The Abandoned History of a Failed Mr Blobby Attraction | Expedition Extinct

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Join us as we dive into the weird history of Mr Blobby and his troubled tourist attractions. This time we head to Morecambe where one of his failed attractions ruined tourism in the town forever and began the downward spiral of Blobby attractions.
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Mr Blobby Will Return
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gregorysimonanderson - • MORECAMBE ILLUMINATION...
David Chandler - • Noel Edmonds at Moreca...
Richard Cooper - • Happy Mount Park Morec...
CoralJackz - • Blobby Land, Crinkley ...
Victor Green - • 1982 Aug Morecombe, H...
RCGGB - • POV Texas Tornado, Fro...
David Chandler - • Morecambe Carnival 1994
james_jersey - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZItSy...

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  • @ExpeditionThemePark
    @ExpeditionThemePark10 ай бұрын

    Mr Blobby, Creepy or Cute?

  • @Gellarfan666

    @Gellarfan666

    10 ай бұрын

    Unsettling and creepy.

  • @BleachFan9891

    @BleachFan9891

    10 ай бұрын

    Extremely creepy

  • @hayleywaalen2612

    @hayleywaalen2612

    10 ай бұрын

    Adorable and funny

  • @cygnia

    @cygnia

    10 ай бұрын

    DEMON~!

  • @rapids444

    @rapids444

    10 ай бұрын

    super creepy

  • @andrewcb9255
    @andrewcb925510 ай бұрын

    It’s still insane how Mr. Blobby started as a spoof of annoying children’s characters, only to quickly become the exact thing that he was meant to make fun of.

  • @damianstellabott3613

    @damianstellabott3613

    10 ай бұрын

    People forget the same was true of PeeWee Herman.

  • @carminecdinoproductions

    @carminecdinoproductions

    10 ай бұрын

    Yep

  • @carminecdinoproductions

    @carminecdinoproductions

    10 ай бұрын

    @@damianstellabott3613Exactly

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    right?!

  • @KaminoKatie

    @KaminoKatie

    10 ай бұрын

    The tragic irony

  • @Ramonatho
    @Ramonatho10 ай бұрын

    Mr. Blobby requiring 4 more bodyguards than Noel Edmonds is insanely funny to me.

  • @mythmaker6554

    @mythmaker6554

    10 ай бұрын

    It was to protect other people from Mr. Blobby.

  • @AbbieWillett

    @AbbieWillett

    10 ай бұрын

    Ngl that part made me laugh out loud

  • @davidjames579

    @davidjames579

    10 ай бұрын

    Why on Earth would Noel Edmonds need a Bodyguard? Unless it was from people who wanted to attack for him creating the vile abomination.

  • @ElizabethHamlet

    @ElizabethHamlet

    9 ай бұрын

    As someone that has worked in costumes, people love to attack 😅

  • @dwb1980

    @dwb1980

    18 күн бұрын

    People guards

  • @Hawkfire360
    @Hawkfire36010 ай бұрын

    Mr. Blobby, living proof that it's not just the internet that makes children get attached to the most incomprehensible things. The Skibiddi Toilet of the 90s.

  • @Jayfive276

    @Jayfive276

    10 ай бұрын

    There's nothing incomprehensible about the Skibiddi toilet thing, I'm in my 40s and I followed DaFuqBoom long before he started that stuff (i found him via the beatboxing vids) because his Gmod videos were, are and continue to be amazing. What you ignore all the meme-shit surrounding the Skibidi Toilet vids they are a story pushing the medium of Gmod to it's limits. One might even argue that the constant escalation in the videos is a comment on the nature of memes and internet culture.

  • @V33EX

    @V33EX

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@Jayfive276I think it's less about the actual plot or whatever, but about the brain rot that comes out of people making other things with the character

  • @louiejonesponation

    @louiejonesponation

    2 ай бұрын

    "The Skibidi Toilet of the 90s" 😂

  • @starslug9302
    @starslug930210 ай бұрын

    God, I remember my parents taking me to Blobbyland as a child! I remember this one maze attraction, where children entered this lumpy pink structure with Blobby-themed scenes inside (I remember being slightly unsettled by how the colour and texture made everything look like flesh). The maze had one entrance, but - unbeknownst to parents and children, multiple exits scattered widely around the park. It was essentially Mr. Blobby's Child-Losing Machine.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    I did that!

  • @davidjames579

    @davidjames579

    10 ай бұрын

    " slightly unsettled by how the colour and texture made everything look like flesh" His Head being shaped like a Phallus didn't help.

