 5 minutes on the streets of Morecambe and he knows it - I invite him to come and try ! In the end he closed up and sloped off to abuse someone else, and we got our park back - it now has, amongst such things as an olden days merry go round and a ghost train, a small but well put together water park which is FREE for everyone. Blobbyland was without doubt the stupidest idea anyone ever had for a theme park, and noel edmonds is a nasty little so and so whom I will be happy never to lay eyes on again. Good riddance !
mr blobby was a disaster for morecambe, the money would of been better spent on frontierland but lancaster council prefer to squander money away on crap noone wants. the fiasco of blobbyland is leaving me apprehensive about the eden project at the old bubbles site.
mordokch Gosh never knew what Noel Edmund's was like until I read your comment. That's a real shame, was pretty entertaining and likable on tv. Its sad he wasn't like that off screen..
Something else to add ... Happymount park has the sea to the front, a golf course to the left, semi posh houses to the right and forest/land to the rear which is a big very steep hill with public rights of way and is totally inaccessible by car. So ... where were all these visitors supposed to park ? There is literally no place to put any sort of car park, never mind one of the size needed to service such an attraction. Although happymount park is walkable from Morecambe (about 10 mins for an adult), I doubt kids would have been thrilled at the prospect, and in any case even Morecambe does not have the parking space required. Ill thought out doesn't even start to cover this disaster.
A note to Expedition Theme Park If you do decide to cover this one I'd be happy to grab you some footage of the park now - I have very good equipment but only to 1080p :)
I really thought that after 20 years, i would never have to think about that show or Mr Blobby again. Thanks a bunch for ruining my day by ensuring that that fucking song will be stuck in my head! You're still awesome though :)
Such a shame! Cricket St Thomas was such a beautiful place to visit. Although i visited it before the Blobby attractions were there, sad to hear it's all gone.
Blobbyland was what started my fascination with abandoned places!! I saw a video of it in 2013, and ever since then i’ve loved abandoned exploration, and even explore places myself.
So nice to hear more into the history of the place and what's been going on over the years, I looked up about the place about 2 years ago but nothing like this so I really appreciate the work you put into this! I went here as a kid on quite a few occasions, it looks bad today but as a kid in the 90's it was awesome and I have fond memories of it still to this day, those where the good old days. Thank you once again!
My parents took me to Crinkly Bottom and somewhere I have a picture on me sat next to Mr Blobby. Great memories!! I’m pretty sure that raves used to go on in Dun Blobbin in the early 2000s which is why the house got so damaged
How can you say that? We now have, Love Island, The Kardashians, Tiger King, Naked Attraction, The Real Housewives,Jersey Shore, RuPaul's Drag Race, Big Brother the list goes on and on and on !
@@philiptownsend4026 NO. I was being sarcastic about the utter garbage that passes for "entertainment". Now Forces TV has gone there is only really Talking Pictures channel I watch.
Thanks for doing this video- I was born in 1990 and I always wanted to go and since stories emerged about it's fate, I wondered what it was like in it's heyday.
These two parks would be separate as the wildlife park would be related to animals and the other park would be its own separate park with other attractions! The zoological part would be kept in the wildlife park and with a wildlife and safari theme, while the other park, separate from the wildlife park, would be a TV a themed one! Both parks could be part of a destination resort area!
I think people forget that blobby was originally a spoof. He was supposed to be a one time character just to fool unsuspecting celebrities into doing outrageous things during their Gotcha sketch. The idea was that he was too ridiculous, anoying and even scary to be real, because he wasn't.
I'm from the U.S. The only reason I know who Mr Blobby is is because of a clip from The Big Fat Quiz of the 90's where Jack Whitehall says he's terrified of Mr Blobby and Mr Blobby came out to scare him.... That segment made me go "what the fuck" and this only reiterated that..
Looks like you will have to do terra mitica in Benidorm very soon, as the owner is currently doing everything he can to ruin whatever is left so that they can call it a failure and get permission to replace it with hotels.
Sgailte He doesn't really appear that much these days. He pops up every now and then, its really for nostalgia. To be honest I love it when I spot him for a brief minute.
