The Abandoned History of a Failed Mr Blobby Attraction | Expedition Extinct
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2023
- 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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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
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Mr Blobby, Creepy or Cute?
Unsettling and creepy.
Extremely creepy
Adorable and funny
DEMON~!
super creepy
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.
People forget the same was true of PeeWee Herman.
Yep
@@damianstellabott3613Exactly
right?!
The tragic irony
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.
I did that!
" slightly unsettled by how the colour and texture made everything look like flesh" His Head being shaped like a Phallus didn't help.
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.
@davidjames579 a phallus head with yellow pustules on it at that 😢...
I got lost here too! 😂
Mr. Blobby requiring 4 more bodyguards than Noel Edmonds is insanely funny to me.
It was to protect other people from Mr. Blobby.
Ngl that part made me laugh out loud
Why on Earth would Noel Edmonds need a Bodyguard? Unless it was from people who wanted to attack for him creating the vile abomination.
As someone that has worked in costumes, people love to attack 😅
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.
This is exactly how watching family guy and American dad made me feel for some reason LOL
oh noooo!~
I was really scared of him as a kid, and how destructive he was. 😅
@@Bumblebeena I agree! I hated how he’d burst in screaming his name over and over and attack everything, it was kind of aggressive
Traumatised by Mr Blobby gang. He’s terrifying
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.
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.
@@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
"The Skibidi Toilet of the 90s" 😂
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.
*blobby blobby blob blob*
Hahaha! I think I would have been afraid of him.😄😄😄😄He must have been the precursor to a gentler, fuzzy Elmo.
For 7 minutes I was so invested in Blobby history I comlpetely forgot that this was a video about theme park rides
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 😂
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.
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 😬
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.
Mr blobby is a legend
No, no, plenty of kids were terrified.... Others love chaos and want to see the world burn and Mr Blobby fed into that!
Have you seen old Mickey costumes? Literally nightmare fuel .
It did terrify kids 😂 I was one of them!
Remember how some guy punched Mr. Blobby for ruining his daughter’s birthday party, and everyone cheered?
This is the British equivalent to Barney the purple dinosaur
Are you even British if you didn’t have an aspiration to punch Mr Blobby?
I saw something similar where a ton of kids were ganging up this blobby dude at a birthday party.
I saw it on AFV.
Ohhhhhh, so THAT's the reason Mr. Blobby required 5 bodyguards.
How exactly did Mr. Blobby ruin her birthday? It better be a doozy to cause an assault over. Geez!
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. 😂🤣
gotta say i laughed watching it.
Put it in a perfectly cut scream compilation haha
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
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.
it is true
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.
Didn't we all!
As a child younger than 10 during his run, I was a massive fan!!! What a chaos demon 😂😂
ahaha right
Oh gosh, you bought the record, didn't you? 😂
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.
😆
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.
Aha yeah, seems about right
I immediately thought of Jack Whitehall when I saw this video 😂
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.
I loved Frontier Land as a child 😊 log flume and runaway mine train were the best.
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.
Mr. Blobby looks like one of those stress reliever toys
he does abit
Only difference, he's not going to be the one squeezed, you are 😂
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.
Could be!
Are you on about Waldo? 😂
This was great! A bit of nostalgia for a 90s kid, born and raised in Morecambe. Unfortunately Lancaster city council continues to bring controversy... 🙃
Mr. Blobby was wayyyyy more creepy than that Ice Cream Bunny in Florida.
Ahahah yeah
What ice cream bunny in Florida?
** 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.
He did indeed! I went to see him in the castle theatre, I remember Noel was there too!
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!
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?
Partridge....? what do you mean?
Agreed.
@@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.
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 😱
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 😂
that sounds about right to me, Mr Blobby was legend, but was it for a good reason, who really knows@@elainestokes2787
Thank you for the detailed history of the character! I'm in the US and only know Mr. Blobby from that abandoned theme park.
Yeah, i thought i would explain it a little this time.
This is so interesting and we had no idea this even existed. We love the fact that you share such unique and fun content!!!
Yep
thank you so much
Yay. I have something to watch while at work today. Thank you.
Never heard of this thing.
What the hell am I looking at?!
Another awesome video!
The UK has had some strange shows.
it is true! Thank you
The UK is just unhinged
I never realized Don't Hug Me I'm Scared was just parodying this specific show, thanks.
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. :)
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.
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
Very interesting! Never heard of Mr. Blobby but a fascinating history. Great work as always!