  • @AlisonBryen

    @AlisonBryen

    10 ай бұрын

    Yikes...luckily, my parents used to drive straight past Blobbyland at Cricket St. Thomas on the M5 on our way down to our holidays in Devon in the 1990s. We never had to suffer Blobbyland. I think I was fortunate.

  • @AlisonBryen

    @AlisonBryen

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@davidjames579 a phallus head with yellow pustules on it at that 😢...

  • @coastcountry8882

    @coastcountry8882

    9 ай бұрын

    I got lost here too! 😂

  • @asootspriteart
    @asootspriteart10 ай бұрын

    As a small child I was always terrified of Mr Blobby. I would see adults around me laughing at his antics and I can distinctly remember feeling horrified at this, not understanding why they weren't as disturbed as I was by this abomination. It's one of my earliest memories as I was really young so I feel like it must have scared me enough to become a core memory or something. Traumatised by Mr Blobby.

  • @Kaz7.

    @Kaz7.

    10 ай бұрын

    This is exactly how watching family guy and American dad made me feel for some reason LOL

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    oh noooo!~

  • @Bumblebeena

    @Bumblebeena

    10 ай бұрын

    I was really scared of him as a kid, and how destructive he was. 😅

  • @asootspriteart

    @asootspriteart

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Bumblebeena I agree! I hated how he’d burst in screaming his name over and over and attack everything, it was kind of aggressive

  • @MusicGal672

    @MusicGal672

    10 ай бұрын

    Traumatised by Mr Blobby gang. He’s terrifying

  • @elementalturnip
    @elementalturnip10 ай бұрын

    As an American who very briefly lived in the UK, I was only vaguely aware of Mr. Blobby up until this point. Now I know far more about Mr. Blobby than I ever could have wanted to know. I am cursed with knowledge.

  • @thrillhouse14

    @thrillhouse14

    9 ай бұрын

    *blobby blobby blob blob*

  • @isabellind1292

    @isabellind1292

    7 ай бұрын

    Hahaha! I think I would have been afraid of him.😄😄😄😄He must have been the precursor to a gentler, fuzzy Elmo.

  • @kastro4460
    @kastro446010 ай бұрын

    For 7 minutes I was so invested in Blobby history I comlpetely forgot that this was a video about theme park rides

  • @stargazersappho
    @stargazersappho10 ай бұрын

    I'm an american who moved to the uk some years back and i thought my spouse was just joking at first when they said mr blobby was a sensational icon here. He's creepy to look at and his voice is incredibly unsettling and almost scary. How did this not terrify kids 😬

  • @dcflake5645

    @dcflake5645

    10 ай бұрын

    Best way we can describe Blobby was it was The Producers for real. He was made as creepy and abnoxious as possible to annoy everyone. For some reason he actually became popular for some unknown reason.

  • @mustiesalop123A

    @mustiesalop123A

    10 ай бұрын

    Mr blobby is a legend

  • @BellePullman

    @BellePullman

    10 ай бұрын

    No, no, plenty of kids were terrified.... Others love chaos and want to see the world burn and Mr Blobby fed into that!

  • @nicka5040

    @nicka5040

    10 ай бұрын

    Have you seen old Mickey costumes? Literally nightmare fuel .

  • @Bumblebeena

    @Bumblebeena

    10 ай бұрын

    It did terrify kids 😂 I was one of them!

  • @diznyland6214
    @diznyland621410 ай бұрын

    I actually think Mr. Blobby is peak comedy but maybe I'm just a freak. That bit with them asking him to speak clearly into the mic so he just starts screaming had me dying. 😂🤣

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    gotta say i laughed watching it.

  • @Randomperson-zt3il

    @Randomperson-zt3il

    10 ай бұрын

    Put it in a perfectly cut scream compilation haha

  • @nowandaround312

    @nowandaround312

    5 ай бұрын

    As someone from the other side of the pond I had never seen Mr. Blobby until I watched the Big Fat Quiz of the 90s a few years ago. Mr. Blobby screeching "JAAAAACK!!!" at Jack Whitehall after he said he was terrified of Mr. Blobby and then Jack ducking down behind the desk is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen. 😂 I just now learned he was supposed to be satirical and not a real children's character. Now I understand why no one was shocked when he made a joke about nailing a teletubby lol

  • @kieranengelke
    @kieranengelke10 ай бұрын

    I've lived in morecambe since 2008 and this is the most in depth informative video I've seen on the scandal. Many people here have been misinformed that Noel Edmonds was to blame for the failure and cost the town dearly. Not that shocked to find out it was the council being incompetent 😂

  • @wirebrushofenlightenment1545

    @wirebrushofenlightenment1545

    4 ай бұрын

    They had history with that. I remember several years before Blobbygate, when The Wombles were all the rage there were plans for a Wombles attraction in the same Happy Mount Park. I remember that all that amounted to was a small and underwhelming 'Womble House' in the corner of the park where the kiddies playground is now. I think it was set on fire by vandals in the end.