I'm surprised you didn't explain what Mr Blobby was created as, to give context. Noel invented him as a SPOOF character, used to trick celebrities into thinking they were helping make a new kids tv show. As the "tv shoot" went on, the fictional character's actions became increasingly farcical, to see if the unwitting celebrity would reach their breaking point. Eventually Noel, who was inside the suit the whole time, would remove the head and reveal himself, at which pointed would yell "gotcha," and present the celebrity with a gotcha oscar for being a good sport. Of course at first the prank worked as no one knew mr Blobby wasn't a real character, but as the Noel's House Party show became more well known, or became harder to trick celebrities as they had begun to hear about it. It was only from that point that Mr Blobby became more of a stand alone character, but his ridiculousness was intentional as he was originally devised as a parody "typical" children's tv character, whilst never having been real in the first place.
If you think about it, Noel's House Party was pretty much a pastiche/parody of Saturday morning kids magazine shows that were around at the time. Silly games, lots of gunge, a costumed character that acted as a sort of foil to the host? All the sort of things you'd probably see 12 hours earlier when the kids got out of bed. The biggest difference was there weren't any cartoons in between segments.
When I discovered Mr. Blobby 6 years ago, I tweeted how terrifying he was... and he angrily tweeted back at me. It just made him scarier. Great videos, though.
And just as weird as it was here in Australia too - us 90s kids watched a show called Liftoff where one of the characters was a mute doll with no face. I had nightmares about that goddamn doll.
It’s difficult to explain Mr Blobby to someone too young to know him. “What did he actually do?” “Well, he ran around, bumped into people, knocked things over, and shouted ‘Blobby Blobby Blobby’ a lot.”
I remember going there as a child, cut my back on a slide an as a result met Noel himself who closed the thing straight away, apart from the blood it was a great day, such sadness seeing it in ruins
I reckon the place was built by the KGB to freak out and traumatize kids. People actually had raves in that house. All I can say is, they must have been off their faces at the time.
See the program for kids in the 60s or 70s-80s I may be a American with Mexican roots but I have done my research until the turn of the millennium great Britain did not know how to make a kid show that wasn't creepy as fuck but even then in 2003 you guys made boohbah
I remember begging my parents to take me there back in... 95 I think? We had such a long drive and honestly I found the place pretty boring, my parents were trying to keep a cheerful facade but you could tell they knew it wasn't worth the effort. Despite being a weekday it was pretty darn quiet for a tourist attraction during summer holidays (especially during the height of Mr Blobby's popularity), just a few people milling around, and with no real rides if you missed the show timings (which we did) and didn't care about Noddy or the zoo part there was little to nothing to do. At this point all I really remember is the train ride and some brightly coloured area, don't think I even saw Mr Blobby at all, I still have a carrier bag from the gift shop emblazened with Crinkley Bottom though - gotta keep some proof such a place even existed.
8:14 "...and the Taylor family, trying to escape the shadow left by Mr. Blobby..." I gotta give you credit for managing to say that without cracking up.
Haha, I used to work in the hotel there! In fact I visited the abandoned blobbyland with a friend, but I never went in. Can't say I'll ever go back. Creepy place!
What a weird park. I think it was destined to fail however, as the Blobby character simply could not hold interest for long. The park also seemed to miss attractions like roller coasters and other things to keep it interesting outside the Blobby character, and a zoo will not do that in the long run...
Harald Lorentzen yeah I agree. British parks aren’t exactly known for their riveting nature (bar a few). A local to me theme park’s first ‘attraction’ was a show on cow milking. Just can’t make it up.
No smaller park could afford a fucking rollercoaster at that time. And for smaller kids and families animals and this water ride and trains stuff works perfectly fine. There isn't many places to visit with small kids. Problem is you either need to attract international tourists, too or keep it cheap enough so local customers would go there regularly. And this mix of being in the middle of nowhere in the UK AND focussing on a UK phenomenon AND some local publicity problems was just too odd.
Yeah, I know coasters were and are expensive, but either way, the park lacked staying power to put it blunlty. There was nothing to keep the park going in the long term. We only have one park here in Norway that's a pure theme park, and they had to invest in more coasters and other stuff to keep things going, or they would have gone under...
rayblack2004 okay, the reference is that at the end of big fat quiz of the 90s, they had mr.blobby as a special guest and Jack Whitehall was so scared, he hid under the desk and cowerd in fear at the sight of him.
The best days were the ones where the Christmas No 1 would be totally bonkers and not an X-factor/BGT winner. Mr Blobby is a national treasure. Believe it or not Mr Blobby used to be scripted. Graeme Gardner used to write scripts for him
My friend used to courier the Mr Blobby suits used at the Morecambe park halfway across the country just to be cleaned. They were that paranoid that people would steal the suits, but it wouldn't stop the courier drivers messing about in the suits.
