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

Mr Blobby, Creepy or Cute?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 😬

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. 😂🤣

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 😂

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Mr. Blobby looks like one of those stress reliever toys

** 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.

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

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.

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 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 😱

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?

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

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

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

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

Mr. Blobby is total nightmare fuel

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!

Why have I seen Mr Blobby two times in days? 😱 now this video is suggested to me.

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. :)

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

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

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

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.

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.

Noel Edmunds is always overshadowed by his co stars. First Blobby then the banker from deal or no deal

I love Mr Blobby, he really makes me laugh and smile .

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

Mr Blobby is far and away the most famous British thing that we here in America have more or less never heard of, at all. Considering how saturated Brit culture was, virtually no one here in the states has heard of him. I've been a huge fan of British TV for 40 years, and this is literally the first video I've seen that actually explained wtf the character did. I only in the last year or two heard that Blobby had something to do with Noel Edmonds (who I thought was just some guy who did TOTP for a while). Not that we're missing anything, of course. We're all better off if Mr Blobby is left to nostalgic obscurity, I think. ;)

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

You Brits are bonkers, thank you for so much amazing TV.

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.

BARKING laughter at Hyacinth Bucket (OBVIOUSLY pronounced "Bouquet") being in the intro of nostalgia

This is the stuff nightmares are made of… lol

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).

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

Even at the time I couldn't understand how you could make a Theme Park out of a character with such limitations. It says it's name and knocks things over. You'd be hard pressed to make a one issue comic book out of it. While it started as a joke by Edmonds to wind up celebrities, the extension of this seems like a cynical plan to fleece the public. But the OMG aspect was never going to last that long. Looks like Edmonds ego and I can get away with anything attitude was his folly.

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.

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

I, for one, welcome our new Blobby overlords.

Destroying a free public park to build a terrible paid theme park is like an act of terrorism against a small town like Morecambe. Just awful.

I'm from the US and I was only vaguely aware of Mr Blobby before this, I had assumed he was an actual children's show character!

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

Mr. Blobby is down right intellectual when compared to the brain Melting slop cocomelon be churning out these days

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

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

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

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.

Can you imagine hearing Mr. Blobbys voice at 3 in the morning, and you turn on the lights and see a pink creepy looking thing just standing there and staring at you at the foot of your bed?!😨😱

Ah yes. Mr Blobby. NOT one of the UK's finer creations. I personally absolutely hated it. I never got round to doing acid, but if I had, I imagine it would be something like seeing nothing but Mr Blobbys

We really need Jackie to give an outsider perspective on what non-Brits think of the Mr Blobby craze! 😅

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 !!!

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 😅

Mr. Blobby is scary to me. He is UKs version of Barney.

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

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.

Blobby is a bad night on too many of the wrong drugs. For suuure doesn’t make for a good theme park attraction.

What could possibly be creepy about a giant semi-sentient festering booger?

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.

I would want Blobby to referee Gritty VS Grimace.

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.

I'd love to have Blobby erased from my memory. Not because I dislike him but because I want to know what it feels like for non-Brits when someone tries to explain what Mr Blobby is and yes, he is real.

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

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 RU-vid 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 RU-vid and saw the Peter Kay version. And thats where I saw Mr. Blobby for the time. Interesting history he has.

My dad was convinced Blobby was the personification of STDs - no really, he thought he was some kind of weird awareness mascot for VD. Honestly I thought so too forever, until I was enlightened by this very channel.

Being a American when I first herd of Mr.blobby i thought how very British and this has to be a comedy routine gone horribly wrong and more than a decade later I still think its a comedy routine gone horribly wrong 😂

I used to go to Happy Mount Park all the time in the early 00's, Id just got married and had out first daughter, and it was a fantastic park, I always hated Mr Blooby

After growing up in Morecambe from the age of 3 (now 44) Lancaster City Council have done nothing but ruin Morecambe, other than Frontierland and the Illuminations the rest of the town was derelict for years ! We had so many attractions at one point including a Wax Works called Luis Tussauds, Marineland, Central Pier, The Dome and Bubbles swimming complex which sadly only last a few seasons, it later was demolished by the Council because it wasn’t making them enough money to keep it open, the town literally has nothing now and are planning to build Eden North which I doubt will happen as tourists go to Blackpool rather than Morecambe oh and Crinkley Bottom was left to rot for many years

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

As an American, this episode feels like one giant fever dream

I went here as a kid! I thought the wishing well and the bridges/tunnels were really pretty 😅 I went with my mum, dad and big brother. I was on my dads shoulders and my my brother on my mums. We went into Mr Blobbys house, and Mr Blobby came out, and my brother screamed bloody murder, which of course caused me to join in the screaming. It was hilarious 😂

I met Blobby when I was tiny Apparently I was terrified and cried But stopped long enough to get a nice picture with him

I believe Mr Blobby is clear evidence that we will eventually destroy our species........BLOBBY!

A creepy parody of a children's mascot who somehow managed to become wildly popular as a mascot in their own right. Freddy Fazbear of the UK, I guess. Seems like Mascot Characters just inherently have mass appeal, whether they are designed to be ironic or otherwise.

I hated Mr Blobby as a kid, to the point I use to scream and cry when he came on the tv and run off and hide. My siblings and my Dad use to rush to turn the tv off. However my mother (being the vile person she is) booked a day out at Crinkly Bottom. My Dad went ape shit because he drove us there while my mother gave direction telling him it was a “family surprise day out” and drove for hours. I cried the whole time and my mother spent the whole time telling me I was being naughty and ungrateful. To this day I still have no idea why I was scared of Mr Blobby😂

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.

I've never heard of him before.. uhhh.. how did Mr Blobby not terrify children? I'm an adult and find him terrifying. GO AWAY

Mr Blobby too out there for Eurovision

Well thanks for helping me understand the cultural cntext of a Magnus Protocol episode months later! Glad I always watch your videos since I'm on the other side of he Pond 😂

Mr Blobby terrified me, not only his voice but his thrashing gestures 😵

Mr Blobby was weird.... I remember owning a towel with Mr Blooby on that I loved and idk why because I didn't like him 😂😂

“Old McBlobby had a farm, blobby blobby blob” has to have been the lyric which sold the album to the execs. It’s so good.