  • @Ihartwalrusguy
    @Ihartwalrusguy10 ай бұрын

    Remember how some guy punched Mr. Blobby for ruining his daughter’s birthday party, and everyone cheered?

  • @LENNIEOK

    @LENNIEOK

    10 ай бұрын

    This is the British equivalent to Barney the purple dinosaur

  • @sandiecooke1465

    @sandiecooke1465

    9 ай бұрын

    Are you even British if you didn’t have an aspiration to punch Mr Blobby?

  • @kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94

    @kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94

    9 ай бұрын

    I saw something similar where a ton of kids were ganging up this blobby dude at a birthday party. I saw it on AFV.

  • @zephyrus339

    @zephyrus339

    8 ай бұрын

    Ohhhhhh, so THAT's the reason Mr. Blobby required 5 bodyguards.

  • @isabellind1292

    @isabellind1292

    7 ай бұрын

    How exactly did Mr. Blobby ruin her birthday? It better be a doozy to cause an assault over. Geez!

  • @NJAdamArt
    @NJAdamArt10 ай бұрын

    I loved Mr Blobby as a kid. It was the nonsensical chaos and slapstick I'm sure that just tickled me as a kid. I'm really suprised the parks opened and closed so quickly as it felt like they had been open longer when I was younger.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    Didn't we all!

  • @Croz89
    @Croz8910 ай бұрын

    Mr Blobby, Noel's House Party and all the rest was really a reflection of much of 1990's UK culture. Colourful, crass and decidedly lowbrow without being vulgar, and 7 year old me loved it. I still want to build a replica of that gunge tank to this day.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    it is true

  • @penbeatssword7350
    @penbeatssword735010 ай бұрын

    As a child younger than 10 during his run, I was a massive fan!!! What a chaos demon 😂😂

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    ahaha right

  • @AlisonBryen

    @AlisonBryen

    10 ай бұрын

    Oh gosh, you bought the record, didn't you? 😂

  • @GruntOfAction
    @GruntOfAction10 ай бұрын

    A friend told me a story once about how Mr Blobby was at like a military recreation place and was fucking around with the prop weapons which could actually hurt people (cuz they were made to look like the real things, metal and wood included) so apparently at some point they staged a mock hit squad on mr blobby to get him out of there.

  • @bunny-vo3qs

    @bunny-vo3qs

    9 ай бұрын

    😆

  • @Inlelendri
    @Inlelendri10 ай бұрын

    Being not from the UK, my first exposure to Mr. Blobby was him being on the Big Quiz and Jack Whitehall being absolutely terrified of him, going so far as hiding away. That just about seems the right response to him, imho.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    Aha yeah, seems about right

  • @shannong2174

    @shannong2174

    10 ай бұрын

    I immediately thought of Jack Whitehall when I saw this video 😂

  • @stevenmacdonald9619
    @stevenmacdonald961910 ай бұрын

    I was part of the entertainments staff team at Frontierland, Morecambe in 1993, as Mr Blobby's popularity was in full effect. At that time the company were not adverse to him at all, and invited the character to make an appearance on the same day as the illumination switch on, in the park's theatre venue. To this day I have never seen such a flood of people clamouring to get close to him, and there were so many children coming at him, that Mr.Blobby had to be whisked outside through a back emergency exit, and thrown onto a pick-up truck, before things got out of hand. It's so sad that it all went wrong over the next 3 years, but at that time, the Mr.Blobby character was like a real life rock star. A true phenomenon. I would add, from knowing the lay out of Happy Mount Park, that it was never a suitable choice for a theme park. It is far too small, and as mentioned in the video, never had parking capability from the start. What is worse, is due to the controversy, Frontierland went as well, so overall it is the people of Morecambe that paid the highest price.

  • @MrKittyredstar

    @MrKittyredstar

    9 ай бұрын

    I loved Frontier Land as a child 😊 log flume and runaway mine train were the best.

  • @adamfloyd2152
    @adamfloyd21529 ай бұрын

    Fascinating stuff and proof of just how weird the 90s were. I grew up in the Mr Blobby era but never saw his appeal and had totally forgotten the horrors he inflicted upon the nation. Thanks for the reminder, now I'm going to have nightmares about him! And ending with "Mr Blobby will return" sounds like a threat.

