{"id":665771,"date":"2026-06-30T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665771\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:05:08","slug":"mr-blobby-costume-sold-at-auction-in-bristol-for-8500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665771\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Blobby costume sold at auction in Bristol for \u00a38,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The outfit sold on Monday was specifically used for work outside TV studios and stunt work, while the other original costumes were reserved strictly for inside studios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also featured prominently on Mr Blobby VHS home video releases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stowe added: &#8220;We were blown away by the interest in this sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People love nostalgia. Imagine walking in to someone&#8217;s home and seeing Mr Blobby in the corner. It&#8217;s the ultimate talking point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Discovering and selling these amazing pieces of pop culture history is a complete pleasure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In my job, one day it&#8217;s fine art and sparkling jewellery; the next, it&#8217;s Mr Blobby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After appearing on Noel&#8217;s House Party, the chaotic, bright pink and yellow-spotted character became a national and cultural phenomenon called Blobby-mania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was the centrepiece of the Blobbyland theme park at Cricket St Thomas in Somerset &#8211; and even beat Take That to the UK Christmas Number One spot in 1993 with his own self-titled single, Mr Blobby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The costume was originally owned by the late Mickey Wills, Blobbyland&#8217;s former head of entertainment, who also performed high-energy shows daily at the theme park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The outfit sold on Monday was specifically used for work outside TV studios and stunt work, while the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-665771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}