Do you ever see footage from some random South American or Eastern European Tv show and think “what the hell is going on over there?” That’s what the rest of the world must’ve been thinking about the UK during the 90’s.
For those who grew up in the HTV region in the 80's, every time I hear "Cricket St Thomas", I automatically add "near Chard". The TV ads just kept with that phrase. "Come to Cricket St Thomas near Chard ... see the animals at Cricket St Thomas near Chard... fun for all the family at Cricket St Thomas near Chard." 35 years on and it is still burned into my memory. Thing is, we never went there, we were all just too annoyed by the ads.
Nah just edgelords! I think there's also one calling Noel Edmonds a pedophile as well, from the UrbEx stuff I've seen. Like...these jokes aren't exactly clever. They should have referenced that creepypasta and written 'abandoned by god' because if there was ever a place that really was abandoned by god it was Blobbyland!
I remember being dragged there as a kid, would have only been six, my sister loved Mr Blobby, I however found him to be a freakishly terrifying mix between the joker and Anne Whidicome. I much preferred the animals of farthing wood attraction. Now there was a true gem from my childhood!
I always wondered how this presenter was able to use a program on BBC (ie paid for by the license fees plus gov subsidy) to spin off a commercial enterprise like this. Answers on a postcard, please.
Interesting story, but my Uncle was one of the tradesmen hired to build Mr Blobby's house and the Noddy area. His biggest contribution was the thatched roof of Noddy's house because that is his specialisation; he is a thatcher. I visited that park many times throughout my childhood, so I remember each of the eras. The saddest day for me was when they had to close the sea lion show because of a lack of attendance.
I remember my Nan had a car sticker in the 90s that said "I've seen Noel's Crinkly Bottom".
Haha, that's brilliant! 😂
I live about half a mile from the Lancashire 'blobbyland' - it was in a local PUBLIC park called happymount. The whole thing was a fiasco from start to finish, not least because they tried to grab a well loved and used public park and turn it into a private for profit space. From the very start they (both edmonds and our local group of crooks known as Lancaster council) seemed to delight in winding up the locals (that would be me) and the whole thing was resented greatly. Once edmonds had moved in and spent a ton of cash, and so was considered to be in too deep to just pull out, the council tried to extort large payments from the blobby company for various things. A long legal battle ensued, and edmonds sued the council over and over again, each time walking away with MY cash. We learned pretty quickly what mr edmonds is really like when not on tv - he is a very angry, arrogant selfish and really quite nasty character who would not last 5 minutes on the streets of Morecambe and he knows it - I invite him to come and try !
In the end he closed up and sloped off to abuse someone else, and we got our park back - it now has, amongst such things as an olden days merry go round and a ghost train, a small but well put together water park which is FREE for everyone.
Blobbyland was without doubt the stupidest idea anyone ever had for a theme park, and noel edmonds is a nasty little so and so whom I will be happy never to lay eyes on again. Good riddance !
I’m going to cover it
In the future
mr blobby was a disaster for morecambe, the money would of been better spent on frontierland but lancaster council prefer to squander money away on crap noone wants. the fiasco of blobbyland is leaving me apprehensive about the eden project at the old bubbles site.
mordokch Gosh never knew what Noel Edmund's was like until I read your comment. That's a real shame, was pretty entertaining and likable on tv. Its sad he wasn't like that off screen..
Something else to add ...
Happymount park has the sea to the front, a golf course to the left, semi posh houses to the right and forest/land to the rear which is a big very steep hill with public rights of way and is totally inaccessible by car. So ... where were all these visitors supposed to park ? There is literally no place to put any sort of car park, never mind one of the size needed to service such an attraction. Although happymount park is walkable from Morecambe (about 10 mins for an adult), I doubt kids would have been thrilled at the prospect, and in any case even Morecambe does not have the parking space required.
Ill thought out doesn't even start to cover this disaster.
A note to Expedition Theme Park
If you do decide to cover this one I'd be happy to grab you some footage of the park now - I have very good equipment but only to 1080p :)
I wasn’t a 90s kid but this is a sad story. I hope whoever grew up playing at this park has great memories of it ❤
You scare me. Im sorry
I really thought that after 20 years, i would never have to think about that show or Mr Blobby again. Thanks a bunch for ruining my day by ensuring that that fucking song will be stuck in my head!