  • @Rbsk223
    @Rbsk22310 ай бұрын

    Mr. Blobby looks like one of those stress reliever toys

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    he does abit

  • @sevciel

    @sevciel

    Ай бұрын

    Only difference, he's not going to be the one squeezed, you are 😂

  • @xenofes2
    @xenofes210 ай бұрын

    I had never heard of Mr. Blobby before this video, but from the description it sounds like that one Black Mirror episode has a character based on him. I can't remember the specifics as it's been years since I watched it, but there was a tv show that had a fake children's character used to prank celebrities that thought it was a real, well-known character.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    Could be!

  • @Randomperson-zt3il

    @Randomperson-zt3il

    10 ай бұрын

    Are you on about Waldo? 😂

  • @bexistar83
    @bexistar8310 ай бұрын

    This was great! A bit of nostalgia for a 90s kid, born and raised in Morecambe. Unfortunately Lancaster city council continues to bring controversy... 🙃

  • @PeppermintPJ90025
    @PeppermintPJ9002510 ай бұрын

    Mr. Blobby was wayyyyy more creepy than that Ice Cream Bunny in Florida.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    Ahahah yeah

  • @user-de1hg8cf6b

    @user-de1hg8cf6b

    10 ай бұрын

    What ice cream bunny in Florida?

  • @alexonmymind4925
    @alexonmymind492510 ай бұрын

    ** so you actually used clips of blobby and pleasurewood hills so this just makes me even more happy ** So mr. Bobby actually made it to a couple other parks. I remember growing up with blobby and Noel at my local park ( pleasurewood hills, Lowestoft ). He never had any structures but I'm pretty sure he had his own show in the castle theatre.

  • @dalozzmeister

    @dalozzmeister

    10 ай бұрын

    He did indeed! I went to see him in the castle theatre, I remember Noel was there too!

  • @rexzs794
    @rexzs79410 ай бұрын

    I was around at the time of Blobbymania and cannot express how much I adore Mr Blobby. He’s so awful, it’s brilliant. Also really glad to see more homegrown UK topics! Would love to see more. :)

  • @stashmerkin9576
    @stashmerkin957610 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the detailed history of the character! I'm in the US and only know Mr. Blobby from that abandoned theme park.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah, i thought i would explain it a little this time.

  • @mackpines
    @mackpines10 ай бұрын

    Never heard of this thing. What the hell am I looking at?! Another awesome video! The UK has had some strange shows.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    it is true! Thank you

  • @KaminoKatie

    @KaminoKatie

    10 ай бұрын

    The UK is just unhinged

  • @shayZero
    @shayZero10 ай бұрын

    It never fails to make me laugh just how *Partridge* Noel Edmunds was. Such incredible hubris and shortsighted-ness. Did he also try to do a Deal or No Deal Land?

  • @user-kw7mr6xt9n

    @user-kw7mr6xt9n

    8 ай бұрын

    Partridge....? what do you mean?

  • @ismayb754

    @ismayb754

    5 ай бұрын

    Agreed.

  • @ismayb754

    @ismayb754

    5 ай бұрын

    @@user-kw7mr6xt9n Partridge - a fictional TV presenter who is too full of his own ego to understand his mistakes, and an inability to laugh at himself being the cause of most of his problems. This applies very much to Noel Edmonds.

  • @Double512
    @Double51210 ай бұрын

    I never realized Don't Hug Me I'm Scared was just parodying this specific show, thanks.

  • @cklo8799
    @cklo879910 ай бұрын

    This is so interesting and we had no idea this even existed. We love the fact that you share such unique and fun content!!!

  • @carminecdinoproductions

    @carminecdinoproductions

    10 ай бұрын

    Yep

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    thank you so much

  • @HallsVarietyPack
    @HallsVarietyPack10 ай бұрын

    I remember being there the day that it opened. I remember there being entertainers around the park. A creepy Punch and Judy show that made me cry. And how every year there was this cool exhibit in one of the buildings, usually about dinosaurs or tech or something. I used to go there quite frequently. And honestly it is astounding is how quickly everything just crumbled away. And then all the buildings and kids stuff got locked up. First at the park and then in Morecambe more generally. It was heart breaking to just see the town decay and rot away thanks in part to that pink git.

