Egluntyne Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Clangers are coming back! ~Click~ Any one else have one of those up and down whistly thingies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Loved them when my kids were small no whistley thing here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavclojak Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 I hated the changers but I was all over the magic roundabout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 My Mum knitted me a Clanger - I loved him (but would have preferred a Soup Dragon!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Is that Michael Palin's voice ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Clangers are coming back! ~Click~ Any one else have one of those up and down whistly thingies? Oh no! Don't tell me that Egluntyne, I hated them as a child, they gave me nightmares and even now the music gives me a funny turn. Chrissie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 I loved the Clangers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 I loved the Clangers Me too, had a whistly thing too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Me too, had a whistly thing too. Oh I hate that noise I can hear it in my head now. Chrissie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Thats why I am Soapdragon........loved the Clangers and used to make all my own soap (before children...it has sodium hydroxide in it which has to be left to neutralise out so not ideal with small fingers!) Apparently they actually had a proper script but just 'whistled' it....brilliant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 chickencam wrote:I loved the Clangers Me too, had a whistly thing too. And me! I think you could tell what they were saying sometimes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 We heard the creators interviewed some time ago and they said that there was one episode where the doors to the underground bunker got stuck and the script said 'oh no, the b****y doors stuck again' and, when we watched that episode the 'whistle' was exactly the same !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 I always throught it was "Soupdragon"?? "Swanee Whistle" Is the proper name for the whistley thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clucker1 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 I loved the Clangers too and thought it was soup dragon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Yes, it was Soupdragon but, as I loved the clangers and made SOAP thats what I decided to use as an Omlet name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Never really saw the point of them - bit like the Teletubbies - pointless things that appealed to small children and some adults Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Ooh, I loved the Clangers too! Yes, I'm pretty certain I understood a lot of the dialogue as well. I'm feeling rather deprived though as I didn't have a swanee whistle to play with as a child Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Watched the clangers, magic roundabout, play school, jackanory.......u name it. Frustration was Blue Peter as no such thing as coloured tissue paper or double sided sticky tape in early 70s up here! We had empty toilet roll tubes, newspaper (no fancy glue) and a bottle of fairy liquid that took mum weeks to empty for the plastic tube! I still remember the wire coat hanger Xmas decs covered in tinsel that they made, lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Does anyone else remember Blue Peter making the Post Office Tower out of a Fairy Liquid bottle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 No but I do recall positively ACRES of sticky backed plastic every make Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Does anyone else remember Blue Peter making the Post Office Tower out of a Fairy Liquid bottle? No, but I wish I had, sounds great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 The tower hadn't long opened, and we'd been up it with our parents. I din't mange to make the model though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Blue Peter was never really a favourite programme - although OH was on it once with the scouts and he had a badge. He's lost the badge now but I did see it. Probably got mislaid in our house moves. Um, I started off with a predecessor of Clangers - The Pingwings! Same people, same knitted things but with penguins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