You're still awesome though :)
Blobby mr blobbbbyyy
Such a shame! Cricket St Thomas was such a beautiful place to visit. Although i visited it before the Blobby attractions were there, sad to hear it's all gone.
Blobbyland was what started my fascination with abandoned places!! I saw a video of it in 2013, and ever since then i’ve loved abandoned exploration, and even explore places myself.
So nice to hear more into the history of the place and what's been going on over the years, I looked up about the place about 2 years ago but nothing like this so I really appreciate the work you put into this! I went here as a kid on quite a few occasions, it looks bad today but as a kid in the 90's it was awesome and I have fond memories of it still to this day, those where the good old days.
Thank you once again!
The whole Crinkley Bottom / Blobby stuff was a thing of it's time.
I’m now always checking cautiously for Mr Blobby in my house.
My parents took me to Crinkly Bottom and somewhere I have a picture on me sat next to Mr Blobby. Great memories!! I’m pretty sure that raves used to go on in Dun Blobbin in the early 2000s which is why the house got so damaged
Hated Blobby and Noel as a kid, but the show gives me fond memories of watching TV with the fam.
Those where the days when Saturday nights TV was the best and worth watching. it was fun and entertaining unlike todays TV.
How can you say that? We now have, Love Island, The Kardashians, Tiger King, Naked Attraction, The Real Housewives,Jersey Shore, RuPaul's Drag Race, Big Brother the list goes on and on and on !
@@marcushull12 Are you serious?
@@philiptownsend4026 NO. I was being sarcastic about the utter garbage that passes for "entertainment". Now Forces TV has gone there is only really Talking Pictures channel I watch.
@@marcushull12 OK thanks. Good answer 😊
Cool video and a great insight in British culture: Loved it!!
Thank you!
Expedition Theme Park No, thank YOU
Thanks for doing this video- I was born in 1990 and I always wanted to go and since stories emerged about it's fate, I wondered what it was like in it's heyday.
So you are saying I have been on the bloody mr blobby ride but it was just at watermouth castle! 😂😭
I remember Hulk Hogan threatening mr blobby as the Hulkster had a single coming out at the same time
That kids TV ride looks fantastic to be fair. Really well themed.
Nice video of an elephant urinating (2:54). Wow !! I didn't need to see the elephant urinating once, but we get to see it twice (6:35).
(From a US viewer who knows little of this “Mr. Blobby”...)
Wow... you guys *really* liked Ecstacy in the ‘90s, didn’t ya? Like... a *lot*.
These two parks would be separate as the wildlife park would be related to animals and the other park would be its own separate park with other attractions! The zoological part would be kept in the wildlife park and with a wildlife and safari theme, while the other park, separate from the wildlife park, would be a TV a themed one! Both parks could be part of a destination resort area!
4:26 I've Wonderd If Noddy Is In Action At Crinkley Bottom Theme Park. Thanks Expedition Theme Park Mate. X
As an American I have never heard of Mr Blobby. I find the character scary. If I was a child in the '90's I would be terrified of him!
I think people forget that blobby was originally a spoof. He was supposed to be a one time character just to fool unsuspecting celebrities into doing outrageous things during their Gotcha sketch. The idea was that he was too ridiculous, anoying and even scary to be real, because he wasn't.
Certainly the best name for any theme park ever.
So this was basically Disneyland but for BBC TV shows.
Cricket St Thomas near Chard... we'll look out for you...!!
I loved Mr blobby as a kid. I only recently discovered there used to be a theme park though
Noel Edmonds also had involvement in "Gotcha-land" at Bicton Park in Devon, another short lived Blobby franchise at an existing tourist attraction.
Does no one else get the giggles at the name "Crinkley Bottom"? I think it is a laugh riot!
I'm from the U.S. The only reason I know who Mr Blobby is is because of a clip from The Big Fat Quiz of the 90's where Jack Whitehall says he's terrified of Mr Blobby and Mr Blobby came out to scare him.... That segment made me go "what the fuck" and this only reiterated that..
Mr. Blobby walked so Gritty could run
loved this and so well researched. I live close to pleasurewood hills and remember when mr blobby was there. very short lived though
Mr blobby is a national treasure
I had a summer season ticket for this place, loved it but it does look rather odd now
Looks like you will have to do terra mitica in Benidorm very soon, as the owner is currently doing everything he can to ruin whatever is left so that they can call it a failure and get permission to replace it with hotels.