  • @006Meow
    @006Meow10 ай бұрын

    I remember when I was younger, Mr Blobby came to my birthday party, I was so excited, and all he did was basically fuck everything up, parents were pretty mad, but me and my friends at the time thought it was hilarious though. When I think about it 25 years later, it's super creepy and just totally messed up. No idea why kids use to love this, it's just fear inducing 😱

  • @elainestokes2787

    @elainestokes2787

    9 ай бұрын

    My sister remembers that Mr Blobby followed me into the toilets at a birthday party. There’s a photo of me wearing his feet, all I remember is us kids dragging him to the floor 😂

  • @006Meow

    @006Meow

    9 ай бұрын

    that sounds about right to me, Mr Blobby was legend, but was it for a good reason, who really knows@@elainestokes2787

  • @Rachael8989
    @Rachael898910 ай бұрын

    Wow I have learned something new from this video as I never knew there was a second Mr Blobby park in Morcambe! Me and my family were huge Mr Blobby fans so I would’ve loved to visit one of these parks. (The moving character displays at the Morcambe park look very interesting too!) However as we lived down the other end of the country we took a special trip to see Mr Blobby at Pleasurewood Hills instead. ☺️ it was great!

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    Blobby had a ton! for a short time

  • @Hypagemie
    @Hypagemie10 ай бұрын

    When I was a kid I loved mr Blobby! I always wanted to go to blobby land but my parents wouldn’t take me 😂 now its just weird, Cheesy and kinda creepy!

  • @HolyFreakinDragonSlayer
    @HolyFreakinDragonSlayer10 ай бұрын

    I have a funny feeling you enjoyed making this Sam. Thankyou for the nostalgia, house party was my favourite show growing up but blobby was sooo scary

  • @NatYourAverageNerd
    @NatYourAverageNerd10 ай бұрын

    I'm an American, so until I first saw another video covering the history of the abandoned Blobbyland parks, I knew nothing and was probably better for it. Like clowns, Mr. Blobby is so freaky and nightmarish to me. XD

  • @garrettnobles6775
    @garrettnobles677510 ай бұрын

    Yay. I have something to watch while at work today. Thank you.

  • @captainm8889
    @captainm88899 ай бұрын

    Very interesting! Never heard of Mr. Blobby but a fascinating history. Great work as always!

  • @thewhatever3565
    @thewhatever356510 ай бұрын

    No way you’re doing this!!! Bravo research!!!! I remember visiting this place lol

  • @siangaylard1799
    @siangaylard17999 ай бұрын

    I went there several times as a child as I live nearby !!! Loved it !!! And as a teen I got bass lessons off the guy who did Mr Blobbys voice and he had the original Mr Mrs and baby Blobby suits !!!

  • @starslug9302
    @starslug930210 ай бұрын

    I can remember the Cricket St Thomas park having a boat ride that took you though scenes from classic British children's TV shows - Bill and Ben, The Magic Roundabout, Bagpuss, etc. The problem was, the start of the ride had the boats float in though a massive smashed TV screen, complete with sparking noises and two giant flashing diodes. Scared the crap out of me as a kid.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    It did! Opened the second year

  • @BenChurchill76
    @BenChurchill767 ай бұрын

    Mr. Blobby as a prank is funny, and works well. But...then becoming what he's parodying is...kind of terrifying, LOL.

  • @stevesayer3239
    @stevesayer323910 ай бұрын

    Well done Sam. I wondered when you were going to cover this iconic attraction. My kids grew up on Blobby although they would probably never admit it. I can remember taking our eldest to the Crinkley Bottom attraction at Cricket St.Thomas in the nineties and much like the 'Ice Cream Bunny' in one of your previous videos I had nightmares for months afterwards.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much. Two nightmares in a month for me

  • @carolyns4519
    @carolyns451910 ай бұрын

    9:17-Animals of Farthing Wood! That series was incredible, one of the greatest children's programmes of all time! Why didn't they just make AOFW the focus of the park?! Fox or Badger would've made much more charismatic mascots than that Pepto-Bismol nightmare.

  • @VickyMouseTimes
    @VickyMouseTimes10 ай бұрын

    A lot of childhood memories unlocked. Cheers, Sam!

  • @gracelandone
    @gracelandone10 ай бұрын

    I never realized that one of our US ex-Presidents stole his entire persona from the Mr. Blobby character. It explains so much.

  • @oneandonlysound3453

    @oneandonlysound3453

    10 ай бұрын

    more like our current one, lol.

  • @DrumsbyAshWells
    @DrumsbyAshWells10 ай бұрын

    Awesome episode mate and loved all the scandal!