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.
Thank you so much. Two nightmares in a month for me
A lot of childhood memories unlocked. Cheers, Sam!
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.
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
No way you’re doing this!!! Bravo research!!!! I remember visiting this place lol
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!
Blobby had a ton! for a short time
Awesome episode mate and loved all the scandal!
A+ video!
Thank you so much for the history of Blobby and the theme parks! He is basically unknown here in the United States.
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 !!!
10hrs dang it!! Always love your uploads!
thank you so much
Great video! Loved / hated being reminded of the pink icon that was Mr Blobby!
Absolutely creasing at the blobby song lines you keep sneaking in 😂😂😂 massive blobby fan here!
I always picture Jack Whitehall freaking out when Mr. Blobby comes up in conversation.
right?
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 ❤
I never realized that one of our US ex-Presidents stole his entire persona from the Mr. Blobby character. It explains so much.
more like our current one, lol.
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.
It did! Opened the second year
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.
Brilliant video. Loved it :😀
Mr. Blobby as a prank is funny, and works well. But...then becoming what he's parodying is...kind of terrifying, LOL.
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 😅
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.
i saw a really cool helicopter show there!
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.
Brilliant stuff. Brought back some real nightmares 😂
great vid! i've never heard of mr blobby before but i love him
As someone from Morecambe, we still talk about the disaster of blobbyland now! They cant have done anything much worse
Growing up near the Somerset attraction, I have such fond memories of it, we used to go all the time!
I enjoyed this expedition and yet confused by it!
The best way!
Mr. Blobby is total nightmare fuel
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.
That was a popular VHS!
UK: we made blobby to poke fun at mascots
US: we made Barney
That little bit of yours at the end (“Mr Blobby will return”..) comes off a bit ominous there, Sam!
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... 😁
Loved a trip to crinkly bottom! Its was actually such a fun place to visit.
came here from the magnus protocol episode 10, a clown named bonzo was apparently a reference to mr blobby.
Came here looking for this comment. I think blobby is equally terrifying as mr. bonzo tbh
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
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 👍👍👍
I love the way you say “park” and “coaster” 😊
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
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.
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.
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.
Incredible, I was just talking about this the other day! Wife was looking at me like I'd gone insane.
And he's baaaaaaaack, this time he's gone from our nightmares to Simon Cowell's now future nightmares.
ahah yesss
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!
I was aware of Noel for Deal and No Deal and Mr Blobby for getting the hell beaten out of by Harry Hill.
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 😂😂
i remember your old video on mr blobby when it first came out love the great content
Yeah, crazy he had multiple places
@@ExpeditionThemePark and probably mutiple bodies disposed aha 😂😂
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.
Great episode
Thank you
PLEASE do one on the 'Dr. Who' attractions! Whovians of the world demand it!! =D
Visited cricket St Thomas as a kid in the mid 90's. Remember watching the last Noel Edmonds house party. I think Mr Blobby is a great and fun character that allows a bit of silliness into the world. Even have my Rupert Bear that was bought on the visit sitting on my shelf.
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.
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.
Thank you for not exporting this monstrosity anywhere else in the world.
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 UA-cam 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 UA-cam and saw the Peter Kay version. And thats where I saw Mr. Blobby for the time. Interesting history he has.
Love this 😊
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!
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!
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.
thankyou I have an intreat in blobby them park so this is great for me to learn about it
I loved Blobbyland. I remember we saw Mrs Blobby getting out of the shower and remember thinking that I should not have seen that! But here I am still talking about it!
😂
I recently showed some mr blobby videos and the music video to my children and they LOVED it. It definitely appeals to young children. I think if he was around now the whole IP would be handled much better and he could have remained successful in some form. An entire theme park is way too much to expect to last, but a smaller enterprise might have worked and lasted.
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).
never a perfect time to put it on!
I recently went to the Cricket St. Thomas park to see what was left and it's crazy to see what once was seen and visited by people in their Millions had turned into a hotel that barely anyone goes to. It's really odd to see that contrast, to see something that was once amazing and visited by all turn into something run down and unknown to most.
BARKING laughter at Hyacinth Bucket (OBVIOUSLY pronounced "Bouquet") being in the intro of nostalgia
I loved that show aha
@@ExpeditionThemePark Our local PBS station here in central California had the rights to air Keeping Up Appearances and Are You Being Served, both of which I blame for my weird sense of humor XD