Hi Frederick,

Many thanks for all the info. I'll let you know if I
have any success!

Kind regards

Sue

--- "Frederick W. Harrison" <harriwom@...> wrote:
> The largest stuffed Womble I've ever seen was about
> 3 feet high and stood on
> a table at the entrance to a day care in Waverly
> Station, Edinburgh in 1986.
> I inquired as to whether he (Orinoco) was for sale
> and the owner quoted me a
> price (50 or 75 GBP) as they wanted to get a large
> teddy bear to reflect the
> name of the daycare - Teddy's Place. (Wombles were
> somewhat passé in 1986
> when I was over on a visit, but Roland Rat was
> enjoying his 15 minutes of
> fame.) It was too expensive for my budget - plus
> there would have been the
> cost of getting him over to Canada. But they took a
> picture of me standing
> beside it as consolation.
> I'm not certain if any other large Wombles were made
> and are available for
> sale (Teddy's Place may still have theirs - good
> luck!) but you could always
> opt to make one yourself by enlarging the McCall's
> doll pattern that can
> still be obtained occasionally on eBay. The only
> problem is that the
> proportions may be out of whack.
> And for the record, Wombles Ltd. found that 6 foot
> Wombles tended to
> frighten children up close, so they recommended that
> Wombles be kept to
> child size. (They made exceptions for the "band" and
> other "personal"
> appearances, however.) In the Wombling Free movie
> they hired midgets to
> dress up as Wombles and described them in the movie
> as "four foot, fat, and
> furry" which matches the illustrations in the
> original two novels and thus
> close to Elisabeth Beresford's original conception.
> The TV series made them
> much smaller.
>
> Frederick Harrison
> ````````````````````````````````````````````````
> "A stone may change the course of the river."
>
> C.S Lewis
>
>
> >I'm moving to Wimbledon soon and have a dream of
> getting a 6 foot
> >stuffed Womble for my flat!
> >
> >Can anyone suggest who may be able to help?
> >
> >Many thanks
> >
> >Sue
> >
> >
> >
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