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner10 ай бұрын

    A+ video! Thank you so much for the history of Blobby and the theme parks! He is basically unknown here in the United States.

  • @highstepnightowl
    @highstepnightowl10 ай бұрын

    I always picture Jack Whitehall freaking out when Mr. Blobby comes up in conversation.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    right?

  • @THATGuy5654
    @THATGuy565410 ай бұрын

    You're explaining it, yet my brain is actively refusing to understand. All the words you say make sense in the order you say them, but when I try to go back and put it all together into a coherent tapestry in my head, I find that all the individual ideas have slid off each other into a mess.

  • @georgeharvey4226
    @georgeharvey422610 ай бұрын

    I remember years ago owning the Mr Blobby VHS tape. It showed some of his early highlights when he was being taught various things by celebrity guests. Or he was going out and about to the gym, the airport, etc.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    That was a popular VHS!

  • @Elliewiththecamera
    @Elliewiththecamera10 ай бұрын

    Growing up near the Somerset attraction, I have such fond memories of it, we used to go all the time!

  • @edvaira6891
    @edvaira689110 ай бұрын

    That little bit of yours at the end (“Mr Blobby will return”..) comes off a bit ominous there, Sam!

  • @LukesLiife
    @LukesLiife10 ай бұрын

    Great video! Loved / hated being reminded of the pink icon that was Mr Blobby!

  • @victoriarobinson3909
    @victoriarobinson39098 ай бұрын

    I have vivid memories of visiting Mr. Blobbyland when I was four. There was a doorbell if I remember correctly that you had to ring to get him to come out of his house. It was scary to ringit, as he may or may not come out but when he did, he came barreling out full pace screaming Blooby Blooby directly at a child or parent. Then proceeded to throw himself around chaotically before running back inside. He flirted with women and tried to get dads to fight him, it was bizarre and exactly like he was on the TV show. This must have been the Morecambe one, as it's not far from where we lived and I don't remember any theme park and it was literally just the house you visited. Mr Blobby brings out the fight or flight in most British people, even when on TV you still felt like you had to keep your eye on him at all times for fear of being collateral damage. The house party I remember most is when Mr Blobby accidentally fell off the top of the set, I think he either nearly took Noel with him or landed on Noel. The look of sheer panic on Noels' face and everyone panicking on set. Only for Mr Blobby to get right back up and choose chaos.

  • @System_Sega
    @System_Sega10 ай бұрын

    When you talked about the Blobby Single you mentioned CDs and Vinyl but not tapes. Back in the early 90s Cassette tapes where extremely popular in the UK, Due to there cheap price and portability. CDs and Vinyl tended to be more for the serious listeners back then. I Bet more people brought that song on Tape than any other Format

  • @timecircuits88
    @timecircuits8810 ай бұрын

    As a kid I'd go to Cricket St Thomas with my family, all year round, they used to do exceptional outdoor learning sessions for kids, I loved it. Then Mr blobby came. He ruined everything. Those activities stopped. I hated him after that. But I used to love noels house party, great to watch with family. Shame he pushed it too far.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    i saw a really cool helicopter show there!

  • @davidjames579

    @davidjames579

    10 ай бұрын

    Noel's House Party was great entertainment and a staple of Saturday Night. But I always went out of the room when Mr Blobby came on, it was cretinous.

  • @DJStrangeboy
    @DJStrangeboy10 ай бұрын

    As someone from Morecambe, we still talk about the disaster of blobbyland now! They cant have done anything much worse

  • @bambii140
    @bambii1403 ай бұрын

    came here from the magnus protocol episode 10, a clown named bonzo was apparently a reference to mr blobby.

  • @tinystar4592

    @tinystar4592

    3 ай бұрын

    Came here looking for this comment. I think blobby is equally terrifying as mr. bonzo tbh

  • @LukeChandlerDesign
    @LukeChandlerDesign9 ай бұрын

    Despite being a 90s baby I had no idea about any of this so thank you for educating me! A very well constructed and engaging video ❤

  • @mini_mew775
    @mini_mew77510 ай бұрын

    10hrs dang it!! Always love your uploads!

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    thank you so much

  • @boogiebear3027
    @boogiebear302710 ай бұрын

    Brilliant video. Loved it :😀

  • @AlexaSmith
    @AlexaSmith10 ай бұрын

    great vid! i've never heard of mr blobby before but i love him

  • @kayleighfitt1293
    @kayleighfitt129310 ай бұрын

    Absolutely creasing at the blobby song lines you keep sneaking in 😂😂😂 massive blobby fan here!

