CBeebies - Night Garden - toys???

mobilecat

Tesco have got some designed for them. There is an iggle piggle and an upsy daisy at £15 each - both plush toys about one and a half foot tall and they sing and talk etc. and they have a macapacah bath toy at £10. We are huge fans but I think these are too expensive.

freebird65

I saw loads of these in a shop yesterday for about £12 - if I'd known how much they go for on ebay, I'd have had the lot!

Stands back and waits to get lynched by parents....

Seriously though, if anyone badly wants them for their kids, mail me and I'll go back to the shop tomorrow and see if there are any left.

Carmina_Piranha_3

tesco stafford has lots.

there's somebody on ebay selling a list of shops which stock them :eek:

marvalous

OK what I want to know is why if Daisy is DARK BROWN in the programme, do they have her several shades lighter as a doll figure for sale?

Do they think children of that age are so stupid they won't know the difference?

My niece loves the programme and loves Daisy. Her mum wanted to get her one out of the Argos catalogue but when she saw their version of Daisy, she was mortified!

a few days later, my niece comes over to my house and she sees a black rag doll that my mother made which had dreadlocks and picks it up and shouts "Daisy!"

well that said it all as far as i was concerned, and that is from a 20 month old "special needs" child.


I know people will say that i am making a fuss over nothing but when your child is "ethnic" it is hard enough to find toys that reflect what your kids look like without in effect "whitewashing" the few that already exist. I just think it is really sad as all the kiddies who tune in to watch the Night Garden don't give a hoot what colour the characters are but I am sure they would notice if they were given one that looked very different from what they saw on TV
It's not like they changed the colour of the Iggle Piggle and Makka Pakka dolls!


ok off my soapbox now lol

Carmina_Piranha_3

my 25 month old didn't think she looked wrong, he hasn't got special needs - don't take this the wrong way but might that make your niece more sensitive to things not being exactly as she expects them?

we bought upsy daisy and he loves her to bits. she's definitely 'ethnic', her hands and face are beige, her nose, lips, eyelids etc. are brown.

i will have a look next time it's on though, see if she's noticeably darker in the programme.

amberviolet

Just wondered if anyone has recieved the freebie poster that the bbc said they would send?

Thanks

milkfloatquack

I agree with you Marvalous, thought exactly the same about the Upsy Daisy Merchandise!

kit

amberviolet wrote: »

Just wondered if anyone has recieved the freebie poster that the bbc said they would send?

Thanks

I haven't :mad:

zippybungle

I went to Toys R Us last weekend and they had lots of 'In the Night Garden' toys - I didn't pay too much attention to them, but my 2 Boys were pestering for them (2 and 4)

Zippy x

***cupcake***_2

Lots in Hamleys, albeit at slightly higher prices than the rest of the high street, but worth a visit if you are in town.

The front window is a picture - 6ft high Upsy Daisy and Iggle Piggle, with a shorter (obviously!) Makka Pakka. All in a Night Garden scene - Ninky Nonk, Pinky Ponk etc.

I would say *real* but even I know that they are toys :rotfl:

Hope somewhere lovely like Great Ormond Street gets them when the window is changed. They really are something to see.

HTHS;)