I live 5 mins down the road from here didnt go to blobby land
And I thought we had it bad in the U.S. with Barney.
5:35 "The flower pot men" ?
Flower pots in mad monster mansion.
Noel Edmonds gives me the creeps.
I'm sorry but everytime I hear Crinkley Bottom, I chuckle a little.
Mr Blobby vs Steve Urkel. Knife fight in the abandoned park. What a missed opportunity. Like leaving a comment on a video 6 months too late.
I don’t think I’ll ever understand how Mr Blobby became such an icon of British culture 😅
Me neither hHa
Sgailte He doesn't really appear that much these days. He pops up every now and then, its really for nostalgia. To be honest I love it when I spot him for a brief minute.
Would make a great horror game
Those eyes will haunt me forever 😱
we didnt have blobby in canada but i remember noddy
My god I remember going to this place, how interesting it was.
Can you do a video on Rocky Glen Park and Angela Park in Pennsylvania?
4:14 it looks like a ghost was walking because I see shoes moving right next to the dog thing
Mr blobby touched me here💀
This is the most British thing i have ever seen.
Oh god, that THING got a theme park!?
I went as a kid, cannot remember a thing about it
At 4:14 you can see a transparent form with shoes that disappears
I'm sitting on crinkly bottomland right now.
Ruined Cricket St Thomas , was a great park before , but much of the new park was put up on the cheap....finished the place in the end .
I believe Blobby had a comeback in last Christmas' song by Elton John and Ed Sheeran..
Well I regret learning of Mr. Blobby before attempting to sleep tonight
Blobby mr blobby
4:12 next to the dog I saw ghost-like feet walking
WHAT was that
5:27 they had to put that there didn't they
Haha the film "the producers"comes to mind
Mr.blobby is a funny name to hear
If you keep saying it he appears
I remember asking my British husband- What the hell is that thing?!?
Amazing
That character that little theme park the names are all very British lol
I only know Noel from Deal or No Deal xD
I love Noddy
I'm surprised you didn't explain what Mr Blobby was created as, to give context. Noel invented him as a SPOOF character, used to trick celebrities into thinking they were helping make a new kids tv show. As the "tv shoot" went on, the fictional character's actions became increasingly farcical, to see if the unwitting celebrity would reach their breaking point. Eventually Noel, who was inside the suit the whole time, would remove the head and reveal himself, at which pointed would yell "gotcha," and present the celebrity with a gotcha oscar for being a good sport.
Of course at first the prank worked as no one knew mr Blobby wasn't a real character, but as the Noel's House Party show became more well known, or became harder to trick celebrities as they had begun to hear about it.
It was only from that point that Mr Blobby became more of a stand alone character, but his ridiculousness was intentional as he was originally devised as a parody "typical" children's tv character, whilst never having been real in the first place.
If you think about it, Noel's House Party was pretty much a pastiche/parody of Saturday morning kids magazine shows that were around at the time. Silly games, lots of gunge, a costumed character that acted as a sort of foil to the host? All the sort of things you'd probably see 12 hours earlier when the kids got out of bed. The biggest difference was there weren't any cartoons in between segments.
Thank you for explaining that. It makes a lot more sense now.
YOU MEAN HE'S NOT REAL?!?!?!?
Noel Edmonds was not Mr Bobby. Mr Bobby never removed his head. He was used in some of the earlier "Gotcha" and became popular because of that.
@@beebopvroop5218 he wasnt originally, then the owners of the character decided to make anactual kids show called mr blobby and it was a hit
the power went out in my neighborhood when the clip of the Mr. Blobby music video played. Truly he is a force of terror.
I would have shit my pants lol
I just going to assume Mr. Blobby appeared after this comment and killed you.
When I discovered Mr. Blobby 6 years ago, I tweeted how terrifying he was... and he angrily tweeted back at me. It just made him scarier. Great videos, though.
You can’t escape him!
OMG that pink blemonge with the yellow spots is still around God help us all
Mr.Bloby wants to know your location.
Dare I ask what the tweet said?
@@Roadent1241 I'm guessing something along the lines of BLOBBY BLOBBY BLOBBY
Nice to know the 90s was just as weird in the U.K. as the U.S. :D
And just as weird as it was here in Australia too - us 90s kids watched a show called Liftoff where one of the characters was a mute doll with no face. I had nightmares about that goddamn doll.
ikr
Can’t be that... (googles it)... the BBC should complain, that’s clearly an Auton from Doctor Who.