  • @Estellosaurus
    @Estellosaurus10 ай бұрын

    Brilliant stuff. Brought back some real nightmares 😂

  • @Feldynn
    @Feldynn6 ай бұрын

    I learnt a lot from this or had forgotten, or more likely expunged from my memory in favour of sanity haha, definitely some interesting history though and a glimpse into the UK's psyche during the 90s! I also commend you on your diligent and surreptitious inclusion of all the lyrics from the original Blobby song in your script, well done mate! I'm pretty sure I still have that CD single lurking around the family house somewhere... 😁

  • @thecinematicmind
    @thecinematicmind10 ай бұрын

    I was aware of Noel for Deal and No Deal and Mr Blobby for getting the hell beaten out of by Harry Hill.

  • @charlottenelson-turner4638
    @charlottenelson-turner46389 ай бұрын

    Loved this! Please can you do Dobwalls adventure park in Cornwall. Loved that place as a kid, Mr Blobby used to visit there also my brother was terrified 😅

  • @ineedmyhat
    @ineedmyhat2 ай бұрын

    Noels house party was bangin. I don't remember much about it except thinking it was his real house and it felt like you were in the audience. Also my dad found ,mr blobby absolutely hilarious and I never understood it.

  • @BuckarooBanzai84
    @BuckarooBanzai8410 ай бұрын

    PLEASE do one on the 'Dr. Who' attractions! Whovians of the world demand it!! =D

  • @coreyhiggins3475
    @coreyhiggins347510 ай бұрын

    I enjoyed this expedition and yet confused by it!

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    The best way!

  • @waffle6652
    @waffle665210 ай бұрын

    Very entertaining, Thankyou. I used to Love watching Noels House Party in the 90's And i am guilty of purchasing the Mr Blobby christmas single in 1993 too

  • @561jeffkelly
    @561jeffkelly10 ай бұрын

    Excellent Vlog Please please do a section on the Blackpool owners and dealings with Southport and Morecambe. Am a train driver based at Liverpool but I started in 93 and remember going back and forth to morecambe while training and all the advertising on the seafront for this attraction. I can remember in the very early 2000s Local TV channel Granada reports doing a report on the Blackpool owners buying Southport pleasure beach and closing it just like they did at Morecambe in the late 90s. Then they moved the Southport rollercoaster Traumatizer to Blackpool and was advertising it as a brand new Coaster. They had to backtrack and state it was not a new coaster and why they closed a popular park down ie competition 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Keep up the great work 👍👍👍

  • @nathanforester5993
    @nathanforester599310 ай бұрын

    And he's baaaaaaaack, this time he's gone from our nightmares to Simon Cowell's now future nightmares.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    ahah yesss

  • @rhysie9626
    @rhysie962610 ай бұрын

    I live near Cricket St Thomas and somehow have family lore of blobbyland so seeing this video was so funny to me. I wasnt old enough to go to Mr Blobbyland but my elder sister went a few times and met Noel Edmonds?? He did a lot of charity work and would do experiences and stuff for disabled kids and my sister got to be a part of that. Crazy.

  • @staceyg3110
    @staceyg31109 ай бұрын

    Loved a trip to crinkly bottom! Its was actually such a fun place to visit.

  • @princesskristan
    @princesskristan10 ай бұрын

    Mr. Blobby is total nightmare fuel

  • @AshLilburne
    @AshLilburne10 ай бұрын

    As an Australian, I think perhaps I had seen the odd random image of Mr Blobby over the years without having any idea what it was. Just seemed like a badly designed kids mascot, or a rushed promotional decision. Realising only now that it was all intentional, and that he actually walked into walls has genuinely made me laugh.

  • @Titan990
    @Titan99010 ай бұрын

    UK: we made blobby to poke fun at mascots US: we made Barney

  • @captain_dsz6049
    @captain_dsz604917 күн бұрын

    Patiently waiting for part 2

  • @clevm002
    @clevm0029 ай бұрын

    Great video. I went to blobby land when I was a kid and I swallowed a wasp while climbing a fountain... I'll never forget it. Also there was a dark ride as well that scared me as a kid.... not sure if it was this park but it was a park with an actual blobby land.

  • @chauntriataylor4083
    @chauntriataylor40835 ай бұрын

    I love the way you say “park” and “coaster” 😊

  • @CharlotteH_
    @CharlotteH_10 ай бұрын

    mr blobby on the big fat quiz of the 90’s will forever be my favourite appearance of him.

  • @kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94
    @kyliethelittlespider-mangirl949 ай бұрын

    Didn’t you do a vid of this a few years ago? This must be an updated one. Not complaining cuz I love this stuff!