LOL I was thinking the same thing but sometimes I sure do wish I could go back to my childhood in the 90s.
@@katietaylor8314 that doll sounds like something out of a David lynch/Tim Burton movie.
It’s difficult to explain Mr Blobby to someone too young to know him. “What did he actually do?” “Well, he ran around, bumped into people, knocked things over, and shouted ‘Blobby Blobby Blobby’ a lot.”
Practically a BBC rip off of Mr Bump combined with Mr Tickle, from the Mr Men.
So he's a pokemon?
@ʕ°ᴥ°ʔ I mean it’s difficult to explain why he got so popular when he didn’t actually do much.
@@kate_cooper he was a parody character
It's extremely simple to explain, TV and media companies have a lot of drugs floating about. 🤣
I'll never understand how Mr. Blobby got popular. He terrified me as a kid, and admittedly still creeps me out a bit still today.
Grumpydrawer Could've been worse. There might have been a Noseybonk theme park.
Grumpydrawer ha ha, check out Torchy the Battery Boy if you really wanna get scared!!
I get it. I was freaked by Larry Grayson !
steve doubleu And Twizzle. Scary stuff
I bought the vinyl record of his song 🤦🏻♀️
I remember going there as a child, cut my back on a slide an as a result met Noel himself who closed the thing straight away, apart from the blood it was a great day, such sadness seeing it in ruins
Yikes, I hope it wasn't serious.
Please elaborate, i have a strange desire to hear about any injuries related to Noel Edmonds.
Yeesh... still if the man himself was there and closed it down, at least he cared about the tourists?
I wanna know more
Could Blobby's home be considered a haunted house attraction?
Lol, it could be! Imagine Mr Blobby chasing you about in the dark. 😱
+Mhairi Gibbons Holy shit. I would fucking scream,cry and run away. I would even give him all my money as long as he didn't kill me.
I reckon the place was built by the KGB to freak out and traumatize kids. People actually had raves in that house. All I can say is, they must have been off their faces at the time.
Yes.
Banjokazooie, mad monster mansion
90s British TV was an...interesting time between this and Teletubbies.
See the program for kids in the 60s or 70s-80s I may be a American with Mexican roots but I have done my research until the turn of the millennium great Britain did not know how to make a kid show that wasn't creepy as fuck but even then in 2003 you guys made boohbah
I would like but its at 69
@@cherieannehendrie4204 watch them in black & white. You'll change your mind.
I was captivated by Boo-bah....probably not in a good way.
We played the website when my kids were little. That was something too...
Also tinky winky is 10 feet tall
As an American, I am horrified
Missy Barbour Same. I liken it to Barney. I hate Barney. Even as a kid I hated Barney.
Hessed3712 in fact many British people at the time said mr blobby was "Britain's answer to barney the dinosaur."
See, I get why people think Barney's creepy too, but I am not viscerally terrified of him the way I am of this jaundiced potato
Missy Barbour yeah, barney's not creepy. He's just so nice and mundane that he's annoying.
The English are horrified too dont worry
"I think crinkley bottom will outlive Noel's house party and even outlive Noel's Edmonds" well we can cross fortune teller off Noel's CV now can't we
Nothing says lets take the kids like a farthingwood section "come on kids, lets see some animals die"
I loved that show but it broke my heart.
Wish they had that at Disneyland you know how much they like to kill parents in their movies
Mr Blobby is a dark and vengeful elder god.
I believe it.
Blobbathlu
5 Nights at Freddys pales compared to this!
Alan Partridge doesn't like Noel Edmonds, he said "I dislike Noel and his stupid Ewok head".
I remember begging my parents to take me there back in... 95 I think? We had such a long drive and honestly I found the place pretty boring, my parents were trying to keep a cheerful facade but you could tell they knew it wasn't worth the effort. Despite being a weekday it was pretty darn quiet for a tourist attraction during summer holidays (especially during the height of Mr Blobby's popularity), just a few people milling around, and with no real rides if you missed the show timings (which we did) and didn't care about Noddy or the zoo part there was little to nothing to do. At this point all I really remember is the train ride and some brightly coloured area, don't think I even saw Mr Blobby at all, I still have a carrier bag from the gift shop emblazened with Crinkley Bottom though - gotta keep some proof such a place even existed.
8:14 "...and the Taylor family, trying to escape the shadow left by Mr. Blobby..."
I gotta give you credit for managing to say that without cracking up.