  • @twntodaywithniall7702
    @twntodaywithniall770210 ай бұрын

    i remember your old video on mr blobby when it first came out love the great content

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah, crazy he had multiple places

  • @twntodaywithniall7702

    @twntodaywithniall7702

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ExpeditionThemePark and probably mutiple bodies disposed aha 😂😂

  • @josephallington6838
    @josephallington683810 ай бұрын

    Great episode

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @mrmoac3805
    @mrmoac38059 ай бұрын

    Incredible, I was just talking about this the other day! Wife was looking at me like I'd gone insane.

  • @lexiejames3514
    @lexiejames351410 ай бұрын

    I was born in December 88 so was the target audience for mr blobby at the time. I remember it being at so many birthday parties when I was like 5 😅

  • @minimilli1986
    @minimilli19867 ай бұрын

    I grew up in Morecambe and i remember the illuminations and the happy mount park pre-blobby, i remember how much of a disaster blobbyland was and how after it closed the bits stood in decay, no one in the town really wanted it there, they ruined happymount park with it, it shows the short sighted attitude of the council at that time, this can be seen with Frontierland (which i look forward to the video on!) and bubbles the water park, all closing in the 90s from poor council decisions. I fear the new Eden project idea is history repeating itself.

  • @katashworth41
    @katashworth419 ай бұрын

    A lass I went to school with broke her arm at the Morecambe park. I don’t think my parents ever forgave the “family friends” who gave me the Mr Blobby single for Christmas in 1993 (I don’t think they still have and both of them have been dead for over a decade).

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    never a perfect time to put it on!

  • @Whatlander
    @Whatlander7 күн бұрын

    Imagine running your own theme park for ages, and then Mr. Blobby sets up shop and folks are like, " _Finally_ we have one (1) tourist attraction."

  • @mikalmos369
    @mikalmos3695 ай бұрын

    I thought Barney was terrifying here in the United States. Mr Blobby is the nightmare the nightmares have.

  • @PlutoPebble
    @PlutoPebble10 ай бұрын

    Why. Just. _WHY._ This thing was terrifying and it had a chart topping song. Thank you for the video though, it's pretty intresting as I was born just after the mania finished and never knew the proper background.

  • @gellerbingsgaming
    @gellerbingsgaming10 ай бұрын

    I was obsessed with Mr bloody as a child! I had blobby stationery and a blobby bag and can still remember the lyrics to his song 😂😂

  • @LoveTwoExplore
    @LoveTwoExplore10 ай бұрын

    Such a shame, and ironically recently Kent had plans for a big theme park starting BBC properties. Shame as done right, a movie park could work well in the uk. Thanks for posting and creating this video.

  • @swtfvnm
    @swtfvnm10 ай бұрын

    i'm a 2000s kid, so i've never heard of this guy but dear lord he's hilarious. was i missing out?

  • @ExpeditionThemePark

    @ExpeditionThemePark

    10 ай бұрын

    yes! aha

  • @Odyanii
    @Odyanii10 ай бұрын

    My only prior exposure to mr blobby was back when a member of the yogscast used them as a video game skin, interesting to learn that it was just as weird as it seemed!

  • @beverleycoats5508
    @beverleycoats55089 ай бұрын

    I went to the cricket st Thomas park when I was around 2! I don’t remember it but apparently was so fascinated by blobby land that I wondered off there on my own and ended up getting lost and away from my mum and siblings! Was soon found and returned to them and it’s become a family story to tell now! Went there about 10 years ago now and it’s nothing like what it sounds like here now!

  • @redcurrantart
    @redcurrantart4 ай бұрын

    Thank you for not exporting this monstrosity anywhere else in the world.

  • @bobpatel5646
    @bobpatel56468 ай бұрын

    Im an American that loves Amusement Parks. Especially failed Amusement attractions. Ive only seen Mr. Blobby on a Comic Relief video. It was Is This the Way to Amarillo with Peter Kay that I found on KZread back in 07. I was deployed to Kuwait and Iraq back from Nov 05- Nov 06. When we got our orders to go North into Iraq, we had a Scottish SF guy give us a Friendly Fire brief and we only understood probably about every 3rd word he said. He finished up by showing us the Royal Dragoon version of Is This the Way to Amarillo. You could tell who like British humor because we were laughing our asses off. When I got back, I was telling some of my new work friends about it. Looked it up on KZread and saw the Peter Kay version. And thats where I saw Mr. Blobby for the time. Interesting history he has.

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