It was tough to say Mr Blobby so many times!
Haha, I used to work in the hotel there! In fact I visited the abandoned blobbyland with a friend, but I never went in. Can't say I'll ever go back. Creepy place!
With you surname being so similar to the name of the place you could probably have claimed it as your own and lived there lol
What a weird park. I think it was destined to fail however, as the Blobby character simply could not hold interest for long. The park also seemed to miss attractions like roller coasters and other things to keep it interesting outside the Blobby character, and a zoo will not do that in the long run...
Harald Lorentzen yeah I agree. British parks aren’t exactly known for their riveting nature (bar a few). A local to me theme park’s first ‘attraction’ was a show on cow milking. Just can’t make it up.
No smaller park could afford a fucking rollercoaster at that time.
And for smaller kids and families animals and this water ride and trains stuff works perfectly fine. There isn't many places to visit with small kids.
Problem is you either need to attract international tourists, too or keep it cheap enough so local customers would go there regularly. And this mix of being in the middle of nowhere in the UK AND focussing on a UK phenomenon AND some local publicity problems was just too odd.
Yeah, I know coasters were and are expensive, but either way, the park lacked staying power to put it blunlty. There was nothing to keep the park going in the long term.
We only have one park here in Norway that's a pure theme park, and they had to invest in more coasters and other stuff to keep things going, or they would have gone under...
Harald Lorentzen I could be rebooted into a similar park to Busch Gardens Tampa!
I would have liked to see more of the Animals Of Farthing Wood part of the park.
This place will haunt Jack Whitehall's nightmares.
good.
rayblack2004 I'm not sure whether you hate Jack Whitehall, or you don't get the reference.
Both. >:D
Muhahaha
rayblack2004 okay, the reference is that at the end of big fat quiz of the 90s, they had mr.blobby as a special guest and Jack Whitehall was so scared, he hid under the desk and cowerd in fear at the sight of him.
Mr Blobby looks like something from Slenderman's nightmares
The best days were the ones where the Christmas No 1 would be totally bonkers and not an X-factor/BGT winner. Mr Blobby is a national treasure.
Believe it or not Mr Blobby used to be scripted. Graeme Gardner used to write scripts for him
My friend used to courier the Mr Blobby suits used at the Morecambe park halfway across the country just to be cleaned. They were that paranoid that people would steal the suits, but it wouldn't stop the courier drivers messing about in the suits.
Do you ever see footage from some random South American or Eastern European Tv show and think “what the hell is going on over there?”
That’s what the rest of the world must’ve been thinking about the UK during the 90’s.
For those who grew up in the HTV region in the 80's, every time I hear "Cricket St Thomas", I automatically add "near Chard". The TV ads just kept with that phrase. "Come to Cricket St Thomas near Chard ... see the animals at Cricket St Thomas near Chard... fun for all the family at Cricket St Thomas near Chard." 35 years on and it is still burned into my memory. Thing is, we never went there, we were all just too annoyed by the ads.
In central Scotland it was Sterling furniture in Tillicoultry near Stirling. That’s totally drummed into me.
9:53 "Mr Blobby touched me here"
Are you sure there isn't a darker reason behind this parks closure?
Nah just edgelords! I think there's also one calling Noel Edmonds a pedophile as well, from the UrbEx stuff I've seen. Like...these jokes aren't exactly clever. They should have referenced that creepypasta and written 'abandoned by god' because if there was ever a place that really was abandoned by god it was Blobbyland!
OhnO
@@aeddiefarmer "Abandoned by Blobby"
Honestly it's just standard shit for the people from the closest town. It's full of dickheads
Noel's House Party was to Saturday nights what The Big Breakfast was to weekday mornings
This is the scariest idea ever, for a theme park
The 90's were a hell of a drug.
I heard about how creepy Mr.Blobby is.
Gamer Addy 99 He looks like Grimace's cousin.
Gotta respect the "Mr Blobby touched me here." Ahh British culture!
I remember being dragged there as a kid, would have only been six, my sister loved Mr Blobby, I however found him to be a freakishly terrifying mix between the joker and Anne Whidicome. I much preferred the animals of farthing wood attraction. Now there was a true gem from my childhood!
The fact that no one has made a horror movie based on this is astonishing!
I know right
I always wondered how this presenter was able to use a program on BBC (ie paid for by the license fees plus gov subsidy) to spin off a commercial enterprise like this. Answers on a postcard, please.